Inter, all the Champions Cup/Champions League finals won and lost: a balance that will be broken in Monaco

In Munich, Inter will play their seventh Champions League final, or European Cup as it was once called. On Saturday 31 May at 9:00 p.m., at the Allianz Arena, Simone Inzaghi's Nerazzurri will take to the field against Paris Saint-Germain , a team that has only played one final, the one they lost in 2020 against Bayern Munich.

On the other hand, the entry of the Parisians into the elite of European football is a recent thing, with the arrival in 2011 of the sovereign fund of Qatar and its immense capital. Different instead the coat of arms of Inter, which in the six previous finals boasts three victories and three defeats , three nights of joy and great celebrations and three evenings of tears and bitterness. A balance of absolute parity that next Saturday will necessarily be broken, in one sense or another. A presence in the final act of the most prestigious trophy in Europe spread over the span of over 60 years , between the first final in 1964 and the one next Saturday, testifying to a high level football history constant over the years, despite ups and downs.

Let's retrace the Champions League finals played by Inter, from the epic of the 1960s to the more recent ones.

Five years pass and Inter returns to the Champions Cup final. It is a very different team compared to the one of the 60s, with Invernizzi on the bench and new protagonists on the field such as Oriali, Bonisnegna and Frustapuli . However, there are still two stainless pillars such as Facchetti and Mazzola , to act as an ideal link between the team of the previous decade and the current one.

At the Rotterdam stadium, however, the Ajax of the legendary Johan Cruijff prevailed, with the scorer of the brace that decided the match: 2-0 for the Dutch, once again at the top of Europe after the success of the previous year. Inter cried , Ajax lifted the Champions Cup in the stadium of their bitter rivals Feyenoord.