Tembah Report: UEFA Super Cup records and statistics

Real Madrid will look to start the 2022-23 campaign with a win when it faces Europa League champion Eintracht Frankfurt at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in Finland on Wednesday. Real Madrid will meet Eintracht Frankfurt for the first time in 62 years. Real Madrid became European champions for a record-extending 14th time after beating Liverpool 1-0 in a Champions League final that started 37 minutes late because of disturbing crowd issues outside the Stade de France near Paris. While Eintracht Frankfurt won the European League title.
Real Madrid is chasing its fifth UEFA Super Cup, not having won it since 2017 – one that will equal it with AC Milan and Barcelona.

In the following report, we review the most prominent records witnessed by the European Super Cup:

1.    Former AC Milan defender Paolo Maldini's four UEFA Super Cup titles, while Brazilian also matches the legendary Italian defender's record of having appeared in five separate European Super Cup finals.
2.    AC Milan and Barcelona were the most winning of the EUEFA trophies with 5 titles.
3.    Spain is the most successful country with 15 titles. 
4.    Diego Costa's wonderful goal after 49 seconds, the fastest in Super Cup history, got Atletico off to a flyer in Tallinn on Wednesday. It took the Spain star just 49 seconds to make his mark, a new fastest goal in Super Cup history.
5.    Carlo Ancelotti with Guardiola is the most successful manager in UEFA Champions League history. 
6.    Radamel Falcao scored a sensational first-half hat-trick as Atletico Madrid put European champions, Chelsea, to the sword to lift the European Super Cup with a 4-1 win in Monaco in 2012.
7.    Argentine star Lionel Messi was named the most player in the UEFA Super Cup football tournament's final, which his team FC Barcelona won twice.