IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE FINAL
Picture : It was Postecoglou's 100th game in charge of Tottenham Hotspur. He becane the 2nd coach to take charge of his 100th game with an English club in a major final; the first was George Ramsay with Aston Villa in the 1892 FA Cup final.
Statistics on Europa League final
Tottenham vs Manchester United 1-0
*It was the 6th all-English final in major European competitions history (and the 7th including the 2019 Super Cup Liverpool vs Chelsea).
*Tottenham won their 4th international title, after:
Cup Winners' Cup 1963,
UEFA Cup 1972, 1984.
It was Spurs’ 6th final tie in European competitions, including 2 lost, in UEFA Cup 1974 and in Champions League 2019.
*Tottenham ended their 17-year trophy drought (the last was English League Cup in 2008).
*Tottenham Hotspur became the 2nd English team to have won the UEFA Cup/Europa League 3 times, along with Liverpool (1973, 1976, 2001).
Sevilla are the only team from any country to win the competition on more occasions (7).
Atlético Madrid, Inter and Juventus are others who won it 3 times.
*Tottenham are now 4th most decorated English club in European competituons (4 trophies), behind Liverpool (13), Chelsea (8) and Manchester United (6).
*It is 48th European club trophy for England; only Spain has larger collection (64).
Other countries with 10+ trophies: Italy (40), Germany (22), Netherlands (13).
*Never before two teams ranked so low (16th and 17th) in their respective leagues (which, in this case, is the same league) met for a European title.
It was even the first major European final competed between teams who both finished outside of the top-10 in the league.
*Tottenham is the first team to win a European trophy and also to qualify for the European Cup/Champions League after finishing their league so low (on 15th, 16th, or 17th place, depending on the forthcoming final match-day of English Premier League).
The previous low points were:
Aston Villa, who won European Cup 1982 and finished 11th in the 1981-82 English League,
Eintracht, who won Europa League 2022 and finished also 11th in the 2021-22 Bundesliga.
*Manchester United will miss the next European season, for just the second time in the last 35 years (also in the 2014-15 season).
*The last 4 teams to have eliminated Manchester United in the Europa League all have gone on to win the competition, including Sevilla in 2019-20, Villarreal in 2020-21 and again Sevilla in 2022-23.
*Before the final defeat, Manchester United were the only team that remained unbeaten across the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League this season (9 wins, 5 draws in 14 games).
*Manchester United have suffered their 20th defeat in all competitions this season; their most in a campaign since losing 22 in 1973-74, when they were relegated from the top flight.
*Manchester United has scored the 3rd most goals in a Europa League season (35), conceding only:
Porto (37 in 2010-11),
Chelsea (36 in 2018-19).
*Across all competitions this season, Manchester United have conceded first in 31 games: the most by any Premier League team in 2024-25.
*Tottenham have now beaten Manchester United 4 times in 2024-25 (in all competitions), becoming only the second side to win 4 games against them in one season, along with Everton in 1985-86.
*Ange Postecoglou became the first ever Australian coach to win a major European trophy.
Among players, there were 2 to do so:
Harry Kewell (with Liverpool in 2005 Champions League),
Ajdin Hrustic (with Eintracht Frankfurt in 2022 Europa League).
*It was Postecoglou's 100th game in charge of Tottenham Hotspur. He becane the 2nd coach to take charge of his 100th game with an English club in a major final; the first was George Ramsay with Aston Villa in the 1892 FA Cup final.
*Postecoglou always wins something in his 2nd season in change of a club.
Previously he won a trophy in his second full season with South Melbourne (1997-98), Brisbane Roar (2011-12), Yokohama F. Marinos (2019) and Celtic (2022-23).
*Ruben Amorim became the second coach to reach the final of a European competition in his first season with Manchester United, after José Mourinho in the 2016-17 Europa League.
*Mikey Moore (Tottenham) became the youngest ever player to win the UEFA Cup/Europa League (at the age of 17 years 283 days).
*Leny Yoro is the 2nd youngest player (19 years 189 days) to start for Manchester United in a major European final, behind Brian Kidd on his 19th birthday in the 1968 European Cup final.
*Leny Yoro is the 3rd youngest French player to play in a UEFA Cup/Europa League final, behind:
Jean-Marie de Zerbi (18 years 5 months) with Bastia against PSV Eindhoven in 1978,
Cédric Anselin (18 years 9 months) with Bordeaux against Bayern in 1996.
*It was 2nd final of a major European competition with 5 African players in starting lineups:
Yves Bissouma, Pape Sarr (Tottenham), André Onana, Noussair Mazraoui and Amad Diallo (Manchester United).
The first such final was Marseille vs Valencia in 2004 (Habib Béye, Brahim Hemdani, Abdoulaye Méïté, Sylvain N'Diaye and Didier Drogba).