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Gonçalo Guedes struck the only goal as Portugal won the inaugural UEFA Nations League. At a glance Portugal have added the UEFA Nations League crown to their UEFA EURO 2016 triumph after Gonçalo Guedes's second-half strike downed the Netherlands. Defences held sway in an even first 59 minutes. Cristiano Ronaldo, Memphis Depay and Bernardo Silva all carried menace, but as soon as they encountered their opponents' defensive walls, impenetrable fortifications marshalled by Virgil van Dijk and José Fonte, they floundered. Then, on the hour, came the breakthrough. Bernardo Silva looked to have overcooked his disguised pass to Guedes, but the Valencia forward wrapped his foot around it and squeezed a shot inside the post. Despite getting two hands to the ball, Jasper Cillessen could not keep it out. The Oranje have become used to falling behind and responded gamely, with Depay going close from a header. The Portuguese rearguard held firm, however, with the sight of R...

All you need to know in 60 seconds Liverpool are champions of Europe for the sixth time after a 2-0 defeat of Premier League rivals Tottenham in Madrid. The Reds' victory, courtesy a Mohamed Salah penalty awarded in the first minute and converted in the second, plus a late Divock Origi effort, not only exorcises the demons of last season's 3-1 loss to Real Madrid in Kyiv but also ends Jürgen Klopp's run of six successive club final defeats. It gets sweeter still for Salah. His delight – or was it relief? – at converting from the spot after Moussa Sissoko was penalised for handball after just 24 seconds was no doubt magnified by the fact he was forced off injured in the Ukrainian capital last year. Salah's striker was not the start of a customary first-half deluge from Liverpool, though, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson going closest to doubling their lead with shots from distance later in the half. Heung-Min Son twice ran in behind for Spurs but ...

Eden Hazard scored two of Chelsea's four second-half goals as Maurizio Sarri's side blew Arsenal away. Chelsea overran London rivals Arsenal in Baku, striking four times in the second half to hand Maurizio Sarri his first trophy as a coach.  Arsenal edged the formative stages with Granit Xhaka's drive from distance clipping the top of the bar before former Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Čech, playing the final game of his illustrious career, denied Emerson Palmieri and Olivier Giroud before the interval. The contest needed a spark and Giroud provided it, darting in front of Laurent Koscielny to meet Emerson's pinpoint delivery with a diving header. It was the French striker's 11th of the campaign and sealed his poistion at the top of the scoring charts outright. Eden Hazard had been a peripheral figure to that point but the Belgian schemer made his mark on the hour, cutting back a low cross that Pedro Rodríguez swept across Čech to give Sarri's men brea...

Real Madrid completed their third straight UEFA Champions League triumph with a 3-1 defeat of Liverpool in Kyiv. Gareth Bale scored twice off the bench as Real Madrid beat Liverpool 3-1 in Kyiv to become European champions for the 13th time. Bale's first was an 'I-was-there' goal, one to rival Zinédine Zidane, Mario Mandžukić and any other you care to name as the best in final history. Marcelo's cross from the left looked harmless enough, but the Welshman, 20 metres out, somehow contorted his body to hook the ball over his head with enough power that it fizzed past Loris Karius. Quite the contrast to Madrid's opener on 51 minutes, when Karius attempted to roll the ball out to a team-mate only for Benzema to stick out a hopeful leg which turned out to be a goalscoring interception. Isco had been denied by the crossbar shortly prior to that, but Liverpool – creaking ever since the talismanic Mohamed Salah had been forced off with a shoulder problem in t...

Cristiano Ronaldo's last-gasp penalty on his 150th UEFA Champions League appearance sent Real Madrid through to their eighth consecutive semi-final. THE MATCH AS IT HAPPENED Juventus needed an early fillip having been defeated 3-0 at home in the first leg and it arrived inside two minutes when Sami Khedira darted down the right channel and crossed for Mario Mandžukić to thump a header past Keylor Navas. The Croatian striker repeated the trick from Stephan Lichtsteiner's centre before the interval and the most unlikely of turnarounds became a serious reality when Blaise Matuidi stabbed in the third following a Navas fumble just past the hour. But, with extra time looming, Medhi Benatia barged over Lucas Vázquez and Ronaldo kept his cool to fire the penalty into the top corner past Wojciech Szczęsny – who came on for the spot kick after Gianluigi Buffon was dismissed. Key player: Mario Mandžukić (Juventus) Mandžukić had not been at his best and was compet...

Top scorer in the UEFA Champions League once more as his side retained the trophy, Cristiano Ronaldo has been named UEFA Men's Player of the Year for a second consecutive season. Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has won the UEFA Men's Player of the Year award for the 2016/17 season. The 32-year-old Portuguese international – who last term helped the Spanish team to their second successive UEFA Champions League title and 12th overall in European football's premier club competition – received the award at the 2017/18 UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Monaco on Thursday. Ronaldo picked up the trophy for the second consecutive season and third time in total, having also received the accolade in 2013/14. He finished ahead of two other shortlisted candidates, Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi and Juventus and Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, in a poll of the 80 coaches in the group stage of the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League and UEFA Euro...

See the best ten goals scored in France, featuring efforts by Cristiano Ronaldo, Antoine Griezmann and Xherdan Shaqiri, as voted for by expert panel including Sir Alex Ferguson and Alain Giresse.

Real Madrid 1-1 Atlético Madrid (Real Madrid win 5-3 on pens) The Merengues recorded their 11th European Cup win and second against Atlético, Cristiano Ronaldo converting the decisive spot kick. Real Madrid prevailed on penalties as they eventually got the better of Atlético Madrid in the UEFA Champions League final for the second time in three seasons. Cristiano Ronaldo, who had a quiet match by his high standards, scored the decisive spot kick after Juanfran had hit the base of the post with the eighth attempt of the shoot-out. Substitute Yannick Carrasco's 79th-minute equaliser cancelled out a first-half strike by Sergio Ramos, whose own – last-gasp – leveller against the Rojiblancos had forced extra time in Lisbon two years ago. Watch the best of the action from the dramatic showpiece between Real Madrid and city rivals Atlético at Milan’s San Siro.

MATCH SUMMARY Real Madrid 2-1 Man. United Real Madrid win third Super Cup in four years Casemiro and Isco on the mark for Madrid Lukaku scores consolation on United debut Isco named man of the match in Skopje Watch the opening ceremony of the UEFA Super Cup between Real Madrid and Manchester United, featuring a traditional folk dance followed by Coldplay's A Sky Full Of Stars performed by 19 hearing-impaired youngsters from a local state school for education and rehabilitation, DUCOR Partenija Zografski.

Only spared defeat by Sergio Ramos' late equaliser, Madrid snatched the trophy thanks to Dani Carvajal's 119th-minute solo strike. Dani Carvajal's 119th-minute solo strike gives Madrid victory against Sevilla in Trondheim Marco Asensio's superb curling shot gives Madrid the lead (21) Franco Vázquez (41) and Yevhen Konoplyanka penalty (72) turn match around Sergio Ramos forces extra time with equaliser in final seconds (90+3) Madrid win UEFA Super Cup for third time; Sevilla's third defeat in a row A remarkable solo Dani Carvajal goal won the UEFA Super Cup for Real Madrid, the right-back dancing through to settle an engrossing contest in the 119th minute and inflict yet another defeat in the competition on Sevilla. Madrid started brightly and were rewarded in spectacular fashion midway through the opening period. Twenty-year-old Marco Asensio, making his first European appearance, picked up possession 25 metres out and curled a shot into the top co...

Real Madrid became the first team to retain the UEFA Champions League, and Cristiano Ronaldo the first player to score in three finals, with a devastating 4-1 defeat of Juventus in Wales. Real Madrid became the first team to retain the UEFA Champions League, and Cristiano Ronaldo the first player to score in three finals, as a clinical display proved too much for Juventus in Cardiff to secure their 12th European crown. MATCH SUMMARY Madrid the first side to win successive UEFA Champions League titles Ronaldo opens scoring to become first man to register in three UCL finals Mandžukić levels with acrobatic volley Casemiro and Ronaldo score in quick succession in second half Asensio hits fourth following Cuadrado's dismissal Ronaldo ends campaign with 12 goals, overtaking Messi as top scorer

Paul Pogba and Henrikh Mkhitaryan struck as José Mourinho's side overpowered a youthful Ajax team in Stockholm to complete the set for Manchester United. MATCH SUMMARY Dominant United complete clean sweep of major UEFA trophies English side earn place in next season's UEFA Champions League group stage Pogba's deflected effort opens the scoring Mkhitaryan hooks in second following a corner Minute's respect observed for those affected by Manchester attacks