The 2018 UEFA Europa League final in Lyon brings together the inaugural winners of UEFA’s two current major club competitions. Atlético Madrid won the very first UEFA Europa League in 2010, while Marseille were the first team to be proclaimed UEFA Champions League winners, back in 1993.
• Two clubs of considerable continental pedigree, they have reached the final via different routes. Marseille’s 2017/18 European campaign began in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League, while Atlético started theirs in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League.
• Marseille booked a place just up the Rhone Valley at the Stade de Lyon…