Player facts

• With five goals, Kevin Gameiro is Sevilla's top European goalscorer this season; Lima has been Benfica's leading marksman with four in the UEFA Europa League, and one more in the UEFA Champions League group stage.

• Benfica's Óscar Cardozo has scored the most European goals of any player left in the UEFA Europa League: 33 in 75 appearances.

• Luisão and Lazar Marković – who is suspended for the final – are the only players to have featured in all eight of Benfica's UEFA Europa League games this season. With 107 UEFA club competition appearances, Brazilian defender Luisão has more European experience than any other player in the final squads.

• Ivan Rakitić has played the most games of any Sevilla player since the start of the UEFA Europa League group stage – 13, one more than Carlos Bacca and Vitolo.

• Nicolás Gaitán could make his 50th UEFA club competition appearance in the final.

• Lima was part of the SC Braga side that defeated Sevilla in a UEFA Champions League play-off in 2010, scoring a hat-trick in a 4-3 second-leg win. Benfica's Artur and Sílvio were both also part of that Braga squad: the goalkeeper was on the bench in both legs and the versatile defender played the two matches. Federico Fazio featured in both legs for Sevilla, while Javi Varas was an unused substitute in both games.

• Stéphane Mbia's goal in the semi-final second leg was his fourth in six games. It took the midfielder 120 games to score his previous four goals.

• Sevilla's on-loan German midfielder Marko Marin was a member of the Chelsea FC squad that reached the UEFA Europa League final last season, though he was not part of the squad that beat Benfica in the final in Amsterdam.

• Benfica's Lima and Artur have already been on the losing side in two UEFA Europa League finals: with SC Braga in 2010/11 and Benfica last season.

• Benfica's Eduardo Salvio, who is also suspended for the final, has made a record 40 UEFA Europa League appearances. He came on as a substitute in Atlético's 2010 and 2012 final victories, before finishing on the losing side in 2012/13. He could become the first player to win it for a third time.

• Salvio scored for Atlético against a Sevilla side featuring Rakitić, José Antonio Reyes and Fazio in a 1-1 Liga away draw in 2011/12.

• Five Benfica players have Spanish league experience: Salvio (Atlético 2010–12), Rodrigo (Madrid 2009/10), Ezequiel Garay (Real Racing Club 2005–08 and 2008/09, Madrid 2008–11), Guilherme Siqueira (Gránada CF 2010–13) and the injured Sílvio (Atlético 2010–13, RC Deportivo La Coruña 2013).

• Sevilla forward Reyes, who had a loan spell at Benfica in 2008/09, played alongside Salvio and Sílvio at Atlético.

• Garay scored Racing Club's goal in a 4-1 away defeat against Sevilla in the 2007/08 Liga season before being sent off for a second bookable offence.

• Sevilla have three players with Portuguese Liga experience: goalkeeper Beto (Sporting Clube de Portugal 2001–04, GD Chaves 2004/05, FC Marco 2005/06, Leixões SC 2006–09, Porto 2009–12, Braga 2012/13), and defenders Diogo Figueiras (Pinhalnovense FC 2010/11, FC Paços de Ferreira 2011–13, Moreirense FC 2012) and Daniel Carriço (Sporting 2007–12, SC Olhanense 2007).

• Figueiras came through Benfica's youth system but never made it to the first team, joining Pinhalnovense in 2010.

• Sevilla's Beto and Benfica's Lima and Rúben Amorim were Braga team-mates in 2012/13, though Lima left for Benfica early in the season.

• Benfica goalkeeper Jan Oblak could become the first Slovenian to appear in a UEFA Europa League final, and the first of his countrymen to feature in a UEFA final since Zlatko Zahovič was on the losing side with Valencia CF in the 2000/01 UEFA Champions League. Srečko Katanec was the last Slovenian to win a UEFA club competition, lifting the European Cup Winners' Cup with UC Sampdoria in 1990.

• Benfica's Rodrigo and Sevilla's Alberto Moreno won the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship together with Spain.