May 28 “Real Betis” and “Chelsea” will meet in the fourth final in the history of the UEFA conferences league.
The final, which will be held at the Vroclav stadium in Wroclaw (Poland), will begin at 22.00 Pacific time.
In the tournament, which was first held by UEFA in the season of 2021-2022, the Italian “Roma” and the Dutch “Feyenoord” met. Roma “, who won the opponent with a score of 1: 0, became the first team to achieve the championship in organizing number 3 of European football at the club level.
The first coach to win the Cup was Jose Mourinho
The Coach of Fenerbahce, Jose Mourinho, who headed Roma in the 2021-2022 season, became the first mentor to win this trophy.
Having achieved success with the Italian team, the Portuguese coach became the only manager who won the Champions League, the Europa League and the League of Conferences.
“Fiorentina” lost 2 finals in a row
In the season of 2022-2023, the English team West Ham United and Italian Fiorentina met the English team. West Ham United “won with a score of 2: 1 thanks to Jarrod Bowan’s blue in the 90th minute and became the winner of the tournament.
Last season, Fiorentina also reached the finals. In the final, the representative of Italy met with the Greek Olympiacos. In the match, which ended with a score of 0: 0 in the main time, Olympiacos won 1-0 thanks to G. El Kaabi in the 116th minute and took the trophy into his museum.
Fiorentina, which played in the final of 2 seasons in a row, this season was defeated by Real Betis thanks to the goal in extra time in the semifinals.
The first Spanish final, the second English finale
For the first time in the UEFA conference league, the Spanish team entered the final.
In three finals played so far, Italian teams, as well as one Dutch, one English and one Greek,
took part three times.
In the match between Real Betis and Chelsea, Spanish teams will first take part in the final of this Cup, and the English teams will fight in the final for the second time.
Spanish representatives love finals
Spanish teams dominate rivals in European finals.
since the 2001-2002 season, the trophy went to Spain in the 23 finals of the Champions League and the Europa League with the participation of Spanish representatives. In addition to the finals of the Champions League 2014 and 2016, the Spanish teams met each other in the finals of the Europa League 2007 and 2012.
In the final of the UEFA Champions League of the 2000-2001, the German team Bavaria won the trophy, defeating Valencia in a penalty in a match, which ended with a score of 1: 1 in the main and additional time. After this match, the Spanish teams never lost in European finals.
Spanish representatives could not reach the final of the UEFA conference in the first 3 seasons, Real Betis became the first team to final this Cup.