Champions League Final: List of records and milestones as Real Madrid seal 12th title

Cristiano Ronaldo

Cristiano Ronaldo broke a few records of his own in the Champions League final

12 – Ronaldo finished the season as the Champions League top goalscorer yet again. He overtook Lionel Messi who was on 11 goals.

6 – This is the sixth time Ronaldo has finished as top goalscorer – one more than Messi – and the first time a player has been top scorer in five consecutive seasons. His previous best seasons were 2007/08 (8 goals), 2012/13 (12 goals), 2013/14 (17 goals), 2014/15 (10 goals), and 2015/16 (16 goals).

600 – Ronaldo scored his 600^th goal of his career for both club and country in his 855^th game.

3 – Ronaldo has now scored in three different finals. Alfredo Di Stefano is the only other player to have scored in three different European finals.

The Portuguese forward scored in 2008 for Manchester United (against Chelsea), 2014 (against Atletico Madrid) and now in 2017. In 2016, he only scored in the penalty shootout and not during the game.

The goal that made Ronaldo the UCL’s outright top goalscorer yet again

2 – Ronaldo also became only the third player to score the opening goal in two different finals. The first was Sandro Mazzola (for Inter Milan in 1964 & 1965) followed by Franz Roth (for Bayern Munich in 1975 & !976)

5 – Ronaldo has never failed to score against Juventus. He has now scored 6 goals in 5 games against the Italian side.

4 – Ronaldo has scored 4 goals in UCL finals; which is twice as many as any other player.

Key stats courtesy of Opta, Gracenote, Mister Chiping and WhoScored