Paolo Maldini has made the most career appearances by an Italian in the Champions League, with 135 appearances.

	NAME	M	MIN	START	G	G/M	A	G+A	PK	FK	SH	SOT	WOOD	TCH	TCH-BOX	OFF
1	Paolo Maldini P. Maldini	135	11,422	130	3	0.02			0
2	Gianluigi Buffon G. Buffon	124	11,189	124	0	0.00	0	0	0
3	Andrea Pirlo A. Pirlo	108	8,757	100	8	0.07	0	8	0
4	Alessandro Nesta A. Nesta	99	8,495	98	0	0.00			0
5	Alessandro Costacurta A. Costacurta	90	7,009	80	0	0.00			0
6	Alessandro Del Piero A. Del Piero	89	6,627	77	42	0.47			6
7	Leonardo Bonucci L. Bonucci	88	7,566	84	3	0.03	2	5	0
8	Thiago Motta T. Motta	82	6,376	74	5	0.06	2	7	0
9	Massimo Ambrosini M. Ambrosini	82	5,291	59	2	0.02			0
10	Filippo Inzaghi F. Inzaghi	81	5,467	64	46	0.57			1
11	Marco Verratti M. Verratti	79	6,071	72	3	0.04	8	11	0
12	Gennaro Gattuso G. Gattuso	79	6,666	76	1	0.01			0
13	Alessio Tacchinardi A. Tacchinardi	78	5,267	59	3	0.04			0
14	Christian Panucci C. Panucci	76	6,495	72	11	0.14			0
15	Giorgio Chiellini G. Chiellini	74	6,139	70	2	0.03	0	2	0
16	Gianluca Zambrotta G. Zambrotta	71	5,674	63	0	0.00			0
17	Gianluca Pessotto G. Pessotto	68	4,628	51	0	0.00			0
18	Fabio Cannavaro F. Cannavaro	62	5,310	60	1	0.02			0
19	Daniele De Rossi D. De Rossi	61	5,053	57	8	0.13	1	9	2
20	Ciro Ferrara C. Ferrara	59	4,992	55	1	0.02			0
21	Francesco Totti F. Totti	57	4,560	53	17	0.30	1	18	4
22	Angelo Peruzzi A. Peruzzi	56	4,899	56	0	0.00			0
23	Jorginho	54	3,965	45	9	0.17	2	11	9	0	22	11	2	3,724	27	0
24	Christian Abbiati C. Abbiati	54	4,715	53	0	0.00			0
25	Demetrio Albertini D. Albertini	53	4,360	50	5	0.09			1