2017 UEFA Champions League final

The **2017 UEFA Champions League final** was the last game of the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League season, which is Europe's top club football competition. It happened at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, on June 3, 2017. In this final, Juventus from Italy faced Real Madrid from Spain, who were the current champions. Real Madrid won 4–1 and secured their 12th title. They became the first team to defend their title since Milan in 1990. Juventus, on the other hand, lost their fifth Champions League final in a row and their seventh overall out of nine finals they've reached.

As a result of winning the Champions League, Real Madrid earned a spot in the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. They also had the opportunity to play against the winners of the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, Manchester United, in the 2017 UEFA Super Cup, and they won both of these competitions as well.

## How they got here

_Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away)._
|colspan=4|Juventus|Round|colspan=4|Real Madrid||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Opponent|colspan=3|Result|Group stage|Opponent|colspan=3|Result||||||
|align=left|Sevilla|colspan=3|0–0 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 1|align=left|Sporting CP|colspan=3|2–1 (H)|||
|align=left|Dinamo Zagreb|colspan=3|4–0 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 2|align=left|Borussia Dortmund|colspan=3|2–2 (A)|||
|align=left|Lyon|colspan=3|1–0 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 3|align=left|Legia Warsaw|colspan=3|5–1 (H)|||
|align=left|Lyon|colspan=3|1–1 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 4|align=left|Legia Warsaw|colspan=3|3–3 (A)|||
|align=left|Sevilla|colspan=3|3–1 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 5|align=left|Sporting CP|colspan=3|2–1 (A)|||
|align=left|Dinamo Zagreb|colspan=3|2–0 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 6|align=left|Borussia Dortmund|colspan=3|2–2 (H)|||
|colspan=4 valign=top|**Group H winners**|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Final standings|colspan=4 valign=top|**Group F runners-up**|||||||
|Opponent|Agg.|1st leg|2nd leg|Knockout stage|Opponent|Agg.|1st leg|2nd leg||||
|align=left|Porto|3–0|2–0 (A)|1–0 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Round of 16|align=left|Napoli|6–2|3–1 (H)|3–1 (A)|
|align=left|Barcelona|3–0|3–0 (H)|0–0 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Quarter-finals|align=left|Bayern Munich|6–3|2–1 (A)|4–2  (H)|
|align=left|Monaco|4–1|2–0 (A)|2–1 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Semi-finals|align=left|Atlético Madrid|4–2|3–0 (H)|1–2 (A)|

### Details

The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw, which was held on 21 April 2017 at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.<onlyinclude></onlyinclude>

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|GK|**1**|Gianluigi Buffon (c)|||||
|CB|**15**|Andrea Barzagli|||||
|CB|**19**|Leonardo Bonucci|||||
|CB|**3**|Giorgio Chiellini|||||
|RM|**23**|Dani Alves|||||
|CM|**5**|Miralem Pjanić|||||
|CM|**6**|Sami Khedira|||||
|LM|**12**|Alex Sandro|||||
|AM|**21**|Paulo Dybala|||||
|CF|**9**|Gonzalo Higuaín|||||
|CF|**17**|Mario Mandžukić|||||
|colspan="3"|**Substitutes:**||||||
|GK|**25**|Neto|||||
|DF|**4**|Medhi Benatia|||||
|DF|**26**|Stephan Lichtsteiner|||||
|MF|**7**|Juan Cuadrado|||||
|MF|**8**|Claudio Marchisio|||||
|MF|**18**|Mario Lemina|||||
|MF|**22**|Kwadwo Asamoah|||||
|colspan="3"|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan="4"|Massimiliano Allegri|}|valign="top"||style="vertical-align:top; width:50%"|{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-size:90%; margin:auto"|
|GK|**1**|Keylor Navas|||||
|RB|**2**|Dani Carvajal|||||
|CB|**4**|Sergio Ramos (c)|||||
|CB|**5**|Raphaël Varane|||||
|LB|**12**|Marcelo|||||
|DM|**14**|Casemiro|||||
|CM|**8**|Toni Kroos|||||
|CM|**19**|Luka Modrić|||||
|RF|**22**|Isco|||||
|CF|**9**|Karim Benzema|||||
|LF|**7**|Cristiano Ronaldo|||||
|colspan="3"|**Substitutes:**||||||
|GK|**13**|Kiko Casilla|||||
|DF|**6**|Nacho|||||
|DF|**23**|Danilo|||||
|MF|**16**|Mateo Kovačić|||||
|MF|**20**|Marco Asensio|||||
|FW|**11**|Gareth Bale|||||
|FW|**21**|Álvaro Morata|||||
|colspan="3"|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan="4"|Zinedine Zidane|}|||||

## Infobox (football match)

- **title**: 2017 UEFA Champions League Final
- **image size**: frameless
- **caption**: Match programme cover
- **event**: 2016–17 UEFA Champions League
- **team1**: Juventus F.C., Juventus
- **team1score**: 1
- **team2**: Real Madrid CF, Real Madrid
- **team2score**: 4
- **stadium**: Millennium Stadium
- **city**: Cardiff
- **man of the match1a**: Cristiano Ronaldo
- **referee**: Felix Brych (German Football Association, Germany)
- **attendance**: 65,842
- **weather**: Partly cloudy

56% humidity
- **previous**: 2016 UEFA Champions League Final, 2016
- **next**: 2018 UEFA Champions League Final, 2018