2012 UEFA Champions League final

The **2012 UEFA Champions League final** was the last football match in Germany. Bayern Munich played against Chelsea. They played at the Allianz Arena in Munich to see who would win the  2011–12 season of the Champions League. Bayern had been in the final nine times before, winning four and losing four most recently losing in 2010. Chelsea had been in the final once before in 2008, but they didn't win. This match was special because it was the first time the Champions League final was played at the Allianz Arena, which is Bayern's home stadium (known as Fußball Arena München for the final). Both teams did really well to get to the final, beating other teams along the way. The match was exciting. Bayern scored first, but Chelsea tied the game later on. They played extra time, and even though Bayern had a chance to score with a penalty, they missed. So, they had to do a penalty shootout. Chelsea won the shootout 4–3 and became the Champions League winners for the first time. This was big because they were the first London club to win it and the fifth English club overall.

Because they won, Chelsea got to play in the UEFA Super Cup but lost to Atlético Madrid. They also got to play in the next season's Champions League, even though they didn't do well in their own league. They represented Europe at the FIFA Club World Cup but lost to Corinthians in the final.

## How the teams got here

_Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away)._
|colspan="4"|Bayern Munich|Round|colspan="4"|Chelsea||||||||
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|Opponent|Agg.|1st leg|2nd leg|Qualifying phase|Opponent|Agg.|1st leg|2nd leg||||
|align="left"|Zürich|3–0|2–0 (H)|1–0 (A)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Play-off round|colspan="4"|Bye||||
|Opponent|colspan="3"|Result|Group stage|Opponent|colspan="3"|Result||||||
|align="left"|Villarreal|colspan="3"|2–0 (A)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Matchday 1|align="left"|Bayer Leverkusen|colspan="3"|2–0 (H)|||
|align="left"|Manchester City|colspan="3"|2–0 (H)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Matchday 2|align="left"|Valencia|colspan="3"|1–1 (A)|||
|align="left"|Napoli|colspan="3"|1–1 (A)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Matchday 3|align="left"|Genk|colspan="3"|5–0 (H)|||
|align="left"|Napoli|colspan="3"|3–2 (H)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Matchday 4|align="left"|Genk|colspan="3"|1–1 (A)|||
|align="left"|Villarreal|colspan="3"|3–1 (H)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Matchday 5|align="left"|Bayer Leverkusen|colspan="3"|1–2 (A)|||
|align="left"|Manchester City|colspan="3"|0–2 (A)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Matchday 6|align="left"|Valencia|colspan="3"|3–0 (H)|||
|colspan="4" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top"|**Group A winners**|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Final standings|colspan="4" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top"|**Group E winners**|||||||
|Opponent|Agg.|1st leg|2nd leg|Knockout phase|Opponent|Agg.|1st leg|2nd leg||||
|align="left"|Basel|7–1|0–1 (A)|7–0 (H)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Round of 16|align="left"|Napoli|5–4|1–3 (A)|4–1  (H)|
|align="left"|Marseille|4–0|2–0 (A)|2–0 (H)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Quarter-finals|align="left"|Benfica|3–1|1–0 (A)|2–1 (H)|
|align="left"|Real Madrid|3–3|2–1 (H)|1–2  (A)|style="background:#c1e0ff"|Semi-finals|align="left"|Barcelona|3–2|1–0 (H)|2–2 (A)|

### Details

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|GK|**1**|Manuel Neuer|||||
|RB|**21**|Philipp Lahm (c)|||||
|CB|**17**|Jérôme Boateng|||||
|CB|**44**|Anatoliy Tymoshchuk|||||
|LB|**26**|Diego Contento|||||
|DM|**31**|Bastian Schweinsteiger|||||
|DM|**39**|Toni Kroos|||||
|RW|**10**|Arjen Robben|||||
|AM|**25**|Thomas Müller|||||
|LW|**7**|Franck Ribéry|||||
|CF|**33**|Mario Gómez|||||
|colspan="3"|**Substitutes:**||||||
|GK|**22**|Hans-Jörg Butt|||||
|DF|**5**|Daniel Van Buyten|||||
|DF|**13**|Rafinha|||||
|MF|**14**|Takashi Usami|||||
|MF|**23**|Danijel Pranjić|||||
|FW|**9**|Nils Petersen|||||
|FW|**11**|Ivica Olić|||||
|colspan="3"|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan="4"|Jupp Heynckes|}|valign="top"||style="vertical-align:top;width:50%"|{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-size:90%;margin:auto"|
|GK|**1**|Petr Čech|||||
|RB|**17**|José Bosingwa|||||
|CB|**4**|David Luiz|||||
|CB|**24**|Gary Cahill|||||
|LB|**3**|Ashley Cole|||||
|DM|**12**|Mikel John Obi|||||
|CM|**8**|Frank Lampard (c)|||||
|RW|**21**|Salomon Kalou|||||
|AM|**10**|Juan Mata|||||
|LW|**34**|Ryan Bertrand|||||
|CF|**11**|Didier Drogba|||||
|colspan="3"|**Substitutes:**||||||
|GK|**22**|Ross Turnbull|||||
|DF|**19**|Paulo Ferreira|||||
|MF|**5**|Michael Essien|||||
|MF|**6**|Oriol Romeu|||||
|MF|**15**|Florent Malouda|||||
|FW|**9**|Fernando Torres|||||
|FW|**23**|Daniel Sturridge|||||
|colspan="3"|**Interim manager:**||||||
|colspan="4"|Roberto Di Matteo|}|||||

## Infobox (football match)

- **title**: 2012 UEFA Champions League Final
- **event**: 2011–12 UEFA Champions League
- **team1**: FC Bayern Munich, Bayern Munich
- **team1score**: 1
- **team2**: Chelsea F.C., Chelsea
- **team2score**: 1
- **details**: After Overtime (sports)#Association football, extra time
Chelsea won 4–3 on Penalty shoot-out (association football), penalties
- **stadium**: Allianz Arena
- **city**: Munich
- **man of the match1atitle**: UEFA
- **man of the match1a**: Didier Drogba (Chelsea)
- **man of the match1btitle**: Fans'
- **man of the match1b**: Petr Čech (Chelsea)
- **referee**: Pedro Proença (Portuguese Football Federation, Portugal)
- **attendance**: 62,500
- **weather**: Partly cloudy

38% humidity
- **previous**: 2011 UEFA Champions League final, 2011
- **next**: 2013 UEFA Champions League final, 2013