PSG go back-to-back and join 'greatest of all time'

Paris St-Germain underlined their status as one of European football's greatest ever teams by becoming only the second club to retain the Champions League. Their 4-3 win on penalties over Arsenal, following a 1-1 draw in the final in Budapest, backed up their 5-0 win over Inter Milan in Munich 12 months ago. In doing so they became the first side to successfully defend their title since Real Madrid's three-peat from 2016 to 2018, and only the second to do it in the Champions League era - 1993 onwards.

Across the competition's 71-year history, PSG are just the 10th club to win successive titles. All 10 of the outfield players who started PSG's win over Arsenal, also started their victory over Inter Milan. Only goalkeeper Matvey Safonov was new, in for Gianluigi Donnarumma who was signed by Manchester City last summer. Since the start of last season they have won 8 of the 10 trophies available to them - only missing out on last summer's Club World Cup and this campaign's French Cup. The French champions also scored the most goals (45) and recorded the highest average possession (60.5%) in this season's competition. PSG were playing in their third final, with their first in 2019-20 when they lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich in Portugal. By winning a second Champions League title PSG also became the best-performing French club in the competition, going clear of rivals Marseille who have one title.

If they continue their dominance next season PSG could become just the fifth side to win three successive Champions League/European Cup titles.