2018 UEFA Europa League final

The **2018 UEFA Europa League Final** was the last game of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League, the 47th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 9th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. It was played at the Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Décines-Charpieu, Lyon, France on 16 May 2018, between French side Marseille and Spanish side Atlético Madrid.

Atlético Madrid won the match 3–0 for their third Europa League title. As winners, Atlético Madrid will play against the winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, Real Madrid, in the 2018 UEFA Super Cup. They will also qualify to enter the group stage of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League.

## Teams

_In the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Europa League era._

|Team|Previous finals appearances (bold indicates winners)|
| --- | --- |
|Marseille|2 (1999, 2004)|
|Atlético Madrid|2 (**2010**, **2012**)|

## Road to the final

_Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away)._
|colspan="4"|Marseille|Round|colspan="4"|Atlético Madrid||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="4"|**Europa League**||colspan="4"|**Champions League**||||||||
|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Opponent|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Agg.|style="background:#C1E0FF"|1st leg|style="background:#C1E0FF"|2nd leg|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Qualifying phase|colspan="4" rowspan="3"|Bye|
|align="left"|Oostende|4–2|4–2 (H)|0–0 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Third qualifying round||||||
|align="left"|Domžale|4–1|1–1 (A)|3–0 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Play-off round||||||
|Opponent|colspan="3"|Result|Group stage (EL, CL)|Opponent|colspan="3"|Result||||||
|align="left"|Konyaspor|colspan="3"|1–0 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 1|align="left"|Roma|colspan="3"|0–0 (A)|||
|align="left"|Red Bull Salzburg|colspan="3"|0–1 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 2|align="left"|Chelsea|colspan="3"|1–2 (H)|||
|align="left"|Vitória de Guimarães|colspan="3"|2–1 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 3|align="left"|Qarabağ|colspan="3"|0–0 (A)|||
|align="left"|Vitória de Guimarães|colspan="3"|0–1 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 4|align="left"|Qarabağ|colspan="3"|1–1 (H)|||
|align="left"|Konyaspor|colspan="3"|1–1 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 5|align="left"|Roma|colspan="3"|2–0 (H)|||
|align="left"|Red Bull Salzburg|colspan="3"|0–0 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Matchday 6|align="left"|Chelsea|colspan="3"|1–1 (A)|||
|colspan="4" rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top"|**Group I runners-up**|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Final standings|colspan="4" style="vertical-align:top"|**Group C third place**|||||||
||colspan="4"|**Europa League**||||||||||
|Opponent|Agg.|1st leg|2nd leg|Knockout phase|Opponent|Agg.|1st leg|2nd leg||||
|align="left"|Braga|3–1|3–0 (H)|0–1 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Round of 32|align="left"|Copenhagen|5–1|4–1 (A)|1–0 (H)|
|align="left"|Athletic Bilbao|5–2|3–1 (H)|2–1 (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Round of 16|align="left"|Lokomotiv Moscow|8–1|3–0 (H)|5–1 (A)|
|align="left"|RB Leipzig|5–3|0–1 (A)|5–2 (H)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Quarter-finals|align="left"|Sporting CP|2–1|2–0 (H)|0–1 (A)|
|align="left"|Red Bull Salzburg|3–2|2–0 (H)|1–2  (A)|style="background:#C1E0FF"|Semi-finals|align="left"|Arsenal|2–1|1–1 (A)|1–0 (H)|

### Details

The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw, which was held on 13 April 2018, 12:00 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|valign="top" width="40%"|{| style="font-size:90%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"||||||
|GK|**30**|Steve Mandanda|||||
|RB|**17**|Bouna Sarr|||||
|CB|**23**|Adil Rami|||||
|CB|**19**|Luiz Gustavo|||||
|LB|**18**|Jordan Amavi|||||
|CM|**29**|André-Frank Zambo Anguissa|||||
|CM|**8**|Morgan Sanson|||||
|RW|**26**|Florian Thauvin|||||
|AM|**10**|Dimitri Payet (c)|||||
|LW|**5**|Lucas Ocampos|||||
|CF|**28**|Valère Germain|||||
|colspan=3|**Substitutes:**||||||
|GK|**16**|Yohann Pelé|||||
|DF|**2**|Hiroki Sakai|||||
|DF|**6**|Rolando|||||
|MF|**4**|Boubacar Kamara|||||
|MF|**27**|Maxime Lopez|||||
|FW|**11**|Konstantinos Mitroglou|||||
|FW|**14**|Clinton N'Jie|||||
|colspan=3|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan=3|Rudi Garcia|}|valign="top"||valign="top" width="50%"|{| style="font-size:90%; margin:auto" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"|
|GK|**13**|Jan Oblak|||||
|RB|**16**|Šime Vrsaljko|||||
|CB|**24**|José Giménez|||||
|CB|**2**|Diego Godín|||||
|LB|**19**|Lucas Hernández|||||
|RM|**11**|Ángel Correa|||||
|CM|**14**|Gabi (c)|||||
|CM|**8**|Saúl Ñíguez|||||
|LM|**6**|Koke|||||
|CF|**7**|Antoine Griezmann|||||
|CF|**18**|Diego Costa|||||
|colspan=3|**Substitutes:**||||||
|GK|**25**|Axel Werner|||||
|DF|**3**|Filipe Luís|||||
|DF|**15**|Stefan Savić|||||
|DF|**20**|Juanfran|||||
|MF|**5**|Thomas Partey|||||
|FW|**9**|Fernando Torres|||||
|FW|**21**|Kevin Gameiro|||||
|colspan=3|**Manager:**||||||
|colspan=3|Germán Burgos|}|||||

### Statistics

|scope="col" style="width:100px"|Statistic|scope="col" style="width:70px"|Marseille|scope="col" style="width:70px"|Atlético Madrid|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|0|1|||||
|6|4|||||
|1|1|||||
|0|1|||||
|61%|39%|||||
|0|0|||||
|8|7|||||
|0|1|||||
|1|1|||||
|0|0|||||

|scope="col" style="width:100px"|Statistic|scope="col" style="width:70px"|Marseille|scope="col" style="width:70px"|Atlético Madrid|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|0|2|||||
|6|8|||||
|1|3|||||
|1|1|||||
|50%|50%|||||
|1|6|||||
|10|2|||||
|0|2|||||
|2|1|||||
|0|0|||||

|scope="col" style="width:100px"|Statistic|scope="col" style="width:70px"|Marseille|scope="col" style="width:70px"|Atlético Madrid|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|0|3|||||
|12|12|||||
|2|4|||||
|1|2|||||
|56%|44%|||||
|1|6|||||
|18|9|||||
|0|3|||||
|3|2|||||
|0|0|||||

## Related pages

- 2018 UEFA Champions League Final
- 2018 UEFA Super Cup

## Infobox (football match)

- **title**: 2018 UEFA Europa League Final
- **image**:
- **image size**: frameless
- **caption**: The Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Décines-Charpieu hosted the final
- **event**: 2017–18 UEFA Europa League
- **team1**: Olympique de Marseille, Marseille
- **team1score**: 0
- **team2**: Atlético Madrid
- **team2score**: 3
- **stadium**: Parc Olympique Lyonnais
- **city**: Décines-Charpieu
- **man of the match1a**: Antoine Griezmann
- **referee**: Björn Kuipers (Royal Dutch Football Association, Netherlands)
- **attendance**: 55,768
- **weather**: Cloudy night

66% humidity
- **previous**: 2017 UEFA Europa League Final, 2017
- **next**: _2019 UEFA Europa League Final, 2019_