this Saturday it will take place the final of the highest continental club competition that he will face in the Budapest Puskas Arena al Arsenalthe brand new Premier champion 22 years later, and the PSGdefending champion of the title achieved last year. There are several records that are going to be broken in the final of this edition, since whoever wins, it will be historic. Below we will tell you five facts that can change the history of the competition in recent decades.
1. The venue of the final: the Puskas Arena
The first has to do with the host stadium that will host the Champions League final. It will be the first time that Hungary hosts the final of the top continental club competition. He Puskas Arenawhich has some 67,200 spectatorsis the house of the hungarian football team and his name honors Hungarian football legend Ferenc Puskas. In the usual performance before the start of the match, the group ‘The Killers’ will perform. This way, Hungary thus becomes the 18th countryto host the last match of the world’s top continental club competition.
The stadium of the Champions League final: the Puskas Arena in Budapest
2. Mikel Arteta and Luis Enrique, the two coaches of the final
Two coaches who know each other very wellsince they came to coincide for a year at Barcelona, Now they are going to face each other on the benches in a Champions League final. Luis Enrique look for the third in his palmsafter those obtained with the Barcelona in 2015 and with PSG in 2025while Mikel Arteta wants to make his debut just like Arsenalin what is the second final of the London team in the competition after the loss in 2006 at the hands of Barcelona.
Luis Enrique has made history by winning the first Champions League for PSG
It will be lThis is the first time that two Spanish coaches have competed in the Champions League final.ylfifth in the history of the competition that a final has two coaches of the same nationality (the last time was in 2020 when Thomas Tuchel and Hansi Flick served as technicians in that final between PSG and Bayern Munich that had to be played in Lisbon due to the pandemic that hit the world).
Mikel Arteta, after winning the Premier League with Arsenal
3. PSG can enter a select club of champions
To raise ‘La Orejona’ again, The Parisian team would join Real Madrid as the only teams that have managed to retain the title consecutively since the Champions format. If we extrapolate it to all the history of the European Cupwould enter a select number of clubs that have managed to win their first two titles in a row. In it are found the Real Madridwho achieved it in the first two editions of the tournament, Benfica and Inter in the sixties, Ajax, Bayern Munich and Liverpool in the seventies and el Notthingham Forestthe last to achieve it in 1980. 46 years later, PSG can repeat such a feat.
PSG can join a select club of two-time champions
4. Arsenal and the consecutive champions
In the event that Arsenal were to win champions in Budapest, not only It would be the first Champions League for the Gunners.but A historic streak in the competition would be broken. Given that I would see two new consecutive champions again, with the first from PSG last season and the possible from Arsenal in this current edition. This is something that has not been seen so far this century, and We would have to go back to 33 years ago when Barcelona achieved it in the year 1992 (Koeman’s free kick goal that gave the Barça club its first Champions League title) and Olympique de Marseille in the following season of 1993 (the first Champions League of a French club), precisely the year that began the format we know as the Champions League.
If Arsenal win, there would be two new consecutive champions for 33 years
5. England, one step away from the continental ‘treble’
After the victories of Aston Villa and Crystal Palace in the Europa League and Conference respectively (against Freiburg and Rayo Vallecano)if Arsenal win the Champions League, three teams from the same country could lift the three continental competitions 36 years later.
Arsenal could complete the ‘continental treble’ for England
This milestone has only been achieved by Italy in 1990.in a few years when Italian football was at the top and when they coexisted the European Cup, which Milan won, the UEFA Cup (actual Europa League) that Juventus raised in a final that pitted them against another Italian team like Fiorentina, and the andthe defunct European Cup Winners’ Cup, that ended up taking Sampdoria. All of this in a World Cup year, like the current one, which happened to be held in Italy.
