2017 UEFA Europa League final

The ambassador for the final was former Swedish international player Patrik Andersson, who won the Champions League with Bayern Munich against Valencia in 2001.[18]

UEFA unveiled the brand identity of the final on 26 August 2016 in Monaco during the group stage draw.[19]

With a stadium capacity of 48,000 for the final, a total number of 37,000 tickets were available to fans and the general public, with the two finalist teams receiving 10,000 tickets each and with 17,000 tickets being available for sale to fans worldwide via UEFA.com from 17 to 28 March 2017 in four price categories: €150, €100, €70 and €45. The remaining tickets were allocated to the local organising committee, UEFA and national associations, commercial partners and broadcasters, and to serve the corporate hospitality programme.[20]

A minute's silence was observed before the final in memory to victims of the bombing in Manchester which occurred two days before the final; the opening ceremony was thus considerably reduced.[21]

In May 2017, Slovenian referee Damir Skomina was chosen to oversee the final. He was joined by compatriots Jure Praprotnik and Robert Vukan as assistant referees, Matej Jug and Slavko Vinčić as additional assistant referees, Tomaž Klančnik as reserve assistant referee, and Italian official Gianluca Rocchi as fourth official.[2]

Paul Pogba opened the scoring for Manchester United in the 18th minute when his low left foot shot from just outside the penalty area took a deflection off Davinson Sánchez which wrong footed the goalkeeper before looping over him and into the net.[22][23] Henrikh Mkhitaryan got the second goal three minutes into the second half when with his back to goal he flicked the ball into the net with his right foot from three yards out after the ball had been knocked down to him by Chris Smalling after a corner from the right by Juan Mata.[24] Wayne Rooney, who entered minutes before the final whistle, took the captain's armband and later led the team to lift the trophy in his final game for United; he would return to Everton less than two months later.

The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw, which was held on 21 April 2017 at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[25] Ajax as the "home" team played with their new home kit which would be used the following season. United wore their outgoing away (European third) kit.

24 May 2017 (2017-05-24)

20:45 CEST

Ajax	0–2	Manchester United
	Report	Pogba 18' Mkhitaryan 48'

Friends Arena, Solna

Attendance: 46,961[3]

Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

Ajax[4]

Manchester United[4]

GK 24 André Onana RB 3 Joël Veltman  58' CB 5 Davinson Sánchez CB 36 Matthijs de Ligt LB 4 Jaïro Riedewald  78'  82' CM 10 Davy Klaassen (c) CM 20 Lasse Schöne  70' CM 22 Hakim Ziyech RF 9 Bertrand Traoré CF 25 Kasper Dolberg  62' LF 11 Amin Younes  64' Substitutes: GK 33 Diederik Boer DF 2 Kenny Tete DF 16 Heiko Westermann MF 21 Frenkie de Jong  82' MF 30 Donny van de Beek  70' FW 45 Justin Kluivert FW 77 David Neres  62' Manager: Peter Bosz

GK 20 Sergio Romero RB 25 Antonio Valencia (c) CB 12 Chris Smalling CB 17 Daley Blind LB 36 Matteo Darmian DM 21 Ander Herrera RM 8 Juan Mata  78'  90' CM 27 Marouane Fellaini  52' CM 6 Paul Pogba LM 22 Henrikh Mkhitaryan  31'  74' CF 19 Marcus Rashford  84' Substitutes: GK 1 David de Gea DF 4 Phil Jones DF 24 Timothy Fosu-Mensah MF 14 Jesse Lingard  74' MF 16 Michael Carrick FW 10 Wayne Rooney  90' FW 11 Anthony Martial  84' Manager: José Mourinho