We're now two-time winners of the biggest prize in women's European football, and here are some of the best facts and stats from our title-winning run in this year's competition.
We won our second title 18 years on from our only previous final; a record gap between first and second titles and finals.
We were the first team to reach the final from round one of this format and our campaign involved an unprecedented 15 matches.
Katie McCabe started all 15 matches and her 1,297 minutes is the most ever by a player in a single UEFA women's club season. Stina Blackstenius, Mariona Caldentey, Caitlin Foord, Frida Maanum and Alessia Russo also appeared in all 15 games.
We have now knocked out all five Spanish opponents we’ve played in the UEFA Women’s Champions League**.** Only Lyon can boast a similar 100% progression rate against teams from a particular nation in the competition (five v Italian clubs).
We were the first team ever to reach the final of the UEFA Women’s Champions League despite losing the first leg of both our quarter-final (vs Real Madrid) and semi-final (vs Lyon) ties; the team scoring first in the last seven finals since 2018 had won the competition five times.
Renée Slegers became the first Dutch manager to win the UEFA Women’s Champions League and third overall to win either the men’s or women’s competition after Louis Van Gaal (1995 with Ajax) and Frank Rijkaard (2006 with Barcelona).
Alessia Russo and Mariona Caldentey scored seven goals each in the UEFA Women’s Champions League this season with only Vivianne Miedema in 2019/20 (10) and Kim Little in 2009/10 (nine) ever scoring more times in a campaign for an English club, with both also doing so for us.
Mariona was the only current Arsenal player to have ever featured in a final of the UEFA Women’s Champions League, playing in five for Barcelona between 2019 and 2024. The Barcelona squad meanwhile had made 48 collective appearances in finals.
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