For the second time in three years, the UEFA Champions League final will be a distinctly local affair as Real Madrid CF take on city rivals Club Atlético de Madrid in Milan.
The final will take place on Saturday, 28th May, 2016 at 4:30pm with lots of exciting giveaways from our sponsors, tisu.com.gh.
All the statistics you need to know.
• Two years ago the teams met in Lisbon – the first final fixture involving clubs from the same city in European Cup history. Atlético led 1-0 deep into added time, only for Madrid to equalise and go on to win 4-1 after extra time, thereby lifting their tenth European Cup – ‘La Décima’.
• This is the sixth one-country UEFA Champions League final with Madrid having won two of the previous five – against Valencia CF in 2000 (3-0) and Atlético in 2014.
Final pedigree
• This is Madrid’s 14th European Cup final. The full list is:1955/56: Real Madrid CF 4-3 Stade de Reims (Parc des Princes, Paris)1956/57: Real Madrid CF 2-0 AC Fiorentina (Santiago Bernabéu, Madrid)1957/58: Real Madrid CF 3-2 AC Milan (Heysel Stadium, Brussels)1958/59: Real Madrid CF 2-0 Stade de Reims (Neckarstadion, Stuttgart)1959/60: Real Madrid CF 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt (Hampden Park, Glasgow)1961/62: SL Benfica 5-3 Real Madrid CF (Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam)1963/64: FC Internazionale Milano 3-1 Real Madrid CF (Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna)1965/66: Real Madrid CF 2-1 FK Partizan (Heysel Stadium, Brussels)1980/81: Liverpool FC 1-0 Real Madrid CF (Parc des Princes, Paris)1997/98: Juventus 0-1 Real Madrid CF (Amsterdam ArenA, Amsterdam)1999/00: Real Madrid CF 3-0 Valencia CF (Stade de France, Saint-Denis)2001/02: Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-2 Real Madrid CF (Hampden Park, Glasgow)2013/14: Real Madrid CF 4-1 Club Atlético de Madrid (aet) (Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, Lisbon)