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| Event | 2024–25 UEFA Champions League | ||||||
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| Date | 31 May 2025 (2025-05-31) | ||||||
| Venue | Allianz Arena,Munich | ||||||
| Man of the Match | Désiré Doué(Paris Saint-Germain)[1] | ||||||
| Referee | István Kovács (Romania)[2] | ||||||
| Attendance | 64,327[3] | ||||||
| Weather | Partly cloudy night 24 °C (75 °F) 47%humidity[4] | ||||||
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The2025 UEFA Champions League final was the final match of the2024–25 UEFA Champions League, the 70th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised byUEFA, and the 33rd season since it was renamed from theEuropean Champion Clubs' Cup to theUEFA Champions League. It was held at theAllianz Arena inMunich, Germany, on 31 May 2025, between French clubParis Saint-Germain and Italian clubInter Milan.
Paris Saint-Germain won the match 5–0 for their first European Cup title,[5] marking the second final victory by a French club sinceMarseille in1993. Their margin of victory was the largest in any of the main European men's club competitions[a] final, with their goal tally only surpassed in oneEuropean Cup final byReal Madrid's seven in1960. In doing so, Paris Saint-Germain completed acontinental treble, the first of a French club, whileLuis Enrique became the second manager sincePep Guardiola to have won the treble twice. As winners, Paris Saint-Germain earned the right to play againstTottenham Hotspur, winners of the2024–25 UEFA Europa League, in the2025 UEFA Super Cup, and automatically qualified for the2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup and the2029 FIFA Club World Cup. The match would also beSimone Inzaghi's final match as manager of Inter Milan as he would leave his post three days after the final by mutual consent.
Paris Saint-Germain reached their second Champions League final and the first since2020, when they lost toBayern Munich.[6] This was the fifth European final for them, having previously also appeared in two consecutive finals of theUEFA Cup Winners' Cup, winning the1996 final 1–0 againstRapid Wien before losing by the same scoreline againstBarcelona while attempting to defend their title in1997.[7] The club also contested the1996 UEFA Super Cup, losing 9–2 on aggregate toJuventus. Paris Saint-Germain attempted to become only the second French team to win the European Cup/Champions League, following the success oftheir rivalsMarseille in1993—with the final also taking place in Munich—and the first French club to complete acontinental treble, having won theLigue 1 and theCoupe de France.[8] The club had won theTrophée des Champions (super cup) earlier in the season, thus had a chance for a clean sweep of titles available to them.[9] Their manager,Luis Enrique, was aiming for a second continental treble, having done so with Barcelona in the2014–15 season. Since he was successful, he became the second manager to achieve such a feat after fellow former Barcelona player and managerPep Guardiola, who achieved so in2008–09 with Barcelona and in2022–23 withManchester City.[8] He also became the seventhmanager to win the European Cup/Champions League with different clubs.[10]
This was Inter Milan's thirteenth European final and seventh European Cup/Champions League final appearance, having won 3–1 in1964 againstReal Madrid, 1–0 againstBenfica athome in1965 and 2–0 against Bayern Munich in2010, resulting in Inter completing the continental treble; they also lost 2–1 toCeltic in1967, 2–0 toAjax in1972 and 1–0 to Manchester City in2023,[11] all of which enabled those clubs to win the continental treble themselves.[8] The club had also contested five UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League finals, winning in1991,1994, and1998 as well as losing in1997 and2020.[12] They also contested the2010 UEFA Super Cup, losing 2–0 toAtlético Madrid.[13] Inter Milan were the most recent Italian club to win the Champions League; since 2010 only one other Italian club—their rivals Juventus—had reached the Champions League final, losing in2015 and2017.[11]Simone Inzaghi was aiming for his first European title as manager and the second in his football career, having won againstManchester United in the1999 UEFA Super Cup as aLazio player.[14] Their midfielderHenrikh Mkhitaryan was aiming to become the eleventh player to havewon all three major European trophies and the first to have achieved that with three different clubs, having won the2016–17 UEFA Europa League with Manchester United and the2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League withRoma.[15]
The clubs had never met in any competitive matches, but had faced each other in five exhibition games.[16]
The match was the first Champions League final without a club from England, Spain or Germany since Portuguese sidePorto defeated French representativeMonaco in2004.[11]
In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era and since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era.[11]
| Team | Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners) |
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 Paris Saint-Germain | 1 (2020) |
 Inter Milan | 6 (1964,1965,1967,1972,2010,2023) |
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This was the second UEFA Champions League final hosted at theAllianz Arena inMunich; the first was held in2012.[17] Overall, it was the fifthEuropean Cup final to be held in Munich, with the1979,1993,1997, and2012 finals taking place at theOlympiastadion. Each of the previous four finals played in Munich saw a first-time winner of the competition crowned (Nottingham Forest in 1979,Marseille in 1993,Borussia Dortmund in 1997, andChelsea in 2012). The final also was the ninth to take place in Germany, having also taken place inStuttgart in1959 and1988,Gelsenkirchen in2004 andBerlin in2015, equalling the record of nine European Cup finals held in Italy and England.[18] The Allianz Arena previously hosted matches at the2006 FIFA World Cup,[19] and was chosen as a host venue forUEFA Euro 2020 andUEFA Euro 2024.
On 16 July 2021, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that theAtatürk Olympic Stadium inIstanbul would host the2023 UEFA Champions League final instead of Munich.[20] This was because Istanbul twice had the Champions League final intended for their city relocated due to theCOVID-19 pandemic. Originally planned as hosts for the2020 final, the match was moved toLisbon and the final hosts shifted back a year, with Istanbul instead awarded the2021 final.[21] However, weeks prior to the final, the 2021 fixture was moved toPorto due to travel restrictions.[22]
Munich, originally selected to host the2022 final by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting inLjubljana, Slovenia on 24 September 2019,[23] was later planned to host the2023 final after the shifting of the final hosts. However, the city was awarded the 2025 final instead after being bumped from 2023 by Istanbul.[20]
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).[24]
| Paris Saint-Germain | Round | Inter Milan | ||||||
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| 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(4–1p) | 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) |
The visual identity of the 2025 UEFA Champions League final was unveiled on 28 January 2025.[25] On 16 April, American rock bandLinkin Park was named as the headline act of the opening ceremony.[26] On 26 May, German violinistDavid Garrett was announced to play a rearranged version ofthe White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" on the trophy presentation prior to the teams' entrance.[27]
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Paris Saint-Germain started the match by pressuring Inter and with high intensity.[28] In the 12th minute,Vitinha threaded a pass to Doué inside the box, who then found the unmarkedAchraf Hakimi near the back post, slotting the ball in to give Paris an early lead. Their second goal came eight minutes later, with Willian Pacho acrobatically clearing the ball on the end line to start a counterattack.Ousmane Dembélé was found down the pitch, who then crossed the ball to Doué on the edge of the box, whose shot was deflected offFederico Dimarco and past a helplessYann Sommer. Inter Milan missed opportunities to cut the deficit before half-time, withFrancesco Acerbi (23') andMarcus Thuram (37') missing their headers. Paris Saint-Germain also had additional opportunities before the break, with Dembelé (44') andKhvicha Kvaratskhelia (45+2') missing both.[29]
In the first minute of the second half, Paris Saint-Germain's Kvaratskhelia missed a shot. Inter Milan'sHakan Çalhanoğlu then took a free kick but hit the ball wide. In the 50th minute, Inter'sNicolò Barella protested to the referee thatMarquinhos had committed a handball offence, but the referee disagreed and did not give a penalty. Inter took offBenjamin Pavard and Dimarco, and replaced them withYann Bisseck andNicola Zalewski. Two minutes after coming on, Zalewski was booked for a slide tackle onFabián Ruiz. In the 58th minute, Inter Milan's head coachSimone Inzaghi was booked for protesting one of the referee's decisions. In the 61st minute, Inter made two more substitutions,Matteo Darmian andCarlos Augusto for Mkhitaryan and Bisseck (who was brought off after a kneehyperextension). Two minutes later, Paris Saint-Germain scored a third goal with Doué finding the net after a through ball from Vitinha following a counterattack started by Dembele and Vitinha; Doué was booked for removing his shirt as his celebration. In the 67th minute, he was replaced byBradley 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 withKristjan Asllani replacing Çalhanoğlu. In the 73rd minute, Kvaratskhelia scored a fourth goal for Paris Saint-Germain, after a through ball from Dembélé to get behind Inter's defense near the halfway line. Three minutes later, Thuram got Inter's first shot on target of the match, but the ball was caught by goalkeeperGianluigi Donnarumma. Paris Saint-Germain went on to make more substitutions:Nuno Mendes was replaced byLucas Hernandez, and then Kvaratskhelia,João Neves, and Ruiz were substituted forGonçalo Ramos,Warren Zaïre-Emery, andSenny Mayulu, who scored the fifth goal of the game from a tight angle just three minutes after coming on.[29]
The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was predetermined as the winner of semi-final 1 (Paris Saint-Germain).[30][31]
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With their victory, Paris Saint-Germain won their first Champions league title, the 24th team to do so. It also marked the second final to be won by a French club, afterMarseille in1993.[11] Paris Saint-Germain also completed the eleventhcontinental treble in European football history, doing so as the ninth overall team and first French club.[8] It was thefourth trophy of the season for Paris Saint-Germain, having also won theTrophée des Champions.Luis Enrique won his second Champions League title as manager, having previously won withBarcelona in2015 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.[34] Additionally, he became the second manager to win multiple trebles after fellow SpaniardPep Guardiola, who also won his first treble with Barcelona.[8]
Paris Saint-Germain's five unanswered goals set a record for the largest margin of victory in the final of any of the main European men's club competitions;[a] for a European Cup final, this result surpassed the four-goal differences in1960,1974 replay,1989 and1994.[37] It also equaled, withBenfica in1962, for the second-most goals scored by a team in the final, only behind the seven ofReal Madrid in 1960.[11]Senny Mayulu became the second-youngest scorer in a Champions League final, only behindPatrick Kluivert in1995, whileDésiré Doué became the fourth-youngest.[38] Doué was named as theman of the match for his brace,[1] and was subsequently selected as the Champions League Young Player of the Season.[39] The win for Paris Saint-Germain also meant for the first time sincePorto's win in the2003–04 season that a club from outside of Europe's four big leagues (England, Spain, Italy, and Germany) had won the tournament.
Inter Milan's loss was their fourth in a Champions League final (after1967,1972, and2023) and the second in three seasons.[11] Having finished second inSerie A and theSupercoppa Italiana and exited theCoppa Italia in the semi-finals, the defeat meant Inter would finish a season without a trophy for the first time since the2019–20 season, when they also lost a European final. Inter managerSimone Inzaghi called the defeat "painful" and "disappointing" but said Inter would bounce back from the loss like they did in 2023.[40] However, the final turned out to be Inzaghi's last game in charge of Inter as he left the club by mutual consent three days later.[41]
As winners, Paris Saint-Germain qualified for various other competitions. They competed in the2025 UEFA Super Cup againstTottenham Hotspur, winners of the2024–25 UEFA Europa League. They also qualified for thefinal of the2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup, where they will compete against another continental champions for the title ofannual club world champions.[42] Finally, they qualified for the2029 FIFA Club World Cup, FIFA's quadrennial club championship.[43]
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 inDax and a 23-year-old man was killed in centralParis after being hit by a vehicle whilst riding a scooter. Theinterior 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 inGrenoble 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 theChamps-Élysées and theParc des Princes. Around 5,400 police were deployed across Paris in anticipation of disorder during the celebrations, andParis police prefect said the trophy parade would go ahead the next day but with a higher police and military presence.[44]
