Inter and PSG ready to make history | OneFootball

This year’s Champions League final is confirmed, and it’s not your typical showdown.

Inter Milan will face Paris Saint-Germain in Munich on 31 May, marking the first final without a club from England, Spain or Germany since 2004.

That year, it was a young, sharp-suited José Mourinho guiding Porto to a 3-0 win over Monaco - and breaking the mould in a competition long dominated by Europe’s traditional powerhouses. Now, over two decades later, we’ve got a final that’s just as rare, and just as intriguing.

Even more remarkably, the winner won’t come from England, Spain or Germany either - something that hasn’t happened since 2010. That, too, featured Mourinho, this time leading Inter to a 2-0 victory over Bayern Munich in Madrid.

For Inter, this will be their seventh appearance in the final of Europe’s top competition. They've lifted the trophy three times — back-to-back in 1964 and 1965, and then again in 2010.

They've also fallen short three times: in 1967, 1972, and most recently in 2023, when they narrowly lost to Pep Guardiola’s treble-winning Manchester City.

As for PSG, it’s only their second-ever Champions League final. Their first came in the pandemic-delayed 2019/20 season, where they were edged out 1–0 by Bayern Munich in Lisbon.

The match also marks only the second-ever Champions League final between a French and Italian club - the first was in 1993, when Marseille beat AC Milan in the inaugural edition of the modern competition, also held in Munich.