2018 UEFA Champions League final

The **2018 UEFA Champions League Final** was the last game of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, Europe's top club football tournament run by UEFA. It was played at the NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine on 26 May 2018. The game was between reigning champions Real Madrid, and five-time winners Liverpool. Madrid opened the scoring in the second half with a goal from Karim Benzema, but Liverpool quickly equalised through Sadio Mané. Gareth Bale then scored two goals for Real Madrid to win the game, which finished 3-1.

## Road to the final

_Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away)._
|colspan="4"|Real Madrid|Round|colspan="4"|Liverpool||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="4" rowspan="2"|Bye|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Qualifying phase|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Opponent|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Agg.|style="background:#C1E0FF"|1st leg|style="background:#C1E0FF"|2nd leg|
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Play-off round|align="left"|1899 Hoffenheim|6–3|2–1 (A)|4–2 (H)||||||
|Opponent|colspan="3"|Result|Group stage|Opponent|colspan="3"|Result||||||
|align="left"|APOEL|colspan="3"|3–0 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 1|align="left"|Sevilla|colspan="3"|2–2 (H)|||
|align="left"|Borussia Dortmund|colspan="3"|3–1 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 2|align="left"|Spartak Moscow|colspan="3"|1–1 (A)|||
|align="left"|Tottenham Hotspur|colspan="3"|1–1 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 3|align="left"|Maribor|colspan="3"|7–0 (A)|||
|align="left"|Tottenham Hotspur|colspan="3"|1–3 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 4|align="left"|Maribor|colspan="3"|3–0 (H)|||
|align="left"|APOEL|colspan="3"|6–0 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 5|align="left"|Sevilla|colspan="3"|3–3 (A)|||
|align="left"|Borussia Dortmund|colspan="3"|3–2 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 6|align="left"|Spartak Moscow|colspan="3"|7–0 (H)|||
|colspan="4" style="vertical-align:top"|**Group H runners-up**|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Final standings|colspan="4" style="vertical-align:top"|**Group E winners**|||||||
|Opponent|Agg.|1st leg|2nd leg|Knockout phase|Opponent|Agg.|1st leg|2nd leg||||
|align="left"|Paris Saint-Germain|5–2|3–1 (H)|2–1 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Round of 16|align="left"|Porto|5–0|5–0 (A)|0–0 (H)|
|align="left"|Juventus|4–3|3–0 (A)|1–3 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Quarter-finals|align="left"|Manchester City|5–1|3–0 (H)|2–1 (A)|
|align="left"|Bayern Munich|4–3|2–1 (A)|2–2 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Semi-finals|align="left"|Roma|7–6|5–2 (H)|2–4 (A)|

### Details

The "home" team (for business reasons) was decided by an extra draw held after the semi-final draw. It was held on 13 April 2018, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

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|valign="top" width="40%"|{| style="font-size:90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"||||||
|GK|**1**|Keylor Navas|||||
|RB|**2**|Dani Carvajal|||||
|CB|**5**|Raphaël Varane|||||
|CB|**4**|Sergio Ramos (c)|||||
|LB|**12**|Marcelo|||||
|CM|**10**|Luka Modrić|||||
|CM|**14**|Casemiro|||||
|CM|**8**|Toni Kroos|||||
|AM|**22**|Isco|||||
|CF|**9**|Karim Benzema|||||
|CF|**7**|Cristiano Ronaldo|||||
|colspan=3|**Substitutes:**||||||
|GK|**13**|Kiko Casilla|||||
|DF|**6**|Nacho|||||
|DF|**15**|Theo Hernández|||||
|MF|**20**|Marco Asensio|||||
|MF|**23**|Mateo Kovačić|||||
|FW|**11**|Gareth Bale|||||
|FW|**17**|Lucas Vázquez|||||
|colspan=3|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan=3|Zinedine Zidane|}|valign="top"||valign="top" width="50%"|{| style="font-size:90%; margin:auto" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"|
|GK|**1**|Loris Karius|||||
|RB|**66**|Trent Alexander-Arnold|||||
|CB|**6**|Dejan Lovren|||||
|CB|**4**|Virgil van Dijk|||||
|LB|**26**|Andrew Robertson|||||
|CM|**7**|James Milner|||||
|CM|**14**|Jordan Henderson (c)|||||
|CM|**5**|Georginio Wijnaldum|||||
|RF|**11**|Mohamed Salah|||||
|CF|**9**|Roberto Firmino|||||
|LF|**19**|Sadio Mané|||||
|colspan=3|**Substitutes:**||||||
|GK|**22**|Simon Mignolet|||||
|DF|**2**|Nathaniel Clyne|||||
|DF|**17**|Ragnar Klavan|||||
|DF|**18**|Alberto Moreno|||||
|MF|**20**|Adam Lallana|||||
|MF|**23**|Emre Can|||||
|FW|**29**|Dominic Solanke|||||
|colspan=3|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan=3|Jürgen Klopp|}|||||

### Match Records

|scope="col" style="width:100px"|Statistic|scope="col" style="width:70px"|Real Madrid|scope="col" style="width:70px"|Liverpool|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|0|0|||||
|5|9|||||
|0|1|||||
|1|0|||||
|65%|35%|||||
|2|2|||||
|2|10|||||
|4|1|||||
|0|0|||||
|0|0|||||

|scope="col" style="width:100px"|Statistic|scope="col" style="width:70px"|Real Madrid|scope="col" style="width:70px"|Liverpool|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|3|1|||||
|7|3|||||
|5|1|||||
|0|2|||||
|58%|42%|||||
|7|3|||||
|3|8|||||
|3|2|||||
|0|1|||||
|0|0|||||

|scope="col" style="width:100px"|Statistic|scope="col" style="width:70px"|Real Madrid|scope="col" style="width:70px"|Liverpool|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|3|1|||||
|12|12|||||
|5|2|||||
|1|2|||||
|62%|38%|||||
|9|5|||||
|5|18|||||
|7|3|||||
|0|1|||||
|0|0|||||

## Related pages

- 2018 UEFA Europa League Final
- 2018 UEFA Super Cup

## Infobox (football match)

- **title**: 2018 UEFA Champions League Final
- **image**:
- **image size**: frameless
- **caption**: Real Madrid players celebrate after lifting the trophy for the 13th time.
- **event**: 2017–18 UEFA Champions League
- **team1**: Real Madrid C.F., Real Madrid
- **team1score**: 3
- **team2**: Liverpool F.C., Liverpool
- **team2score**: 1
- **stadium**: Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex
- **city**: Kyiv
- **man of the match1a**: Gareth Bale
- **referee**: Milorad Mažić (Football Association of Serbia, Serbia)
- **attendance**: 61,561
- **weather**: Sunny

37% humidity
- **previous**: 2017 UEFA Champions League Final, 2017
- **next**: 2019 UEFA Champions League Final, 2019