Salah and Mané put their nations on a prize map

Fifty nations can now lay explain to a European Cup-winning actor following Liverpool’s 2-0 feat opposite Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid.

Two some-more countries assimilated a list after a final alarm in a Spanish capital, with goalscorer Mohamed Salah adding Egypt to a bar and Sadio Mané personification a breakthrough purpose for Senegal.

Reds team-mate Naby Keïta of Guinea missed out by injury, however, definition he – like new Spurs surrogate Victor Wanyama of Kenya – were also incompetent to turn a really initial players from their countries to underline in a European Cup decider.

Since a initial final in 1956, 1,066 players representing 63 nations have featured in a showpiece diversion (many some-more than once). Italy have a many opposite finalists (147), one some-more than Spain – who did not supplement to their sum after Liverpool defender Alberto Moreno stayed on a dais in Madrid. Spurs’ sole Spaniard, Fernando Llorente, had already featured in a decider, losing with Juventus in 2015.

More trivia

San Marino’s sole winner, Massimo Bonini©Bob Thomas/Getty Images

• Greece have had a many finalists though carrying a winner – 12; that sum includes Panathinaikos’ 11 group from their 1971 final defeat, and Akis Zikos, a losing finalist with Monaco in 2004.

• Turkey (tenth in a current UEFA rankings) are a highest-ranked republic never to have had a UEFA Champions League or European Cup winner; Turkey’s 3 finalists to date all finished adult with runners-up medals: Yıldıray Baştürk (Leverkusen, 2002), Hamit Altıntop (Bayern, 2010) and Nuri Şahin (Dortmund, 2013).

• The lowest-ranked European republic to have a UEFA Champions League finalist and leader is San Marino; Massimo Bonini – a 1985 leader with Juventus – represented a side ranked 55 out of 55 in UEFA’s inhabitant fellow rankings.

Number of players (by nation) who have seemed in a European Cup/UEFA Champions League final

The 1974 Bayern side were Germany’s initial winners©Getty Images

147: Italy
146: Spain
130: Germany
82: England
80: France
63: Netherlands
62: Portugal
54: Brazil
38: Scotland
30: Argentina
26: Serbia
24: Sweden
22: Romania
16: Belgium
14: Denmark
13: Croatia
12: Greece*
11: Republic of Ireland
6: Poland
5: Ghana
5: Ivory Coast
5: Uruguay
5: Wales
4: Czech Republic
4: Hungary
4: Norway
3: Austria
3: Nigeria
3: North Macedonia
3: Slovenia*
3: Turkey*
2: Bosnia and Herzegovina
2: Bulgaria
2: Finland
2: Mali
2: Mexico
2: Northern Ireland
2: South Africa
2: Switzerland
2: Ukraine
2: Cameroon
2: Korea Republic

Algerian colonize Rabah Madjer©Bob Thomas/Getty Images

1: Algeria (Rabah Madjer, leader Porto 1987)
1: Angola* (Vata, runner-up Benfica 1990)
1: Australia (Harry Kewell, leader Liverpool 2005)
1: Belarus* (Aleksandr Hleb, runner-up Arsenal 2006)
1: Chile* (Arturo Vidal, runner-up, Juventus 2015)
1: Colombia* (Juan Cuadrado, runner-up Juventus 2017)
1: Costa Rica (Keylor Navas, leader Real Madrid 2016, 2017 2018)
1: DR Congo* (Shabani Nonda, runner-up Monaco 2004)
1: Ecuador* (Antonio Valencia, runner-up Manchester United 2011)
1: Egypt (Mohamed Salah, leader Liverpool 2019)
1: Gabon* (Mario Lemina, runner-up Juventus 2017)
1: Georgia (Kakha Kaladze, leader AC Milan 2003  2007)
1: Montenegro* (Stefan Savić, runner-up Atlético Madrid 2016)
1: Morocco* (Hajry Redouane, runner-up Benfica 1988)
1: Paraguay* (Domingo Benegas, runner-up Atlético Madrid 1974)
1: Peru (Víctor Benítez, leader AC Milan 1963)
1: Russia (Dmitri Alenichev, leader Porto 2004)
1: San Marino (Massimo Bonini, leader Juventus 1985)
1: Senegal (Sadio Mané, leader Liverpool 2019)
1: Trinidad Tobago (Dwight Yorke, leader Manchester United 1999)
1: Zimbabwe (Bruce Grobbelaar, leader Liverpool 1984)

*nations who have had a actor seem in a final though not a winner

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