IFFHS NEWS AND STATISTICS OF THE WEEK 34
Picture : UEFA Champions League winner 2020
THE TRIUMPH OF BAYERN MÜNCHEN, WINNER OF THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
FACTS AND STATS
The perfect season
Manuel Neuer , IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper during 4 years, was fantastic.
Bayern have become the first team in the history of the most important club competition in Europe to win every game of the campaign on the way to the title. With their eleventh consecutive win coming over PSG in the final (1-0), Hansi Flick’s team have now also set the record for the longest consecutive winning run in the history of the Champions League.
The second team to win a second treble after Barcelona
FC Bayern (2013 and 2020) is now the only club aside from Barcelona (2009 and 2015) to have won the league, national cup and Champions League treble twice in a single season. With their sixth title in the European Cup/Champions League, the Munich-based club has also drawn level on terms with Liverpool FC - ahead of them now are only Real Madrid (with 13 titles) and AC Milan (seven).
Goal number 500 for the title
Kingsley Coman’s winning goal (Picture) against Paris in the final was FC Bayern's 500th goal since the Champions League was established - and what better way to celebrate such an anniversary than with the winner to secure the famous long-eared trophy.
Goals
The German record champions finished the season in the UCL with 43 goals - 18 more than any other team in the competition. The runners-up in the standings, final opponents Paris Saint-Germain, scored 25 goals. The average of 3.9 goals per game scored by Bayern has never been matched by any other team in the history of the Champions League.
Best goalscoring duo in Champions League history
A large part of Bayern's attacking prowess has been top goal scorer Robert Lewandowski (15 campaign goals) and Serge Gnabry (nine), who together formed the most dangerous duo in the history of the competition. Together they scored just one goal less than PSG did across their entire squad all season in the UCL.
Current Record !
This unbelievable run of results simply has no end. FC Bayern have now gone undefeated for 30 competitive matches (29 wins, one draw), and most recently the team have notched up 21 victories in a row - the latter is the current record in German professional football.
Flick in the History
Hansi Flick has not even been in office for ten months - and already he is in a league with the biggest names in world football. After Sir Alex Ferguson (1999 with Manchester United), Pep Guardiola (2009 with FC Barcelona), José Mourinho (2010 with Inter Milan), Jupp Heynckes (2013 with FC Bayern) and Luis Enrique (2015 with FC Barcelona), he is the sixth coach to win the treble since the Champions League was introduced.
Thomas Müller's Record
For Thomas Müller, the final against Paris Saint-Germain was already the fourth Champions League final of his career. The native Bavarian thus set the German record alongside his former team-mate Toni Kroos.
PSG – 50th Anniversary
It was the 23 August 1970 : PSG , new created, played the first official match in his History. Day by day, 50 years later, the 23 August 2020, the club played the Final of the UEFA Champions League for the first time. But without success … Neymar and M'Bappe were sad like all Paris fans.