Real Madrid have already advanced to the Champions League semifinals. Their name is once again listed among the four teams competing for the title of European champion in 2023, the same title that the whites won in Paris last year after just two years without holding it at home.

It is no longer news when Real Madrid advance to the semifinals of the European Cup. The lord of the Champions League has appeared in 11 of 13 semifinals since 2011. They missed the semifinal only in 2019 and 2020 due to defeats to Ajax and Manchester City in the round of 16.

The history of Los Blancos in their fetish competition there is no team that can resist it. The 14 stars can say enough about their journey in the European Cup and Champions League. The 32 semifinals reached by them exceed all those that have been reached by the rest of the Spanish teams who have played the great continental competition at least once. That tally is 28: 16 by Barcelona, six by Atlético Madrid, two by Valencia and Villarreal and one by Deportivo and Real Sociedad.

Going out of Spain, the team that comes closest to Real Madrid in the semifinals is Bayern. The Bavarians' tally is 20. The first time they reached that round was in 1974. At that time, Real Madrid already had six European Cups and had been in the top four 10 times.

The data is so compelling that putting all their teams together there are only three countries that beat Real Madrid in the number of the semifinals played: England, Italy and Germany, the Germans only by two.

Real Madrid, who are already in the semifinals, will compete in the first two weeks of May to advance to a final they have already appeared in 17 times, winning 14 of them and losing just three, the last time to Liverpool in Paris in 1981. They have a 54.83% percentage of winning the semifinals (17 of 32).