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The UEFA Champions League final is eagerly awaited by football fans. Manchester City and Inter will play their trump card at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium. While football fans from all over the world flocked to the critical match, the 11s of the match were announced.

HERE ARE THE 11S OF THE GIANT MATCH

Manchester City: Ederson, Akanji, Stones, Dias, Ake, Rodri, İlkay Gündoğan, De Bruyne, B. Silva, Grealish, Haaland.

Inter: Onana, Dumfries, Acerbi, Bastoni, Di Marco, Darmian, Barella, Brozovic, Hakan, Lautaro, Dzeko.

MANCHESTER CITY IS IN THE FINAL FOR THE SECOND TIME

Manchester City, which is among the favorite teams in the English Premier League and Champions League with its investments in recent years, reached the finals again after 2 years. City, which succeeded in playing the final in the 2020-2021 season for the first time in this organization and defeated another English team Chelsea 1-0 in the final, was eliminated by Real Madrid in the semi-finals last season and said goodbye to the cup. Turkish-born German football player Ilkay Gundogan, who is in the staff of the English team, will experience this experience for the third time. İlkay, who played for Borussia Dortmund in the 2012-2013 season, took part in the squad that lost 2-1 to Bayern Munich in the final and scored the only goal of his team.

PEP GUARDIOLA WILL BE THE 4TH FINAL

Manchester City Coach Pep Guardiola, who achieved the 100th victory of his career in the Champions League with a 4-0 victory against Real Madrid, will lead his team in the final for the 4th time. The 52-year-old coach, who played in the finals as Barcelona coach in 2009 and 2011 and reached the cup, said goodbye to the cup in the final in the 2020-2021 season.

INTER IN THE FINAL AFTER 13 YEARS

Having beaten Milan in both games in the semi-finals and made his mark in the final, Inter last played the final in 2010. There are 3 Champions League trophies in the museum of the blue-blacks who won the cup by beating the German representative Bayern Munich 2-0. On the other hand, Inter will play the final for the 6th time. National football player Hakan Çalhanoğlu, who sweated his team’s jersey in 11 matches in the Champions League this season, will experience this experience for the first time in his career.

41 DIFFERENT TEAMS PLAYED IN THE FINALS

In Europe’s biggest cup on the basis of clubs, 41 different teams have made it to the finals so far. 22 clubs succeeded in bringing the trophy to their museum. In the last 10 years, 11 different teams have played in the final, while Real Madrid has experienced this excitement 5 times and Liverpool 3 times.

BRITISH AND ITALIANS 5TH TIME

English teams and Italian teams have met 4 times in the Champions League finals so far. In 1984, Liverpool dominated Rome, while the following year Juventus beat Liverpool to reach the trophy. In the recent period, there were matches between Liverpool and Milan. While Liverpool won the final, which went down in history in the 2004-2005 season, Milan became the winner of the cup 2 years later.

GIANT CUP WILL RISE FOR THE SECOND TIME IN ISTANBUL

Istanbul will host the Champions League final for the second time. The eyes of the world will be on the city where two continents meet again after 18 years. In the 2004-2005 season, Liverpool and Milan teams competed in the final played at Atatürk Olympic Stadium. In the second half of the match, where the Italian team was ahead 3-0 in the first half, the British representative scored 3 goals and carried the fight to overtime and reached a happy ending in the penalty shootout. The Olympic Stadium will host the giant final for the second time.

MOST REAL MADRID PLAYED FINALS

Spanish giant Real Madrid, who enjoyed the trophy 14 times in the Champions League, succeeded in playing the final 17 times. Real Madrid holds another record as the only team in the history of the UEFA Champions League to have won the trophy three times in a row.
The Spanish representative managed to become the most successful team in Europe’s number one cup, reaching happy endings 14 times in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1966, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2022.
In the final matches they played in 1962, 1964 and 1981, the Madrid team left the field undefeated and could not reach the cup.

THE MOST SPANISH WINS

The tournament, which was previously organized as the European Champion Clubs Cup and renamed the UEFA Champions League in the 1992-1993 season, has so far been won by the most Spanish teams.
In the championship, which Spanish teams won 19 times, the British 14, Italians 12, Germans 8, Dutch teams 6, Portuguese representatives 4, French, Romanian, Scottish and Serbian clubs reached a happy ending once.