Champions League Final»: Who wins the title?

The 2025 Champions League final promises to pit two colossal forces of European football against each other, in search of club football’s greatest prize.

For the first time in 21 years, since Jose Mourinho’s Porto beat Didier Deschamps’ Monaco in 2004, there will be no Spanish, German or English side contesting the final. But no clubs are arguably more deserving of being crowned European champions this season than Paris Saint-Germain and Inter.

After struggling in the league phase, PSG have ripped through the best that England has had to offer in the knockout stages, pummelling Liverpool before eventually emerging victorious on penalties, then seeing off a plucky Aston Villa, and lastly brushing Arsenal aside.

They have never won the European Cup or Champions League before, only once getting to the final, when they lost narrowly against Bayern Munich in an empty stadium in Lisbon in 2020.

Inter have a much richer history at Europe’s top table, three-time winners – albeit not since 2010, and finalists more recently in 2023 when Manchester City were 1-0 victors. Their knockout route this time has been similarly tough, facing a Bayern Munich side in the last eight determined to reach the final in their home stadium, as well as a high-powered Barcelona in the semis.

Neither team has had a ‘dead rubber’ end to their respective domestic seasons in preparation for this game. PSG may have already had the Ligue 1 title sewn up, but contested the Coupe de France final against Reims. Inter meanwhile, have been neck and neck with Napoli in Serie A.