The European champions, Paris Saint-Germain, defeated Tottenham Hotspur 4-3 in a penalty shootout on Wednesday, winning the UEFA Super Cup after mounting a late comeback that resulted in a 2-2 draw.
This accomplishment initiated their new season, as the European champions claimed more silverware on Wednesday.
PSG claimed their first Super Cup title in their history, thanks to Goncalo Ramos’ equalizing goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time and Nuno Mendes’ decisive penalty kick in the shootout.
Tottenham Hotspur was close to winning the trophy in their first competitive match under Thomas Frank, leading 2-0 just after halftime at the Stadio Friuli in Udine, Italy.
Last season’s Europa League winners took the lead through Micky van de Ven in the 39th minute, with Cristian Romero adding their second goal three minutes into the second half.
PSG’s substitutes, Lee Kang-in and Goncalo Ramos, turned the tide with goals in the 85th minute and injury time.
The match then went to a penalty shoot-out, where Vitinha missed PSG’s first penalty.
However, Lucas Chevalier’s key save and Mathys Tel’s error enabled Nuno Mendes to score the winning penalty.
Tottenham Hotspur’s Dominic Solanke, Rodrigo Bentancur, and Pedro Porro all scored from the penalty spot, but ultimately to no avail.
Conversely, PSG’s Ramos, Ousmane Dembele, and Lee successfully converted their penalties before Mendes stepped up to take his shot.
This victory marks a historic milestone for PSG, as they become the first French club to win the Super Cup, bringing their total number of trophies in 2025 to five.
It is also the perfect start to the new campaign for Luis Enrique’s team, who had a shortened off-season break having lost the FIFA Club World Cup final to Chelsea exactly a month ago.
They now begin the new Ligue 1 campaign on Sunday away to Nantes, while Spurs will turn their attentions to the start of the Premier League season as they take on Burnley at home on Saturday.
The French giants had, in May, won the Champions League for the first time in their history as Luis Enrique’s brilliant young side outclassed Inter Milan in the most one-sided final ever.
Teenager Desire Doue scored twice in an astonishing 5-0 victory.
Achraf Hakimi, playing against his former club, gave PSG an early lead, and Doue went from provider to finisher as his deflected shot doubled their advantage in the 20th minute.
Doue scored again just after the hour mark, ending any doubt about the outcome before Khvicha Kvaratskhelia ran away to get the fourth, and substitute Senny Mayulu made it five.
Inter were simply no match for the French club, who recorded the biggest victory by any team in the final in the 70-year history of the European Cup and Champions League.
The triumph for the Parisians comes after more than a decade of huge investment from their Qatari owners, and five years after they lost to Bayern Munich in their only previous final appearance.
The French league and cup double winners were remarkably just the second ever French winners of European football’s biggest prize; Marseille were the first in 1993, when they beat AC Milan in a final also played in Munich.
It is also a second Champions League for PSG coach Luis Enrique, who won with Lionel Messi’s Barcelona a decade ago.
This youthful PSG side is the best the competition has seen since, one that has been intelligently pieced together over the last two years and fully unleashed this season following the departure of Kylian Mbappe.
