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8 These two teams have met 18 times before, and won eight games each! 6 Juventus have lost more CL finals than any other side, while Real are the most successful team in the competition’s history with 11 final wins out of 14! 5 Cristiano Ronaldo is one goal away from being the CL top scorer for the fifth straight season! 28 Italy and Spain have had 27 finalists in the past, so this will be number 28 for both! The Spanish have produced 16 winners, while Italy are joint second with 12! 74,500 That’s the capacity of Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, where the final will be held for the first time ever! 39 If Gianluigi Buffon lifts the trophy for the first time, he’ll be the oldest star to win…

1 GO ON A STADIUM TOUR! The UK has got some of the best footy grounds in the world, so why not go on a behind-the-scenes tour of one of them? The home of football Wembley is a good place to start, or try your nearest team and walk around where some of the planet’s biggest stars have been! 2 SIGN UP TO A SOCCER SCHOOL! Your footy season might be over, but that doesn’t mean you should stop training! Check out your club’s official website or Coerver Coaching to see if they’re running any footy courses near you, then sign up and get practising! 3 PLAY A GAME OF BEACH FOOTY! One of the best things you can do on your week off is to soak up some rays…

FIFA DIARY 2017 CONFEDERATIONS CUP After finishing our AC Milan Career Mode, now we’ve got a trophy to win with Portugal! ★ We stuck with this adjusted 4-2-3-1 formation for the whole tournament. Ronaldo pushes on as an LW with Carvalho covering him as LDM, while Bernardo Silva tucks inside at RM. Up front, Andre Silva is a proper poacher! ★ We scored a wicked FK against Germany in the final with CR7! It was 35 yards out, but we hit the left stick to line up a shot rather than cross it. We held LB, gave it three bars of power and it went straight in the top corner. Worldy! ★ ST Andre Silva’s high Attacking and Defensive work-rate was key in us winning the tournament! He makes loads…

Epic MATCH fan! Check out George Cockcroft with his mag collection! He recently became a new subscriber. Top stuff, mate! Quality FUT team! Alex King sent us his wicked FUT team, which includes tons of Man. City players! Awesome fave XI! Huddersfield supporter Alfie Pritchard sent us this pic of an ace team made up of his favourite players. We love it! Championes, championes! Here’s Leo Crawte and his footy team after they won their cup final recently! Star selfie! James and Thomas Ruddlesden got their photo taken with Exeter baller Ollie Watkins. Ollie was the EFL’s Young Player Of The Year! MATCH VOTE! We asked our Facebook fans to vote on which ace celebration they preferred – the Dybala Mask or the Griezmann Hotline Bling . The Juventus goal…

MATCH’S BEN! Ben helped launch the new training range Players got the proper changing room treatment Ben couldn’t remember if he’d left the oven on He got to play in it at Goodison Park Boxing hero Tony Bellew played in the match, too The injured Bolasie popped along for the kit launch Stars Jagielka and Gueye modelled the kit on stage Turn to page 36 for more pics of Everton’s new kit…

MEGA MOMENTS! Check out Kane’s red-hot form this month! STAT ATTACK Kane has scored six Prem hat-tricks – only four players have hit more! HOW HE WON IT! We shortlisted the Prem’s best players from May and asked our Facebook fans to vote for the best one. Kane won it with 35% of the vote, ahead of City’s Gabriel Jesus and Liverpool’s Philippe Coutinho! PREM TITLE KO! WEST HAM 1-0 TOTTENHAM MAY 5 The month didn’t get off to the best of starts for Kane, with a 1-0 defeat at West Ham ending Spurs’ title challenge! The striker forced some top saves out of Adrian, but couldn’t find the back of the net! FAREWELL WHL! TOTTENHAM 2-1 MAN. UNITED MAY 14 The local lad decided the last ever game at…

SERGI ROBERTO Barcelona v PSG You’ll definitely see better finishes than this volley from Roberto, but in terms of drama it was the highlight of the season! The pass from Neymar wasn’t bad, though! THOMAS MEUNIER Basel v PSG This awesome outside of the boot volley gets even better when you realise it was the right-back’s first ever goal for PSG, and won his side the game in the 90th minute! RADAMEL FALCAO Man. City v Monaco There were 12 goals across this epic last 16 tie, but this chipped finish from goal machine Falcao was our favourite – Willy Caballero didn’t get anywhere near it! DANI ALVES Juventus v Monaco When Monaco keeper Danijel Subasic punched this corner away, it looked like the danger was cleared, until Alves stepped…

PROTECT POSSESSION! This skill’s perfect for shielding the ball from an opponent that’s to the side or in front of you – Juventus CM Miralem Pjanic is the master! CREATE SPACE FOR YOURSELF! Watch out for him busting it out in central areas of the pitch to create space for a killer pass, or when he’s looking to switch play! BRING YOUR TEAM MATES INTO PLAY! When Pjanic doesn’t have space to run, shoot or pass, he’ll use this ace move to give his team-mates time to create space to receive possession! MATCH ACADEMY TIP! When performing the Pull Push Behind, sneak a look so you can see team-mates, opponents and space. Use your upper body and furthest foot away from your opponent to protect the ball, too. TRAINING GROUND!…

CREATE A STAR To start our rock-solid challenge, go to Customise and create yourself in the game. You can customise him exactly as you like, then add him to your fave team! ADVANCED SHOOTING CHALLENGE Give your new man a run-out in MATCH’s favourite skill game – all you have to do is score as many goals as you can! Tick this off when you bag an A! BEAT YOUR RIVALS Once you’ve done that, you’re ready for a game! Head to kick-off and beat your main rivals on Legendary difficulty! PENALTIES SKILL CHALLENGE Now you’ve won your first game, get back on the training ground to improve your skills further. This time, see if you can bag an A on the Penalties Skill Challenge! ALL-STAR CUP Finally, create a…

Everton 2017-18 Junior Home Shirt! One lucky reader will win Everton’s new junior home shirt for next season! MATCH absolutely loves it! For more on Everton’s wicked 2017-18 home kit, check out http://evertondirect.evertonfc.com/stores/everton/en Messigraphica Book! To celebrate the release of this biography of Lionel Messi in graphics, we’ve got five copies of the book up for grabs! Messigraphica: A Graphic Biography Of The Genius Of Lionel Messi is out on June 1. Aurum Press is part of The Quarto Group. HOW TO ENTER!  WWW.MATCHFOOTBALL.CO.UK Then click ‘Win’ in the navigation bar on the MATCH website. Full T&Cs are available online.…

Man. United are celebrating the career of club legend MICHAEL CARRICK at Old Trafford this weekend! To mark the class midfielder’s 11 years in Manchester, he’s picked a team of megastars to take on members of United’s 2008 Champions League winning side. Get a load of the players that could be on show! MAN. UNITED 2008 XI Manager: Sir Alex Ferguson Edwin van der Sar Gary Neville Nemanja Vidic Rio Ferdinand Paul Scholes Ryan Giggs Wayne Rooney MICHAEL CARRICK ALL-STAR XI  Manager: Harry Redknapp Jamie Carragher John Terry Frank Lampard Steven Gerrard Michael Owen Antoine Griezmann NBA STAR! ATLETICO striker Griez has been pestered about his future all season, but recently he said the one team that could tempt him away was the New York Knicks! He said, “I’d only…

The new footy will be used across the English and Scottish leagues! Check out the wicked new Mitre Delta 3 football – the official ball for the EFL and SPFL! We can’t get enough of the ace colourway! Price: £115 mitre.com HELLO YELLOW! Get a load of what the ball will look like in winter! Where did we put our sunglasses? WELL RETRO! The top-quality footy is inspired by Mitre’s Delta ball last used way back in 2001! Your dad will defo remember the proper old-school design! EPIC TECH! Mitre say it’ll improve your first touch, shot accuracy and how much power you can generate! It soaks up less water when raining, too. Wicked!…

RECORD GOALSCORER! C-Ron’s the Champions League’s all-time top scorer with 103 goals – nine more than mega rival Lionel Messi! 16 Ronaldo’s top of the table for 2016-17 CL goals and assists combined. Legend! GOLDEN BOOT KING! Cristiano’s won the Champions League Golden Boot a record five times, and he’s bagged the last four awards. Mad! 7 He’s this season’s Champo League top scorer when it comes to right-footed goals! 32 CR7’s helped Real score more goals than any other team in this season’s CL! CHAMPO LEAGUE LOVER! No current outfield player in European football has played more Champions League games than Ronaldo – 139! 1,110 Cristiano has played more minutes in this season’s CL than any other player! HAT-TRICK HERO! The Real Madrid superstar has hit seven Champo League…

17 Everton and Man. City both had 17 different goalscorers in 2016-17 – more than any other teams! 47 Chelsea’s title winner Michy Batshuayi scored a goal every 47.8 minutes this season – no player had a better record! MOST GOALS & ASSISTS COMBINED BEST ATTACK WORST ATTACK 100% Burnley were leading seven games at half-time in 2016-17 – and won every single one of them. Crazy! CLEAN SHEET KINGS GAME STREAKS! 13M The total combined attendance for every Prem match this season was over 13.6 million! That’d fill Old Trafford over 175 times. Wow! 11 Hull gave away 11 penalties in 2016-17 – more than anyone else! BIGGEST SCORELINES…

Stoke 2017-18 kits Notice anything different about Stoke’s shirts for next season? They have a sponsor on the sleeves. Madness! store.stokecityfc.com Everton 2017-18 home kit Umbro did a class job with Everton’s home kit last season, and they’ve done it again! Shirt Price: £50 evertondirect.com Bayern 2017-18 home kit Adidas have made Bayern Munich’s kits for decades now, and we reckon next season’s design is one of their bests yet! Look at the stripes! Shirt Price: £60 lovellsoccer.co.uk Newcastle 2017-18 home kit We can’t wait to see Rafa Benitez’s boys back in the Premier League – especially now they’ve got a mind-blowing new home shirt! Shirt Price: TBC nufcdirect.co.uk Brighton 2017-18 home kit The Seagulls are all set for their first season in the Prem with this epic new shirt!…

The winner of the Champo League can earn up to £49.1 million in prize money throughout the competition! Any team that bags the CL three years in a row or five times in total wins the right to keep a full-sized replica of the trophy! Ex-Ajax, Real Madrid and AC Milan legend Clarence Seedorf is the only player to win the trophy with three different clubs! Ex-AC Milan defender Paolo Maldini took just 52 seconds to score in the 2005 final against Liverpool – it’s the fastest ever CL final goal! This season’s final between Juve and Real will be the first to take place in Wales ! A team from Spain has won five of the last eight CL finals. A side from Italy’s done so just once! Each…