Continental dominance

The Blues beat Real Betis 4-1 in Wroclaw to become the first club in history to win each of the European Cup/Champions League, UEFA Cup/Europa League, Cup Winners' Cup, Super Cup, and the Conference League.

Our victory in Poland means we have now won seven out of the eight major European finals we have contested. Of English clubs only Liverpool, with nine, have more final wins.

By beating Betis, we ended a long run of Spanish success in finals. It was the first defeat suffered by a Spanish team against a foreign side since 2001. Spanish sides had won their previous 27 European finals at club and international level.

We have now lifted the Champions League, Europa League, Conference League, Super Cup and Club World Cup since we last won a domestic trophy – the 2018 FA Cup.

Finishing with a final flourish

In Enzo Fernandez, Nicolas Jackson, Jadon Sancho, and Moises Caicedo, Chelsea were the first side to have four different scorers (excluding own goals) in a major European final since Real Madrid in the 2014 Champions League final.

Cole Palmer was the first player to assist two goals in a major European final since Marcelo for Real Madrid in the 2018 Champions League final against Liverpool. Palmer was the first to do so for an English club since our own Juan Mata, in the 2013 Europa League showpiece against Benfica.

We belied our youthfulness to lift the trophy. No team had ever won a European final without somebody aged 27 or older in the starting XI. Red Star Belgrade lost the 1979 UEFA Cup final with a team containing players aged only 26 and under. At 26, Marc Cucurella was our oldest starter.

Enzo Fernandez is the second-youngest starting captain to win a European trophy with an English team (24 years, 131 days), behind West Ham’s Bobby Moore in the 1965 Cup Winners’ Cup final (24 years, 37 days).

Enzo Maresca became the first manager to lift major European silverware in his first season in charge of an English club since Thomas Tuchel achieved the feat with us in 2021.

The best from beginning to end

Chelsea won 12 of our 13 matches in the Conference League proper, our joint-most wins in a single season of major European competition (along with the 2018/19 Europa League).

By winning our opening nine games of the Conference League campaign, Chelsea set a club record winning streak in major European competition. Our previous best run was six.

We scored a remarkable 42 goals in the Conference League proper (from an Expected Goals total of 30), a record by an English club in a single season in major European competition. That’s an average of over three goals per game!

The goals came from a variety of sources, 17 in total. That is a record figure for different goalscorers in a European campaign. Our 8-0 league phase win over Noah is the record victory in UEFA’s newest competition.

We ranked first in the competition for: goals, goals per game, percentage of shots on target, shot conversion, headed goals, big chances created, passes, pass completion rate and goals conceded per game.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall was the only Blue to feature in all 13 games. The midfielder scored four goals and provided two assists, including one for Sancho in the final. Goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen was the only player to accrue more minutes than Dewsbury-Hall.

Maresca used the Conference League to blood youngsters, handing Chelsea debuts to eight Academy graduates.

One of those, 16-year-old Reggie Walsh, became the second-youngest player in our history, and youngest since 1967, when he played against Djurgarden in the semi-finals.

Marc Guiu was a star of our league phase campaign and he became the youngest Spanish player to score a hat-trick in major European competition since Real Madrid’s Raul in October 1995 when he netted a treble against Shamrock Rovers.

Our league phase win against Astana in Almaty, Kazakhstan, was the furthest we have travelled to play a European fixture. It will surely go down as one of the coldest, too!

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