•Chelsea won their fifth major Uefa European competition final, with only Liverpool winning more among English clubs (eight).
•Arsenal conceded four goals in a European match for the first time since a 5-1 loss to Bayern Munich in March 2017 and were the first team to do so in a Uefa Cup/Europa League final since Middlesbrough lost 4-0 to Sevilla in 2006.
•Chelsea became the first team to win a major European title without losing a game (W12 D3) since Manchester United in the 2007-08 Champions League.
•Arsenal have now lost five of their six major Uefa finals, including their last four in a row (1995 Cup Winners' Cup, 2000 Uefa Cup, 2006 Champions League, 2019 Europa League).
•Chelsea won 12 Europa League matches during 2018-19. Only one team have won more matches in a major Uefa European competition in one season (Atletico Madrid in 2011-12, 13 wins).
•Olivier Giroud became the first player to score 11 goals in major European competition for an English club since Alan Shearer in 2004-05 for Newcastle United.
•It is a record by a French player in a single European season, breaking the record held by Nestor Combin in 1963-64 (Cup Winners' Cup) and Just Fontaine in 1958-59 (European Cup).
•Chelsea's Pedro became the fifth player to score in a European Cup/Champions League and Uefa Cup/Europa League final, after Allan Simonsen, Dmitri Alenichev, Hernan Crespo and Steven Gerrard.
•In his final match, Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech conceded four goals in a match for only the third time in major European competition.
•Chelsea's starting XI featured no Englishmen, the first time a team had started a major European final without a player from their home nation in their starting line-up since Inter Milan against Bayern Munich in the 2010 Champions League final.
•Eden Hazard scored twice for Chelsea, becoming the first player to do so in the final of a major Uefa competition for an English club since Mark Hughes for Manchester United against Barcelona in the 1991 Cup Winners' Cup.
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