2020 UEFA Champions League Final
The 2020 UEFA Champions League final between Paris Saint-Germain and FC Bayern Munich was the final match for the 2019/20 Champions League season . It took place on August 23, 2020 as a ghost game in the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon . FC Bayern Munich won the game 1-0.
It was the first ever final for PSG. No team in the French league had qualified for the final since 2004 . For the eleventh time, FC Bayern Munich made it into the final of the Champions League and its predecessor competition, the European Champion Clubs' Cup, and won the title for the sixth time.
The way to the final
Note: The results are given from the perspective of the finalists.
Paris Saint-Germain | round | FC Bayern Munich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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real Madrid | 3: 0 ( H ) | 1st matchday | Red Star Belgrade | 3: 0 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Galatasaray Istanbul | 1: 0 ( A ) | 2nd matchday | Tottenham Hotspur | 7: 2 (A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club Bruges | 5: 0 (A) | 3rd matchday | Olympiacos Piraeus | 3: 2 (A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club Bruges | 1: 0 (H) | 4th matchday | Olympiacos Piraeus | 2: 0 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
real Madrid | 2: 2 (A) | 5th matchday | Red Star Belgrade | 6: 0 (A) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Galatasaray Istanbul | 5: 0 (H) | 6th matchday | Tottenham Hotspur | 3: 1 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First group A | Final score | First group B | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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opponent | total | First leg | Return leg | Knockout round | opponent | total | First leg | Return leg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Borussia Dortmund | 3: 2 | 1: 2 (A) | 2: 0 (H) | Round of 16 | Chelsea FC | 7: 1 | 3: 0 (A) | 4: 1 (H) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Atalanta Bergamo | 2: 1 (N) | Quarter finals | FC Barcelona | 8: 2 (N) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RB Leipzig | 3: 0 (N) | Semifinals | Olympique Lyon | 3: 0 (N) |
Game dates
particularities
- As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic , gaming operations were suspended in mid-March 2020. The first leg of the round of 16 could still be played with spectators. The first half of the second leg could still be played, albeit partially without spectators. The second half of the return legs (as well as the final games of the Champions League and Europa League on March 23 ) were postponed indefinitely. In August 2020, a final tournament with only one knockout game (similar to a World Cup ) took place in the Portuguese capital Lisbon from the quarter-finals .
- As the tournament was reduced to knockout games from the quarterfinals onwards, the finalists played eleven games instead of the usual 13 games.
- With FC Bayern Munich, a football club won all games in a UEFA Champions League season for the first time. Bayern also set records in the Champions League for the highest percentage of goals per game (3.91) and the highest win in a knockout game (8: 2 against FC Barcelona).
- PSG was in the final of the Champions League for the first time in club history, with a Ligue 1 team reaching the final for the first time since 2004 .
- Kingsley Coman became the first player in the history of the competition to score against a former club in the final. The goal was also the 500th goal of Bayern Munich in the UEFA Champions League.
- For the first time since 2012/13, a German team was in the final with FC Bayern Munich.
- The final was broadcast on ZDF on the basis of the State Broadcasting Treaty , according to which "media events of high social relevance" must be seen live on free TV if a German club is participating ; commented by Béla Réthy .
See also
literature
- kicker # 70/2020, August 24, 2020, Olympia-Verlag , Nürnberg 2020, ISSN 0023-1290 (reports and statistics on the game and the past season).
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.stern.de: You have the triple - Bayern Munich wins the Champions League .
- ↑ UEFA.com: All of next week's UEFA matches postponed | Inside UEFA. March 13, 2020, accessed on March 13, 2020 .
- ↑ kicker: Officially: UEFA postpones finals of the Champions League and Europa League. March 23, 2020, accessed March 24, 2020 .
- ↑ UEFA confirmed: Champions League as the final tournament in Lisbon. In: eurosport.de. June 17, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
- ↑ a b UEFA.com: UEFA Champions League: 2019/20 season by numbers. August 23, 2020, accessed on August 23, 2020 .
- ↑ David Hytner: Bayern Munich win Champions League as Kingsley Coman header sinks PSG . In: The Guardian . August 23, 2020, ISSN 0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed August 23, 2020]).
- ↑ Premiere at the Champions League final Ex-Bayern star inherits Kahn on ZDF. August 20, 2020, accessed August 21, 2020 .