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Who: Paris Saint-Germain vs Tottenham Hotspur
What: UEFA Super Cup
Where: Bluenergy Stadium successful Udine, Italy
When: Wednesday, August 13 astatine 9pm (19:00 GMT)
How to follow: We’ll person each the build-up connected Al Jazeera Sport from 5pm (15:00 GMT) successful beforehand of our unrecorded substance commentary stream.
The archetypal large trophy of the play is up for grabs and UEFA Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain volition beryllium targeting a 4th rubric successful the calendar twelvemonth erstwhile they look Europa League champions Tottenham Hotspur.
Luis Enrique’s Parisians swept each earlier them connected location ungraded and successful Europe past year, though occurrence wasn’t to travel connected the planetary signifier successful the summer.
Tottenham manager Thomas Frank inherits a broadside that secured their archetypal European trophy successful much than 4 decades. The northbound Londoners, however, finished lone 1 spot supra the relegation portion successful the English Premier League.
Al Jazeera Sport takes a person look astatine the lucifer being played astatine the location of Italian broadside Udinese.
What is the UEFA Super Cup?
The contention pits the winners of the erstwhile season’s UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League competitions.
The 2025 UEFA Super Cup Giant Ball and Trophy successful Piazza Matteotti earlier the UEFA Super Cup successful Udine City Centre [Chris Ricco – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images]How did PSG and Tottenham suffice for the Super Cup final?
PSG hammered Inter Milan 5-0 successful the last of last season’s UEFA Champions League.
French teenage sensation, Desire Doue, scored doubly and provided an assistance arsenic the Italians were swept speech successful Munich.
Tottenham overcame Manchester United 1-0 successful the last of the UEFA Europa League.
Brennan Johnson scored the lone extremity of the crippled successful the archetypal half. It wasn’t capable to prevention Ange Postecoglu’s occupation arsenic manager, arsenic the Australian was sacked 2 weeks later pursuing the 17th-place decorativeness successful the Premier League.
Tottenham Hotspur’s now-departed captain, Son Heung-min, lifts the trophy with teammates aft winning the Europa League last past play [Andrew Couldridge/Reuters]What trophies did PSG triumph successful their treble past season?
PSG sealed the 2024-25 Ligue 1 play by an unthinkable 19 points – contempt easing disconnected for the last three-winless matches.
The Parisians besides sealed the French Cup, beating Reims 3-0, a week earlier the Champions League final.
What happened to PSG astatine the UEFA Club World Cup?
Following their treble, PSG had the accidental to travel successful the footsteps of Manchester City, who lifted 5 trophies successful a calendar twelvemonth successful 2023.
Pep Guardiola’s broadside followed up the home and European treble with wins successful the Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup (CWC) that year.
PSG’s accidental to replicate that unsocial accomplishment was ended by a daze 3-0 defeat by unfancied Chelsea successful the last of this year’s expanded CWC.
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Who are the UEFA Super Cup holders?
Spanish giants Real Madrid bushed Italian broadside Atalanta 2-0 successful the last successful Monaco past year.
Real were the Champions League holders, having overcome Germany’s Borussia Dortmund 2-0 successful the final the erstwhile season.
Atalanta besides topped a German broadside successful the Europa League last the twelvemonth before, arsenic they bushed Bayer Leverkusen 3-0.
Are Real Madrid the grounds UEFA Super Cup winners?
Yes. The Spanish giants’ triumph against Atalanta successful 2024 was a record-extending sixth Super Cup victory. It was besides the 5th clip successful 11 years that Los Blancos lifted the trophy.
Real Madrid players and unit airs with the trophy aft winning the UEFA Super Cup last against Atalanta past play [Darko Bandic/AP]What happens if you triumph the UEFA Super Cup?
Both finalists person already qualified for this season’s UEFA Champions League based connected their European victories past season.
UEFA retains the authoritative trophy, but a replica, alongside 40 golden medals, are presented to the winners to keep.
How overmuch wealth does the UEFA Super Cup victor get?
The winners volition person a cheque for 5 cardinal euros ($5.8m) successful prize money.
The runners-up don’t fare excessively badly, receiving 4 cardinal euros ($4.64m).
The Winners’ Medal is seen earlier the UEFA Super Cup 2025 lucifer betwixt Paris Saint-Germain and Tottenham Hotspur astatine Udine, Italy [Tullio Puglia – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images]PSG squad news
Midfielder Joao Neves is suspended pursuing his reddish paper successful the FIFA World Cup last decision by Chelsea.
Conversely, Willian Pacho and Lucas Hernandez were some suspended for that last but are escaped to instrumentality for this match.
New signing from Lille, Lucas Chevalier, could commencement successful extremity with rumours that Gianluigi Donnarumma could beryllium astir to permission the club.
Tottenham squad news
James Maddison tore his ACL successful the preseason affable with Newcastle United and is present acceptable to miss astir of the forthcoming campaign.
Dejan Kulusevski, Radu Dragusin and Dominic Solanke each stay sidelined, portion Destiny Udogie is besides a doubt.
Spurs past week waved goodbye to their captain, Son Heung-min, who joined Major League Soccer broadside Los Angeles.
Paris Saint-Germain predicted starting XI:
Chevalier; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Nuno Mendes; Zaire-Emery, Vitinha, Fabian Ruiz; Doue, Dembele, Kvaratskhelia
Tottenham Hotspur predicted starting XI:
Vicario; Pedro Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Spence; Bentancur, Palhinha, Sarr; Johnson, Richarlison, Kudus
A wide presumption of Bluenergy Stadium successful Udine, Italy, earlier the UEFA Super Cup 2025 lucifer betwixt Paris Saint-Germain and Tottenham Hotspur [Claudio Villa/Getty Images]
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