Whoever wins will succeed Real Madrid as champions, and excitement is notably at fever pitch back in Paris, where around 40,000 people will watch on giant screens at PSG’s Parc des Princes stadium and a huge police presence is planned around the city.en

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PSG eyes historic win against Inter Milan in Champions League final showdown

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French football club Paris Saint-Germain is fighting to win European club football’s biggest prize for the first time in a clash against four-time Champions League winners Inter Milan in Munich on Saturday night. 

Issued on: 31/05/2025 – 04:07

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Paris Saint-Germain’s players train in front of the Champions League Trophy during the MD-1 training session on the eve of the UEFA Champions League final football match against Inter Milan in Munich, southern Germany, on May 30, 2025. © Franck Fife, AFP

Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan will lock horns in Saturday’s Champions League final with the French side hoping to win European club football’s biggest prize for the first time and the Italians eyeing their fourth title.

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The match, which kicks off at Bayern Munich’s 75,000-capacity Allianz Arena at 9pm (1900 GMT), pits an experienced Inter against a PSG team appearing in their second final since the transformative Qatari takeover of the club in 2011.

Whoever wins will succeed Real Madrid as champions, and excitement is notably at fever pitch back in Paris, where around 40,000 people will watch on giant screens at PSG’s Parc des Princes stadium and a huge police presence is planned around the city.

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The climax to the European season has thrown up a mouthwatering clash of opposing styles and ideas of how to build a team, a contest between one of the continent’s old guard and one of the state-owned modern superclubs.

Despite enormous spending, PSG have never won the Champions League before, coming closest when they got to the final in 2020.

That was during the pandemic, when they lost to Bayern behind closed doors in Lisbon, despite the presence of Kylian Mbappé and Neymar up front.

The addition of Lionel Messi a year later did not help them in their quest to claim the trophy, and their brilliant run to Munich has come in the season after Mbappé followed the South American superstar duo out of the exit door.

“There have been great times, difficult times, but we have a glorious opportunity to do something remarkable and historic for this club,” captain Marquinhos said on Friday.