Trends from the last time a UCL final didn't feature an English, Spanish or German club - ESPN

Saturday's UEFA Champions League Final between Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain is a rare matchup in the competition.

The two sides have never faced off against each other, and they have differing pedigrees in the Champions League. Inter Milan has won the competition three times — most recently in 2010 — while PSG has never raised the trophy, last appearing in a final in 2020.

Besides the on-pitch unfamiliarity between the two sides, Saturday marks the first Champions League final since 2004 that won't feature a side from England, Spain or Germany. That year, Portuguese club FC Porto defeated French club AS Monaco 3-0, giving manager José Mourinho his first Champions League crown.

Here's a look back at what the world looked like surrounding that final — May 26, 2004.

Neither club's respective top scorer in the 2025 competition — Ousmane Dembélé for PSG, Lautaro Martínez for Inter — was yet 10 years old when Porto won the Champions League. Going a step further, no current player on Inter or PSG had even started his senior career.

Some of the other big names across world soccer were in a similar position.

Lionel Messi hadn't appeared in a senior game for Barcelona yet. Cristiano Ronaldo had just completed his first season with Manchester United, notching four goals and four assists over 29 matches. Barcelona star Lamine Yamal, who scored a goal against Inter in this season's semifinals, wouldn't be born for another three years.

Usher earned one of his nine career No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits a week before Porto won the Champions League. «Burn» leaped from No. 3 to the top, overtaking another of the Super Bowl LVIII's halftime performer's tracks for the spot: «Yeah!» featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon.

That track moved down