Uefa Europa League

UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Stadion Köln - Cologne Friday 21 August 2020 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Sevilla FC Matchday 13 - Final FC Internazionale Milano Last updated 21/08/2020 12:03CET

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Two clubs boasting exceptional pedigree in this competition come together in Cologne for the 2019/20 UEFA Europa League final, with Sevilla bidding to lift the trophy for a record-extending sixth time and Internazionale for the fourth. It is the teams' first meeting in UEFA competition. • While Sevilla have won the UEFA Europa League three times and the UEFA Cup twice, Inter are three-time UEFA Cup winners. The Nerazzurri are the first Italian club to reach the UEFA Europa League final. • Sevilla coasted through Group A last autumn, winning their first five matches before signing off with a defeat at fellow qualifiers APOEL. They found the going tougher in the round of 32, needing the away goals rule to get past CFR Cluj (1-1 a, 0-0 h), but rediscovered their best form this month by beating Roma 2-0 in their single-leg round of 16 tie and Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 in the quarter-final before coming from behind to oust Manchester United with a 2-1 triumph in the semi-final thanks to goals from Suso and substitute Luuk de Jong. • Inter entered the UEFA Europa League in the spring after failing to negotiate a way through their UEFA Champions League section, finishing third behind Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund. They cruised past Ludogorets in the round of 32 (2-0 a, 2-1 h) before overcoming Getafe 2-0 in a single-leg round of 16 encounter in Gelsenkirchen; they then beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 and Shakhtar Donetsk 5-0, both in Düsseldorf, the latter in the semi-final with Lautaro Martínez and Romelu Lukaku each scoring twice. Previous meetings • While Sevilla have never faced Inter, they have met seven other Italian clubs, including the Nerazzurri's city rivals AC Milan, who beat them 3-1 in Monaco in the 2007 UEFA Super Cup – the Andalusian side's only single-leg European fixture against Serie A opposition until this season's round of 16 win against Roma. • Sevilla's record overall against Italian clubs is W6 D2 L5, the balance tipping in their favour with that recent victory against Roma. They have been victorious in all three of their UEFA Europa League knockout ties against teams from Italy, keeping clean sheets in all five matches – against Fiorentina in the 2014/15 semi-finals (3-0 h, 2-0 a) and Lazio in last season's round of 32 (1-0 a, 2-0 h) before the 2-0 success against Roma. • Inter have a wealth of experience against Spanish opposition, although they have won just 14 of their 43 matches and lost 18, including both games against Barcelona in this season's UEFA Champions League (1-2 a, 1-2 h). • Inter have faced Spanish clubs on neutral terrain three times previously, beating Real Madrid 3-1 in Vienna to win the 1964 European Cup final – their maiden encounter with Spanish opposition – and losing 2-0 to Atlético de Madrid in Monaco in the 2010 UEFA Super Cup, before getting the better of Getafe in Gelsenkirchen earlier this month. That victory ended the Milanese club's six-match winless run against Spanish opponents (D1 L5). Form guide Sevilla • Sevilla played 16 UEFA Europa League matches last season, progressing from the second qualifying round to the round of 16, where they were dramatically eliminated by Slavia Praha after an extra-time defeat in the Czech capital. The Andalusian club re-qualified for this competition by finishing sixth in the 2018/19 Liga, which secured an automatic group stage berth. • The three-time UEFA Europa League winners have never failed to progress from their group, making it five qualifications out of five this term and doing so as group winners for the third time. They defeated both Qarabağ and Dudelange home and away and also won 1-0 at home to APOEL before ending the section with a defeat by the same scoreline in Cyprus – their only loss in Europe this term. Sevilla's final tally of 15 points was the most of any team in this season's group stage. • Sevilla have reached the UEFA Europa League final for a record fourth time – and won the previous three, defeating Benfica 4-2 on penalties after a 0-0 draw in Turin in 2014, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 3-2 in Warsaw a year later and, to complete the hat-trick, Liverpool 3-1 in Basel in 2016. Despite their successes they have yet to open the scoring in a UEFA Europa League final, having to come from behind against both Dnipro and Liverpool. • Sevilla's two appearances in the UEFA Cup final also ended in victory, 4-0 against Middlesbrough in Eindhoven in 2006 and 3-1 on penalties after a 2-2 draw against fellow Spaniards Espanyol in Glasgow 12 months later. • Sevilla's record on German soil in UEFA competition is now W9 D1 L3, all of those matches bar the three recent wins against Roma and Wolves (both in Duisburg) and Manchester United (in Cologne) having been played against German hosts. Internazionale • Fourth in Serie A in 2018/19, Inter's European campaign ended with defeat by Eintracht Frankfurt in the UEFA

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Europa League round of 16 after they had finished third in their UEFA Champions League section behind Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur – the first time the Nerazzurri had failed to progress from their group in nine UEFA Champions League campaigns. • History repeated itself this season as Inter could only manage another third place in their UEFA Champions League group, a closing home defeat to Barcelona scuppering their chances and leaving them with seven points – one fewer than in the previous campaign. • Victory over Ludogorets took Inter into the UEFA Europa League round of 16 for the fourth time, and the win against Getafe ended a run of three straight eliminations at that stage of the competition. • This may be Inter's first UEFA Europa League final but they reached four UEFA Cup finals, all in the 1990s, winning three – in 1990/91 against Roma (2-0 h, 0-1 a), 1993/94 against Salzburg (1-0 a, 1-0 h) and 1997/98 against Lazio (3- 0 in Paris). They lost the 1996/97 final against Schalke on penalties (0-1 a, 1-0 h). • Inter have also reached five European Cup finals, winning three including the most recent, in 2010, when they overcame Bayern München 2-0 in Madrid. • Inter have won only five of their 20 UEFA competition matches away to German clubs (D8 L7), but their three UEFA Europa League matches in Germany this month against Getafe, Leverkusen and Shakhtar have all ended in victory. • Inter's current sequence of five successive victories amounts to their longest winning run in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final. Previous UEFA finals Sevilla (W6 L4) 2005/06 UEFA Cup 4-0 v Middlesbrough 2006 UEFA Super Cup 3-0 v Barcelona 2006/07 UEFA Cup 2-2 aet v Espanyol (3-1 penalties) 2007 UEFA Super Cup 1-3 v AC Milan 2013/14 UEFA Europa League 0-0 v Benfica (aet, 4-2 penalties) 2014 UEFA Super Cup 0-2 v Real Madrid 2014/15 UEFA Europa League 3-2 v Dnipro 2015 UEFA Super Cup 4-5 v Barcelona (aet) 2015/16 UEFA Europa League 3-1 v Liverpool 2016 UEFA Super Cup 2-3 v Real Madrid (aet) Internazionale (W8 L4) 1963/64 European Cup 3-1 v Real Madrid 1964 European/South American Cup 2-1 agg, 1-0 replay aet v Independiente 1964/65 European Cup 1-0 v Benfica 1965 European/South American Cup 3-0 agg v Independiente 1966/67 European Cup 1-2 v Celtic 1971/72 European Cup 0-2 v Ajax 1990/91 UEFA Cup 2-1 agg v Roma 1993/94 UEFA Cup 2-0 agg v Salzburg 1996/97 UEFA Cup 1-1 agg v Schalke (1-4 on penalties) 1997/98 UEFA Cup 3-0 v Lazio 2009/10 UEFA Champions League 2-0 v Bayern München 2010 UEFA Super Cup 0-2 v Atlético de Madrid Final focus • This is the 11th UEFA Europa League final. The previous ten have yielded 29 goals at an average of 2.9 per game. The biggest winning margin is three goals – 4-1 by Chelsea against Arsenal in 2018/19 and 3-0 achieved twice by Atlético de Madrid, against Athletic Club (2012) and Marseille (2018). The highest number of goals scored in the final is five – Sevilla's 3-2 victory over Dnipro in 2015, then last season's 4-1 win for Chelsea. • Atlético and Sevilla have both won all three of their UEFA Europa League finals, sharing the record number of victories. Sevilla are making a record fourth appearance in the final. • There have been seven previous UEFA Europa League finalists from Spain, including runners-up Athletic in 2012, but Inter are the first from Italy. • Inter are the 15th different club to have reached the UEFA Europa League final – and would be just the sixth to win the competition. Only three countries – Spain (six wins), England (three) and Portugal (one) – have provided previous winners. • Inter are bidding to become the fifth team to win the UEFA Europa League after crossing over in mid-season from

3 Sevilla FC - FC Internazionale Milano Friday 21 August 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit Stadion Köln, Cologne the UEFA Champions League after the group stage, following Atlético (2009/10, 2017/18), Chelsea (2012/13) and Sevilla themselves (2015/16). • In 2018/19 Chelsea became the first UEFA Europa League winners to go through the season undefeated (W12 D3). • There has never been a sending-off or an own goal in a UEFA Europa League final. • Only two penalties have been awarded in a UEFA Europa League final, both successfully converted – by Óscar Cardozo for Benfica against Chelsea in 2013 and Eden Hazard for Chelsea against Arsenal in 2019. • The only previous UEFA Europa League final decided by a penalty shoot-out was in 2014, when Sevilla defeated Benfica 4-2 on spot kicks after a 0-0 draw in Turin. The only other final to have gone into extra time was the inaugural fixture in 2010, when Atlético defeated Fulham 2-1 in Hamburg. • Six players have scored twice in the fixture – Diego Forlán (Atlético 2010), Radamel Falcao (Atlético 2012), Carlos Bacca (Sevilla 2015), Coke (Sevilla 2016), Antoine Griezmann (Atlético 2018) and Eden Hazard (Chelsea 2019); there has yet to be a hat-trick. • Falcao is the only player to have scored in two UEFA Europa League finals, having previously struck Porto's winner in 2011. He is also the only two-time winner of the Man of the Match award (2011, 2012). • The youngest player to have competed on the winning side in a UEFA Europa League final is Manchester United's Marcus Rashford (2017) at 19 years 206 days; the oldest is Chelsea's Frank Lampard (2013) at 34 years 329 days. • Maurizio Sarri became the UEFA Europa League's oldest winning coach, at 60 years 139 days, when he led Chelsea to victory in 2019. The youngest was André Villas-Boas, aged 33 years 213 days when he oversaw Porto's triumph in 2011. Links and trivia • Éver Banega was an Inter player in 2016/17, scoring six goals in 28 Serie A appearances for the Nerazzurri and operating alongside several current Inter players, including Marcelo Brozović, Danilo D'Ambrosio, Roberto Gagliardini and Samir Handanovič. • Three other Sevilla players have experience of Italian football. Franco Vázquez was with Palermo from 2012 to 2016, while Lucas Ocampos played on loan for Genoa and AC Milan in 2016/17, and Suso was a Milan player from 2015 until he joined Sevilla, initially on loan, in January this year. • Diego Godín spent 12 seasons in Spain before joining Inter in 2019, three with Villarreal and nine with Atlético; his Inter team-mate Alexis Sánchez played for Barcelona between 2011 and 2014. • Borja Valero played in Spain for Real Madrid B, Mallorca and Villarreal before moving to Italy in 2012, and Inter team-mate Cristiano Biraghi spent 2015/16 on loan at Granada. • Martínez is a fellow Argentina international of Banega, Vázquez and Ocampos. • Rival coaches Julen Lopetegui (Sevilla) and Antonio Conte (Inter) have both coached their respective national teams. Lopetegui took charge of Spain from 2016 to 2018, during which Spain qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup at the expense of Italy, drawing 1-1 in Turin and winning 3-0 in Madrid. Conte had spent the previous two years as Italy boss, leading the Azzurri to the quarter-finals of UEFA EURO 2016 after knocking out Spain with a 2-0 round of 16 win at the Stade de France. • Godín played in Atlético's final wins in 2012 and 2018 while Banega was in Sevilla's victorious sides in 2015 – when he was named Man of the Match – and 2016. • Two other Sevilla players have appeared in final wins – Fernando (Porto 2011) and Sergio Escudero (Sevilla 2016) – while Inter's Victor Moses (Chelsea 2013) and Ashley Young (Manchester United 2017) both collected winner's medals despite not featuring in the final. • Sevilla have now scored 126 goals in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final, a competition record. The Andalusian club have also registered a record-breaking 41 wins. • This is Sevilla's 39th match in the UEFA Europa League knockout phase – one shy of Benfica's record. • The five goals Sevilla have scored in Germany this month have all come from different players – Sergio Reguilón and Youssef En-Nesyri against Roma, Lucas Ocampos against Wolves and Suso and De Jong against Manchester United. The club's top scorer in the competition is Munir, whose five goals were all registered in the group stage; he has yet to start a game in the knockout phase. • De Jong's semi-final winner was his first UEFA Europa League goal for Sevilla and 13th in the competition overall. The Dutch striker has now scored for four different clubs in the UEFA Europa League, a record he shares with five other players – Jeremain Lens, Marc Janko, Ricky van Wolfswinkel, Manuel Fernandes and Adil Rami. De Jong also scored eight UEFA Europa League goals for Twente and two apiece for Borussia Mönchengladbach and PSV

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Eindhoven. • De Jong is a Dutch national team-mate of Inter defender Stefan de Vrij. • Lukaku has scored in his last ten UEFA Europa League appearances – the first five for Everton in 2014/15 and another five for Inter this term – setting a competition record. He has notched 14 goals in all during that run and has 19 in the competition as a whole, making him Belgium's all-time top scorer in the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League. • With six goals, Lukaku needs two more to join Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes as the leading scorer in this season's UEFA Europa League. • Sevilla finished the 2019/20 Liga season in fourth place, qualifying for the UEFA Champions League group stage for the sixth time. • Inter finished runners-up in Serie A in 2019/20, one point behind champions Juventus, and will also return to the UEFA Champions League group stage next season. • While Sevilla are unbeaten in 20 matches in all competitions, Inter have lost just one of their last 17. Penalty shoot-outs • Sevilla's record in six UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W5 L1: 4-3 v PAOK, 1990/91 UEFA Cup first round 3-1 v Espanyol, 2006/07 UEFA Cup final 2-3 v Fenerbahçe, 2007/08 UEFA Champions League round of 16 4-3 v Real Betis, 2013/14 UEFA Europa League round of 16 4-2 v Benfica, 2013/14 UEFA Europa League final 5-4 v Athletic Club, 2015/16 UEFA Europa League quarter-final • Inter's record in four UEFA penalty shoot-outs is W2 L2: 5-4 v Celtic, 1971/72 European Champion Clubs' Cup semi final 3-4 v Aston Villa, 1994/95 UEFA Cup first round 5-3 v Grazer AK, 1996/97 UEFA Cup second round 1-4 v Schalke, 1996/97 UEFA Cup final The coaches • Sevilla appointed Lopetegui as their head coach on a three-year contract in June 2019, the former goalkeeper returning to duty in the Spanish Liga after a brief spell in charge of Real Madrid had swiftly ended in October 2018. A highly successful stint with Spain's youth selections brought European titles with the Under-19s in 2012 and U21s the following year. He had 18 months at Porto before taking charge of the senior Spain side and qualifying them for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, only to be dismissed on the eve of the tournament. • A combative and versatile midfielder, Conte is most commonly associated with Juventus, where he spent 13 seasons as a player, winning a treasure trove of trophies including the 1995/96 UEFA Champions League. He also coached the club to three successive Serie A titles between 2012 and 2014, going on to take charge of Italy for two years, including the UEFA EURO 2016 finals, and then leaving for Chelsea, where he won the Premier League and FA Cup before being replaced by compatriot Maurizio Sarri. After a year's sabbatical, Conte was appointed as Inter boss in May 2019. Trophy Ceremony The trophy ceremony following the conclusion of tonight's final between Sevilla and Inter will be held after the final whistle on the pitch. The UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin will present the trophy to the winning team, and also hand over the medals to the players and staff of both teams. The trophy ceremony procedure has been aligned with the local authorities. All officials involved in the trophy presentation have undergone COVID-19 testing, and will not be required to wear masks. As already announced ahead of the UEFA club competition final tournaments played in Portugal (UEFA Champions League), Germany (UEFA Europa League) and Spain (UEFA Women's Champions League), UEFA's top management and operational staff in contact with the participating club's players and staff have been regularly tested throughout the tournament.

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Club competitions National team competitions UCL: UEFA Champions League EURO: UEFA European Football Championship ECCC: European Champion Clubs' Cup WC: FIFA World Cup UEL: UEFA Europa League CONFCUP: FIFA Confederations Cup UCUP: UEFA Cup FRIE: Friendly internationals UCWC: UEFA Cup Winners' Cup U21FRIE: Under-21 friendly internationals SCUP: UEFA Super Cup U21: UEFA European Under-21 Championship UIC: UEFA Intertoto Cup U17: UEFA Under-17 Championship ICF: Inter-Cities Fairs Cup U16: UEFA European Under-16 Championship U19: UEFA Under-19 Championship U18: UEFA European Under-18 Championship WWC: FIFA Women's World Cup WEURO: UEFA European Women's Championship Competition stages Other abbreviations F: Final GS: Group stage (aet): After extra time pens: Penalties GS1: First group stage GS2: Second group stage No.: Number og: Own goal 3QR: Third qualifying round R1: First round ag: Match decided on away P: Penalty R2: Second round R3: Third round goals agg: Aggregate R4: Fourth round PR: Preliminary round Pld: Matches played AP: Appearances SF: Semi-finals QF: Quarter-finals Pos.: Position Comp.: Competition R16: round of 16 QR: Qualifying round Pts: Points D: Drawn R32: Round of 32 1QR: First qualifying round R: Sent off (straight red card) DoB: Date of birth 1st: first leg 2QR: Second qualifying Res.: Result ET: Extra Time round sg: Match decided by silver GA: Goals against 2nd: second leg FT: Final tournament goal t: Match decided by toss of a PO: Play-off ELITE: Elite round coin Rep: Replay 3rdPO: Third-place play-off GF: Goals for W: Won PO - FT: Play-off for Final GS-FT: Group stage – final gg: Match decided by golden Y: Booked Tournament tournament goal L: Lost Y/R: Sent off (two yellow Nat.: Nationality cards) N/A: Not applicable f: Match forfeited Statistics -: Denotes player substituted +: Denotes player introduced *: Denotes player sent off +/-: Denotes player introduced and substituted Squad list D: Disciplinary *: Misses next match if booked S: Suspended QUAL: All UEFA qualifiers UEL: Current season total UEFA Europa League appearances from the group stage onwards prior to the current matchday UEL: Total appearances in the UEFA Europa League, group stage to final only UEFA: All-time total appearances in UEFA club competition including qualifying Disclaimer: Although UEFA has taken all reasonable care that the information contained within this document is accurate at the time of publication, no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to its accuracy, reliability or completeness. Therefore, UEFA assumes no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein. More information can be found in the competition regulations available on UEFA.com.