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2025 UEFA Conference League final

The 2025 UEFA Conference League final was the final match of the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League, the fourth season of Europe's tertiary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the first season since it was renamed from the UEFA Europa Conference League to the UEFA Conference League. It was played at the Wrocław Stadium in Wrocław, Poland, on 28 May 2025, between Spanish club Real Betis and English club Chelsea.

Chelsea won the match 4–1 to secure their first UEFA Conference League title, thus becoming the first club to win all four major European trophies and all three of the current European competitions. Chelsea also became the first non-Spanish side to defeat a Spanish club in a European final since 2001, when Bayern Munich won against Valencia in the Champions League final. As Chelsea already qualified automatically for the league phase of the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League through their league position, the berth reserved for the UEFA Conference League winners in the 2025–26 UEFA Europa League was vacated.

The three-goal margin of victory in this match was the largest in a Conference League final, which saw the first three winners prevailed by a single-goal margin. This match was also the highest-scoring Conference League final.

Real Betis reached their first ever European final.

This was Chelsea's thirteenth European final and the first UEFA Conference League final appearance. They had won two titles in each of the three pre-1999 major European competitions; the UEFA Champions League in 2012 and 2021, the Cup Winners' Cup in 1971 and 1998, and the UEFA Europa League in 2013 and 2019, in addition they have also won two UEFA Super Cups, in 1998 and 2021. The club has lost four European finals, the 2008 UEFA Champions League final and the 2012, 2013 and 2019 UEFA Super Cups. As they win the final, they became the first club to have won all four major European trophies.

The clubs had faced each other four times; twice in the quarter-finals of the 1997–98 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and twice in the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League group stage. Chelsea won three of those encounters, defeating Betis 2–1 in Seville and 3–1 in London to secure a 5–2 aggregate victory en route to the Cup Winners' Cup title, and triumphing 4–0 in their home fixture in the 2005–06 season. However, Betis claimed victory in the most recent meeting between the sides, winning 1–0 in Seville later that stage. Despite that loss, Chelsea advanced to the round of 16 by finishing second in the group, while Betis placed third and moved into the UEFA Cup—ultimately won by their city rivals, Sevilla.

The Wrocław Stadium in Wrocław, known as the Tarczyński Arena for sponsorship reasons, is the home of Śląsk Wrocław. The stadium opened in September 2011, and has a capacity of 42,771. The venue previously hosted matches at UEFA Euro 2012. The match will be the third single-leg UEFA club final to be played in Poland, after the UEFA Europa League finals in 2015 and 2021.

On 21 June 2022, UEFA opened the bidding process for the final, which was held in parallel with that of the 2024 final. Interested bidders could bid for either one or both of the finals. The proposed venues had to include natural grass and be ranked as a UEFA category four stadium, with a gross capacity of between 30,000 and 50,000 preferred. The bidding timeline was as follows:

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