For the first time in its history, Paris St-Germain (PSG) has finally won the Champions League and crowned the champion of Europe.

PSG smashed Inter Milan in the final at the Allianz Arena in Munich with a whooping  5-0.

PSG stormed past Inter Milan in the 2025 Champions League final. It won 5-0, by more goals than any Champions League finalist ever before. It won as a team, with four goals scored or assisted by teenagers — including breakout 19-year-old star Désiré Doué.

It pressed, and possessed the ball, and unlocked Inter in the 12th minute with a gorgeous team goal. Achraf Hakimi drilled in the opener and, in a classy gesture, chose not to celebrate against his former club.

Eight minutes later, Ousmane Dembélé and Doué sped up the field and landed a killer blow on the counterattack.

But it was the third goal, in the 63rd minute, that confirmed PSG’s supremacy, and floored Inter, and wowed hundreds of millions of viewers around the world.

Dembélé rolled a blind, clever ball into the path of Vitinha; Vitinha, PSG’s midfield maestro, teed up Doué; and Doué, a teen signed last summer in part to replace Mbappé, finished the job. He became the first man to contribute three goals or assists in a Champions League final.

A fourth goal 10 minutes later, scored by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, set off crazed celebrations at the Allianz Arena in Munich.

And a fifth, scored by 19-year-old sub Senny Mayulu, triggered joyous tears on PSG’s bench, then a party in Paris.

For a little over a decade, Paris Saint-Germain was a controversial project and a collection of names. It was Zlatan Ibrahimovic and David Beckham, then Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi. It was a club transformed by money, and defined by unflinching ambition. It was many things, but never the one thing it desperately wanted to be — until Saturday, when PSG, in its very first year without a megastar, became European champions.

This, at the pinnacle of soccer, is where PSG’s Qatari owners envisioned the club when they bought it back in 2011. It’s where they tried to take it with billions of dollars, much of it spent on established superstars. They brought in Ibrahimović and Thiago Silva, Lucas Moura and Marco Verratti. Edinson Cavani, David Luiz, Angel Di Maria, Neymar, Messi and Mbappé eventually followed. Every single one of them arrived accompanied by untold hype and astronomical expectations.