IFFHS STATS - THE FINAL PREVIEW : PSG - INTER
Statistics on Champions’ League: the Final preview
31 May, Munich, Allianz Arena
Inter vs PSG
*The Champions League final without English, Spanish or German club will be for the first time since 2004, when Porto beat Monaco 3-0.
*Paris Saint-Germain is the first French club to reach the Champions League final twice since the European Cup rebranding in 1992.
Overall, PSG became the third French club to qualify for a second European Cup/Champions League final, after Reims (1956, 1959) and Marseille (1991, 1993).
*Curiously, PSG and Inter Milan are just the last two teams to have beaten Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena in the Champions League.
*Munich is famous as the city where a team that has never before been a European champion has always won the final:
Nottingham Forest in 1979,
Marseille in 1993,
Borussia Dortmund in 1997,
Chelsea in 2012.
A good sign for PSG that arrived in Munich seeking their first European Cup/Champions League title.
*While Inter won the competition 3 times, PSG’s only major European trophy so far is the 1996 Cup Winners’ Cup (they beat Rapid Vienna in the final).
*It will be the first official meeting in history between Inter and PSG.
The similar happened also in 2023 when Inter and Manchester City have faced each other for the first time in official competitions, and straight in the Champions League final.
*PSG will be the first French club to face Inter in the Champions League knockout stage since Marseille in the Round of 16 of the 2011-12, with Marseille the winner of the tie.
*Luis Enrique (PSG) joins Rafa Benítez (with Liverpool) and Pep Guardiola (with Manchester City) as Spanish coaches who have reached the European Cup final with non-Spanish clubs.
*Luis Enrique will become the 6th Spanish coach with multiple European Cup/Champions League finals, after:
Miguel Muñoz, Pep Guardiola (both 4),
Jose Villalonga, Vicente Del Bosque, Rafa Benítez (each 2).
*Luis Enrique has won so far each of his 10 finals played in single matches as a club coach in official competitions.
He only lost a final at national teams’ level, as coach of Spain against France in the 2021 Nations League.
*Luis Enrique became the first coach in history to win his first 6 domestic competitions with a French club: Ligue 1, Trophée des Champions and Coupe de France both in 2024 and 2025.
*PSG can become the first French team to win a treble (national league, national cup and Champions League in same season).
In this case, Luis Enrique (who already achieved it in 2015 with Barcelona) would equal Guardiola's record of two trebles (2009 with Barcelona
and 2023 with Manchester City.
*Inter have scored 26 goals in the Champions League this season, equaling their record for a single season in the competition (also 26 in 2002-03).
*PSG scored 33 Champions League goals this season, the highest total for any French team in any major European competition.
*It has passed already nearly 3 decades since a French club managed to score in the final of any major European competition.
The last who did it was Daniel Dutuel with Bordeaux against Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup final on 15 May 1996.
Considering the UEFA Super Cup as well, this moment was slightly closer: Raí scored for PSG against Juventus on 5 February 1997.
*Since QSI's arrival in June 2011 to the PSG leadership, the club won 36 domestic trophies from 51 possible. The next are Lille, Lyon and Marseille with only 2 trophies for each inside this period.