A 3-2 victory over the Ukrainians Shakhtar Donetsk finished the job started seven months earlier as a team brimming with the most promising young talent on the continent justified the individual hype by getting their hands on collective silverware.

An impressive eight of the starting 11 in Nyon have gone on to play senior football for Chelsea, accounting for 182 appearances between them to date. Tammy Abraham, then just 17-years-old, came on for the final five minutes of the final, having netted our fourth goal in a 4-0 semi-final win over Roma three days previously. Fikayo Tomori was an unused substitute.

Izzy Brown, on loan this season at Luton Town in the Championship, was a particularly busy man that weekend. As skipper of the side, he played 90 minutes against Roma on the Friday afternoon before flying back to London and featuring in the squad for our Premier League trip to Queens Park Rangers, a game in which we ground out an important three points in our quest for the title as Cesc Fabregas struck a late winner at Loftus Road.