European Top 5 leagues: all the 2017-18 champions retain their domestic titles in 2018-19, a first

FC Bayern Munich have won the 2018-19 Bundesliga title after the 34^th and final matchday on 18/05/2019. Therefore, all the champions of the Top 5 European leagues, with the titles clinched in the following chronological order: Juventus FC (at the end of Matchday 33 of the Serie A TIM), Paris Saint-Germain (Matchday 33 of the Ligue 1 Conforama), FC Barcelona (Matchday 35 of LaLiga Santander), Manchester City FC (38^th and final matchday of the Premier League) and then also Bayern on the last Bundesliga matchday.

For the first time in the history, each of the European Top 5 national champions retained its title from the previous season. The longest running series is that of Juventus, winners, in 2018-19, of their eighth consecutive "Scudetto". Bayern Munich have won their seventh consecutive Bundesliga title.

Over the past 20 seasons, four Top 5 champions have managed to retain their title from one season to the next:
• Manchester United FC, Real Madrid CF, FC Inter Milan and Olympique Lyonnais all repeated, but not VfB Stuttgart, in 2007-08
• Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus FC, FC…