Following Thursday's semi-final second leg results, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United will now meet in the UEFA Europa League final. Football writer Adrian Kajumba explores previous all-English European finals and how each club fared.
Spurs and Man Utd both came through their UEFA Europa League semi-finals to set up a rare, all-English final in a UEFA competition.
The showpiece, in Bilbao on 21 May, will be just the sixth time two English clubs have contested a European final with Spurs and Man Utd both among the small group of clubs with experience of playing in such huge occasions.
Here are the previous five times that two English clubs have transferred their domestic rivalry to the European stage and battled it out for silverware.
Manchester City 0-1 Chelsea (UEFA Champions League, 2021)
After years of trying, following the 2008 takeover that financed their climb into the Premier League’s elite, Manchester City reached their first Champions League final in 2021.
Their opponents in Porto were Chelsea, who had been on a similar journey after Roman Abramovich’s 2003 purchase of the club.
Following defeat in the 2008 final against Man Utd, Chelsea achieved their holy grail and won the Champions League by beating Bayern Munich in 2012.
Just like on those two previous occasions, Chelsea reached the final after making a mid-season managerial change.
In 2020/21 Thomas Tuchel succeeded Frank Lampard and steered Chelsea to European glory, getting the better of Pep Guardiola in the final as they edged out Man City 1-0.
The game’s decisive moment came in the first half when Kai Havertz rounded Ederson to score the goal which sealed a second competition triumph for Chelsea and left Man City waiting for their first.
Spurs 0-2 Liverpool (UEFA Champions League, 2019)
A year after a painful 3-1 defeat to Real Madrid, Liverpool were back in the Champions League final where they faced Premier League rivals Spurs.
The two clubs had contrasting experience in the competition. This was Liverpool’s ninth final, five of which they had won, but the first for Spurs.
Spurs’ run to the final under Mauricio Pochettino included unforgettable and dramatic victories against Man City in the quarter-finals and Ajax in the semi-finals.
However, their hopes of capping that incredible journey by winning the competition were quickly dented by a second-minute Mohamed Salah penalty for Jurgen Klopp’s side, a far happier memory for the Egyptian after he was forced out of the 2018 final early, and in tears, due to injury.
Cult hero Divock Origi then sealed Liverpool’s sixth competition win in Madrid with a second Liverpool goal in the 87th minute.
Chelsea 4-1 Arsenal (UEFA Europa League, 2019)
The competition’s first final between two clubs from the same city saw Chelsea face fellow Londoners Arsenal in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Chelsea won the Europa League previously in 2013. Arsenal had lost their only other final in the competition in 2000 against Galatasaray but the man in their dugout, Unai Emery, had far happier memories. He had won the trophy three times before with Sevilla.
After a goalless first half, five goals followed in the second as Chelsea cruised to a 4-1 win.
Olivier Giroud opened the scoring against his old club to kickstart an impressive second-half display. Pedro’s finish and Eden Hazard’s penalty then all but secured victory for Chelsea.
Alex Iwobi pulled a goal back for Arsenal but Hazard scored his second goal to clinch victory for Chelsea in what proved to be his final game for the Blues before joining Real Madrid.
The final was also a farewell match for Maurizio Sarri who left to join Juventus after winning his first piece of silverware as a manager.
Man Utd 1-1 Chelsea (6-5 on pens) (UEFA Champions League, 2008)
The first all-English showpiece of the Premier League era saw Man Utd meet Chelsea in the Champions League final.
United were aiming to be crowned kings of Europe for the third time in Moscow following previous triumphs in 1968 and 1999.
Meanwhile, this first competition final between two teams from England was also the first time Chelsea had reached this stage.
The final had to be settled on penalties after Man Utd's Cristiano Ronaldo and Chelsea’s Frank Lampard traded first-half goals and the two teams could not be separated despite Didier Drogba’s extra-time red card.
Ronaldo was first to miss in the shootout, giving Chelsea the advantage and, eventually, John Terry the chance to win the final.
It would have been a fairytale moment for homegrown captain Terry - and Russian owner Roman Abramovich too in his homeland - had he scored.
But, instead, he slipped on the rain-soaked surface and hit the post, opening the door for Man United to win the shootout instead, after Edwin Van Der Sar saved Nicolas Anelka’s penalty.
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Spurs (UEFA Cup, 1972)
The UEFA Cup final was played over two legs until 1997 and the first was an all-English affair between Wolves and Spurs.
This was also the first UEFA club competition final to involve two teams from the same football association.
The result in the first leg proved key as Spurs edged out Wolves 2-1 at Molineux thanks to two goals from Martin Chivers, who was the club’s 22-goal leading European scorer until Jermain Defoe broke his record in 2013 (Son Heung-min and Harry Kane have since passed Defoe).
A 1-1 draw in the return leg at White Hart Lane then saw the north Londoners become the first winners of the UEFA Cup, which became the Europa League in 2009, thanks to a 3-2 aggregate win.
