UEFA Champions League Final: Date, venue and history

The 2025 UEFA Champions League final will be held at the Fußball Arena München in Germany - the home stadium of Bayern Munich.

The final will once again be the culmination of Europe's top club competition in 2025, which has undergone a revamp for the upcoming campaign.

The 2024-25 UEFA Champions League will feature a new league phase where all competing 36 teams will be ranked in one large group after each has played eight games against different opponents.

UEFA Champions League final date

The 2025 UEFA Champions League final will be held on Saturday 31st May 2025.

UEFA Champions League final time

The kick-off time for the 2025 UEFA Champions League final is scheduled for 20:00 BST, with 90 minutes of regulation time to be played. 

A further 30 minutes of extra time will be played if the scores are level at full time, with a penalty shoot-out following if necessary. 

UEFA Champions League final venue

Fußball Arena München, also known as the Allianz Arena, in the German city of Munich has been chosen as the host venue for the final.

It will be the second time the stadium has staged the UEFA Champions League final, following on from 2012 when Chelsea beat Bayern Munich there on penalties to be crowned European champions.

The stadium was opened in 2005 and has a capacity of 70,000 for European games. It has been Bundesliga giants' Bayern Munich's home ground since it opened.

UEFA Champions League final history

The UEFA Champions League final, formerly known as the European Cup until the 1992/93 season, has been held 70 times, with the competition being held every year since the 1955/56 campaign. 

Real Madrid were crowned inaugural champions and went on to dominate the early years of the competition, winning each of the first five iterations. That feat, along with a three-season winning run under Zinedine Zidane, has helped them become the most successful side in UEFA Champions League history. 

Los Blancos’ most recent success was in 2024, when they beat German side Borussia Dortmund in the final at Wembley 2-0 to claim their 15th continental crown.

The Spanish giants have not lost a final in this competition since 1981, winning each of their nine appearances since that defeat to Liverpool in Paris. 

AC Milan are the second most successful club with seven UEFA Champions League victories, followed by Bayern Munich, and the first British club in the rankings, Liverpool, who have both won six times. 

Nine other UEFA Champions League finals have been won by English sides, making them the second-most successful nation in the competition after Spain.

In total, there have been 23 different winners of the UEFA Champions League final, with Manchester City being the most recent addition in 2023. 

That ended an 11-year wait for a first-time winner since Chelsea’s first success against Bayern Munich in 2012, while 19 clubs have made it to the final but never won it. Atletico Madrid hold the unwanted record of being the club to have made it to the most UEFA Champions League finals without winning, falling at the final hurdle in 1974, 2014 and 2016. 

Juventus, however, have lost the most finals, reaching the final stage nine times but only lifting the trophy twice. 

Current Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti is the only manager to have won the UEFA Champions League five times, doing so twice with AC Milan in 2003 and 2007 and three with Real Madrid in 2014, 2022 and 2024.

Three other managers - Bob Paisley, Zinedine Zidane and Pep Guardiola - have lifted the trophy three times.

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