The 2022 UEFA Europa League Final was the final match of the
2021–22 UEFA Europa League, the 51st season of
Europe
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's secondary club
football
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tournament organised by
UEFA
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, and the 13th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the
UEFA Europa League
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. It was played at
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in
Seville
Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...
, Spain, on 18 May 2022, between German club
Eintracht Frankfurt
Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. () is a professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It is best known for its football club, which was founded on 8 March 1899. The team is currently playing in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the Germa ...
and Scottish club
Rangers.
The final was originally scheduled to be played at the
Puskás Aréna
Puskás Aréna is a football stadium in the 14th district (Zugló) of Budapest, Hungary. The stadium's construction started in 2017 and was finished before the end of 2019. It is an all-seater with a capacity of 67,215. The Hungarian Football Fe ...
in
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
, Hungary. However, due to the postponement and relocation of the
2020 final, the final hosts were shifted back a year, with Budapest instead hosting the 2023 final.
Eintracht Frankfurt won the match 5–4 on
penalties
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* Penalty shoot-out (association football)
* Penalty ...
, following a 1–1 draw after
extra time
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, for their second UEFA Cup/Europa League title after
1980. Frankfurt became the first German side since
Schalke 04
Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (), Schalke 04 (), or abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine ...
in
1997
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to win the competition. As winners, they earned the right to play against the winners of the
2021–22 UEFA Champions League,
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
, in the
2022 UEFA Super Cup, and qualified for the
2022–23 UEFA Champions League group stage
The 2022–23 UEFA Champions League group stage began on 6 September 2022 and ended on 2 November 2022. A total of 32 teams competed in the group stage to decide the 16 places in the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League knockout phase, knockout phase o ...
.
Teams
''In the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Europa League era.''
Venue
This was the first Europa League final to be held at the stadium. It previously hosted the
1986 European Cup Final. The city of Seville hosted the
2003 UEFA Cup Final
The 2003 UEFA Cup Final was played on 21 May 2003 between Celtic of Scotland and Porto of Portugal. Porto won the match 3–2 in extra time thanks to a goal from Derlei. This was also the first game to use the silver goal rule, although it did no ...
at the
Estadio de La Cartuja
Estadio La Cartuja (), officially known as Estadio La Cartuja de Sevilla, is a multi-purpose stadium situated in the Isla de la Cartuja in Seville, Spain. It is used mostly for football and it is commonly referred to as simply 'La Cartuja'. ...
. Spain had hosted four other UEFA Cup finals (holding a leg in
1977,
1985,
1986
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, and
1988
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).
Host selection
An open bidding process was launched on 28 September 2018 by UEFA to select the venues of the finals of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Women's Champions League in 2021. Associations had until 26 October 2018 to express interest, and bid dossiers must be submitted by 15 February 2019.
UEFA announced on 1 November 2018 that three associations had expressed interest in hosting the 2021 UEFA Europa League final, and on 22 February 2019 that two associations submitted their dossiers by the deadline.
The following associations expressed interest in hosting but eventually did not submit bids:
*
Austria
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:
Ernst-Happel-Stadion,
Vienna
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Czech Republic
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:
Sinobo Stadium
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,
Prague
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*
Hungary
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:
Puskás Aréna
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,
Budapest
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The
Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Ramón or Ramon may refer to:
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* Ramon (footballer, born 1998), Brazilian footballer
* Ramón (footballer, born 1990), Brazilian footballer
*Ramón (singer), Spanish singer who represented Spain in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest ...
was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in
Ljubljana
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During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...
, Slovenia on 24 September 2019.
On 17 June 2020, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that due to the postponement and relocation of the
2020 final, Seville would instead host the 2022 final.
Road to the final
''Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).''
Background
This was Eintracht Frankfurt's third final in a major UEFA competition, having lost the
1960 European Cup Final to
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
and won the
1980 UEFA Cup Final. Having become the first German team in a major European final since
Bayern Munich in the
2020 UEFA Champions League Final and the first UEFA Cup/Europa League finalist from Germany since
Werder Bremen
Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. (), commonly known as Werder Bremen (), Werder or simply Bremen, is a German professional sports club based in Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, they are best known for the ...
in
2009
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, they were seeking to become the first German side since
Schalke 04
Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (), Schalke 04 (), or abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine ...
in
1997
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to win the competition. Their manager
Oliver Glasner was seeking to become the first Austrian to win a European trophy since
Ernst Happel
Ernst Franz Hermann Happel (29 November 1925 – 14 November 1992) was an Austrian football player and manager.
Happel is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, winning both league and domestic cup titles in the Netherlands, Belg ...
in the
1983 European Cup Final and the first Austrian to win the UEFA Cup/Europa League.
This was Rangers' fifth final in a major UEFA competition, having won the
1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final
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and lost both the
1961
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** Aero Flight 311 ...
and
1967 Cup Winners' Cup finals as well as the
1972 European Super Cup and the
2008 UEFA Cup Final. Having become the first Scottish club in any European final since themselves in 2008, they were seeking to become the first Scottish club since
Aberdeen
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in the
1983 European Super Cup to win a European trophy and the first Scottish side to win the UEFA Cup/Europa League. Their manager
Giovanni van Bronckhorst
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was seeking to become the first Dutch to win a European trophy since
Dick Advocaat
Dirk Nicolaas Advocaat (; born 27 September 1947) is a Dutch former football player and coach who is currently the head coach of Eerste Divisie side ADO Den Haag.
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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; they were qualified after defeating Rangers in the year's UEFA Cup final.
The two sides previously met twice in European competitions, in the
1959–60 European Cup semi-finals
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, with Eintracht Frankfurt winning both legs.
Pre-match
Identity
The logo of the 2022 UEFA Europa 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
Sevilla
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goalkeeper
Andrés Palop
Andrés Palop Cervera (; born 22 October 1973) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, currently a manager.
After having languished on the bench of hometown club Valencia for most of his stay, he became a premi ...
.
Officials
On 11 May 2022, UEFA named Slovenian official
Slavko Vinčić as the referee for the final. Vinčić had been a
FIFA referee
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Afghanistan
Men's
Referees
* Halim Shirzad (2019)
Assistant Referees
* Nangy ...
since 2010, and was previously an additional assistant referee in the
2017 UEFA Europa League Final and the fourth official in the
2021 UEFA Europa League Final. He also worked as an additional assistant referee in the
2012 UEFA Super Cup. He officiated ten matches in the
2021–22 Champions League season, with two matches in qualification, five in the group stage and three knockout fixtures. He served as a referee at
UEFA Euro 2020
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, where he officiated two group matches and a quarter-final. He was joined by three of his fellow countrymen, with Tomaž Klančnik and Andraž Kovačič as assistant referees, and Jure Praprotnik as one of the assistant VAR officials.
Srđan Jovanović of Serbia served as the fourth official, while Dutchman
Pol van Boekel
Paulus Hendrikus Martinus van Boekel (born 19 September 1975) is a Dutch international referee, who refereed at the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, beginning with the match between Moldova and England.
Van Boekel became a FIFA referee in 20 ...
was appointed as the video assistant referee. Spaniards
Alejandro Hernández Hernández
Alejandro José Hernández Hernández (born 10 November 1982) is a Spanish professional football referee. He has been a full international for FIFA
FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), mea ...
and Roberto Díaz Pérez del Palomar served as the other assistant VAR officials.
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
*
2022 UEFA Europa Conference League Final
*
2022 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
*
2022 UEFA Super Cup
*
Eintracht Frankfurt in European football
*
Rangers F.C. in European football
Notes
References
External links
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Final
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