Portuguese referee Pedro Proenca will take charge of tomorrow’s Champions League final between Chelsea and Bayern Munich.
Proenca, 41, made his international debut in 2003 and has now officiated in more than 65 UEFA matches. This year he has controlled five Champions League games, including the round of 16 return leg between Inter and Marseille.
He also refereed two Europa League matches, including the first leg of the quarter-final between Schalke 04 and beaten finalists Athletic Bilbao
Bertino Miranda and Ricardo Santos, also from Portugal, will run the lines in Munich tomorrow, while the fourth official will be Carlos Velasco Carballo, from Spain.
Champions League facts...
• Bayern Munich are the first team to benefit from home stadium advantage since the Champions League was inaugurated in the 1992-93 season. The last time a team played at home in a European Cup final was in 1984 when the visitors, Liverpool, beat Roma on penalties after a 1-1 draw in Rome.
• It is the sixth time that Europe’s premier club competition has been contested in a clash between German and English teams. Bayern won the first in 1975 when they beat Leeds United 2-0 but the four since have all gone in favour of England. Bayern lost 1-0 to Aston Villa in 1982 and 2-1 to Manchester United in 1999. The other games were Liverpool vs Bor. Moenchengladbach (3-1 in 1977) and Nottingham Forest vs Hamburg (1-0 in 1980).