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Sevilla beat Benfica 4-2 on penalties, after a goalless draw, to win the Europa League final on Wednesday night, extending the Portuguese side's extraordinary run of defeats in European finals.
Substitute Kevin Gameiro fired home the winning penalty as Spanish side Sevilla, twice winners of the old Uefa Cup, lifted the trophy for the third time.
Benfica, recently crowned league and League Cup champions, came into the match confident of ending a 52-year hoodoo, that had seen them lose a total of seven European finals since winning the second of two consecutive European Cups in 1962.
Benfica had stumbled at the last hurdle five times in the European Cup, once in the UEFA Cup in 1983 and once in its successor, the Europa League, in 2013 when they lost 2-1 to Chelsea in Amsterdam.
