2013 UEFA Europa League Final
Match programme cover
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| Event | 2012–13 UEFA Europa League | ||||||
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| Date | 15 May 2013 | ||||||
| Venue | Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam | ||||||
| UEFA Man of the Match | Branislav Ivanović (Chelsea) | ||||||
| Fans' Man of the Match | Frank Lampard (Chelsea) | ||||||
| Referee | Björn Kuipers (Netherlands) | ||||||
| Attendance | 46,163 | ||||||
| Weather | Partly cloudy 13 °C (55 °F) 54% humidity |
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The 2013 UEFA Europa League Final was the final match of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League, the 42nd season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 4th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. The match was played at the Amsterdam Arena in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 15 May 2013, between Portuguese side Benfica and English side Chelsea. Chelsea won 2–1 to secure their first title in this competition.
Chelsea were the first UEFA Champions League title holders to play in the following season's UEFA Europa League, after becoming the first Champions League holders to be eliminated in the group stage. With this triumph, they became the first team to win the Champions League followed by the Europa League in successive seasons. Chelsea also became the fourth club, after Juventus, Ajax and Bayern Munich, to win all three major UEFA club titles, having won the UEFA Champions League in 2012, and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1971 and 1998. Chelsea were also the first team since Manchester United in the 1991 European Cup Winners' Cup Final to win a major European final without the use of any substitutions.
As a result of winning this competition, Chelsea secured a place in the 2013 UEFA Super Cup against the winners of the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, Bayern Munich.
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