INTERCONTINENTAL FINAL STATS


FIFA Intercontinental Cup final: highlights

PSG vs Flamengo 1-1 (pen. 2-1)

*PSG became the third team in history to win 6 trophies in a calendar year, after Barcelona in 2009 and Bayern Munich in 2020:
Trophée des Champions,
Ligue 1, 
Coupe de France,
Champions League,
UEFA Super Cup,
FIFA Intercontinental Cup.

*PSG became the first French team in history to win a FIFA club tournament.

*PSG have played their eighth international final (under UEFA and FIFA auspices): a record for a French club. 

*France has won 3 of its last 4 international club finals after losing 14 of its previous 16.

*Europe has won the last 14 FIFA intercontinental club tournaments.

*The Club World Cup/Intercontinental Cup title was decided by penalties in 7th time in history; the last time this happened in 2004 when Porto defeated Once Caldas.

*PSG became the first French club to win 3 consecutive penalty shootouts in international competition, after:
vs Liverpool in the Champions League on 11 March 2025
vs Tottenham in the UEFA Super Cup on 13 August 2025.

*Matvey Safonov has saved 4 of the 5 penalties he has faced in the shootout: an unprecedented feat in the history of intercontinental club tournaments.

*Luis Enrique has won all 4 of his penalty shootouts with PSG. The last two he lost were with the Spanish national team (against Italy in the Euro 2020 semi-finals and against Morocco at the 2022 World Cup).

*Luis Enrique has won 13 of his 14 single-leg club finals throughout his career.

*Marquinhos has played in his fifth international final with PSG, a record for a player with a French club.

*Ibrahim Mbaye (PSG) became the third youngest player (at 17 years and 10 months) to appear in a FIFA club tournament final (Club World Cup + Intercontinental Cup), behind:
Alexandre Pato (at 17 years and 3 months),
António Simões (at 17 years and 9 months).

*Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (PSG) became the first player in history to score in two different international finals with a French club (also in UCL final vs Inter).

*Flamengo’s Jorginho becames the first Italian goal-scorer in a FIFA club tournament final since Alessandro Nesta and Filippo Inzaghi with  Milan against Boca Juniors on 16 December 2007, in the Club World Cup.


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