2023 UEFA Europa League final

The **2023 UEFA Europa League** **final** was the last game of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League, which is Europe's second-tier club football competition run by UEFA. It has been around for 52 seasons, and it's been called the UEFA Europa League for 14 seasons now. The final match happened at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary, on 31 May 2023. The teams playing were Sevilla from Spain and Roma from Italy.

Sevilla won the match 4–1 in a penalty shootout after the game ended 1–1 even after extra time. This win gave them their seventh UEFA Cup/Europa League title. Because they won, they got a spot in the group stage of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League, and they also got to play against the winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, which was Manchester City, in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup. The final game was talked about because there were some controversial decisions made by the referee, Anthony Taylor.

## How the teams got here

_Just to make it simple, here are the scores of the teams that made it to the final match, with the team playing at their home ground listed first (H) and the team playing away listed second (A)._
|colspan="4"|Sevilla|Round|colspan="4"|Roma||||||||
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|colspan="4"|**Champions League**||colspan="4"|**Europa League**||||||||
|Opponent|colspan="3"|Result|Group stage (CL, EL)|Opponent|colspan="3"|Result||||||
|style="text-align:left"|Manchester City|colspan="3"|0–4 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 1|style="text-align:left"|Ludogorets Razgrad|colspan="3"|1–2 (A)|||
|style="text-align:left"|Copenhagen|colspan="3"|0–0 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 2|style="text-align:left"|HJK|colspan="3"|3–0 (H)|||
|style="text-align:left"|Borussia Dortmund|colspan="3"|1–4 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 3|style="text-align:left"|Real Betis|colspan="3"|1–2 (H)|||
|style="text-align:left"|Borussia Dortmund|colspan="3"|1–1 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 4|style="text-align:left"|Real Betis|colspan="3"|1–1 (A)|||
|style="text-align:left"|Copenhagen|colspan="3"|3–0 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 5|style="text-align:left"|HJK|colspan="3"|2–1 (A)|||
|style="text-align:left"|Manchester City|colspan="3"|1–3 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 6|style="text-align:left"|Ludogorets Razgrad|colspan="3"|3–1 (H)|||
|colspan="4" style="vertical-align:top"|**Group G third place**|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Final standings|colspan="4" rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top"|**Group C runners-up**|||||||
|colspan="4"|**Europa League**|||||||||||
|Opponent|Agg.|1st leg|2nd leg|Knockout  stage|Opponent|Agg.|1st leg|2nd leg||||
|style="text-align:left"|PSV Eindhoven|3–2|3–0 (H)|0–2 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Knockout round play-offs|style="text-align:left"|Red Bull Salzburg|2–1|0–1 (A)|2–0 (H)|
|style="text-align:left"|Fenerbahçe|2–1|2–0 (H)|0–1 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Round of 16|style="text-align:left"|Real Sociedad|2–0|2–0 (H)|0–0 (A)|
|style="text-align:left"|Manchester United|5–2|2–2 (A)|3–0 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Quarter-finals|style="text-align:left"|Feyenoord|4–2|0–1 (A)|4–1  (H)|
|style="text-align:left"|Juventus|3–2|1–1 (A)|2–1  (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Semi-finals|style="text-align:left"|Bayer Leverkusen|1–0|1–0 (H)|0–0 (A)|

## Match

In the 35th minute of the match, Roma scored a goal when Paulo Dybala kicked the ball into the right corner of the net after receiving a pass from Gianluca Mancini. However, Sevilla evened the score at 1-1 ten minutes into the second half when Mancini accidentally put the ball into his own net after a cross from Jesús Navas on the right.

The game continued for almost 130 minutes, and then it had to be decided by a penalty shootout. Roma missed two of their penalties during the shootout. One was saved by the Sevilla goalkeeper, Bono, and the other one hit the goalpost. Gonzalo Montiel, who had also scored the winning penalty for Argentina in the 2022 FIFA World Cup final against France, scored the winning penalty for Sevilla. His penalty was initially missed, but it was retaken because of a rule violation.

### Details

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|GK|**13**|Yassine Bounou|||||
|RB|**16**|Jesús Navas (c)|||||
|CB|**44**|Loïc Badé|||||
|CB|**6**|Nemanja Gudelj|||||
|LB|**3**|Alex Telles|||||
|CM|**20**|Fernando|||||
|CM|**10**|Ivan Rakitić|||||
|RW|**55**|Lucas Ocampos|||||
|AM|**21**|Óliver Torres|||||
|LW|**25**|Bryan Gil|||||
|CF|**15**|Youssef En-Nesyri|||||
|colspan="3"|**Substitutes:**||||||
|GK|**1**|Marko Dmitrović|||||
|GK|**31**|Alberto Flores|||||
|DF|**2**|Gonzalo Montiel|||||
|DF|**14**|Tanguy Nianzou|||||
|DF|**23**|Marcão|||||
|MF|**8**|Joan Jordán|||||
|MF|**24**|Papu Gómez|||||
|MF|**43**|Manu Bueno|||||
|FW|**7**|Suso|||||
|FW|**12**|Rafa Mir|||||
|FW|**17**|Erik Lamela|||||
|colspan="3"|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan="3"|José Luis Mendilibar|}|valign="top"||valign="top" width="50%"|{| style="font-size:90%; margin:auto" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"|
|GK|**1**|Rui Patrício|||||
|CB|**23**|Gianluca Mancini|||||
|CB|**6**|Chris Smalling|||||
|CB|**3**|Roger Ibañez|||||
|RM|**19**|Zeki Çelik|||||
|CM|**4**|Bryan Cristante|||||
|CM|**8**|Nemanja Matić|||||
|LM|**37**|Leonardo Spinazzola|||||
|AM|**7**|Lorenzo Pellegrini (c)|||||
|CF|**21**|Paulo Dybala|||||
|CF|**9**|Tammy Abraham|||||
|colspan="3"|**Substitutes:**||||||
|GK|**63**|Pietro Boer|||||
|GK|**99**|Mile Svilar|||||
|DF|**2**|Rick Karsdorp|||||
|DF|**14**|Diego Llorente|||||
|MF|**20**|Mady Camara|||||
|MF|**25**|Georginio Wijnaldum|||||
|MF|**52**|Edoardo Bove|||||
|MF|**59**|Nicola Zalewski|||||
|MF|**62**|Cristian Volpato|||||
|MF|**68**|Benjamin Tahirović|||||
|FW|**11**|Andrea Belotti|||||
|FW|**92**|Stephan El Shaarawy|||||
|colspan="3"|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan="3"|José Mourinho||}||||

## Infobox (football match)

- **title**: 2023 UEFA Europa League final
- **image**: Puskás Aréna 06.jpg
- **image size**: frameless
- **caption**: Puskás Aréna
- **team1**: Sevilla FC, Sevilla
- **team1score**: 1
- **team2**: A.S. Roma, Roma
- **team2score**: 1
- **details**: After Overtime (sports)#Association football, extra time
Sevilla won 4–1 on Penalty shoot-out (association football), penalties
- **stadium**: Puskás Aréna
- **city**: Budapest
- **man of the match1a**: Yassine Bounou (Sevilla)
- **referee**: Anthony Taylor (referee), Anthony Taylor (The Football Association, England)
- **attendance**: 61,476
- **weather**: Clear night

63% humidity
- **previous**: 2022 UEFA Europa League final, 2022
- **next**: _2024 UEFA Europa League final, 2024_
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