page_title: 2019 UEFA Europa League Final
section_title: Ambassador
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 UEFA Europa League Final / Pre-match / Ambassador
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Pierre van Hooijdonk tijdens de ING Ballenjongens en -meiden Selectiedag bij Spartaan ‘20 in Rotterdam op 31 augustus 2012.
context_page_description: The 2019 UEFA Europa League Final was the final match of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League, the 48th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 10th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. It was played at the Olympic Stadium in Baku, Azerbaijan on 29 May 2019, between English sides Chelsea and Arsenal who had beaten Frankfurt and Valencia respectively in the semi-finals making the final a London derby. It was the tenth tournament final to feature two teams from the same association, the second all-English final and the first between teams from the same city.
  Chelsea won the final 4–1 for their second UEFA Europa League title. As winners, they earned the right to play against Liverpool, the winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, in the 2019 UEFA Super Cup.
context_section_description: The ambassador for the final is former Netherlands international Pierre van Hooijdonk, who won the 2001–02 UEFA Cup with Feyenoord and finished as the top scorer, in which he scored two goals in the final win against Borussia Dortmund.
caption: Pierre van Hooijdonk, ambassador for the final.
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