2024-07-13 14:40:22
Spanish teams are used to winning finals. Whether at club or national level, the country has not lost a final match in 23 years as far as the biggest tournaments are concerned.
This number does not include only the UEFA Super Cup, the Club World Cup and the Nations League.
On Sunday night, La Furia goes into battle for Euro 2024, and the opponent is England. The match is from 22:00 in Berlin. If Spain wins, it will become the first country with 4 honors from European finals. The English, on the other hand, still do not have a continental championship cup.
However, the last loss of Spanish clubs in the finals of major tournaments was against an English opponent. In 2001, Alaves lost to Liverpool (4:5 on penalties) in the UEFA Cup final, and Bayern beat Valencia on penalties in the Champions League that same season.
In the last 26 matches in which a Spanish team plays for a trophy, the team has no loss.
The streak began in 2002 when Real Madrid (M) won the Champions League after defeating Bayer Leverkusen.
In this period, the national selection of Spain won 3 major championships. In 2010, he triumphed at the world championship in South Africa. In 2008 and 2012, La Furia also took the European title.
Only for the UEFA Super Cup, which, however, is not an official competition, but a one-match pre-season tournament, the Club World Cup and the League of Nations, the Spaniards have defeats.
Since 2001, clubs from the country have participated in 17 matches for the European Super Cup trophy. And they won 13 – five of them were purely Spanish. However, the statistics have worsened significantly over the past four years. In three of the last four Super Cups, Spain has hosted the winner of the Europa League (Villarreal and Sevilla twice) and lost to the winner of the Champions League (Bayern (Munich), Chelsea and Manchester City). Before that, in 19 years there was only one defeat – “Seville” from “Milan” (1:3) in 2007.
In the League of Nations, Spain participated in 2 out of 3 possible finals. In 2019, they lost to France 1:2. In 2023, the Spanish defeated the Croatians after a penalty shootout in the final.