2026 UEFA Super Cup

2026 UEFA Super Cup

Match programme cover
Paris Saint-Germain Aston Villa 2 1
Date	12 August 2026 (2026-08-12)
Venue	Red Bull Arena, Salzburg
Man of the Match	Désiré Doué (Paris Saint-Germain) [1]
Referee	Omar Artan (Somalia) [2]
Attendance	27,681 [3]
Weather	Clear night 23 °C (73 °F) 48% humidity [4]
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The 2026 UEFA Super Cup was the 51st edition of the UEFA Super Cup, an annual football match organised by UEFA and contested by the reigning champions of the top two European club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. The match featured French club Paris Saint-Germain, the winners of the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League and reigning UEFA Super Cup title holders, and English club Aston Villa, the winners of the 2025–26 UEFA Europa League. It was played at the Red Bull Arena in Salzburg, Austria, ^[5] on 12 August 2026. ^{[6] [7]}

Paris Saint-Germain won the match 2–1 for their second UEFA Super Cup title. ^[8]

Teams

Team	Qualification	Previous participations (bold indicates winners)
Paris Saint-Germain	Winners of the 2025–26 UEFA Champions League	2 (1996, 2025 )
Aston Villa	Winners of the 2025–26 UEFA Europa League	1 ( 1982 )

Venue

The Red Bull Arena in Salzburg hosted the match.

It was the first UEFA Super Cup to be held in Austria, and the first major European final to be played in Salzburg. It was the seventh major European club final to be played in Austria, after four in the European Cup/Champions League (1964, 1987, 1990, 1995), one in the Cup Winners' Cup (1970) and one in the UEFA Cup (1994 first leg), all of which were held at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna. ^[9] The Red Bull Arena is the home stadium of Red Bull Salzburg, and has a capacity of 30,071. The venue opened in 2003, and hosted three group stage matches at UEFA Euro 2008. ^[10] It was known as Stadion Salzburg in UEFA communications due to their restrictions on third-party sponsorship. ^[11]

Host selection

The Red Bull Arena was selected as the host by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Tirana, Albania, on 11 September 2025. ^[5]

Pre-match

After being denied entry to the United States to officiate at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Somali referee Omar Artan was appointed as the lead official for the 2026 UEFA Super Cup on 11 June 2026, becoming the first ever non-European to officiate the match. ^{[2] [12]} The appointment was made within the framework of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between UEFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF), signed on the sidelines of the 76th FIFA Congress in Vancouver, Canada in April 2026. ^[2]

Dignitaries in attendance

Other officials who attended the match included UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin and General Secretary Theodore Theodoridis, CAF President Patrice Motsepe, Paris Saint-Germain FC President Nasser Al-Khelaifi, Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) President Josef Pröll representing the host nation, and Rwandan President Paul Kagame, whose country's "Visit Rwanda" tourism campaign sponsors both teams. ^{[13] [14]} This match marked Čeferin’s first public appearance since his boycott of the 2026 FIFA World Cup final match between Spain and Argentina, an action prompted by the Balogun red card controversy. ^{[15] [16] [17]}

Match

Summary

In the 20th minute, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia gave Paris Saint-Germain the lead when he received the ball on the left from Désiré Doué before cutting into the penalty area and shooting right footed to the left of the net. It was 1–1 in the 45th minute when Brian Madjo finished high to the net from six yards out with a side-footed volley after a cross from John McGinn from the right. This goal made him the youngest player ever to score at the UEFA Super Cup, at 17 years and 212 days. ^[18]

In the 60th minute, Désiré Doué scored to make it 2–1 to Paris Saint-Germain when he received a pass on the right from substitute Ousmane Dembélé before cutting in on his left foot before shooting into the left of the net from the right edge of the six yard box. After a VAR check for offside, the goal was awarded. ^[19]

Following this result, Paris Saint-Germain became the fourth club (after Ajax, AC Milan, and Real Madrid) to win the UEFA Super Cup in consecutive seasons. ^[20]

Details

The Champions League winners were designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes.

12 August 2026 (2026-08-12)

21:00 UTC+2

Paris Saint-Germain	2–1	Aston Villa
Kvaratskhelia 20' Doué 61'	Report [21]	Madjo 45'

Red Bull Arena, Salzburg

Attendance: 27,681 ^[3]

Referee: Omar Artan (Somalia)

Paris Saint-Germain [4]

Aston Villa [4]

GK 39 Matvey Safonov RB 2 Achraf Hakimi CB 5 Marquinhos (c) CB 51 Willian Pacho LB 25 Nuno Mendes  74' CM 87 João Neves  75' CM 17 Vitinha CM 33 Warren Zaïre-Emery RF 11 Maghnes Akliouche  46' CF 14 Désiré Doué  87' LF 7 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia  88' Substitutes: GK 30 Lucas Chevalier DF 4 Lucas Beraldo  88' DF 6 Illia Zabarnyi DF 12 Lucas Digne DF 21 Lucas Hernandez  74' MF 8 Fabián Ruiz  75' MF 24 Senny Mayulu  87' MF 27 Dro Fernández FW 10 Ousmane Dembélé  46' FW 29 Bradley Barcola FW 47 Quentin Ndjantou FW 49 Ibrahim Mbaye Manager: Luis Enrique

GK 40 Marco Bizot RB 2 Matty Cash CB 3 Victor Lindelöf CB 14 Pau Torres  51'  80' LB 22 Ian Maatsen RM 7 John McGinn (c)  72'  72' CM 35 João Gomes  64'  80' CM 8 Boubacar Kamara  72' LM 53 George Hemmings CF 10 Emiliano Buendía CF 39 Brian Madjo  72' Substitutes: GK 42 James Wright GK 60 Owen Asemota DF 5 Tyrone Mings  80' DF 32 Kosta Nedeljković DF 45 Triston Rowe DF 48 Modou Kéba Cissé MF 6 Ross Barkley  80' MF 26 Lamare Bogarde  72' MF 49 Bradley Burrowes FW 18 Tammy Abraham  72' FW 47 Alysson  72' FW 74 Luka Lynch Manager: Unai Emery

Man of the Match: Désiré Doué (Paris Saint-Germain) [1] Assistant referees: [4] Liban Abdoulrazack Ahmed (Djibouti) Stephen Eleazar Onyango Yiembe (Kenya) Fourth official: [4] Rade Obrenović (Slovenia) Video assistant referee: [4] Marco Di Bello (Italy) Assistant video assistant referee: [4] Guillermo Cuadra Fernández (Spain)

Match rules [22] 90 minutes Penalty shoot-out if scores level Maximum of twelve named substitutes Maximum of five substitutions Maximum of three substitution opportunities

Statistics

First half [23] Statistic Paris Saint-Germain Aston Villa Goals scored 1 1 Total shots 6 10 Shots on target 2 2 Saves 1 1 Ball possession 60% 40% Corner kicks 0 2 Fouls committed 6 5 Offsides 1 0 Yellow cards 0 0 Red cards 0 0

Second half [23] Statistic Paris Saint-Germain Aston Villa Goals scored 1 0 Total shots 5 5 Shots on target 3 2 Saves 2 2 Ball possession 53% 47% Corner kicks 0 0 Fouls committed 5 8 Offsides 1 0 Yellow cards 0 3 Red cards 0 0

Overall [23] Statistic Paris Saint-Germain Aston Villa Goals scored 2 1 Total shots 11 15 Shots on target 5 4 Saves 3 3 Ball possession 56% 44% Corner kicks 0 2 Fouls committed 11 13 Offsides 2 0 Yellow cards 0 3 Red cards 0 0

See also

• 2026 UEFA Champions League final
• 2026 UEFA Europa League final
• 2026 UEFA Conference League final
• 2026 UEFA Women's Champions League final
• 2026 UEFA Women's Europa Cup final

References

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External links

• Official website