After being crowned Premier League and FA Cup champions last month, Manchester City are just 90 minutes away from completing an historic treble.
The only other English side to achieve a treble are the Sky Blues’ cross-city rivals Manchester United, who achieved the feat back in 1999.
City are yet to win a Champions League title but have come close since Pep Guardiola took over in 2016.
The Spaniard guided his side to the final two years ago in 2021, however a first-half Kai Havertz strike meant Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea lifted the trophy.
In their last European campaign, City were knocked out in the semi-finals by eventual winners Real Madrid.
Inter Milan are also looking to get their hands on some more silverware this season.
Lautaro Martinez netted twice as the Nerazzurri beat Fiorentina 2-1 to win the Coppa Italia last month.
Inter have won the Champions League three times, and last lifted the coveted trophy in 2010. Then, they beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in Madrid thanks to a brace scored by Argentine striker Diego Milito.
Last season Simone Inzaghi’s side only made it as far as the Round of 16, slumping to a 2-1 loss to Liverpool on aggregate.
This year will be the first time that Inter Milan have played an English side in a Champions League final, and they are yet to officially meet Manchester City in a competitive match.
All eyes will be on the spearhead of Manchester City’s clinical attack, Erling Haaland.
The Norwegian striker has scored 12 goals in the Champions League this season, which included five in one game during City’s 7-0 thrashing of RB Leipzig in the Round of 16.
Both sides’ fate in the final could rest on the performance of the 22-year-old.
Manchester City vs Inter Milan will be played at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, which has a capacity of 74,753.
This will be the second time that the ground has played host to the Champions League final.
Liverpool lifted their fifth Champions League title at the stadium in 2005, after staging their now historic comeback when they found themselves 3-0 down at halftime to AC Milan.
In the US, kick-off time is 3pm ET / 12pm PT. The match will be shown onParamount+ in the US. See below for international broadcast options.
VPN guide
Use a VPN to watch Champions League football from outside your country
If you’re out of the country for a Champions League fixture, then you won't be able to watch on your domestic streaming service as usual. The broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!) and blocks you from watching it. You can use a VPN to get around that, though, without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.
A Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, creates a private connection between your device and t'internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and will let you watch. And all the info going between is entirely encrypted, anonymous and safe – and that's a result.
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International Champions League TV rights
• UK: BT Sport has all the rights to the Champions League.
• USA: CBS, Paramount+ and fuboTV are the places to watch the Champions League.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2022/23 is DAZN.
• Australia: Stan Sport will screen every game of the Champions League.
• New Zealand: Spark Sport is serving up all the Champions League games.
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Edward Moss is a third year Sports Journalism student at the University of Central Lancashire. He has previous experience writing for the website VAVEL.
He supports Arsenal and regularly attends his local non-league side Alfreton Town. He lives by the belief that Bukayo Saka is the answer to all the world’s problems.
