The 2022 UEFA Europa Conference League Final was the final match of the
2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League
The 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League was the inaugural season of the UEFA Europa Conference League, Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA.
The final was played at the Arena Kombëtare in Tirana, Albania, with Roma ...
, the first season of Europe's tertiary club
football
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tournament organised by
UEFA
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. It was played on 25 May 2022 at the
Arena Kombëtare
Arena Kombëtare (; known for sponsorship reasons as the Air Albania Stadium) is an all-seater, multi-purpose football stadium located in the capital city of Tirana which was built on the ground of the former Qemal Stafa Stadium. The stadium ha ...
in
Tirana
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, Albania,
between Italian club
Roma
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** Roma Airport
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and Dutch club
Feyenoord
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.
Roma won the match 1–0 to secure the inaugural UEFA Europa Conference League title, the first club from Italy to win a UEFA competition in 12 years. As they had already qualified for the group stage of the
2022–23 UEFA Europa League
The 2022–23 UEFA Europa League is the 52nd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 14th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
The final will be played at the Puská ...
via their domestic league performance, that competition's access list was rebalanced, with Feyenoord qualifying for the group stage instead of play-off round as the third place in the
2021–22 Eredivisie
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Teams
SC Cambuur (promoted after a five-year absence), Go Ahead Eagles an ...
. If Roma had not qualified for the Champions League or the Europa League through their league performance, they would have received a place in the Europa League group stage instead.
Venue
![Arena Kombëtare, Tiranë](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Arena_Komb%C3%ABtare%2C_Tiran%C3%AB.jpg)
The match was the first UEFA competition final to be played in Albania. The 21,690-seat
Arena Kombëtare
Arena Kombëtare (; known for sponsorship reasons as the Air Albania Stadium) is an all-seater, multi-purpose football stadium located in the capital city of Tirana which was built on the ground of the former Qemal Stafa Stadium. The stadium ha ...
is the home stadium of the
Albania national team, as well as clubs
Dinamo Tirana
Futboll Club Dinamo Tirana is an Albanian professional football club based in the country's capital Tirana. They play in the Kategoria e Parë, the second tier of Albanian football, in the 2022–23 season.
Founded in 1950 during the communist r ...
and
Partizani. Construction of the stadium began in 2016 and was completed by November 2019.
Host selection
A bidding process was launched by UEFA to select the venues of the finals of the UEFA Europa Conference League in 2022 and
2023
Events
Predicted and scheduled events
* January 1
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** Croatia will adopt the eu ...
. Associations interested in hosting one of the finals had until 20 February 2020 to submit bid dossiers.
Arena Kombëtare
Arena Kombëtare (; known for sponsorship reasons as the Air Albania Stadium) is an all-seater, multi-purpose football stadium located in the capital city of Tirana which was built on the ground of the former Qemal Stafa Stadium. The stadium ha ...
was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting on 3 December 2020.
Background
![A graffito in honour of Jose Mourinho in the streets of Rome](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/A_graffito_in_honour_of_Jose_Mourinho_in_the_streets_of_Rome.jpg)
This was Roma's third final in a major UEFA competition, having lost the
1984 European Cup Final
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to
Liverpool
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and the
1991 UEFA Cup Final
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to fellow Italian club
Inter Milan
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, who were the most recent Italian club to reach a European final – losing in the
2020 UEFA Europa League Final
The 2020 UEFA Europa League Final was the final match of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, the 49th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Eur ...
. Roma was seeking to win their first trophy since the
2007–08 Coppa Italia
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, and a first European title for an Italian side since Inter won the
2010 UEFA Champions League Final
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. Their head coach
José Mourinho
José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix GOIH (; born 26 January 1963), is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who is the current head coach of Italian Serie A club Roma. Once dubbed "The Special One" by the British ...
, having become the first manager to reach European finals with four different clubs – including the aforementioned 2010 Champions League Final, was seeking to become only the third manager – after
Udo Lattek
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Lattek is one of the most successful coaches in the history of the game, having won 15 major titles, most famously with Bayern Munich. He also ...
and
Giovanni Trapattoni
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– to have
won all three existing major European trophies, and the first to achieve the UEFA treble by winning the
European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions League,
UEFA Cup/Europa League, and UEFA Europa Conference League (in place of the now-defunct
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
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).
This was Feyenoord's fourth final in a major UEFA competition, having won the
1970 European Cup Final
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and both the
1974
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and
2002
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UEFA Cup finals. The first Dutch club to reach a European final since
Ajax
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* Ajax the Lesser, a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris
* ''Ajax'' (play), by the ancient Greek ...
lost the
2017 UEFA Europa League Final
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to Mourinho's
Manchester United
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and the most recent to win a European title, they were seeking to join
Juventus
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, Ajax,
Bayern Munich
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,
Chelsea
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* Chelsea, Victoria
Canada
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and Manchester United as the only clubs to have
won all three existing major European trophies, and the first to achieve the UEFA treble by winning the European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League (again in place of the Cup Winners' Cup). Their head coach
Arne Slot
Arend Martijn Slot (; born 17 September 1978) is a Dutch professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of Feyenoord.
Playing career
Slot played as midfielder for PEC Zwolle, NAC Breda and Sparta Rotterdam.
Coaching care ...
was seeking to become the first Dutch to win a European trophy since
Dick Advocaat
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Advocaat was successful as a football player and as a coach, including three sti ...
with
Zenit Saint Petersburg
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in the
2008 UEFA Super Cup
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.
The two sides previously met twice in European competitions, in the
2014–15 UEFA Europa League
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The 2015 UEFA Europa League Final was ...
round of 32
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, with Roma won one and drew one.
Road to the final
''Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).''
Pre-match
Identity
The logo of the 2022 UEFA Europa Conference League Final was unveiled at the group stage draw on 27 August 2021 in
Istanbul
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.
Ambassador
The ambassador for the final was former Albanian international
Lorik Cana
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Cana played in the ...
.
Officials
![István Kovács referee](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Istv%C3%A1n_Kov%C3%A1cs_referee.jpg)
On 11 May 2022, UEFA announced Romanian
István Kovács, a
FIFA referee
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Afghanistan
Men's
Referees
* Halim Shirzad (2019)
Assistant Referees
* Nangy ...
since 2010, would officiate the final. Kovács officiated six matches in the
2021–22 Champions League, three matches in the
2021–22 Europa League and one group stage fixture in the 2021–22 Europa Conference League season. He served as a referee at
UEFA Euro 2020
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, where he officiated one group stage match. He also was a referee at the
2014 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
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,
2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
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and
2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup
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. He was joined by his fellow countrymen Vasile Marinescu and Ovidiu Artene as assistant referees.
Sandro Schärer
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See also
*List of football referees
This is a list of current FIFA internation ...
of Switzerland served as the fourth official, while German
Marco Fritz
Marco Fritz (born 3 October 1977) is a German football referee who is based in Korb. He referees for SV Breuningsweiler of the Württemberg Football Association. He is a FIFA referee, and is ranked as a UEFA second category referee.
Refereein ...
was appointed as the video assistant referee. Fritz's compatriots
Christian Dingert
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and
Bastian Dankert served as the assistant and support VAR officials, respectively.
Match
Details
The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.
Statistics
See also
*
2022 UEFA Champions League Final
The 2022 UEFA Champions League Final was the final match of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League, the 67th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 30th season since it was renamed from the European Champio ...
*
2022 UEFA Europa League Final
The 2022 UEFA Europa League Final was the final match of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League, the 51st season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 13th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA E ...
*
2022 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
The 2022 UEFA Women's Champions League Final was the final match of the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League, the 21st season of Europe's premier women's club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 13th season since it was renamed from ...
*
2022 UEFA Super Cup
The 2022 UEFA Super Cup was the 47th edition of the UEFA Super Cup, an annual football match organised by UEFA and contested by the reigning champions of the top two European club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. ...
*
A.S. Roma in European football
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*
Feyenoord in European football
Notes
References
External links
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Final
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May 2022 sports events in Albania
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2021–22 in Italian football
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International club association football competitions hosted by Albania
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