The 2025 Champions League final, in Flick territory

With the recent picture of Real Madrid’s conquest of its 15th European champion title, the 2024-25 Champions League is heating up. It will launch a new format, with more games in a League before the qualifying rounds. The 36 participating clubs already know that the grand final will be held on May 31 in Munich. Barça will try a new attack on the tournament at the stadium where its new coach, Hansi Flick, succeeded at the helm of Bayern Munich, who won a sextet in 2020, winning the Champions League that year in Lisbon . Surprisingly, the fifth of the five titles in the top European competition that Barça has celebrated in its history was achieved in Germany, specifically in Berlin: it was in 2015, after 3-1 against Juventus.

For the fourth time in its history, Munich will host the final of the great continental competition, which has been running since 1956. The first time the Bavarian capital hosted the final was in 1979, at the Munich Olympic Stadium, in a match where that Nottingham. Forest won the first of its two ‘orejonas’ at the expense of Malmö (1-0). In 1993, Olympique de Marseille beat Milan (1-0) on the same stage and in 1997 it was Borussia Dortmund’s turn to win its only title, beating Zinedine Zidane’s Juventus 3-1. In 2012, at the Allianz in Munich, Chelsea stunned Bayern by winning the penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw.

The rest of the finals of the top European competition in Germany were played in Stuttgart (1959, with the victory of Real Madrid against Stade Reims, 2-0; and in 1988, with the victory of PSV Eindhoven against Benfica in a penalty shootout after against 0- 0) in Gelsenkirschen (2004, with the title for Porto against Monaco, 3-0) and the aforementioned final in Berlin in 2015, with Barça’s victory over Juve.