2010 Europa League Final Live Blog: : Atletico Madrid v Fulham Watch Atletico Madrid v Fulham live online here . Fulham V Atletico Madrid HSH Nordbank Arena – Hamburg, Germany 19:45 GMT – 12 May 2010 Forget the fact that Liverpool failed to finish in the top four for the first time since 2005. Forget the fact that Michael Owen joined ex-rivals Manchster United at the beginning of the season. You can even forget the fact that Ledley King played three consecutive games in the space of nine days for Spurs at the end of the season. The real surprise of the 2009/10 season has been Fulham FC’s European form. Somehow manager Roy Hodgson has carved his way through the likes of Juventus and Wolfsburg to leave Fulham facing the biggest game in their history. Fulham V Atletico Madrid preview Fulham’s European dream began almost a year ago on July 30 2009.

No doubt fans at the time will have expected a swift exit from the competition, but, 11 months on, they face something they may have never dreamed of witnessing, their side in a European final. They scored an impressive nine goals over four qualifying legs, conceding only two to put them through to the group stages where they faced daunting opposition in the likes of Basle and Roma , but managed to finish second behind Roma, which set up the near ‘impossible’ task of beating last year’s holders ‘Shakhtar Donetsk, beating them 2-1 at home, and grinding out a 1-1 draw away from home. When they were placed up against Italian giants Juventus, Fans must have seen the dream ending, especially after losing the first leg away from home 3-1. Things got worse after conceding almost instantly in the return leg, but they battled back to win 4-1. This gave fans the belief that their side could go out and beat anyone on their day, and they did jsut that, beating German outfits Wolfsburg and then Hamburg to set up this historic final.

No one out there could possibly stand up and declare that a win in the final would be beyond Fulham’s control tomorrow night, and it would certainly be a brave man who would rule them out at any point during the match. However their task has been made much harder after the worry surrounding striker Bobby Zamora’s fitness. The Englishman is Fulham’s joint top scorer in Europe, sitting on 6 goals, along with Zoltan Gera, who has had an outstanding season. However without Zamora upfront, Fulham lack a threatening striker. Whilst Erik Nevland has proven he is able to come off the bench and grab the odd goal, I don’t have confidence in him over 90 minutes. The rest of the goals are spattered across the team. Hangeland and Kamara both have two, whilst Duff, Dempsey and Murphy have bagged one each. Others have contributed, but I would suggest that Fulham will need both Zamora and Gera fit if they are to keep their chances up on the night.

Saying that, Hodgson, the typical perfectionist, will have studied every tiny detail of the Atletico side, and will no doubt ensure his players are properly prepared for the match whether Zamora is fit or not. No doubt Atletico Madrid will be keeping a close eye on Zamora’s fitness, but they will want to concentrate more on their own strikers form. Diego Forlan is top scorer for them on four goals, and youngster Sergio Aguero trails him on two goals. Lower tally’s than Fulhams strikers, but lets not forget many of Fulhams goals have been scored in the qualification stages, of which Atletico did not take part. Their league form, just like Fulham’s has suffered slightly this year, as they sit mid-table in La Liga, but their cup form cannot be ignored. They scraped past Valencia on away goals, before brilliantly beating Liverpool, again on away form. With all the hype surrounding Fulham’s giantkilling ability, it would be dangerous to ignore the size of the teams that Atletico have beaten. With league positions average for both sides, their season’s will rest on the result of this match, which is destined to be extremely tight.

Don’t expect a goal fest, but it’s likely to be a fiery encounter, and you can follow every minute of it right here on Soccerlens, tomorrow night at 19:45. Fulham V Atletico Madrid live blog <a href="" target="_blank" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','">Fulham V Atletico Madrid- the Europa League final</a> Watch Fulham v Atletico Madrid live online You can watch Atletico Madrid take on Fulham live online as well as dozens of other European football games. Read our live Europa League football page for more details. UEFA Europa League winners list | Football Bible UEFA Europa League winners list Published on Nov 04, 2014 The UEFA Europa League, formerly the UEFA Cup, has seen 27 different football clubs win the title. The most successful clubs in this competition are Juventus, Internazionale, Liverpool and Sevilla with three titles each. The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup is recognized as the forerunner of the UEFA Cup but not an official competition under UEFA.

Here is the UEFA Europa League winners list: Juventus (ITALY) Years Won: 1977, 1990, 1993 Juventus of Italy played Athletic Bilbao of Spain in the 1977 final tie. Juventus won their first European title through away goals after the two teams equaled 2-2 on aggregate. The team managed this achievement without any foreign player in their starting squad. Juventus then defeated Italian counterparts, Fiorentina, 3-1 on aggregate in 1990. Another 6-1 comfortable triumph on aggregate over Borussia Dortmund of Germany in 1993 put Juventus on a record three titles. Internazionale (ITALY) Years Won: 1991, 1994, 1998 Internazionale faced fellow Italian club Roma in 1991, whom they beat 2-1 on aggregate. In 1994, Internazionale outscored Austria Salzburg of Austria 2-0 to win the second title. Dennis Bergkamp, Internazionale, was a top scorer in the competition with eight goals.

Internazionale was in for another all-Italian final tie in 1998 when they faced Lazio. The final was the first single-leg tie held at a neutral ground. Inter won 3-0 to be the second team to win three titles after Juventus. Liverpool (ENGLAND) Years Won: 1973, 1976, 2001 Liverpool played Borussia Monchengladbach of West Germany in the 1973 final. Liverpool won the first leg played at Anfield 3-0 and went on to maintain a 3-2 aggregate after the second leg. Liverpool played their next UEFA Cup final in 1976, this time against Club Brugge of Belgium. The first leg ended 3-2 in favor of Liverpool who scored three goals in seven minutes of the second half to recover from Brugge’s 2-0 lead. The second leg ended in a 1-1 draw making Liverpool winners. In 2001, Liverpool defeated Alaves of Spain 5-4 after extra time in the final to make it three wins in three finals and levelling the record of title wins.

Real Madrid (SPAIN) Years Won: 1985, 1986 In 1985, Real Madrid of Spain won 3-1 on aggregate over Videoton of Hungary in the final. Later, English clubs faced a five year ban, with Liverpool facing a six-year ban, which prevented them from taking part in the 1985-86 competition. Real Madrid went on to secure the first successive win in the tournament by beating FC Koln of Germany 5-3 on aggregate in 1986. Borussia Monchengladbach (GERMANY) Years Won: 1975, 1979 Monchengladbach triumphed 5-1 on aggregate over Twente of the Netherlands in the 1975 final. The first match had ended goalless but Twente went on to suffer humiliation at home two weeks later. The next appearance for Monchengladbach in the UEFA Cup final was in 1979 when they faced Red Star Belgrade. Monchengladbach won 2-1 over Belgrade to seal their second title victory.

Tottenham Hotspur (ENGLAND) Years Won: 1972, 1984 Spurs won the final of the inaugural UEFA Cup competition. The final was an all English affair as they played Wolverhampton Wanderers. Tottenham won the first leg 2-1 and went on to maintain a 3-2 aggregate after the return leg to secure the first UEFA Cup title. Though they later lost in the 1974 final, Tottenham were at it again in 1984 when they beat the defending champions, Anderlecht, 4-3 on penalties after levelling 2-2 on aggregate. Feyenoord Rotterdam (NETHERLANDS) Years Won: 1974, 2002 Feyenoord Rotterdam of Netherlands won 4-2 on aggregate against Tottenham Hotspur in the 1974 Cup final. The first leg played at White Hart Lane ended 2-2 and Feyenoord went on to win 2-0 at home to win their first title. Spurs fans ran riot after losing the match in Rotterdam.

28 years later, Feyenoord routed Borussia Dortmund 3-2 in the final to raise the tally to two titles. IFK Goteborg (SWEDEN) Years Won: 1982, 1987 In 1982, IFK Goteborg of Sweden beat Hamburger of West Germany in both legs to win 4-0 on aggregate. Their next appearance in the finals was in 1987 where they commanded a 2-1 lead on aggregate over Dundee United of Scotland. IFK Goteborg is the only club from Sweden to reach the finals and to win the title. Parma AC (ITALY) Years Won: 1995, 1999 The final of 1995 was an Italian affair involving Parma and Juventus. Parma won 1-0 at home and were held to a 1-1 draw away granting them a victory on aggregate. Four years later, Parma faced Marseille of France in the final which they won 3-0 to claim another Cup title.

FC Porto (PORTUGAL) Years Won: 2003, 2011 The final tie of 2003 was a match between Porto of Portugal and Celtic of Scotland. The match ended 2-2 in normal play time and the tie was broken in the second half of extra time by a goal from Derlei, Porto. Porto got the second title during the 40th season of the competition when they outscored fellow finalists and Portugal club Braga by 1-0. Atletico Madrid (SPAIN) Years Won: 2010, 2012 Atletico Madrid of Spain were crowned winners under the transformed 2009-10 UEFA Europa League. Atletico won 2-1 after extra time over Fulham of England. Two years later, they faced their Spanish colleagues Athletic Bilbao in the final. Atletico Madrid won the match 3-0 to earn their second title. RSC Anderlecht (BELGIUM) Year Won: 1983 Anderlecht of Belgium faced Benfica of Portugal in the final of 1983.

Anderlecht’s 1-0 first-leg win at home propelled them to a 2-1 win on aggregate marking the sole title held by a Belgian side in the tournament. PSV Eindhoven (NETHERLAND) Year Won: 1978 The Cup final in 1978 was a contest between PSV of Netherlands and Bastia of France. After a goalless first-leg draw, PSV Eindhoven won 3-0 at home to secure the UEFA Cup winner’s title. Eintracht Frankfurt (GERMANY) Year Won: 1980 Two German teams, Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Monchengladbach, advanced to the final in 1980 after four German clubs faced off in the semifinals. With the final ending 3-3 on aggregate, the two away goals Eintracht Frankfurt scored in the first-leg loss guaranteed them victory. Ipswich Town (ENGLAND) Year Won: 1981 Ipswich Town of England outscored AZ ’67 of the Netherlands 5-4 on aggregate to win the final in 1981.

Having lost the first-leg 3-0, AZ ’67 put on a hard fight in the second leg to win 4-2, though it was not enough to ensure a victory for them. John Wark, Ipswich, scored a record 14 goals in the competition. Bayer Leverkusen (GERMANY) Year Won: 1988 Bayer Leverkusen of West Germany faced Espanyol of Spain in the 1988 Cup final. The tie ended in a 3-3 aggregate and Leverkusen won 3-2 on penalties. SSC Napoli (ITALY) Year Won: 1989 The 1989 UEFA Cup final was a clash between Stuttgart of West Germany and SSC Napoli of Italy. Napoli won the first-leg 2-1 and later drew 3-3 to become victors. AFC Ajax (NETHERLANDS) Year Won: 1992 Ajax were crowned champions over Torino in the 1992 final. Torino managed a 2-2 draw at home, followed by a goalless draw in Amsterdam. Ajax got the advantage based on away goals.

Bayern Munich (GERMANY) Year Won: 1996 Bayern Munich of Germany played Bordeaux of France in the final contest of the 1995-96 tournament. The German side comfortably won the two legs to defeat Bordeaux 5-1 on aggregate. FC Schalke 04 (GERMANY) Year Won: 1997 The winner of the 1996-97 UEFA Cup was determined by a contest between Internazionale and Schalke 04 of Germany. Both teams won 1-0 at home and Schalke managed to outshine their opponents 4-1 on penalties. Galatasaray (TURKEY) Year Won: 2000 This was a first for both finalists, Arsenal of England and Galatasaray of Turkey, after they exited the Champions League in third positions. The game ended in a barren draw after extra time thus had to be decided on penalties. Galatasaray won 4-1. However, the day was not short of happenings as there were riots from both camps that resulted in four people being stabbed and others suffering injuries.

Valencia CF (SPAIN) Year Won: 2004 Valencia of Spain, who were in an impressive form throughout the season, faced Marseille of France at the final. They emerged winners beating the French side 2-0 hence sealing a double as they had earlier won the domestic league. CSKA Moskva (RUSSIA) Year Won: 2005 CSKA Moskva of Russia and Sporting CP of Portugal were the 2005 UEFA Cup finalists. Moskva came from behind to win 3-1 plus become the first Russian side to acquire the title. Zenit St. Petersburg (RUSSIA) Year Won: 2008 Zenit St. Petersburg`s opponents at the finals were Rangers of Scotland. The Russian club won the match 2-0. Zenit is the second team from the Russian region to win the UEFA Cup competition. Shakhtar Donetsk (UKRAINE) Year Won: 2009 Shakhtar Donetsk represented Ukraine for the first time in the final. The team managed to beat Werder Bremen of Germany 2-1 after extra time.

It was the first UEFA Cup win for Shakhtar as well as the first major European trophy. Chelsea (ENGLAND) Year Won: 2013 The 2013 finalists were Chelsea and Benfica. Chelsea had been eliminated from the Champions League at the group stages despite being the defending champions. However, advancing to the finals of the UEFA Europa League then winning 2-1 was the perfect consolation. Sevilla (SPAIN) Years Won: 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016 Sevilla of Spain secured the first title by thrashing Middlesbrough of England 4-0 in 2006. A year later they were put to test by Espanyol in an all-Spanish contest. The tough fixture ended 2-2 after extra time and Sevilla successfully converted the penalties to win 3-1. The win made it two titles for Sevilla in addition to being the second team to win the title in succession after Real Madrid set the record over two decades earlier. In 2014, Benfica were the finalists alongside Sevilla.

Benfica lost 4-2 on penalties after the match ended goalless. Sevilla also claimed the 2015-2016 UEFA Europa championship trophy, they are the first five-time winners and the only side to claim three in a row. Europa League Final History: Results, Winners, Records, GoalScorers, Venues | Sportslens Blog Competitions Europa League Europa League Final History: Results, Winners, Records, GoalScorers, Venues Europa League Final History: Results, Winners, Records, GoalScorers, Venues Tom Gatehouse 17 May, 2016 Chelsea , Europa League , Inter Milan , Juventus , Lists , Liverpool , Sevilla , Tottenham The Europa League is UEFA’s second biggest competition and one of the most important club competitions in the world. Born from the ashes of the old UEFA Cup in 2009-10, the competition is the latest incarnation of the annual European club competition that has existed since 1971. Europa League final history is vast with many dramatic clashes taking place all over Europe in some of the most prestigious stadiums.

Liverpool and Sevilla will play in the 2016 Europa League final on May 18th at the St. Jakob-Park in Basel in Switzerland. It will be the 45th final in the history of the competition, and the seventh since the rebranding. Sevilla are the most successful team in the history of the Europa League, having won four titles, with the Spanish side the current holders having won the last two tournaments back to back. Their opponents this year, Liverpool, are joint second in the list of most successful sides (with Inter Milan and Juventus). Check out our guide to Europa League final history below: Europa League/UEFA Cup Final Winners The Europa League/UEFA Cup has been won by 27 different teams throughout its history, with 12 of those winning the title more than once.

Sevilla – Titles: 4 – Years Won: 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015 Juventus – Titles: 3 – Runners Up: 1 – Years Won: 1977, 1990, 1993 – Years Runners Up: 1995 Inter Milan – Titles: 3 – Runners Up: 1 – Years Won: 1991, 1994, 1998 – Years Runners Up: 1997 Liverpool – Titles: 3 – Years Won: 1973, 1976, 2001 Borussia Mönchengladbach – Titles: 2 – Runners Up: 2 – Years Won: 1975, 1979 – Years Runners Up: 1973, 1980 Tottenham Hotspur – Titles: 2 – Runners Up: 1 – Years Won: 1972, 1984 – Years Runners Up: 1974 Feyenoord – Titles: 2 – Years Won

: 1974, 2002 IFK Göteborg – Titles: 2 – Years Won: 1982, 1987 Real Madrid – Titles: 2 – Years Won: 1985, 1986 Parma – Titles: 2 – Years Won: 1995, 1999 Porto – Titles: 2 – Years Won: 2003, 2011 Atlético Madrid – Titles: 2 – Years Won: 2010, 2012 Anderlecht – Titles: 1 – Runners Up: 1 – Years Won: 1983 – Years Runners Up: 1984 PSV Eindhoven – Titles: 1 – Years Won: 1978 Eintracht Frankfurt – Titles: 1 – Years Won: 1980 Ipswich Town – Titles: 1 – Years Won: 1981 Bayer Leverkusen- Titles: 1 – Years Won: 1988 Napoli – Titles: 1 – Years Won: 1989 Ajax – Titles: 1 – Years Won:

 1992 Bayern Munich – Titles: 1 – Years Won: 1996 Schalke 04 – Titles: 1 – Years Won: 1997 Galatasaray – Titles: 1 – Years Won: 2000 Valencia – Titles: 1 – Years Won: 2004 CSKA Moscow – Titles: 1 – Years Won: 2005 Zenit St.

Petersburg – Years Won: 1 – Years Won: 2008 Shakhtar Donetsk – Titles: 1 – Years Won: 2009 Chelsea – Titles: 1 – Years Won: 2013 Europa League/UEFA Cup Record Scorers Some of the greatest players have graced the competition, with many having outstanding scoring records. Athletic Bilbao striker Aritz Aduriz is the current top scorer in the 2015/16 tournament with 10 goals and he will take the crown this season unless Sevilla hitman Kevin Gameiro hits three goals or more in the final. Both strikers have quite a way to go to reach the all time top ten Europa League goalscorers: 1. Henrik Larsson – 40 goals – 56 games 2. Klass-Jan Huntelaar – 33 goals – 40 games 3. Radamel Falcao – 31 goals – 33 games 4. Dieter Muller – 29 goals – 36 games 5. Shota Arveladze – 27 goals – 44 games 6.

Alessandro Altobelli – 25 goals – 58 games 7. Mladen Petric – 24 goals – 63 games 8. Jupp Heynckes – 23 goals – 21 games 9. Martin Chivers – 22 goals – 34 games 10. Dennis Bergkamp – 22 goals – 41 games Europa League Final History Below are the previous six Europa League final results, starting from the rebranding of the UEFA Cup to the Europa League as we know it today.

Atletico Madrid 2-1 Fulham, May 5th 2010, Hamburg Arena (Germany) Porto 1-0 Braga, May 18th 2011, Dublin Arena (Ireland) Atletico Madrid 3-0 Athetic Bilbao, May 9th 2012, National Arena (Romania) Benfica 1-2 Chelsea, May 15th 2013, Amsterdam Arena (Holland) Sevilla 0-0 Benfica (Sevilla 4-2 on penalties), May 14th 2014, Juventus Stadium (Italy) FC Dnipro 2-3 Sevilla, May 27th 2015, National Stadium (Poland) All-Time Club Rankings UEFA Cup Although Sevilla are the most successful club in the history of the tournament in terms of title wins, they are actually placed 11th on UEFA’s official club rankings list throughout history. This list is compiled from a number of categories stretching back to 1971, including the number of tournaments competed in, wins, goals for and against, games played and, of course, titles. 1.

Inter Milan Live UEFA Europa League Football: The Final | Midsomer Murders | Junior Apprentice| Chris Ryan's Strike Back | Sons of Anarchy | Justified | Watch this | Television & radio | The Guardian Live UEFA Europa League Football: The Final 7pm, Five Despite ITV's palpable grief at the failure of the big four to progress in the Champions League, there has been one unlikely British success story in Europe this season. Fulham have performed way above and beyond expectation in the Europa League and are more deserving of victory in the final than their opponents who were parachuted into the competition following Champions League failure. They have a great chance but must be wary of Atlético, a canny and technically gifted team not to be underestimated, as Liverpool discovered. DS Midsomer Murders 8pm, ITV1 Things have gone quiet on the murder front in Midsomer, so adept is Barnaby at solving crimes. So to the feudal estate of Milton Cross, down the road, where a confusing array of villagers are embroiled in their own tale of skulduggery and deadly intent.

As the title, The Made To Measure Murders, suggests, dreadful things are perpetrated with a pair of tailor's shears, so expect plenty of tomato sauce. Mind you, if they'd really been going for it they'd have chucked in a garotting with a tape measure. Stays just the wrong side of camp. JNR Junior Apprentice 9pm, BBC1 Whatever happened to the youth smashing the system? At least to judge by the latest extension to the Apprentice franchise, it seems today's teenagers want to work in business. Blame Alan Sugar, who duly looks on here as 10 youngsters compete to win a £25,000 career-development bursary. Playing good cop, in the sense that anything's got to be less frightening than Sugar's gurning harumphness, is new face Karren Brady. JW Chris Ryan's Strike Back 9pm, Sky1 Another double-helping of the new soldier adventure. A British ex-soldier (Shaun Parkes), is arrested after an assassination attempt on Robert Mugabe. Was he working alone? Unlikely, as Section 20's boss, evil Egg from This Life, seems to know a lot more than he lets on.

Porter is sent on a daring and fully deniable prison rescue mission and soon the two soldiers are pursued across the wilds of Zimbabwe, finding time to rescue some orphans along the way – as if they didn't have enough to do. PO'N Sons Of Anarchy 10pm, Bravo One of those series, this, in which stormclouds seem perpetually to be gathering, things forever coming to the boil. It's based loosely on Hamlet, with Charlie Hunnam's Jax as the morally vacillating young Prince figure. Tonight, the biker gang who both fight and perpetrate crime in the small American town of Charming come under threat from a white separatist League, who try to draw out the gang by openly dealing meth on their turf. Meanwhile, Gemma has still not told Clay about her rape, but her tension as she bottles up her ordeal leads to an ugly eruption of temper. DS Justified 10pm, Five USA Though a modern cop show, at times Justified seems to be shooting for the feel of an old-school western. For one thing, its main character is US marshall Raylen Givens, a man of inevitably few words, played by Deadwood's Timothy Olyphant.

For another, this is increasingly a show that is on some level about when it's right to "pull" – ie draw your firearm. Not that Raylen has much luck in that regard in this second episode. When he is called to assist after a jailbreak, he finds himself outsmarted and quickly without car, gun, and even – outrageously – Stetson hat. JR UEFA Europa League 2009/10 - History - Atlético-Fulham – UEFA.com Published: Monday 3 May 2010, 21.45CET Hamburg showdown awaits Atlético and Fulham Seeking a first European trophy since 1962, Club Atlético de Madrid will meet a Fulham FC side in their maiden continental showpiece as Hamburg hosts the inaugural UEFA Europa League final. The inaugural UEFA Europa League final matches Club Atlético de Madrid, chasing their first European title since the 1961/62 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, against Fulham FC, who will be making their debut in a showpiece game at this level. Final pedigree • Atlético have reached the final of a major UEFA club competition on four previous occasions, enjoying just one triumph.

That came in the 1961/62 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup when they drew 1-1 with ACF Fiorentina in Glasgow before beating the Italian side 3-0 in a replay at the Neckarstadion in Stuttgart on 5 September 1962. • Thus, Atlético won their only major European trophy on German soil. • They also reached the 1962/63 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final, but – in their only previous final meeting with an English side – lost 5-1 to Tottenham Hotspur FC at De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam. • Atlético came within seconds of winning the European Champion Clubs' Cup on 15 May 1974, going 1-0 up after 114 minutes against FC Bayern München at the Heysel stadium in Brussels, with future Spain coach Luis Aragonés the scorer. The Bavarian side nonetheless drew level in the final minute courtesy of Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck's long-range drive. • They lost the tie on a replay, going down 4-0 at the same stadium two days later.

However, since Bayern declined to play, Atlético went onto successfully represent Europe in the European/South American Cup. • Los Rojiblancos' last final appearance came in the 1985/86 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup at the Stade de Gerland in Lyon, where they lost 3-0 to FC Dynamo Kyiv. • Overall, their record in six major UEFA showpiece matches reads W1 D2 L3 (not including the European/South American Cup), scoring six goals and conceding 14 in those games. • In addition to those four finals, Atlético beat CA Independiente 2-1 on aggregate in the 1974 European/South American Cup final (actually played in 1975) and losing out to Villarreal CF on penalties after trading 2-0 wins in one of the 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup finals • Fulham have never appeared in a major UEFA final, though they were among the winners in the 2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup, beating Bologna FC 3-1 at home following a 2-2 draw in Italy.

None of the current squad played in those games, while the man in the dugout at the time was Jean Tigana. • Current Fulham manager Roy Hodgson has been involved in one major European final before, with his FC Internazionale Milano side losing the 1996/97 UEFA Cup showpiece 4-1 on penalties at San Siro after trading 1-0 home wins with FC Schalke 04. • Fulham goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer played for Middlesbrough FC in the final of the 2005/06 UEFA Cup, which his side lost 4-0 to Atlético's Liga rivals Sevilla FC. • Danny Murphy is the only Fulham player to have won a UEFA Cup final, having been on the victorious side with Liverpool FC in the 2000/01 edition. The Reds beat Spanish side Deportivo Alavés 5-4 thanks to an extra-time golden goal at the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund. • Thus, his only previous UEFA club competition final against a Spanish side in Germany ended in victory.

• José Antonio Reyes is the only Atlético player to have appeared in a major European showpiece, having come on as a substitute in the 2005/06 UEFA Champions League final as Arsenal FC lost 2-1 to FC Barcelona. Previous meetings • The two teams will be meeting for the first time in UEFA club competition, while Fulham have never before encountered Spanish opposition. • Following their semi-final success against Liverpool, Atlético have now played 19 games against English clubs, with their record reading W6 D8 L5. Match background • The final will be Atlético's 75th UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League outing and Fulham's 25th. Atlético have disputed 211 UEFA club competition games to Fulham's 32. • Fulham are on familiar territory as they return to the Hamburg Arena, having drawn 0-0 with Hamburger SV in the first leg of their 2-1 aggregate semi-final success earlier this season. However, in that stalemate they failed to register a single shot on goal.

• Atlético have contested one previous game in Hamburg as well, losing 3-0 to HSV in a 1976/77 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup semi-final decider at the old Volksparkstadion, which stood on the same site as the Hamburg Arena. • Atlético midfielder Paulo Assunção featured in a 3-1 triumph for FC Porto away against HSV in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League group stage. • Atlético's Czech defender Tomáš Ujfaluši knows the stadium well after turning out for Hamburg from 2001 to 2004, helping the club lift the 2002/03 German League Cup. • Fulham are now unbeaten in their last five European games since a 3-1 loss at Juventus in their round of 16 first leg. • The London side will be competing on German soil for the third successive round after meeting VfL Wolfsburg and HSV in the quarter and semi-finals respectively; away from home, they beat the 2008/09 Bundesliga champions 1-0 before drawing 0-0 with Hamburg.

• Prior to this season, Fulham's only trip to Germany had ended in a 2-1 loss at Hertha BSC Berlin in the 2002/03 UEFA Cup third round. • The final will be Fulham's 19th game since they started their UEFA Europa League campaign in the third qualifying round. Their record in 18 European fixtures this season reads W11 D4 L3, scoring 30 goals and conceding 16. • Wednesday's showpiece will be Atlético's 17th European fixture since their campaign began in the UEFA Champions League play-off round. Their 16 games thus far have given them the tally W4 D8 L4, scoring 17 goals and conceding 22. • Atlético have won only two European matches since the start of the UEFA Champions League group stage. They triumphed 2-1 at Galatasaray AŞ to get through the UEFA Europa League round of 32, and then defeated Liverpool 1-0 at home in their semi-final first leg. • Atlético have contested 13 games on German soil, with their record reading W4 D2 L7.

In their last competitive trip to Germany, Los Colchoneros lost 1-0 at Schalke in the 2008/09 UEFA Champions League third qualifying round. • One of Fulham's most fondly remembered former managers, Kevin Keegan, was a star at HSV from 1977 to 1980. European Footballer of the Year in 1978 and 1979, he won the 1978/79 German title and was a runner-up in the 1977 UEFA Super Cup and 1979/80 European Champion Clubs' Cup. Team facts • This will be Atlético coach Quique Sánchez Flores's seventh encounter with a Premier League side. His record in six fixtures against English opposition in charge of Atlético and, before that, Valencia CF reads W1 D2 L3. • Quique Flores also came up against Fulham's reserve goalkeeper Pascal Zuberbühler during his playing career, with his Real Madrid CF side winning 2-0 against the Swiss custodian's Grasshopper-Club in a 1995/96 UEFA Champions League group-stage game.

• Despite his long experience in Europe, Fulham boss Hodgson has only overseen two games against Spanish opponents, with his Neuchâtel Xamax FC side going down 4-1 on aggregate against Real Madrid in the 1991/92 UEFA Cup third round. • Having scored the winner in Fulham's semi-final, Zoltán Gera will look to be the first Hungarian player to star in a major European showpiece since FC Videoton lost to Real Madrid in the 1984/85 UEFA Cup final. Krisztián Lisztes was an unused substitute for VfB Stuttgart in the 1997/98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final, while Ákos Buzsáky contested one game – not the final – for the Porto side that went on to lift the 2002/03 UEFA Cup.

• If he plays, Fulham's Clint Dempsey will become the first player from the United States to feature in a major European final, though Californian-born forward Jovan Kirovski did make a brief appearance for BV Borussia Dortmund in their 2-0 European/South American Cup win against EC Cruzeiro in 1997. • No members of the Fulham squad have played league football in Spain, but two members of the Atlético selection boast Premier League experience: José Antonio Reyes and Diego Forlán. • Reyes played for Arsenal from 2004 to 2006, moving on loan to Real Madrid before joining Atlético in 2007. During his time in London, he featured in four games against Fulham, winning all of them and scoring twice. • Forlán represented Manchester United FC from 2002 until his move to Villarreal in 2004; he then signed for Atlético in 2007. He appeared in three games against Fulham, two of those ending in draws and the other producing a 3-1 home defeat in which he struck United's goal.

• Werder Bremen's Claudio Pizarro and SL Benfica's Óscar Cardozo look set to end the season as the UEFA Europa League's joint top scorers with nine goals each. • Fulham's top marksmen, Bobby Zamora and Gera, have registered six apiece, while Atlético's highest UEFA Europa League scorer is Forlán with four goals. • Sergio Agüero has also scored four goals for Atlético in Europe this term (not including qualifying), plundering two in the UEFA Champions League and two in the UEFA Europa League. • Zamora has committed more fouls (43) than any other player in the UEFA Europa League this season, while he and Panathinaikos FC's Djibril Cissé have been ruled offside 27 times, putting them joint top of that particular list in the competition. • Gera is second only to Zamora in terms of fouls committed (27), but he has also been fouled 26 times – the fifth-highest total in the competition.

• Atlético only entered the UEFA Europa League in the round of 32, but Reyes has been fouled 29 times since then, leaving him third in the most-fouled list behind Hamburg's David Jarolím (31) and Panathinaikos's Giorgos Karagounis (33). • Raúl García, Assunção, Simão, Forlán and José Manuel Jurado have featured in all eight of Atlético's matches since the start of the UEFA Europa League knockout phase. • No Fulham player has featured in all 14 of their games since the start of the group stage but Schwarzer, Gera and Zamora have all made 13 appearances, with the goalkeeper playing every minute. Penalties • Atlético have lost all three of their UEFA club competition penalty shoot-outs to date; 7-6 at home to Derby County FC in the 1974/75 UEFA Cup, 3-1 at Fiorentina in the 1989/90 UEFA Cup and 3-1 at home against Villarreal in a 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup final.

• Fulham have never been involved in a European penalty shoot-out. Final lowdown • This is the first UEFA Europa League final and the first one-off UEFA club competition final to be staged at the Hamburg Arena. • The Volksparkstadion – predecessor to the Hamburg Arena – hosted three matches at the 1974 World Cup, culminating in a Group A decider, the only meeting between hosts the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, which the latter won 1-0 thanks to a 77th-minute goal from Jürgen Sparwasser. • Prior to this UEFA Europa League final, the Hamburg Arena's last major event – barring HSV games – was the 2006 World Cup. Five matches from that tournament were held at the stadium, culminating in eventual winners Italy's 3-0 quarter-final success against Ukraine. • The first games of the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round took place on 2 July 2009. • The first goal of the group stage was struck by Genoa CFC's Alberto Zapater, four minutes into their meeting with SK Slavia Praha on 17 September 2009.

• 544 goals have been registered since the start of the group stage – an average of 2.67 per game. • English clubs won six editions of the UEFA Cup, the new competition's predecessor, while there were five Spanish winners.

• English and Spanish teams met in two UEFA Cup finals with differing results: 2000/01: Liverpool FC 5-4 Deportivo Alavés (aet) 2005/06: Sevilla FC 4-0 Middlesbrough FC • There have been three European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions League finals between Liga and Premier League sides with the following outcomes: 1980/81: Liverpool FC 1-0 Real Madrid CF 2005/06: FC Barcelona 2-1 Arsenal FC 2008/09: FC Barcelona 2-0 Manchester United FC • There were also five UEFA Cup Winners' Cup finals between teams from the countries, with the English outfits winning three to Spain's two: 1962/63: Tottenham Hotspur FC 5-1 Club Atlético de Madrid 1970/71: Chelsea FC 1-1, 2-1 Real Madrid CF (tie settled on a replay) 1979/80: Valencia CF 0-0 Arsenal FC (Valencia won 5-4 on penalties) 1990/9

1: Manchester United FC 2-1 FC Barcelona 1994/95: Real Zaragoza 2-1 Arsenal FC • In total, the ten major UEFA club competition finals between sides from the two nations have produced five wins apiece.

• Hodgson will look to become the first English manager to win a major European final since the late Sir Bobby Robson – who started his playing and managerial careers at Fulham – led Barcelona to a 1-0 win against Paris Saint-Germain FC in the 1996/97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final. • Howard Kendall is the last English coach to have won a major European final with an English team, when he led Everton to the 1984/85 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. ©UEFA.com 1998-2011. All rights reserved. Last updated: 03/09/10 14.59CET Soccer-Europa League final facts and figures Soccer-Europa League final facts and figures Pin it Share May 12 (Reuters) - Facts and figures relating to Wednesday's Europa League final between Benfica of Portugal and Sevilla of Spain in Turin: * The final will be the fifth since the name of the competition was changed from the UEFA Cup to the Europa League at the start of the 2009-10 season. * Only Spanish, Portuguese and English clubs have reached the final since then.

* Atletico Madrid won in 2010 and 2012 when they beat Athletic Bilbao in an all-Spanish final while Porto beat Braga in an all-Portuguese final in 2011. Benfica also reached the final last year when they lost to Chelsea. The only other finalist was Fulham of England, who lost the first final to Atletico in 2010. * Last year's defeat to Chelsea was Benfica's seventh straight defeat in a European final. Since winning back-to-back European Cups in 1961 and 1962, Benfica have lost in the European Cup final five times (1963, 1965, 1968, 1988 and 1990), the UEFA Cup (1983) and the Europa League (2013). * In contrast Sevilla have played two European finals and won them both: beating Middlesbrough in the 2006 UEFA Cup, retaining the trophy when they beat Espanyol the following year.

* Benfica have not beaten a Spanish side in European competition for 14 matches since a win over Betis in 1982. However both of their European final successes were against Spanish teams, the only previous occasion when Spanish and Portuguese teams have met in a final until now. * Benfica beat Barcelona 3-2 in the 1961 European Cup final in Berne and Real Madrid 5-3 the following year in Amsterdam. * The great Eusebio, who died earlier this year, scored twice in the 1962 final, while Mario Coluna, who also died this year, played in both of those finals, scoring in 1962. * The sides' only previous European meeting came in the preliminary round of the 1957-58 European Cup with Sevilla winning 3-1 on aggregate. To this day a depiction of Benfica's famous eagle crest is included in Sevilla's tiled facade at their Sanchez Pizjuan stadium. * The city of Turin is hosting its first major European final although both Juventus and Torino have staged legs of the UEFA Cup final at home there.

However Turin was the venue for the 1984 European Super Cup final between Juventus and Liverpool which Juventus won 2-0. * Benfica played Juventus in the semi-final of this competition in Turin on May 1 and drew 0-0 to secure a 2-1 aggregate win and a place in this final while their own ground in Lisbon is staging this year's Champions League final between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid on May 24. * Benfica coach Jorge Jesus has emulated Bela Guttmann in taking Benfica to successive European finals after Guttmann led them to the 1961 and 1962 European Cups. * Benfica will also be trying to lift the "curse of Guttmann". After being unceremoniously sacked from Benfica after their second European Cup win he said "you will never be European champions for another 100 years" They have since lost five European Cup finals and two other finals in the 52 years since then. * They are now attempting to become the third team to transfer down from the Champions League to win the Europa League after Atletico in 2010 and Chelsea last year.

(Reporting by Mike Collett; editing by Justin Palmer) Reblog

Question: Who played eventual winners Atltico Madrid in the final of the 2010 UEFA Europa League soccer competition?
Answer: Fulham