Karim Benzema’s 2021–2022 season represents the peak of his career with Real Madrid. As the club’s attacking leader and one of its most influential players, Benzema delivered an extraordinary campaign and played a decisive role in another historic European triumph.
Benzema became the defining player of Real Madrid’s Champions League campaign, producing extraordinary performances in the knockout stages and scoring decisive goals against some of Europe’s strongest teams.
During the competition, Benzema scored a hat-trick against Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16, followed by another hat-trick against Chelsea in the quarter-finals. Against Manchester City in the semi-finals, he scored the decisive penalty in the first leg and remained central to Madrid’s dramatic comeback in the return match.
In the UEFA Champions League Final in Paris, Real Madrid defeated Liverpool 1–0 through a Vinícius Júnior goal, securing the club’s 14th European Cup.
Benzema finished the 2021–2022 season with 44 goals in 46 appearances across all competitions. In the Champions League, he scored 15 goals and finished as the competition’s leading scorer.
Real Madrid also won La Liga and the Supercopa de España, completing a remarkable trophy haul for Benzema.
His individual achievements culminated in the Ballon d’Or in 2022, making Benzema the first Frenchman to win the award since Zinedine Zidane in 1998.
For collectors, Karim Benzema memorabilia from the 2021–2022 season represents one of the most significant periods of his career: the season in which he became the undisputed attacking leader of Real Madrid and delivered one of the greatest Champions League campaigns of the modern era.
Signed Benzema memorabilia from this era captures the legacy of a Real Madrid captain, Champions League winner, prolific goalscorer, and 2022 Ballon d’Or winner at the absolute peak of his career.