IFFHS CONTINENTAL STATS - UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE
Picture : Nuno Mendes controlled Lamine Yamal and was the Best player on the field in the final !
Statistics on Nations League final games
Final: Portugal vs Spain 2-2 (p 5-3)
*Portugal are the first team to win the Nations League twice (also in 2019).
*This is the third title in the Portugal’s history (also Euro 2016). Cristiano Ronaldo lifted all three trophies.
*It’s the 36th trophy in the career of Cristiano Ronaldo.
*CR7 has scored his 4th goal against Spain (including the hat-trick at 2018 World Cup). Only one player ever scored more times (7), and this is his countryman Fernando Peyroteo.
Other 3 players have scored vs Spain 4 goals as well: Eduardo Vargas (Chile), Gary Lineker (England) and Robert Coppée (Belgium).
*It's not often that Cristiano Ronaldo gets injured, but it has already happened in two finals: in Euro 2016 and now.
*Spain have scored 25 goals in 10 matches in the 2024-25 Nations League, the most goals scored by any team in a single edition of the tournament.
*Spain had previously won all of their 9 matches against national teams led by a Spanish coach. Now Roberto Martínez broke this tradition.
8Portugal became the sole opponent with the most matches against Spain (42), surpassing Italy (41).
*Among last 15 matches between Spain and Portugal, 10 ended a draw.
*Mikel Oyarzabal has become the first player in Spanish history to score in three different finals (also Nations League 2021, Euro 2024).
*Both Spain’s goals were scored by Real Sociedad players (Zubimendi and Oyarzabal).
This is the 4th game in La Roja’s history with 2 scorers from this club. The precedents:
Marculeta and Mariscal in 1928 against Mexico,
Zamora and Satrústegui in 1981 against England,
Perico Alonso and López Ufarte in 1981 against Poland.
8For the second time, Alvaro Morata has missed a penalty shootout with Spain. He already did so in the Euro 2021 semifinal against Italy.
Match for 3rd place: Germany vs France 0-2
*Germany have only managed to beat France in one of their last 8 matches on German soil (with 2 draws and 5 French wins).
*Kylian Mbappé became the third man to score 50+ goals for France after Olivier Giroud (57 in 137 caps) and Thierry Henry (51 in 123 caps).
Mbappé is the player that took fewest games (90) to reach this mark for Les Bleus (Henry took 113 and Giroud 115).
*Mbappé also is the youngest Frenchman to reach the milestone of 50 goals for the national team (26 years 170 days) and the 4th youngest players in history of European national teams to do it, behind Sandor Kocsis, Ferenc Puskas and Romelu Lukaku.
*Mbappé became the youngest player to reach 90 caps for Les Bleus.
*Mbappé who also made an assist, has now 17 games for France in which he both scored and assisted, most of all French players in history (next are Thierry Henry with 13 games and Antoine Griezmann with 11).
*Mbappé has scored in each of his last 8 matches for club and country: his best goal streak since December 2019 - January 2020 (also 8 games).
*Didier Deschamps is now the coach with 2nd most wins with a single national team (107), behind only Joachim Löw (124 with Germany) and ahead of Oscar Tabarez (106 with Uruguay).