UEFA Champions League Final Live Updates: Manchester City Eye Maiden Title, Chelsea Look for Second

Meanwhile, for the first time in 74 years, Brentford FC will play in the top flight of English Football.

𝙒𝙀 𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙈𝙄𝙀𝙍 𝙇𝙀𝘼𝙂𝙐𝙀#BrentfordFC #BeeTogether 🐝 pic.twitter.com/OlsPspeZMw

— Brentford FC (@BrentfordFC) May 29, 2021

UEFA Champions League Final LIVE: Chelsea and City have not met in a final since 1986 in the short-lived Full Members Cup, when the London club won 5-4 at Wembley. That was before the Premier League and modern Champions League existed, before Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea in 2003 and before the Abu Dhabi takeover of City in 2008. Between them they have won seven of the last 10 Premier League titles. Chelsea have experience at this stage in Europe before, having beaten Bayern Munich on penalties in the 2012 final. They have also won the Europa League twice since then.

UEFA Champions League Final 2021: The finalists were among the 12 clubs which  announced their breakaway project in April but were also among the first to withdraw in the face of fan anger -- those supporters are now hoping to be celebrating European glory in Portugal this weekend. It is the third final of Europe's elite club competition between two Premier League sides, and the second in just three seasons, such is the financial might of the English game. And these are the two clubs whose own transformations in the last two decades under mega-rich foreign owners have done the most to change the landscape of the Premier League.

UEFA Champions League: On the other side of the pitch, Chelsea reached the final for the first time since 2012, when they beat last season's winners Bayern Munich at their own Allianz Arena stadium. Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel is the first to reach back-to-back finals with two different clubs in Champions League and European Cup history after losing last season's final with Paris Saint-Germain. Tuchel took over at Stamford Bridge in January and has made an instant impact, which was crucial to lead the team to the big finale in Porto.

Matthew McConaughey has a special message for Thomas Tuchel's boys.

CHELSEA! Good vibes from @mcconaughey. 💙👊#UCLFinal pic.twitter.com/J69MHwwiTy

— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) May 29, 2021

UEFA Champions League Final LIVE: Thirteen years after a takeover by Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour transformed City’s fortunes, the English champions have reached club football’s biggest game for the first time. Guardiola arrived in Manchester five years ago and has won three Premier League titles among eight major trophies in that time. But City had not progressed beyond the quarter-finals in his first four seasons in charge.

Hello and welcome to News18Sports' live blog of UEFA Champions League final between Manchester City and Chelsea. These two English stalwarts face each other at Porto's Estadio do Dragao.