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Calculated Shard: 5 (from laksa036)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa005.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://theanalyst.com/articles/the-biggest-champions-league-final-wins\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://theanalyst.com/articles/the-biggest-champions-league-final-wins\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/articles\/the-biggest-champions-league-final-wins","crawl_time":1775793088,"first_indexed_time":1748522807,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,theanalyst!\/articles\/the-biggest-champions-league-final-wins s443","src_root_hash":"1177976562244921205","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"The Biggest Champions League Final Wins | Opta Analyst","meta_descriptions":["Join us as we look back on the biggest UEFA Champions League and European Cup final wins."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Join us as we look back on the biggest UEFA Champions League final wins.\nBiggest Champions League Final Wins\nPSG 5-0 Inter (2024-25)\nHeading into this final, most of the talk was about how tight it was to call. An almost typical ‘irresistible force vs the immovable object’ of an encounter.\nAnd yet, it wasn’t. Inter were a very moveable object as it turned out.\nA stunning performance from 19-year-old \nDésiré Doué\n helped Paris Saint-Germain to a comfortable 5-0 win over the Nerazzurri in Munich.\nDoué set up \nAchraf Hakimi\n for the opener before scoring twice himself to become the first player to record three goal involvements in a Champions League final.\nKhvicha Kvaratskhelia\n and \nSenny Mayulu\n sealed things with two more goals as PSG won their first ever European Cup\/Champions League, and became the first French team to lift the trophy since Marseille in 1993.\nInter were the first team to concede five goals in a Champions League final, while the last time it happened in a European Cup was 1962 when Benfica beat Real Madrid 5-3.\nSimone Inzaghi’s men had only been behind in games for a total of 998 seconds in the whole of their 2024-25 Champions League campaign prior to the final, but were torn apart by PSG in record style.\nAC Milan 4-0 Barcelona (1993-94)\nCurrent\nManchester City\nboss Pep Guardiola was part of the\nBarcelona\nside that went into the 1994 Champions League final as clear favourites.\nMilan\nwere without a host of key players, such as Marco van Basten, Gianluigi Lentini, plus Italy greats Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta, yet they went on to blow Johan Cruyff’s Barca away.\nDaniele Massaro put Milan in front with a close-range finish after an off-balance Dejan Savićević managed to get the ball to the back post, and then made it 2-0 just before the break with a fine strike following Roberto Donadoni’s excellent left-wing run and cut-back.\nSavićević effectively put the game beyond Barca less than two minutes after the restart with an outrageous lob from the right-hand perimeter of the Milan box, and a gorgeous Marcel Desailly curler sealed victory before the hour.\nMilan’s win in Athens remains the only Champions League final to be settled by a four-goal margin.\nReal Madrid 4-1 Juventus (2016-17)\nFour Champions League finals have been won by three-goal deficits, the most recent of which came in 2017 when\nMadrid\ndefeated\nJuventus\nto become the first team to win the competition back-to-back.\nCristiano Ronaldo swept home a Dani Carvajal cut-back to make it 1-0 with Madrid’s first shot in the 20th minute, and although Mario Mandžukić’s astonishing overhead-kick made it 1-1 soon after, Zinedine Zidane’s side got the job done with three goals in the second half.\nCasemiro’s deflected long-range strike put Madrid back in front, then Ronaldo got his 10th of the knockout stages alone from Luka Modrić’s cross. Juan Cuadrado’s second yellow card six minutes from time for pushing Sergio Ramos essentially killed off Juventus’ chances of a fightback, and Marco Asensio got Madrid’s fourth with a tidy finish when latching on to Marcelo’s pull-back.\nIt was the Bianconeri’s fifth consecutive Champions League final defeat.\nReal Madrid 4-1 Atlético Madrid (AET, 2013-14)*\nSo, this entry has an asterisk because Madrid needed extra-time to see off their neighbours\nAtlético\n– in fact, this game was agonisingly close to being a 1-0 win for Diego Simeone’s side.\nDiego Godín’s first-half opener – a looping header over Iker Casillas – in Lisbon looked as though it’d be enough for a maiden European Cup\/Champions League success for Atlético, but Madrid weren’t to be denied\nLa Décima.\nSergio Ramos’ dramatic headed equaliser deep into second-half stoppage time ensured the game went to an extra 30 minutes, and Gareth Bale nodded Real Madrid in front with 110 minutes on the clock after great work by Ángel Di Maria.\nThen-Atlético ‘keeper Thibaut Courtois failed to keep out Marcelo’s 20-yard drive, and a Ronaldo penalty – which he won – finished things off at the end.\nFC Porto 3-0 Monaco (2003-04)\nThe win that elevated José Mourinho to football manager superstardom and secured a move\nChelsea\n. Both Porto and Monaco had captured the imaginations of neutrals with their unlikely journeys to the Champions League final in 2004, but Gelsenkirchen played host to a showpiece that proved fairly one-sided by the end.\nLivewire attacking midfield star Carlos Alberto put Porto in front with an instinctive volley into the top-right corner six minutes before half-time. Monaco remained in the contest for a while after that, but Deco linked up well with Dmitri Alenichev in the 71st minute to make it 2-0 courtesy of a delicate, disguised finish into the bottom-left corner.\nAlenichev put Monaco to bed with an emphatic volley a few minutes later, making Porto the first – and only – club from Portugal to win the Champions League, a year after winning the Europa League (UEFA Cup as it was then).\nReal Madrid 3-0 Valencia (1999-00)\nThe first European Cup or Champions League final to be contested by two teams from the same nation, success at the Stade de France salvaged an otherwise underwhelming season for Real Madrid, whose haul of 62 points in La Liga remains their worst in a single campaign this century in Spain’s top flight.\nFernando Morientes got Madrid’s first, heading in from Míchel Salgado’s cross, before Steve McManaman – who became the first English player to win the competition with a non-English club – fired in a brilliant volley from the edge of the box.\nRaúl sealed the win 15 minutes from the end, rounding Santiago Cañizares to finish off a counter-attack and give coach Vicente del Bosque his first title as a coach.\nBiggest European Cup Final Wins\nReal Madrid 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt (1959-60)\nThere may have only been five Champions League finals settled by a deficit of three or more goals, but there were also a handful European Cup finals, with Real Madrid’s hammering of\nEintracht Frankfurt\nin 1960 most iconic among them.\nIt remarkably included\nhalf of all hat-tricks ever scored in a European Cup\/Champions League final\n, with Alfredo Di Stéfano netting three and Ferenc Puskás plundering four as the Spanish side won the competition for a fifth time in a row.\nSource: AFP via Getty Images\nBayern Munich 4-0 Atlético Madrid 4-0 (1973-74)*\nAnother asterisk. Atlético actually found themselves within a minute of European Cup success but were pegged back right at the end of extra-time, Bayern rescuing a 1-1 draw in Brussels to force a replay a couple of days later.\nThe Bundesliga giants then ran riot, with Uli Hoeneß and Gerd Müller scoring two apiece. Their victory officially ended one dynasty – given Ajax had won the competition three times in succession beforehand – and started another, as Bayern took the crown back to Germany in 1975 and 1976 as well.\nMilan 4-0 Steaua Bucharest (1988-89)\nThe Rossoneri went double-double Dutch at Camp Nou in May 1989, with Ruud Gullit and Van Basten each getting a brace as Steaua – champions three years earlier – were brushed aside emphatically on the grand stage.\nMilan became the first side to score more than three goals in a European Cup final (excluding replays) since 1969.\nMilan 4-1 Ajax (1968-69)\nThat’s right, the last team to achieve that feat before Milan were the Rossoneri themselves. Rinus Michels’ legendary Ajax team had to make do with the runners-up spot as they were no match for the Italians. Milan were inspired by the hat-trick of Pierino Prati – no one has scored a treble in a European Cup or Champions League final since.\nDefeat prevented Ajax becoming the first Dutch team to win the European Cup, as Feyenoord took that honour a year later. But their day soon arrived, with Michels guiding them to the title in 1971, before Ștefan Kovács led Cruyff and Co. to success in each of the following two seasons.\nManchester United 4-1 Benfica (1967-68)*\nSir Matt Busby’s Man Utd became the first English team – not British, as Celtic had that honour – to be crowned European champions in 1968, though the 4-1 scoreline makes it sound more straightforward than it was, as three of their goals were scored in extra-time.\nEngland legend Bobby Charlton scored two of United’s goals, with Brian Kidd and George Best also on the scoresheet.\nEnjoy this? 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[Golf](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/competition\/golf\/articles)\n  - [Explainers](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/competition\/metric-explainers\/articles)\n\n![The Biggest Champions League Final Wins](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/desire-doue-ucl-final.jpg)\n\n[Champions League](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/competition\/uefa-champions-league\/articles)\n\n# The Biggest Champions League Final Wins\nMay 31, 2025\n\n[Ryan Benson \/ Author](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/articles\/author\/ryan-benson)\n\n***Join us as we look back on the biggest UEFA Champions League final wins.***\n***\n## **Biggest Champions League Final Wins**\n### ***PSG 5-0 Inter (2024-25)***\nHeading into this final, most of the talk was about how tight it was to call. An almost typical ‘irresistible force vs the immovable object’ of an encounter.\n\nAnd yet, it wasn’t. Inter were a very moveable object as it turned out.\n\nA stunning performance from 19-year-old [Désiré Doué](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-570810\/desire-doue) helped Paris Saint-Germain to a comfortable 5-0 win over the Nerazzurri in Munich.\n\nDoué set up [Achraf Hakimi](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-223760\/achraf-hakimi) for the opener before scoring twice himself to become the first player to record three goal involvements in a Champions League final.\n\n[Khvicha Kvaratskhelia](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-440668\/khvicha-kvaratskhelia) and [Senny Mayulu](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-499448\/senny-mayulu) sealed things with two more goals as PSG won their first ever European Cup\/Champions League, and became the first French team to lift the trophy since Marseille in 1993.\n\nInter were the first team to concede five goals in a Champions League final, while the last time it happened in a European Cup was 1962 when Benfica beat Real Madrid 5-3.\n\nSimone Inzaghi’s men had only been behind in games for a total of 998 seconds in the whole of their 2024-25 Champions League campaign prior to the final, but were torn apart by PSG in record style.\n\n![PSG v Inter stats](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/psg-v-inter-stats-1024x768.jpeg)\n\n### ***AC Milan 4-0 Barcelona (1993-94)***\nCurrent [Manchester City](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/manchester-city\/43) boss Pep Guardiola was part of the [Barcelona](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/barcelona\/178) side that went into the 1994 Champions League final as clear favourites. [Milan](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/milan\/120) were without a host of key players, such as Marco van Basten, Gianluigi Lentini, plus Italy greats Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta, yet they went on to blow Johan Cruyff’s Barca away.\n\nDaniele Massaro put Milan in front with a close-range finish after an off-balance Dejan Savićević managed to get the ball to the back post, and then made it 2-0 just before the break with a fine strike following Roberto Donadoni’s excellent left-wing run and cut-back.\n\nSavićević effectively put the game beyond Barca less than two minutes after the restart with an outrageous lob from the right-hand perimeter of the Milan box, and a gorgeous Marcel Desailly curler sealed victory before the hour.\n\nMilan’s win in Athens remains the only Champions League final to be settled by a four-goal margin.\n\n![Milan 4-0 Barcelona is the biggest UCL final win ever](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/milan-vs-barcelona-was-the-biggest-ucl-final-win-1024x576.png)\n***\n### ***Real Madrid 4-1 Juventus (2016-17)***\nFour Champions League finals have been won by three-goal deficits, the most recent of which came in 2017 when [Madrid](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/real-madrid\/186) defeated [Juventus](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/juventus\/128) to become the first team to win the competition back-to-back.\n\nCristiano Ronaldo swept home a Dani Carvajal cut-back to make it 1-0 with Madrid’s first shot in the 20th minute, and although Mario Mandžukić’s astonishing overhead-kick made it 1-1 soon after, Zinedine Zidane’s side got the job done with three goals in the second half.\n\nCasemiro’s deflected long-range strike put Madrid back in front, then Ronaldo got his 10th of the knockout stages alone from Luka Modrić’s cross. Juan Cuadrado’s second yellow card six minutes from time for pushing Sergio Ramos essentially killed off Juventus’ chances of a fightback, and Marco Asensio got Madrid’s fourth with a tidy finish when latching on to Marcelo’s pull-back.\n\nIt was the Bianconeri’s fifth consecutive Champions League final defeat.\n\n![Back-to-back Champions League winners table](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/back-to-back-champions-league-winners-1024x576.png)\n***\n### ***Real Madrid 4-1 Atlético Madrid (AET, 2013-14)\\****\nSo, this entry has an asterisk because Madrid needed extra-time to see off their neighbours [Atlético](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/atletico-madrid\/175) – in fact, this game was agonisingly close to being a 1-0 win for Diego Simeone’s side.\n\nDiego Godín’s first-half opener – a looping header over Iker Casillas – in Lisbon looked as though it’d be enough for a maiden European Cup\/Champions League success for Atlético, but Madrid weren’t to be denied *La Décima.*\n\nSergio Ramos’ dramatic headed equaliser deep into second-half stoppage time ensured the game went to an extra 30 minutes, and Gareth Bale nodded Real Madrid in front with 110 minutes on the clock after great work by Ángel Di Maria.\n\nThen-Atlético ‘keeper Thibaut Courtois failed to keep out Marcelo’s 20-yard drive, and a Ronaldo penalty – which he won – finished things off at the end.\n\n![xG race for Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid in 2014 Champions League final](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/xg-race-for-real-madrid-vs-atletico-madrid-in-2014-champions-league-final-1024x576.jpeg)\n***\n### ***FC Porto 3-0 Monaco (2003-04)***\nThe win that elevated José Mourinho to football manager superstardom and secured a move [Chelsea](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/chelsea\/8). Both Porto and Monaco had captured the imaginations of neutrals with their unlikely journeys to the Champions League final in 2004, but Gelsenkirchen played host to a showpiece that proved fairly one-sided by the end.\n\nLivewire attacking midfield star Carlos Alberto put Porto in front with an instinctive volley into the top-right corner six minutes before half-time. Monaco remained in the contest for a while after that, but Deco linked up well with Dmitri Alenichev in the 71st minute to make it 2-0 courtesy of a delicate, disguised finish into the bottom-left corner.\n\nAlenichev put Monaco to bed with an emphatic volley a few minutes later, making Porto the first – and only – club from Portugal to win the Champions League, a year after winning the Europa League (UEFA Cup as it was then).\n\n![Jose Mourinho winning the Champions League at Porto](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/mourinho-champions-league-gi-1024x576.png)\n***\n### ***Real Madrid 3-0 Valencia (1999-00)***\nThe first European Cup or Champions League final to be contested by two teams from the same nation, success at the Stade de France salvaged an otherwise underwhelming season for Real Madrid, whose haul of 62 points in La Liga remains their worst in a single campaign this century in Spain’s top flight.\n\nFernando Morientes got Madrid’s first, heading in from Míchel Salgado’s cross, before Steve McManaman – who became the first English player to win the competition with a non-English club – fired in a brilliant volley from the edge of the box.\n\nRaúl sealed the win 15 minutes from the end, rounding Santiago Cañizares to finish off a counter-attack and give coach Vicente del Bosque his first title as a coach.\n\n![Real Madrid vs Valencia Champions League final](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/real-madrid-valencia-champions-league-final-1024x576.png)\n***\n## **Biggest European Cup Final Wins**\n### ***Real Madrid 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt (1959-60)***\nThere may have only been five Champions League finals settled by a deficit of three or more goals, but there were also a handful European Cup finals, with Real Madrid’s hammering of [Eintracht Frankfurt](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/eintracht-frankfurt\/159) in 1960 most iconic among them.\n\nIt remarkably included [half of all hat-tricks ever scored in a European Cup\/Champions League final](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/articles\/champions-league-final-hat-trick\/), with Alfredo Di Stéfano netting three and Ferenc Puskás plundering four as the Spanish side won the competition for a fifth time in a row.\n\n![Alfredo Di Stefano European Cup final goal](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/alfredo-di-stefano-european-cup-final-goal-1024x1024.png)\n\nSource: AFP via Getty Images\n### ***Bayern Munich 4-0 Atlético Madrid 4-0 (1973-74)\\****\nAnother asterisk. Atlético actually found themselves within a minute of European Cup success but were pegged back right at the end of extra-time, Bayern rescuing a 1-1 draw in Brussels to force a replay a couple of days later.\n\nThe Bundesliga giants then ran riot, with Uli Hoeneß and Gerd Müller scoring two apiece. Their victory officially ended one dynasty – given Ajax had won the competition three times in succession beforehand – and started another, as Bayern took the crown back to Germany in 1975 and 1976 as well.\n\n### ***Milan 4-0 Steaua Bucharest (1988-89)***\nThe Rossoneri went double-double Dutch at Camp Nou in May 1989, with Ruud Gullit and Van Basten each getting a brace as Steaua – champions three years earlier – were brushed aside emphatically on the grand stage.\n\nMilan became the first side to score more than three goals in a European Cup final (excluding replays) since 1969.\n\n### ***Milan 4-1 Ajax (1968-69)***\nThat’s right, the last team to achieve that feat before Milan were the Rossoneri themselves. Rinus Michels’ legendary Ajax team had to make do with the runners-up spot as they were no match for the Italians. Milan were inspired by the hat-trick of Pierino Prati – no one has scored a treble in a European Cup or Champions League final since.\n\n![All-time scorers in European Cup and Champions League finals](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/all-time-scorers-in-european-cup-and-champions-league-finals-1024x1024.png)\n\nDefeat prevented Ajax becoming the first Dutch team to win the European Cup, as Feyenoord took that honour a year later. But their day soon arrived, with Michels guiding them to the title in 1971, before Ștefan Kovács led Cruyff and Co. to success in each of the following two seasons.\n\n### ***Manchester United 4-1 Benfica (1967-68)\\****\nSir Matt Busby’s Man Utd became the first English team – not British, as Celtic had that honour – to be crowned European champions in 1968, though the 4-1 scoreline makes it sound more straightforward than it was, as three of their goals were scored in extra-time.\n\nEngland legend Bobby Charlton scored two of United’s goals, with Brian Kidd and George Best also on the scoresheet.\n***\n******Enjoy this? Subscribe to our new [football newsletter](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/eu\/sport\/stat-viz-quiz\/) to receive exclusive weekly content. 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All Rights Reserved.","attrs_readable_markdown":"***Join us as we look back on the biggest UEFA Champions League final wins.***\n***\n## **Biggest Champions League Final Wins**\n### ***PSG 5-0 Inter (2024-25)***\nHeading into this final, most of the talk was about how tight it was to call. An almost typical ‘irresistible force vs the immovable object’ of an encounter.\n\nAnd yet, it wasn’t. Inter were a very moveable object as it turned out.\n\nA stunning performance from 19-year-old [Désiré Doué](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-570810\/desire-doue) helped Paris Saint-Germain to a comfortable 5-0 win over the Nerazzurri in Munich.\n\nDoué set up [Achraf Hakimi](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-223760\/achraf-hakimi) for the opener before scoring twice himself to become the first player to record three goal involvements in a Champions League final.\n\n[Khvicha Kvaratskhelia](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-440668\/khvicha-kvaratskhelia) and [Senny Mayulu](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/football\/player\/sc-499448\/senny-mayulu) sealed things with two more goals as PSG won their first ever European Cup\/Champions League, and became the first French team to lift the trophy since Marseille in 1993.\n\nInter were the first team to concede five goals in a Champions League final, while the last time it happened in a European Cup was 1962 when Benfica beat Real Madrid 5-3.\n\nSimone Inzaghi’s men had only been behind in games for a total of 998 seconds in the whole of their 2024-25 Champions League campaign prior to the final, but were torn apart by PSG in record style.\n\n![PSG v Inter stats](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/psg-v-inter-stats-1024x768.jpeg)\n\n### ***AC Milan 4-0 Barcelona (1993-94)***\nCurrent [Manchester City](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/manchester-city\/43) boss Pep Guardiola was part of the [Barcelona](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/barcelona\/178) side that went into the 1994 Champions League final as clear favourites. [Milan](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/milan\/120) were without a host of key players, such as Marco van Basten, Gianluigi Lentini, plus Italy greats Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta, yet they went on to blow Johan Cruyff’s Barca away.\n\nDaniele Massaro put Milan in front with a close-range finish after an off-balance Dejan Savićević managed to get the ball to the back post, and then made it 2-0 just before the break with a fine strike following Roberto Donadoni’s excellent left-wing run and cut-back.\n\nSavićević effectively put the game beyond Barca less than two minutes after the restart with an outrageous lob from the right-hand perimeter of the Milan box, and a gorgeous Marcel Desailly curler sealed victory before the hour.\n\nMilan’s win in Athens remains the only Champions League final to be settled by a four-goal margin.\n\n![Milan 4-0 Barcelona is the biggest UCL final win ever](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/milan-vs-barcelona-was-the-biggest-ucl-final-win-1024x576.png)\n***\n### ***Real Madrid 4-1 Juventus (2016-17)***\nFour Champions League finals have been won by three-goal deficits, the most recent of which came in 2017 when [Madrid](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/real-madrid\/186) defeated [Juventus](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/juventus\/128) to become the first team to win the competition back-to-back.\n\nCristiano Ronaldo swept home a Dani Carvajal cut-back to make it 1-0 with Madrid’s first shot in the 20th minute, and although Mario Mandžukić’s astonishing overhead-kick made it 1-1 soon after, Zinedine Zidane’s side got the job done with three goals in the second half.\n\nCasemiro’s deflected long-range strike put Madrid back in front, then Ronaldo got his 10th of the knockout stages alone from Luka Modrić’s cross. Juan Cuadrado’s second yellow card six minutes from time for pushing Sergio Ramos essentially killed off Juventus’ chances of a fightback, and Marco Asensio got Madrid’s fourth with a tidy finish when latching on to Marcelo’s pull-back.\n\nIt was the Bianconeri’s fifth consecutive Champions League final defeat.\n\n![Back-to-back Champions League winners table](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/back-to-back-champions-league-winners-1024x576.png)\n***\n### ***Real Madrid 4-1 Atlético Madrid (AET, 2013-14)\\****\nSo, this entry has an asterisk because Madrid needed extra-time to see off their neighbours [Atlético](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/atletico-madrid\/175) – in fact, this game was agonisingly close to being a 1-0 win for Diego Simeone’s side.\n\nDiego Godín’s first-half opener – a looping header over Iker Casillas – in Lisbon looked as though it’d be enough for a maiden European Cup\/Champions League success for Atlético, but Madrid weren’t to be denied *La Décima.*\n\nSergio Ramos’ dramatic headed equaliser deep into second-half stoppage time ensured the game went to an extra 30 minutes, and Gareth Bale nodded Real Madrid in front with 110 minutes on the clock after great work by Ángel Di Maria.\n\nThen-Atlético ‘keeper Thibaut Courtois failed to keep out Marcelo’s 20-yard drive, and a Ronaldo penalty – which he won – finished things off at the end.\n\n![xG race for Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid in 2014 Champions League final](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/xg-race-for-real-madrid-vs-atletico-madrid-in-2014-champions-league-final-1024x576.jpeg)\n***\n### ***FC Porto 3-0 Monaco (2003-04)***\nThe win that elevated José Mourinho to football manager superstardom and secured a move [Chelsea](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/chelsea\/8). Both Porto and Monaco had captured the imaginations of neutrals with their unlikely journeys to the Champions League final in 2004, but Gelsenkirchen played host to a showpiece that proved fairly one-sided by the end.\n\nLivewire attacking midfield star Carlos Alberto put Porto in front with an instinctive volley into the top-right corner six minutes before half-time. Monaco remained in the contest for a while after that, but Deco linked up well with Dmitri Alenichev in the 71st minute to make it 2-0 courtesy of a delicate, disguised finish into the bottom-left corner.\n\nAlenichev put Monaco to bed with an emphatic volley a few minutes later, making Porto the first – and only – club from Portugal to win the Champions League, a year after winning the Europa League (UEFA Cup as it was then).\n\n![Jose Mourinho winning the Champions League at Porto](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/mourinho-champions-league-gi-1024x576.png)\n***\n### ***Real Madrid 3-0 Valencia (1999-00)***\nThe first European Cup or Champions League final to be contested by two teams from the same nation, success at the Stade de France salvaged an otherwise underwhelming season for Real Madrid, whose haul of 62 points in La Liga remains their worst in a single campaign this century in Spain’s top flight.\n\nFernando Morientes got Madrid’s first, heading in from Míchel Salgado’s cross, before Steve McManaman – who became the first English player to win the competition with a non-English club – fired in a brilliant volley from the edge of the box.\n\nRaúl sealed the win 15 minutes from the end, rounding Santiago Cañizares to finish off a counter-attack and give coach Vicente del Bosque his first title as a coach.\n\n![Real Madrid vs Valencia Champions League final](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/real-madrid-valencia-champions-league-final-1024x576.png)\n***\n## **Biggest European Cup Final Wins**\n### ***Real Madrid 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt (1959-60)***\nThere may have only been five Champions League finals settled by a deficit of three or more goals, but there were also a handful European Cup finals, with Real Madrid’s hammering of [Eintracht Frankfurt](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/team\/eintracht-frankfurt\/159) in 1960 most iconic among them.\n\nIt remarkably included [half of all hat-tricks ever scored in a European Cup\/Champions League final](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/articles\/champions-league-final-hat-trick\/), with Alfredo Di Stéfano netting three and Ferenc Puskás plundering four as the Spanish side won the competition for a fifth time in a row.\n\n![Alfredo Di Stefano European Cup final goal](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/alfredo-di-stefano-european-cup-final-goal-1024x1024.png)\n\nSource: AFP via Getty Images\n### ***Bayern Munich 4-0 Atlético Madrid 4-0 (1973-74)\\****\nAnother asterisk. Atlético actually found themselves within a minute of European Cup success but were pegged back right at the end of extra-time, Bayern rescuing a 1-1 draw in Brussels to force a replay a couple of days later.\n\nThe Bundesliga giants then ran riot, with Uli Hoeneß and Gerd Müller scoring two apiece. Their victory officially ended one dynasty – given Ajax had won the competition three times in succession beforehand – and started another, as Bayern took the crown back to Germany in 1975 and 1976 as well.\n\n### ***Milan 4-0 Steaua Bucharest (1988-89)***\nThe Rossoneri went double-double Dutch at Camp Nou in May 1989, with Ruud Gullit and Van Basten each getting a brace as Steaua – champions three years earlier – were brushed aside emphatically on the grand stage.\n\nMilan became the first side to score more than three goals in a European Cup final (excluding replays) since 1969.\n\n### ***Milan 4-1 Ajax (1968-69)***\nThat’s right, the last team to achieve that feat before Milan were the Rossoneri themselves. Rinus Michels’ legendary Ajax team had to make do with the runners-up spot as they were no match for the Italians. Milan were inspired by the hat-trick of Pierino Prati – no one has scored a treble in a European Cup or Champions League final since.\n\n![All-time scorers in European Cup and Champions League finals](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/all-time-scorers-in-european-cup-and-champions-league-finals-1024x1024.png)\n\nDefeat prevented Ajax becoming the first Dutch team to win the European Cup, as Feyenoord took that honour a year later. But their day soon arrived, with Michels guiding them to the title in 1971, before Ștefan Kovács led Cruyff and Co. to success in each of the following two seasons.\n\n### ***Manchester United 4-1 Benfica (1967-68)\\****\nSir Matt Busby’s Man Utd became the first English team – not British, as Celtic had that honour – to be crowned European champions in 1968, though the 4-1 scoreline makes it sound more straightforward than it was, as three of their goals were scored in extra-time.\n\nEngland legend Bobby Charlton scored two of United’s goals, with Brian Kidd and George Best also on the scoresheet.\n***\n******Enjoy this? Subscribe to our new [football newsletter](https:\/\/theanalyst.com\/eu\/sport\/stat-viz-quiz\/) to receive exclusive weekly content. 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Boilerpipe Text	Join us as we look back on the biggest UEFA Champions League final wins. Biggest Champions League Final Wins PSG 5-0 Inter (2024-25) Heading into this final, most of the talk was about how tight it was to call. An almost typical ‘irresistible force vs the immovable object’ of an encounter. And yet, it wasn’t. Inter were a very moveable object as it turned out. A stunning performance from 19-year-old Désiré Doué helped Paris Saint-Germain to a comfortable 5-0 win over the Nerazzurri in Munich. Doué set up Achraf Hakimi for the opener before scoring twice himself to become the first player to record three goal involvements in a Champions League final. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Senny Mayulu sealed things with two more goals as PSG won their first ever European Cup/Champions League, and became the first French team to lift the trophy since Marseille in 1993. Inter were the first team to concede five goals in a Champions League final, while the last time it happened in a European Cup was 1962 when Benfica beat Real Madrid 5-3. Simone Inzaghi’s men had only been behind in games for a total of 998 seconds in the whole of their 2024-25 Champions League campaign prior to the final, but were torn apart by PSG in record style. AC Milan 4-0 Barcelona (1993-94) Current Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola was part of the Barcelona side that went into the 1994 Champions League final as clear favourites. Milan were without a host of key players, such as Marco van Basten, Gianluigi Lentini, plus Italy greats Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta, yet they went on to blow Johan Cruyff’s Barca away. Daniele Massaro put Milan in front with a close-range finish after an off-balance Dejan Savićević managed to get the ball to the back post, and then made it 2-0 just before the break with a fine strike following Roberto Donadoni’s excellent left-wing run and cut-back. Savićević effectively put the game beyond Barca less than two minutes after the restart with an outrageous lob from the right-hand perimeter of the Milan box, and a gorgeous Marcel Desailly curler sealed victory before the hour. Milan’s win in Athens remains the only Champions League final to be settled by a four-goal margin. Real Madrid 4-1 Juventus (2016-17) Four Champions League finals have been won by three-goal deficits, the most recent of which came in 2017 when Madrid defeated Juventus to become the first team to win the competition back-to-back. Cristiano Ronaldo swept home a Dani Carvajal cut-back to make it 1-0 with Madrid’s first shot in the 20th minute, and although Mario Mandžukić’s astonishing overhead-kick made it 1-1 soon after, Zinedine Zidane’s side got the job done with three goals in the second half. Casemiro’s deflected long-range strike put Madrid back in front, then Ronaldo got his 10th of the knockout stages alone from Luka Modrić’s cross. Juan Cuadrado’s second yellow card six minutes from time for pushing Sergio Ramos essentially killed off Juventus’ chances of a fightback, and Marco Asensio got Madrid’s fourth with a tidy finish when latching on to Marcelo’s pull-back. It was the Bianconeri’s fifth consecutive Champions League final defeat. Real Madrid 4-1 Atlético Madrid (AET, 2013-14)* So, this entry has an asterisk because Madrid needed extra-time to see off their neighbours Atlético – in fact, this game was agonisingly close to being a 1-0 win for Diego Simeone’s side. Diego Godín’s first-half opener – a looping header over Iker Casillas – in Lisbon looked as though it’d be enough for a maiden European Cup/Champions League success for Atlético, but Madrid weren’t to be denied La Décima. Sergio Ramos’ dramatic headed equaliser deep into second-half stoppage time ensured the game went to an extra 30 minutes, and Gareth Bale nodded Real Madrid in front with 110 minutes on the clock after great work by Ángel Di Maria. Then-Atlético ‘keeper Thibaut Courtois failed to keep out Marcelo’s 20-yard drive, and a Ronaldo penalty – which he won – finished things off at the end. FC Porto 3-0 Monaco (2003-04) The win that elevated José Mourinho to football manager superstardom and secured a move Chelsea . Both Porto and Monaco had captured the imaginations of neutrals with their unlikely journeys to the Champions League final in 2004, but Gelsenkirchen played host to a showpiece that proved fairly one-sided by the end. Livewire attacking midfield star Carlos Alberto put Porto in front with an instinctive volley into the top-right corner six minutes before half-time. Monaco remained in the contest for a while after that, but Deco linked up well with Dmitri Alenichev in the 71st minute to make it 2-0 courtesy of a delicate, disguised finish into the bottom-left corner. Alenichev put Monaco to bed with an emphatic volley a few minutes later, making Porto the first – and only – club from Portugal to win the Champions League, a year after winning the Europa League (UEFA Cup as it was then). Real Madrid 3-0 Valencia (1999-00) The first European Cup or Champions League final to be contested by two teams from the same nation, success at the Stade de France salvaged an otherwise underwhelming season for Real Madrid, whose haul of 62 points in La Liga remains their worst in a single campaign this century in Spain’s top flight. Fernando Morientes got Madrid’s first, heading in from Míchel Salgado’s cross, before Steve McManaman – who became the first English player to win the competition with a non-English club – fired in a brilliant volley from the edge of the box. Raúl sealed the win 15 minutes from the end, rounding Santiago Cañizares to finish off a counter-attack and give coach Vicente del Bosque his first title as a coach. Biggest European Cup Final Wins Real Madrid 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt (1959-60) There may have only been five Champions League finals settled by a deficit of three or more goals, but there were also a handful European Cup finals, with Real Madrid’s hammering of Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960 most iconic among them. It remarkably included half of all hat-tricks ever scored in a European Cup/Champions League final , with Alfredo Di Stéfano netting three and Ferenc Puskás plundering four as the Spanish side won the competition for a fifth time in a row. Source: AFP via Getty Images Bayern Munich 4-0 Atlético Madrid 4-0 (1973-74)* Another asterisk. Atlético actually found themselves within a minute of European Cup success but were pegged back right at the end of extra-time, Bayern rescuing a 1-1 draw in Brussels to force a replay a couple of days later. The Bundesliga giants then ran riot, with Uli Hoeneß and Gerd Müller scoring two apiece. Their victory officially ended one dynasty – given Ajax had won the competition three times in succession beforehand – and started another, as Bayern took the crown back to Germany in 1975 and 1976 as well. Milan 4-0 Steaua Bucharest (1988-89) The Rossoneri went double-double Dutch at Camp Nou in May 1989, with Ruud Gullit and Van Basten each getting a brace as Steaua – champions three years earlier – were brushed aside emphatically on the grand stage. Milan became the first side to score more than three goals in a European Cup final (excluding replays) since 1969. Milan 4-1 Ajax (1968-69) That’s right, the last team to achieve that feat before Milan were the Rossoneri themselves. Rinus Michels’ legendary Ajax team had to make do with the runners-up spot as they were no match for the Italians. Milan were inspired by the hat-trick of Pierino Prati – no one has scored a treble in a European Cup or Champions League final since. Defeat prevented Ajax becoming the first Dutch team to win the European Cup, as Feyenoord took that honour a year later. But their day soon arrived, with Michels guiding them to the title in 1971, before Ștefan Kovács led Cruyff and Co. to success in each of the following two seasons. Manchester United 4-1 Benfica (1967-68)* Sir Matt Busby’s Man Utd became the first English team – not British, as Celtic had that honour – to be crowned European champions in 1968, though the 4-1 scoreline makes it sound more straightforward than it was, as three of their goals were scored in extra-time. 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An almost typical ‘irresistible force vs the immovable object’ of an encounter. And yet, it wasn’t. Inter were a very moveable object as it turned out. A stunning performance from 19-year-old [Désiré Doué](https://theanalyst.com/football/player/sc-570810/desire-doue) helped Paris Saint-Germain to a comfortable 5-0 win over the Nerazzurri in Munich. Doué set up [Achraf Hakimi](https://theanalyst.com/football/player/sc-223760/achraf-hakimi) for the opener before scoring twice himself to become the first player to record three goal involvements in a Champions League final. [Khvicha Kvaratskhelia](https://theanalyst.com/football/player/sc-440668/khvicha-kvaratskhelia) and [Senny Mayulu](https://theanalyst.com/football/player/sc-499448/senny-mayulu) sealed things with two more goals as PSG won their first ever European Cup/Champions League, and became the first French team to lift the trophy since Marseille in 1993. Inter were the first team to concede five goals in a Champions League final, while the last time it happened in a European Cup was 1962 when Benfica beat Real Madrid 5-3. Simone Inzaghi’s men had only been behind in games for a total of 998 seconds in the whole of their 2024-25 Champions League campaign prior to the final, but were torn apart by PSG in record style. ![PSG v Inter stats](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/psg-v-inter-stats-1024x768.jpeg) ### AC Milan 4-0 Barcelona (1993-94) Current [Manchester City](https://theanalyst.com/team/manchester-city/43) boss Pep Guardiola was part of the [Barcelona](https://theanalyst.com/team/barcelona/178) side that went into the 1994 Champions League final as clear favourites. [Milan](https://theanalyst.com/team/milan/120) were without a host of key players, such as Marco van Basten, Gianluigi Lentini, plus Italy greats Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta, yet they went on to blow Johan Cruyff’s Barca away. Daniele Massaro put Milan in front with a close-range finish after an off-balance Dejan Savićević managed to get the ball to the back post, and then made it 2-0 just before the break with a fine strike following Roberto Donadoni’s excellent left-wing run and cut-back. Savićević effectively put the game beyond Barca less than two minutes after the restart with an outrageous lob from the right-hand perimeter of the Milan box, and a gorgeous Marcel Desailly curler sealed victory before the hour. Milan’s win in Athens remains the only Champions League final to be settled by a four-goal margin. ![Milan 4-0 Barcelona is the biggest UCL final win ever](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/milan-vs-barcelona-was-the-biggest-ucl-final-win-1024x576.png) * ### *Real Madrid 4-1 Juventus (2016-17)* Four Champions League finals have been won by three-goal deficits, the most recent of which came in 2017 when [Madrid](https://theanalyst.com/team/real-madrid/186) defeated [Juventus](https://theanalyst.com/team/juventus/128) to become the first team to win the competition back-to-back. Cristiano Ronaldo swept home a Dani Carvajal cut-back to make it 1-0 with Madrid’s first shot in the 20th minute, and although Mario Mandžukić’s astonishing overhead-kick made it 1-1 soon after, Zinedine Zidane’s side got the job done with three goals in the second half. Casemiro’s deflected long-range strike put Madrid back in front, then Ronaldo got his 10th of the knockout stages alone from Luka Modrić’s cross. Juan Cuadrado’s second yellow card six minutes from time for pushing Sergio Ramos essentially killed off Juventus’ chances of a fightback, and Marco Asensio got Madrid’s fourth with a tidy finish when latching on to Marcelo’s pull-back. It was the Bianconeri’s fifth consecutive Champions League final defeat. ![Back-to-back Champions League winners table](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/back-to-back-champions-league-winners-1024x576.png) * ### Real Madrid 4-1 Atlético Madrid (AET, 2013-14)\*** So, this entry has an asterisk because Madrid needed extra-time to see off their neighbours [Atlético](https://theanalyst.com/team/atletico-madrid/175) – in fact, this game was agonisingly close to being a 1-0 win for Diego Simeone’s side. Diego Godín’s first-half opener – a looping header over Iker Casillas – in Lisbon looked as though it’d be enough for a maiden European Cup/Champions League success for Atlético, but Madrid weren’t to be denied La Décima. Sergio Ramos’ dramatic headed equaliser deep into second-half stoppage time ensured the game went to an extra 30 minutes, and Gareth Bale nodded Real Madrid in front with 110 minutes on the clock after great work by Ángel Di Maria. Then-Atlético ‘keeper Thibaut Courtois failed to keep out Marcelo’s 20-yard drive, and a Ronaldo penalty – which he won – finished things off at the end. ![xG race for Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid in 2014 Champions League final](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/xg-race-for-real-madrid-vs-atletico-madrid-in-2014-champions-league-final-1024x576.jpeg) * ### FC Porto 3-0 Monaco (2003-04) The win that elevated José Mourinho to football manager superstardom and secured a move [Chelsea](https://theanalyst.com/team/chelsea/8). Both Porto and Monaco had captured the imaginations of neutrals with their unlikely journeys to the Champions League final in 2004, but Gelsenkirchen played host to a showpiece that proved fairly one-sided by the end. Livewire attacking midfield star Carlos Alberto put Porto in front with an instinctive volley into the top-right corner six minutes before half-time. Monaco remained in the contest for a while after that, but Deco linked up well with Dmitri Alenichev in the 71st minute to make it 2-0 courtesy of a delicate, disguised finish into the bottom-left corner. Alenichev put Monaco to bed with an emphatic volley a few minutes later, making Porto the first – and only – club from Portugal to win the Champions League, a year after winning the Europa League (UEFA Cup as it was then). ![Jose Mourinho winning the Champions League at Porto](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/mourinho-champions-league-gi-1024x576.png) * ### *Real Madrid 3-0 Valencia (1999-00)* The first European Cup or Champions League final to be contested by two teams from the same nation, success at the Stade de France salvaged an otherwise underwhelming season for Real Madrid, whose haul of 62 points in La Liga remains their worst in a single campaign this century in Spain’s top flight. Fernando Morientes got Madrid’s first, heading in from Míchel Salgado’s cross, before Steve McManaman – who became the first English player to win the competition with a non-English club – fired in a brilliant volley from the edge of the box. Raúl sealed the win 15 minutes from the end, rounding Santiago Cañizares to finish off a counter-attack and give coach Vicente del Bosque his first title as a coach. ![Real Madrid vs Valencia Champions League final](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/real-madrid-valencia-champions-league-final-1024x576.png) * ## Biggest European Cup Final Wins ### Real Madrid 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt (1959-60) There may have only been five Champions League finals settled by a deficit of three or more goals, but there were also a handful European Cup finals, with Real Madrid’s hammering of [Eintracht Frankfurt](https://theanalyst.com/team/eintracht-frankfurt/159) in 1960 most iconic among them. It remarkably included [half of all hat-tricks ever scored in a European Cup/Champions League final](https://theanalyst.com/articles/champions-league-final-hat-trick/), with Alfredo Di Stéfano netting three and Ferenc Puskás plundering four as the Spanish side won the competition for a fifth time in a row. ![Alfredo Di Stefano European Cup final goal](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/alfredo-di-stefano-european-cup-final-goal-1024x1024.png) Source: AFP via Getty Images ### Bayern Munich 4-0 Atlético Madrid 4-0 (1973-74)\* Another asterisk. Atlético actually found themselves within a minute of European Cup success but were pegged back right at the end of extra-time, Bayern rescuing a 1-1 draw in Brussels to force a replay a couple of days later. The Bundesliga giants then ran riot, with Uli Hoeneß and Gerd Müller scoring two apiece. Their victory officially ended one dynasty – given Ajax had won the competition three times in succession beforehand – and started another, as Bayern took the crown back to Germany in 1975 and 1976 as well. ### Milan 4-0 Steaua Bucharest (1988-89) The Rossoneri went double-double Dutch at Camp Nou in May 1989, with Ruud Gullit and Van Basten each getting a brace as Steaua – champions three years earlier – were brushed aside emphatically on the grand stage. Milan became the first side to score more than three goals in a European Cup final (excluding replays) since 1969. ### Milan 4-1 Ajax (1968-69) That’s right, the last team to achieve that feat before Milan were the Rossoneri themselves. Rinus Michels’ legendary Ajax team had to make do with the runners-up spot as they were no match for the Italians. Milan were inspired by the hat-trick of Pierino Prati – no one has scored a treble in a European Cup or Champions League final since. ![All-time scorers in European Cup and Champions League finals](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/all-time-scorers-in-european-cup-and-champions-league-finals-1024x1024.png) Defeat prevented Ajax becoming the first Dutch team to win the European Cup, as Feyenoord took that honour a year later. But their day soon arrived, with Michels guiding them to the title in 1971, before Ștefan Kovács led Cruyff and Co. to success in each of the following two seasons. ### Manchester United 4-1 Benfica (1967-68)\* Sir Matt Busby’s Man Utd became the first English team – not British, as Celtic had that honour – to be crowned European champions in 1968, though the 4-1 scoreline makes it sound more straightforward than it was, as three of their goals were scored in extra-time. 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Readable Markdown	*Join us as we look back on the biggest UEFA Champions League final wins.* * ## Biggest Champions League Final Wins ### PSG 5-0 Inter (2024-25) Heading into this final, most of the talk was about how tight it was to call. An almost typical ‘irresistible force vs the immovable object’ of an encounter. And yet, it wasn’t. Inter were a very moveable object as it turned out. A stunning performance from 19-year-old [Désiré Doué](https://theanalyst.com/football/player/sc-570810/desire-doue) helped Paris Saint-Germain to a comfortable 5-0 win over the Nerazzurri in Munich. Doué set up [Achraf Hakimi](https://theanalyst.com/football/player/sc-223760/achraf-hakimi) for the opener before scoring twice himself to become the first player to record three goal involvements in a Champions League final. [Khvicha Kvaratskhelia](https://theanalyst.com/football/player/sc-440668/khvicha-kvaratskhelia) and [Senny Mayulu](https://theanalyst.com/football/player/sc-499448/senny-mayulu) sealed things with two more goals as PSG won their first ever European Cup/Champions League, and became the first French team to lift the trophy since Marseille in 1993. Inter were the first team to concede five goals in a Champions League final, while the last time it happened in a European Cup was 1962 when Benfica beat Real Madrid 5-3. Simone Inzaghi’s men had only been behind in games for a total of 998 seconds in the whole of their 2024-25 Champions League campaign prior to the final, but were torn apart by PSG in record style. ![PSG v Inter stats](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/psg-v-inter-stats-1024x768.jpeg) ### AC Milan 4-0 Barcelona (1993-94) Current [Manchester City](https://theanalyst.com/team/manchester-city/43) boss Pep Guardiola was part of the [Barcelona](https://theanalyst.com/team/barcelona/178) side that went into the 1994 Champions League final as clear favourites. [Milan](https://theanalyst.com/team/milan/120) were without a host of key players, such as Marco van Basten, Gianluigi Lentini, plus Italy greats Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta, yet they went on to blow Johan Cruyff’s Barca away. Daniele Massaro put Milan in front with a close-range finish after an off-balance Dejan Savićević managed to get the ball to the back post, and then made it 2-0 just before the break with a fine strike following Roberto Donadoni’s excellent left-wing run and cut-back. Savićević effectively put the game beyond Barca less than two minutes after the restart with an outrageous lob from the right-hand perimeter of the Milan box, and a gorgeous Marcel Desailly curler sealed victory before the hour. Milan’s win in Athens remains the only Champions League final to be settled by a four-goal margin. ![Milan 4-0 Barcelona is the biggest UCL final win ever](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/milan-vs-barcelona-was-the-biggest-ucl-final-win-1024x576.png) * ### *Real Madrid 4-1 Juventus (2016-17)* Four Champions League finals have been won by three-goal deficits, the most recent of which came in 2017 when [Madrid](https://theanalyst.com/team/real-madrid/186) defeated [Juventus](https://theanalyst.com/team/juventus/128) to become the first team to win the competition back-to-back. Cristiano Ronaldo swept home a Dani Carvajal cut-back to make it 1-0 with Madrid’s first shot in the 20th minute, and although Mario Mandžukić’s astonishing overhead-kick made it 1-1 soon after, Zinedine Zidane’s side got the job done with three goals in the second half. Casemiro’s deflected long-range strike put Madrid back in front, then Ronaldo got his 10th of the knockout stages alone from Luka Modrić’s cross. Juan Cuadrado’s second yellow card six minutes from time for pushing Sergio Ramos essentially killed off Juventus’ chances of a fightback, and Marco Asensio got Madrid’s fourth with a tidy finish when latching on to Marcelo’s pull-back. It was the Bianconeri’s fifth consecutive Champions League final defeat. ![Back-to-back Champions League winners table](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/back-to-back-champions-league-winners-1024x576.png) * ### Real Madrid 4-1 Atlético Madrid (AET, 2013-14)\*** So, this entry has an asterisk because Madrid needed extra-time to see off their neighbours [Atlético](https://theanalyst.com/team/atletico-madrid/175) – in fact, this game was agonisingly close to being a 1-0 win for Diego Simeone’s side. Diego Godín’s first-half opener – a looping header over Iker Casillas – in Lisbon looked as though it’d be enough for a maiden European Cup/Champions League success for Atlético, but Madrid weren’t to be denied La Décima. Sergio Ramos’ dramatic headed equaliser deep into second-half stoppage time ensured the game went to an extra 30 minutes, and Gareth Bale nodded Real Madrid in front with 110 minutes on the clock after great work by Ángel Di Maria. Then-Atlético ‘keeper Thibaut Courtois failed to keep out Marcelo’s 20-yard drive, and a Ronaldo penalty – which he won – finished things off at the end. ![xG race for Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid in 2014 Champions League final](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/xg-race-for-real-madrid-vs-atletico-madrid-in-2014-champions-league-final-1024x576.jpeg) * ### FC Porto 3-0 Monaco (2003-04) The win that elevated José Mourinho to football manager superstardom and secured a move [Chelsea](https://theanalyst.com/team/chelsea/8). Both Porto and Monaco had captured the imaginations of neutrals with their unlikely journeys to the Champions League final in 2004, but Gelsenkirchen played host to a showpiece that proved fairly one-sided by the end. Livewire attacking midfield star Carlos Alberto put Porto in front with an instinctive volley into the top-right corner six minutes before half-time. Monaco remained in the contest for a while after that, but Deco linked up well with Dmitri Alenichev in the 71st minute to make it 2-0 courtesy of a delicate, disguised finish into the bottom-left corner. Alenichev put Monaco to bed with an emphatic volley a few minutes later, making Porto the first – and only – club from Portugal to win the Champions League, a year after winning the Europa League (UEFA Cup as it was then). ![Jose Mourinho winning the Champions League at Porto](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/mourinho-champions-league-gi-1024x576.png) * ### *Real Madrid 3-0 Valencia (1999-00)* The first European Cup or Champions League final to be contested by two teams from the same nation, success at the Stade de France salvaged an otherwise underwhelming season for Real Madrid, whose haul of 62 points in La Liga remains their worst in a single campaign this century in Spain’s top flight. Fernando Morientes got Madrid’s first, heading in from Míchel Salgado’s cross, before Steve McManaman – who became the first English player to win the competition with a non-English club – fired in a brilliant volley from the edge of the box. Raúl sealed the win 15 minutes from the end, rounding Santiago Cañizares to finish off a counter-attack and give coach Vicente del Bosque his first title as a coach. ![Real Madrid vs Valencia Champions League final](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/real-madrid-valencia-champions-league-final-1024x576.png) * ## Biggest European Cup Final Wins ### Real Madrid 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt (1959-60) There may have only been five Champions League finals settled by a deficit of three or more goals, but there were also a handful European Cup finals, with Real Madrid’s hammering of [Eintracht Frankfurt](https://theanalyst.com/team/eintracht-frankfurt/159) in 1960 most iconic among them. It remarkably included [half of all hat-tricks ever scored in a European Cup/Champions League final](https://theanalyst.com/articles/champions-league-final-hat-trick/), with Alfredo Di Stéfano netting three and Ferenc Puskás plundering four as the Spanish side won the competition for a fifth time in a row. ![Alfredo Di Stefano European Cup final goal](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/alfredo-di-stefano-european-cup-final-goal-1024x1024.png) Source: AFP via Getty Images ### Bayern Munich 4-0 Atlético Madrid 4-0 (1973-74)\* Another asterisk. Atlético actually found themselves within a minute of European Cup success but were pegged back right at the end of extra-time, Bayern rescuing a 1-1 draw in Brussels to force a replay a couple of days later. The Bundesliga giants then ran riot, with Uli Hoeneß and Gerd Müller scoring two apiece. Their victory officially ended one dynasty – given Ajax had won the competition three times in succession beforehand – and started another, as Bayern took the crown back to Germany in 1975 and 1976 as well. ### Milan 4-0 Steaua Bucharest (1988-89) The Rossoneri went double-double Dutch at Camp Nou in May 1989, with Ruud Gullit and Van Basten each getting a brace as Steaua – champions three years earlier – were brushed aside emphatically on the grand stage. Milan became the first side to score more than three goals in a European Cup final (excluding replays) since 1969. ### Milan 4-1 Ajax (1968-69) That’s right, the last team to achieve that feat before Milan were the Rossoneri themselves. Rinus Michels’ legendary Ajax team had to make do with the runners-up spot as they were no match for the Italians. Milan were inspired by the hat-trick of Pierino Prati – no one has scored a treble in a European Cup or Champions League final since. ![All-time scorers in European Cup and Champions League finals](https://theanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/all-time-scorers-in-european-cup-and-champions-league-finals-1024x1024.png) Defeat prevented Ajax becoming the first Dutch team to win the European Cup, as Feyenoord took that honour a year later. But their day soon arrived, with Michels guiding them to the title in 1971, before Ștefan Kovács led Cruyff and Co. to success in each of the following two seasons. ### Manchester United 4-1 Benfica (1967-68)\* Sir Matt Busby’s Man Utd became the first English team – not British, as Celtic had that honour – to be crowned European champions in 1968, though the 4-1 scoreline makes it sound more straightforward than it was, as three of their goals were scored in extra-time. England legend Bobby Charlton scored two of United’s goals, with Brian Kidd and George Best also on the scoresheet. * ****Enjoy this? Subscribe to our new [football newsletter](https://theanalyst.com/eu/sport/stat-viz-quiz/) to receive exclusive weekly content. You should also follow our social accounts over on* [*X](https://www.twitter.com/OptaAnalyst), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/optaanalyst/), [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@optaanalyst) and [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/theoptaanalyst).****
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