Liverpool v Real Madrid, 28 May 2022

Kick-off was delayed by 36 minutes to 9.36pm local (8.36pm BST) due to, as described by UEFA as, "the late arrival of fans at the stadium". They later ameded the reason to be "turnstiles at the Liverpool end became blocked by thousands of fans who had purchased fake tickets". This game was due to be played at the Gazprom Arena in Saint Petersburg but, following a meeting of UEFA’s executive committee in February 2022, was relocated to Paris due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This was the third time that the Stade de France had staged the UEFA Champions League Final; Real Madrid beat Valencia in 2000 and Barcelona beat Arsenal in 2006. Real Madrid had now won European Cup/UEFA Champions League a record 14 times (seven more than any other team) while Liverpool were four times runners-up (won six). Real Madrid had now won all of their eight Final appearances in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League since their loss to Liverpool at the Parc des Princes in Paris in 1981. This was the third meeting between Liverpool and Real Madrid in the Final of the European Cup/UEFA Champions League; the most between two teams in the competition’s 67-year history. Liverpool won in 1981 in Paris while Real Madrid won in 2018 in Kyiv. This was the ninth meeting in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (Liverpool won three, Real Madrid won five). This was the first final between two managers who had previously won the competition since 2011 (Pep Guardiola's Barcelona against Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United). Carlo Ancelotti became the first manager to win the UEFA Champions League four times; with AC Milan in 2002-03 and 2006-07, and with Real Madrid in 2013-14 and in 2021-22.