Pride, €22 million (Dh95 million), a golden star on their shirt, and the chance to be crowned club world champions await the winner, but there’s also this at stake for both sides in Saturday’s Fifa Club World Cup final between Real Madrid and Gremio:
IF REAL MADRID WIN …
- They would be the first side to retain the Fifa Club World Cup.
- It would be the first time Real Madrid have won five titles inside a calendar year.
- They would equal Barcelona’s record of most Fifa Club World Cup wins with three.
- Toni Kroos would become the player with the most Fifa Club World Cup wins on four, one with Bayern, and what would be three with Real.
- It would be the 12th consecutive final Real have been to and won. They last lost a final 17 years ago against Boca Juniors in the 2000 Intercontinental Cup.
- If Ronaldo scores in the final, he would be extending his Fifa Club World Cup most goals record, which already stands at six after Wednesday’s equaliser against Al Jazira in the semi-final.
- Ronaldo and Sergio Ramos would both be looking out for the tournament’s best player gong to match Lionel Messi’s record of most wins in that award with two.
- It would be the fifth consecutive win for a European side, and the tenth in tournament history.
IF GREMIO WIN …
- It would be their first ever Fifa Club World Cup win.
- It would be their second triumph if you include the previously named Intercontinental Cup, which they won 34 years ago in 1983.
- Having just become the first Brazilian to win the Copa Libertadores as both a player and a coach, both with Gremio in 1983 and 2017, Renato Portaluppi would also become the first Brazilian to win the Intercontinental Cup/Club World Cup as both a player and a coach.
- It would be the first time in five years, and only the fifth time in tournament history, that a Brazilian side wins.
