Match Details.
Tonight’s UEFA Europa League showpiece is the first major European final competed between teams who both finished outside of the top-10 in the league.
The 2024-25 UEFA Europa League final is the sixth all-English major European competition final, and the third of those to involve Tottenham Hotspur, after the 1971-72 UEFA Cup final (won 3-2 on aggregate v Wolves) and the 2018-19 UEFA Champions League final (lost 0-2 to Liverpool).
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Highlights.
This is the fourth UEFA Europa League final to be contested between two sides from the same nation, after 2011 (Porto 1-0 Sporting Braga), 2012 (Atlético Madrid 3-0 Athletic Club), and 2019 (Chelsea 4-1 Arsenal).
This is the 31st time that Manchester United have conceded the opening goal in a game this season; the most by any Premier League team across all competitions.
Before tonight, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United’s only previous meeting in major European competition came in the 1963-64 Cup Winners’ Cup last 16, with the Red Devils progressing 4-3 on aggregate over two legs under Matt Busby.
Manchester United have suffered their 20th defeat in all competitions this season; their most in a campaign since losing 22 in 1973-74, when they were relegated from the top-flight.
Tottenham Hotspur have now won all four of their meetings with Manchester United in all competitions so far this season, twice in the Premier League (3-0 away, 1-0 home), once in the League Cup (4-3 at home), and tonight in the Europa League final (1-0).
Spurs had three shots, just 27.7% possession and completed 115 passes tonight, all the lowest figures Opta has on record by any team in a major European final (since 2009-10). Despite having just three shots compared to the 16 of Manchester United, Spurs still registered a higher xG (1.01) than Man Utd (0.85) in the UEFA Europa League final.
Aside Mancheser United, the only opponent Spurs have ever won four games against in a single campaign were Manchester City in 1992-93, while the only side (aside Tottenham) to beat the Red Devils four times in a single season were Everton in 1985-86.
Ange Postecoglou is the first Australian manager to win a major European club football final, his Tottenham Hotspur defeating Manchester United 1-0 in the Europa League Final.
Manchester United are winless in their last seven meetings with Tottenham Hotspur in all competitions (D2 L4), losing their last four in a row. This is the first time they are going against Tottenham without a win in seven consecutive game, and also the first time they are losing four consecutive times against spurs.
Nine of Manchester United’s 22 victories in 2024-25 have come in the UEFA Europa League. Among English top-flight teams, only West Ham in 2022-23 have won a higher percentage of their games in major European competition in a season (12/27, 44%).
Before tonight, Manchester United remained the only unbeaten side in major European competition this season, winning nine and drawing five of their 14 UEFA Europa League games. They could have become only the fourth side to win the Europa League without losing a single match that campaign, after Chelsea in 2018-19, Villarreal in 2020-21, and Eintracht Frankfurt in 2021-22.
Aged 19 years and 189 days, Leny Yoro is the second youngest player to start for Manchester United in a major European final, behind Brian Kidd on his 19th birthday in the 1968 European Cup final.
In winning the 2024-25 UEFA Europa League, Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou has maintained his record of winning a trophy in his second full season with a club (1997-98 South Melbourne, 2011-12 Brisbane Roar, 2019 Yokohama F. Marinos, 2022-23 Celtic).
Tottenham won their first major trophy since the 2007-08 League Cup under Juande Ramos, 17 years and 86 days prior to this UEFA Europa League final. Spurs’ last major European title was the 1983-84 UEFA Cup under Keith Burkinshaw, 40 years and 363 days ago.
This is Manchester United’s ninth major European final, with only Liverpool (15) reaching more among English clubs. The Red Devils have failed to win four of their last five such finals – Barcelona in the 2008-09 and 2010-11 UEFA Champions Leagues, and Villarreal in the 2020-21 UEFA Europa League – winning the other 2-0 against Ajax in the 2016-17 Europa League.
Sources: BBC, Opta, Skysports
