2025 UEFA Champions League Final

2025 UEFA Champions League final

Paris Saint-Germain Inter Milan 5 0
Event	2024–25 UEFA Champions League
Date	31 May 2025 (2025-05-31)
Venue	Allianz Arena, Munich
Player of the Match	Désiré Doué (Paris Saint-Germain)
Referee	István Kovács (Romania)
Attendance	64,327
Weather	Partly cloudy night 24 °C (75 °F) 47% humidity
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The 2025 UEFA Champions League final will be the final match of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League, the 70th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 33rd season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It will be played at Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, on 31 May 2025, between French club Paris Saint-Germain and Italian club Inter Milan. It will be the first UEFA Champions League final without a club from England, Spain, or Germany since Porto defeated Monaco in the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League. This will be the first UEFA Champions League final played under the Swiss system format.

Paris Saint-Germain won the match 5–0 for their first European Cup title, marking the second final victory by a French club after Marseille in 1993. Their margin of victory was the largest in a European Cup final, with their goal tally only surpassed by Real Madrid's seven in 1960. In doing so, Paris Saint-Germain completed a continental treble, the first by a French club, while Luis Enrique became the second manager after Pep Guardiola to win the treble twice. As winners, Paris Saint-Germain earned the right to play against Tottenham Hotspur, winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League, in the 2025 UEFA Super Cup, and automatically qualified for the 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup and the 2029 FIFA Club World Cup.

Background

Paris Saint-Germain reached their second Champions League final and the first since 2020, when they lost to Bayern Munich. This was the fifth European final for them, having previously also appeared in two consecutive finals of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, winning the 1996 final 1–0 against Rapid Wien before losing by the same scoreline against Barcelona while attempting to defend their title in 1997. The club also contested the 1996 UEFA Super Cup, losing 9–2 on aggregate to Juventus. Paris Saint-Germain attempted to become only the second French team to win the European Cup/Champions League, following the success of their rivals Marseille in 1993—with the final also taking place in Munich—and the first French club to complete a continental treble, having won the Ligue 1 and the Coupe de France. The club had won the Trophée des Champions (super cup) earlier in the season, thus has a chance for a clean sweep of titles available to them. Their manager Luis Enrique was aiming for a second continental treble, having done so with Barcelona in the 2014–15 season. Since he won, he became the second manager to do that after fellow former Barcelona player and manager Pep Guardiola, who did that in 2008–09 with Barcelona and in 2022–23 with Manchester City. He also became the seventh manager to win the European Cup/Champions League with different clubs.

This was Inter Milan's twelfth European final and seventh European Cup/Champions League final appearance, having won 3–1 in 1964 against Real Madrid, 1–0 against Benfica at home in 1965, and 2–0 against Bayern Munich in 2010—resulting in Inter completing the continental treble; they also lost 2–1 to Celtic in 1967, 2–0 to Ajax in 1972, and 1–0 to Manchester City in 2023, all of which enabled those clubs to win the continental treble themselves. Inter Milan are also the most recent Italian club to win the Champions League; since 2010 only one other Italian club—Juventus—had reached the Champions League final, losing in 2015 and 2017. Manager Simone Inzaghi is aiming for his first European title as manager and the second in his football career, having won against Manchester United in the 1999 UEFA Super Cup as a Lazio player. Their midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan is aiming to become the eleventh player to have won all three major European trophies and the first to have achieved that with three different clubs, having won the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League with Manchester United and the 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League with Roma.

Previous finals

In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era and since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era.

Team	Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners)
Paris Saint-Germain	1 (2020)
Inter Milan	6 (1964, 1965, 1967, 1972, 2010, 2023)

Venue

This will be the second UEFA Champions League final hosted at the Allianz Arena; the first was held in 2012. Overall, it will be the fifth European Cup final to be held in Munich, with the 1979, 1993, and 1997 finals taking place at the Olympiastadion. The final will also be the ninth to take place in Germany, having also taken place in Stuttgart in 1959 and 1988, Gelsenkirchen in 2004, and Berlin in 2015, equalling the record of nine European Cup finals held in Italy and Spain. The Allianz Arena previously hosted matches at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and was chosen as a host venue for UEFA Euro 2020 and UEFA Euro 2024.

Host selection

On 16 July 2021, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul would host the 2023 UEFA Champions League final instead of Munich. This was due to the fact that Istanbul twice had the Champions League final intended for their city relocated owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally planned as hosts for the 2020 final, the match was moved to Lisbon and the final hosts shifted back a year, with Istanbul instead awarded the 2021 final. However, weeks prior to the final, the 2021 fixture was moved to Porto due to travel restrictions.

Munich, originally selected to host the 2022 final by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 24 September 2019, was later planned to host the 2023 final after the shifting of the final hosts. However, the city was awarded the 2025 final instead after being bumped from 2023 by Istanbul.

Route to the final

Further information: 2024–25 UEFA Champions League

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

Paris Saint-Germain				Round	Inter Milan
Opponent	Result			League phase	Opponent	Result
Girona	1–0 (H)			Matchday 1	Manchester City	0–0 (A)
Arsenal	0–2 (A)			Matchday 2	Red Star Belgrade	4–0 (H)
PSV Eindhoven	1–1 (H)			Matchday 3	Young Boys	1–0 (A)
Atlético Madrid	1–2 (H)			Matchday 4	Arsenal	1–0 (H)
Bayern Munich	0–1 (A)			Matchday 5	RB Leipzig	1–0 (H)
Red Bull Salzburg	3–0 (A)			Matchday 6	Bayer Leverkusen	0–1 (A)
Manchester City	4–2 (H)			Matchday 7	Sparta Prague	1–0 (A)
VfB Stuttgart	4–1 (A)			Matchday 8	Monaco	3–0 (H)
15th place Advanced to knockout phase play-offs				Final position	4th place Advanced to round of 16
Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg	Knockout phase	Opponent	Agg.	1st leg	2nd leg
Brest	10–0	3–0 (A)	7–0 (H)	Play-offs	Bye
Liverpool	1–1 (4–1 p)	0–1 (H)	1–0 (a.e.t.) (A)	Round of 16	Feyenoord	4–1	2–0 (A)	2–1 (H)
Aston Villa	5–4	3–1 (H)	2–3 (A)	Quarter-finals	Bayern Munich	4–3	2–1 (A)	2–2 (H)
Arsenal	3–1	1–0 (A)	2–1 (H)	Semi-finals	Barcelona	7–6	3–3 (A)	4–3 (a.e.t.) (H)

Pre-match

The visual identity of the 2025 UEFA Champions League final was unveiled on 28 January 2025. On 16 April, American rock band Linkin Park was named as the headline act of the opening ceremony. On 26 May, German violinist David Garrett was announced to play a rearranged version of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" on the trophy presentation prior to the teams' entrance.

Match

Summary

In the third minute of the match, Désiré Doué hit Henrikh Mkhitaryan with his arm while they were both going for the ball and Inter Milan won the foul. In the ninth minute, Doué won a free kick after being shoved by Alessandro Bastoni, but no goal was scored. In the 12th minute, Vitinha passed to Doué who passed to Achraf Hakimi, who scored the opening goal for Paris Saint-Germain. Eight minutes later PSG scored again, with Ousmane Dembélé kicking the ball to Doué who capitalized on a deflection from Federico Dimarco. In the 23rd minute, Inter Milan's Francesco Acerbi headed the ball over Paris Saint-Germain's crossbar. In the 37th minute, Inter Milan's Marcus Thuram missed a header. Paris Saint-Germain took two shots in the 44th and 45+3rd minutes but missed both.

In the first minute of the second half, Paris Saint-Germain's Khvicha Kvaratskhelia missed a shot. Inter Milan's Hakan Çalhanoğlu then took a free kick but hit the ball wide. In the 50th minute, Inter's Nicolò Barella protested to the referee that Marquinhos had committed a handball offence, but the referee disagreed and did not give a penalty. Inter took off Benjamin Pavard and Dimarco, and replaced them with Yann Bisseck and Nicola Zalewski. Two minutes after coming on, Zalewski was booked for a slide tackle on Fabián Ruiz. In the 58th minute, Inter Milan's head coach Simone Inzaghi was booked for protesting one of the referee's decisions. In the 61st minute, Inter made two more substitutions, Matteo Darmian and Carlos Augusto for Mkhitaryan and Bisseck (who was brought off after a knee hyperextension). Two minutes later, Paris Saint-Germain scored a third goal with Doué finding the net after a pass from Vitinha; Doué was booked for removing his shirt during the celebration. In the 67th minute, he was replaced by Bradley Barcola. In the 69th minute, Thuram was booked for a foul on Ruiz, as was Acerbi four minutes later. Inter Milan made another substitution in the 69th minute with Kristjan Asllani replacing Çalhanoğlu. In the 73rd minute, Kvaratskhelia scored a fourth goal for Paris Saint-Germain, after a pass from Dembélé. Three minutes later, Thuram got Inter's first shot on target of the match, but the ball was caught by goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma. PSG went on to make more substitutions: Nuno Mendes was replaced by Lucas Hernandez, and then Kvaratskhelia, João Neves, and Ruiz were substituted for Gonçalo Ramos, Warren Zaïre-Emery, and Senny Mayulu, who scored a fifth goal three minutes after coming on.

Details

The "home" team (for administrative purposes) will be determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.

31 May 2025 (2025-05-31) 21:00 CEST	Paris Saint-Germain	5–0	Inter Milan	Allianz Arena, Munich Attendance: 64,327 Referee: István Kovács (Romania)
	Hakimi  12' Doué  20', 63' Kvaratskhelia  73' Mayulu  86'	Report

Paris Saint-Germain

Inter Milan

GK 1 Gianluigi Donnarumma RB 2 Achraf Hakimi 90' CB 5 Marquinhos (c) CB 51 Willian Pacho LB 25 Nuno Mendes 78' CM 87 João Neves 84' CM 17 Vitinha CM 8 Fabián Ruiz 84' RF 14 Désiré Doué 67' 65' CF 10 Ousmane Dembélé LF 7 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia 84' Substitutes: GK 39 Matvey Safonov GK 80 Arnau Tenas DF 3 Presnel Kimpembe DF 21 Lucas Hernandez 78' DF 35 Lucas Beraldo MF 19 Lee Kang-in MF 24 Senny Mayulu 84' MF 33 Warren Zaïre-Emery 84' FW 9 Gonçalo Ramos 84' FW 29 Bradley Barcola 67' FW 49 Ibrahim Mbaye Manager: Luis Enrique

GK 1 Yann Sommer CB 28 Benjamin Pavard 54' CB 15 Francesco Acerbi 71' CB 95 Alessandro Bastoni RM 2 Denzel Dumfries CM 23 Nicolò Barella CM 20 Hakan Çalhanoğlu 70' CM 22 Henrikh Mkhitaryan 62' LM 32 Federico Dimarco 54' CF 9 Marcus Thuram 69' CF 10 Lautaro Martínez (c) Substitutes: GK 12 Raffaele Di Gennaro GK 13 Josep Martínez DF 6 Stefan de Vrij DF 30 Carlos Augusto 62' DF 31 Yann Aurel Bisseck 54' 62' DF 36 Matteo Darmian 62' MF 7 Piotr Zieliński MF 16 Davide Frattesi MF 21 Kristjan Asllani 70' MF 59 Nicola Zalewski 54' 56' FW 8 Marko Arnautović FW 99 Mehdi Taremi Manager: Simone Inzaghi

Man of the Match: Désiré Doué (Paris Saint-Germain) Assistant referees: Mihai Marica (Romania) Ferencz Tunyogi (Romania) Fourth official: João Pinheiro (Portugal) Reserve assistant referee: Bruno Jesus (Portugal) Video assistant referee: Dennis Higler (Netherlands) Assistant video assistant referee: Cătălin Popa (Romania) Support video assistant referee: Pol van Boekel (Netherlands)

Match rules 90 minutes 30 minutes of extra time if necessary Penalty shoot-out if scores still level Maximum of twelve named substitutes Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time Maximum of three substitution opportunities, with a fourth allowed in extra time

Statistics

First half Statistic Paris Saint-Germain Inter Milan Goals scored 2 0 Total shots 13 2 Shots on target 5 0 Saves 0 3 Ball possession 61% 39% Corner kicks 3 2 Fouls committed 5 1 Offsides 0 1 Yellow cards 0 0 Red cards 0 0

Second half Statistic Paris Saint-Germain Inter Milan Goals scored 3 0 Total shots 10 6 Shots on target 3 2 Saves 2 0 Ball possession 57% 43% Corner kicks 1 4 Fouls committed 8 6 Offsides 0 4 Yellow cards 2 4 Red cards 0 0

Overall Statistic Paris Saint-Germain Inter Milan Goals scored 5 0 Total shots 23 8 Shots on target 8 2 Saves 2 3 Ball possession 59% 41% Corner kicks 4 6 Fouls committed 13 7 Offsides 0 5 Yellow cards 2 4 Red cards 0 0

Post-match

With their victory, Paris Saint-Germain won their first European Cup title, the 24th team to do so. It also marked the second final to be won by a French club, after Marseille in 1993. Paris Saint-Germain also completed the eleventh continental treble in European football history, doing so as the ninth overall team and first French club. It was the fourth trophy of the season for Paris Saint-Germain, having also won the Trophée des Champions. Luis Enrique won his second Champions League title as manager, having previously won with Barcelona in 2015 as part of a treble. With the victory, he became the 21st coach to win multiple finals and the seventh to do so with multiple clubs. Additionally, he became the second manager to win multiple trebles after fellow Spaniard Pep Guardiola, who also won his first treble with Barcelona.

Paris Saint-Germain's five unanswered goals set a record for the largest margin of victory in a European Cup final, surpassing the four-goal differences in 1960, 1974 replay, 1989, and 1994. It also equaled, with Benfica in 1962, for the second-most goals scored by a team in the final, only behind the seven of Real Madrid in 1960. Senny Mayulu became the second-youngest scorer in a Champions League final, only behind Patrick Kluivert in 1995, while Désiré Doué became the fourth-youngest. Doué was named as the man of the match with his brace, and was subsequently selected as the Champions League Young Player of the Season. The win for Paris Saint-Germain also meant for the first time since Porto's win in the 2003–04 season that a club from outside the big four leagues (England, Spain, Italy, and Germany) had won the tournament.

Inter Milan's loss was their fourth in a Champions League final (after 1967, 1972, and 2023) and the second in three seasons. Having finished second in Serie A and the Supercoppa Italiana and exited the Coppa Italia in the semi-finals, the defeat meant Inter would finish a season without a trophy for the first time since the 2019–20 season, when they also lost a European final. Inter manager Simone Inzaghi called the defeat "painful" and "disappointing" but said Inter would bounce back from the loss like they did in 2023. However, the final turned out to be Inzaghi's last game in charge of Inter as he left the club by mutual consent 3 days later.

As winners, Paris Saint-Germain qualified for various other competitions. They will compete in the 2025 UEFA Super Cup against Tottenham Hotspur, winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League. They also qualified for the final of the 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup, where they will compete against another continental champions for the title of annual club world champions. Finally, they qualified for the 2029 FIFA Club World Cup, FIFA's quadrennial club championship.

Celebrations and riots

Main article: 2025 Paris Saint-Germain celebration riots

Following Paris Saint-Germain's victory, celebrations were held across France overnight. In some areas disorder broke out and across the country two people were killed and a further 192 were injured, with 559 people being arrested. A 17-year-old boy died after being stabbed in Dax and a 23-year-old man was killed in central Paris after being hit by a vehicle whilst riding a scooter. The interior ministry said that 491 people were arrested in Paris alone and 264 vehicles were set on fire; among the injured were 22 police officers and seven firefighters. Four people were injured in Grenoble after a car ploughed into PSG fans. During the celebrations shops were looted, bus shelters smashed and flares and fireworks set off, with clashes breaking out near the Champs-Élysées and the Parc des Princes. Around 5,400 police were deployed across Paris in anticipation of disorder during the celebrations, and Paris police prefect said the trophy parade would go ahead the next day but with a higher police and military presence.

See also

• 2025 UEFA Europa League Final
• 2025 UEFA Conference League Final
• 2025 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
• 2025 UEFA Super Cup

External links

• Official website