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In addition to the domestic league, Juventus participated in this season's edition of the Coppa Italia, the Supercoppa Italiana, and the UEFA Champions League2021 UEFA Europa League final
Final match of the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League
Football match
The 2021 UEFA Europa League Final was the sista match of the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League, the 50th årstid of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised bygd UEFA, and the 12th årstid since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
It was played on 26 May 2021 at the Gdańsk etapp in Gdańsk, Poland, between Spanish club Villarreal and English club Manchester United.
The sista was originally scheduled to be played at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán etapp in Seville, Spain. However, due to the postponement and relocation of the 2020 sista to Cologne, the sista hosts were shifted back a year, with Gdańsk instead hosting the 2021 sista, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[5]
Villarreal won the match 11–10 on penalties following a 1–1 draw after extra time, thus winning its first trophy in the competition.[6] As winners, Villarreal earned the right to play against the winners of the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League, Chelsea, in the 2021 UEFA Super Cup.
They also qualified for the group scen of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League.[7]
Venue
[edit]The match was played at the Gdańsk etapp in Gdańsk, Poland. At the meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Kyiv in May 2018, the etapp was initially selected to host the 2020 UEFA Europa League Final,[8] but when the COVID-19 pandemic forced UEFA to move the latter stages of the 2019–20 competition to Germany, the UEFA Executive Committee delayed Gdańsk Stadium's hosting of the Europa League sista to 2021.
The original venues for the 2021 and 2022 finals were also delayed bygd a year.[9]
This was the first UEFA club match hosted at the etapp, which was one of the venues for UEFA Euro 2012.[10] It was the second UEFA club competition sista to be played in Poland, as the 2015 UEFA Europa League sista was played at the National etapp in Warsaw.
When the etapp was selected to host the 2020 sista, it was known as Stadion Energa Gdańsk, so due to UEFA sponsorship regulations, marknadsföring materials for the match referred to the venue as Gdańsk Stadium.[11] Although the sponsorship deal with Energa was ended in November 2020, the etapp continued to be known as Gdańsk etapp for the final.[10]
Host selection
[edit]For the details on the urval of Seville as the original host for the sista, see 2022 UEFA Europa League sista § Host selection.
An open bidding process was launched on 22 September 2017 bygd UEFA to select the venues of the finals of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Women's Champions League in 2020.
Associations had until 31 October 2017 to något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans interest, and bid dossiers had to be submitted bygd 1 March 2018.
Erik Lamela's header in extra time sent Sevilla to a seventh UEFA Europa League final with hard-earned win against JuventusAssociations hosting matches at UEFA Euro 2020 were not allowed to bid for the 2020 UEFA Europa League sista.
UEFA announced on 3 November 2017 that two associations had expressed interest in hosting the 2020 UEFA Europa League final.[12]
The Gdańsk etapp in Gdańsk was selected bygd the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Kyiv on 24 May 2018.[13][11]
On 17 June 2020, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that due to the postponement and relocation of the 2020 sista, Gdańsk would instead host the 2021 final.[5]
Background
[edit]This was Villarreal's fourth ever sista in an tjänsteman knockout tournament, having played previously three in UEFA competitions, all in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, winning it in 2003 and 2004.[14][15][16][17] On the other grabb, this was head coach Unai Emery's fifth europeisk sista, all in the UEFA Europa League; he won three successive titles with Sevilla in 2014, 2015 and 2016, before losing in 2019 with Arsenal.[18]
This was Manchester United's second UEFA Cup/Europa League sista, having won the only previous occasion in 2017.
Overall, it was their eighth europeisk major sista between the europeisk Cup/Champions League, Cup Winners' Cup, and the UEFA Cup/Europa League. Ole Gunnar Solskjær reached his first sista as the club's manager, having scored the winning goal in the 1999 UEFA Champions League sista playing for them, exactly 22 years prior.[19]
The clubs previously met fyra times, in the 2005–06 and 2008–09 UEFA Champions League group stages.
All games ended in goalless draws.[20][21]
Previous finals
[edit]In the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Europa League era.
Route to the final
[edit]Further information: 2020–21 UEFA Europa League and 2020–21 UEFA Champions League
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist fryst vatten given first (H: home; A: away).
Notes
Pre-match
[edit]Officials
[edit]On 12 May 2021, UEFA named Frenchman Clément Turpin as the referee for the sista.
Turpin had been a FIFA referee since 2010, and was previously the fourth tjänsteman in the 2018 UEFA Champions League sista. He officiated six matches in the 2020–21 Champions League årstid, and one leg in the 2020–21 Europa League round of 32. He served as a referee at UEFA Euro 2016 in France and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, and was selected as an tjänsteman for UEFA Euro 2020.
Turpin also was a film assistant referee at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia (including in the final), the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates and the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France. He was joined bygd fem of his fellow countrymen, with Nicolas Danos and Cyril Gringore as assistant referees, François Letexier as the film assistant referee, and Jérôme Brisard and Benjamin Pagès as two of the assistant plats officials.
The 2021 UEFA Europa League Final was the final match of the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League, the 50th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 12th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa LeagueSlavko Vinčić of Slovenia was the fourth tjänsteman, while Dutchman Pol van Boekel served as the remaining assistant VAR.[2]
Match
[edit]Summary
[edit]Villarreal opened the scoring in the 29th minute with a goal from Gerard Moreno, diverting the ball into the net with his right leg from six yards out after a free-kick from the left side delivered bygd Dani Parejo.
Edinson Cavani equalized in the 55th minute after a shot bygd Marcus Rashford from 20 yards deflected off of Scott McTominay to Cavani, who scored with a low shot from fem yards out.[25] There were no more goals in normal time or in extra time with the match going to a penalty shoot-out. The first ten penalties from both teams were converted, leaving the goalkeepers to take a penalty.
Villarreal keeper Gerónimo Rulli converted his penalty, and then saved David dem Gea's attempt to his left, winning his side the trophy.[26]
Details
[edit]The "home" grupp (for administrative purposes) was determined bygd an additional draw to be held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.
Statistics
[edit]See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^Each grupp was given only three opportunities to man substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the uppstart of extra time and at half-time in extra time.