Top 10 European Cup/Champions League finals of all time

Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich meet in a mouthwatering Champions League final at the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon on Sunday night.

Both teams are littered with world-class talent and the contest pits two of the deadliest attacks in Europe against each other.

PSG and Bayern comfortably dispatched their semi-final opponents with 3-0 victories and, with the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Robert Lewandowski on show, goals will again be expected this weekend.

The showdown has all the makings of a classic, which would follow in the footsteps of plenty of other thrilling Champions League finals from years gone by.

Here, Sports Mole counts down the 10 greatest of all time.

10. Liverpool 3-1 Borussia Monchengladbach (1977)

Four years on from the same two clubs meeting in the 1973 UEFA Cup final, Liverpool took on Borussia Monchengladbach in the European Cup equivalent having also won the UEFA Cup in 1976 as well.

Bob Paisley 's side were only the third English club to make the European Cup final and just the second to win it, but their victory sparked an era of dominance which saw an English club lift the trophy for each of the next six years - half of which came courtesy of Liverpool themselves.

Of all of those finals during England's spell as kings of Europe, the 1977 edition is the only one which will go down as a classic for the neutrals - the following nine finals produced a grand total of nine goals between them.

Terry McDermott opened the scoring for the Merseyside outfit after a slick team move shortly before the half-hour mark, only for Allan Simonsen, who would go on to win that year's Ballon d'Or, to equalise with a stunning strike early in the second half.

A couple of Liverpool icons sealed the club's maiden European Cup triumph, though, with Tommy Smith marking his 600th appearance for the club in style with a thumping header shortly after the hour mark and Phil Neal wrapping things up from the spot eight minutes from time.

9. Manchester United 2-1 Bayern Munich (1999)

We can almost hear the complaints and uproar from Manchester United fans - how can one of the most dramatic and iconic moments in Champions League history only be ninth on this list?

Well, in truth, this was on course to be one of the more forgettable finals until the clock ticked into stoppage time. As it was, it ended up being one of the most unforgettable, try as Bayern Munich might to banish it from their memories.

A United side shorn of suspended influential duo Roy Keane and Paul Scholes fell behind to a sixth-minute Mario Basler strike and offered little sign of getting back into the game for the next 84 minutes, whereas Bayern hit the woodwork twice.

With Ryan Giggs and David Beckham both playing out of position and Jesper Blomqvist on the left, manager Alex Ferguson turned to his bench to make two fateful substitutions, Teddy Sheringham coming on for Blomqvist in the 67th minute and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer replacing Andy Cole in the 81st.

Just as the fourth official signalled three minutes of stoppage time, United won a corner which looked like last-chance saloon, prompting goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel to come up for it in what was his last ever game for the club.

The corner was not cleared properly and when Giggs fired it back in, Sheringham swept it into the bottom corner to seemingly rescue extra time for United at the death.

The drama had only just begun, though, and just 30 seconds after the restart United won another corner which Beckham took, Sheringham flicked on and Solskjaer poked into the roof of the net - two goals in less than two minutes which left Bayern desolate, Samuel Kuffour beating the ground with despair and captain Lothar Matthaus in disbelief.

UEFA officials were forced to hastily untie the Bayern-coloured ribbons attached to the trophy and replace them with Manchester United ones as Ferguson's side celebrated their second European Cup triumph and an unprecedented Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League treble.

8. Real Madrid 4-1 Atletico Madrid (2014)

For the first time in history, two teams from the same city made it to the final of the Champions League as Madrid reigned supreme in Europe.

Geographically less than 10km separated the two teams, but in terms of Champions League pedigree the distance between them was huge; Real had reached a record 13th final and were searching for the fabled 'La Decima', whereas Atletico had only made the final once before, and that was 40 years prior - the longest gap between finals for any club.

Even so, Atletico went into the match having won La Liga for the first time since 1996 and looked as though they would add the Champions League crown to that when Diego Godin 's looping header gave them the lead in the 36th minute.

Diego Simeone 's side protected that advantage in typically fierce fashion until the third minute of stoppage time, when Real stalwart Sergio Ramos steered a fine header into the bottom corner to force extra time.

Having been so close to winning, Atletico suddenly looked like a beaten side and goals from Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo in extra time made the final scoreline look far more one-sided than the reality of the game.

7. Manchester United 4-1 Benfica (1968)

Manchester United's 1999 success may have been more dramatic, but their performance in winning their first European Cup 31 years earlier was far more impressive and infinitely more emotional.

Ten years on from United seeing their previous European Cup contenders devastated by the deadly Munich Air Disaster, the Red Devils became the first English side to reach the final of the competition, which was to be played at Wembley.

Munich survivors Bobby Charlton and Bill Foulkes started the game, led by fellow survivor Matt Busby, and it was Charlton who opened the scoring in the 53rd minute.

A Benfica side including Eusebio levelled things up 11 minutes from the end to force extra time, but much like Real's 2014 win over Atletico, the additional period proved to be a one-sided affair.

The jewel of United's post-Munich phoenix restored their lead when George Best produced a trademark slalom past the keeper and rolled the ball into the empty net, and just two minutes later Brian Kidd put his side in control with a header on his 19th birthday.

Kidd then turned provider as Charlton added the icing on the cake with a third goal in the opening nine minutes of extra time, looping his finish into the far top corner to ensure that United became the first English club to get their hands on the biggest prize in European club football.

6. AC Milan 4-0 Barcelona (1994)

Two heavyweights of European football faced off in Athens in the 1994 final, with four-time champions AC Milan and 1992 winners Barcelona having lifted the trophy three times between them in the previous five years.

Even so, it was Barcelona that went into the contest as heavy favourites, with the Spanish press and Barca boss Johan Cruyff in supremely confident mood.

On the face of it, that confidence did not seem entirely misplaced; Milan no longer had the Dutch triumvirate which inspired them to back-to-back titles in 1989 and 1990, with Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard having left and Marco van Basten injured.

World-record signing Gianluigi Lentini was also injured, while Alessandro Costacurta and captain Franco Baresi were suspended. On top of that, head coach Fabio Capello was also forced to leave out Jean-Pierre Papin, Brian Laudrup and Florin Raducioiu due to UEFA rules on non-nationals.

In contrast, Cruyff's Barcelona were in their 'Dream Team' pomp, having just won a fourth successive La Liga title with the likes of Romario, Pep Guardiola, Ronald Koeman and Hristo Stoichkov in their ranks.

What followed was one of the greatest performances the competition has ever seen as a Daniele Massaro brace gave Milan a 2-0 lead by half time, which was soon extended by Dejan Savicevic after the restart.

Marcel Desailly then capped off the scoring as he secured his status as the first player to lift the trophy in back-to-back years with different clubs, ensuring that Milan became only the second team after Real Madrid to win the title five times.

Barcelona, by contrast, would not win another major trophy under Cruyff - at that stage their most successful ever manager - with Milan well and truly dismantling the 'Dream Team' era.

5. Barcelona 3-1 Manchester United (2011)

Speaking of dream teams, Guardiola's Barcelona are widely regarded as one of the greatest club sides of all time and the 2011 Champions League final showcased them at the very peak of their powers.

It was the second time in three years that these two sides had faced off in the Champions League final, with Barcelona winning the 2009 edition 2-0.

Both clubs were three-time winners of the competition and had plenty of recent experience in the showpiece event too, with United appearing in the final for a third time in four years and Barca for a third time in six years.

Ferguson quickly acknowledged after the game that his side did not have much experience playing against a team as good as that Barcelona, though, declaring Guardiola's men as the best he had ever faced in his long career and admitting that they had given United a "hiding".

Predictably, Lionel Messi was the main tormentor and his stunning strike nine minutes into the second half capped off a majestic individual performance while also giving Barcelona the lead back after Wayne Rooney had cancelled out Pedro 's opener.

David Villa secured the win with a fine curling effort with 21 minutes to go, and in the end United were grateful that the scoreline did not get any worse with Barca ending the game with 12 shots on target to United's one.