IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA CONFERENCE LEAGUE FINAL
Picture : Chelsea are the first team in Football History to win the Champions League, the Europa League and the Conference League !
Statistics on Сonference League final
Betis vs Chelsea 1-4
*It is the worst defeat for a Spanish club in a European final against a non-Spanish opponent since Milan beat Barcelona 4-0 in Athens in 1994 (Champions League).
*It ends an unprecedented streak in the history of European football: 19 consecutive finals won by Spanish clubs against non-Spanish opponents in major continental tournaments (9 Champions League and 10 Europa League).
Spanish football has last lost a final 24 years ago (Valencia vs Bayern, on penalties, in the 2001 Champions League final).
*In this Spain's incredible run, the biggest losers have been just English clubs, who have been defeated on 9 of the 9 occasions.
Chelsea are the first English side to beat Spanish opposition in the final since Liverpool vs Alaves in the 2001 UEFA Cup.
*Betis became the 12th Spanish team to take part in the final of a major European competition.
*This season is the first ever in history with 5 different English clubs winning a major trophy:
Liverpool (Premier League),
Crystal Palace (FA Cup),
Newcastle (League Cup),
Tottenham Hotspur (Europa League),
Chelsea (Conference League).
*Chelsea became the first club in history to win each of the European Cup/Champions League (2), UEFA Cup/Europa League (2), Cup Winners' Cup (2) and Conference League (1).
Adding here also UEFA Super Cup (2) and Club World Cup (1), Chelsea became the first club to win all 6 major international titles available for European clubs.
*Chelsea have won 7 European finals out of their 8.
The only loss was 2008 Champions League final (on shootout vs Manchester United).
*Chelsea won the third-most European finals in XXI century (5), conceding only to Real Madrid (7, all in Champions League) and Sevilla (7, all in UEFA Cup/Europa League).
*Manuel Pellegrini (Betis) became the oldest coach in the history of all major European finals (71 years 254 days).
He surpassed Raymond Goethals (European champion with Olympique in 1993 at 71 years 231 days).
*Enzo Maresca (Chelsea) has become the youngest coach (45 years old) to win a European final since Zinedine Zidane won the European Cup with Real Madrid in 2016 at the age of 43.
*Chelsea became only the second team in a major European final without a player of 27+ years in the starting lineup, after:
Crvena Zvezda vs Borussia Mönchengladbach in both legs of the 1978-79 UEFA Cup final.
The oldest Chelsea’s player to start vs Betis was Marc Cucurella, aged 26.
*Enzo Fernández is the 2nd youngest captain (24 years 131 days) of an English club to win a major European final, only older than Bobby Moore in the 1964-65 Cup Winners' Cup for West Ham (24 years 37 days).
*Enzo Fernández is the first player to score and assist in a major European final since Eden Hazard and Olivier Giroud who did it also for Chelsea in the final that ended 4-1 (vs Arsenal in 2019, Europa League).
*Cole Palmer is the first player with 2 assists in the final of a major European competition since 2018 when Marcelo did it for Real Madrid against Liverpool in the Champions League and Koke for Atletico Madrid vs Marseille in the Europa League.
Considering also the Super Cup, the last to do so was Roberto Firmino for Liverpool in the 2019 edition.
*At the age of just 23 years, Cole Palmer has already collected 7 European trophies with club and country:
Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup in England,
Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and Conference League in Europe,
U21 European Championships with England.
*Moisés Caicedo is the first Ecuadorian player to score in a European final.
*Abde Ezzalzouli (Betis) became the 2nd Moroccan goal scorer in a European final, after:
Ayoub El Kaabi with Olympiacos against Fiorentina in the 2024 Conference League.
*Two African players (also Nicolas Jackson from Senegal for Chelsea) have scored in the same European final for the first time in history.