UEFA Europa League final facts and figures

• By beating FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the decider, Sevilla FC became the first club to win the trophy four times, and the first team to successfully defend the UEFA Europa League crown. The previous best performance in the competition by a reigning champion – in 2011/12 and 2012/13 – saw FC Porto and Club Atlético de Madrid, respectively, eliminated in the round of 32.

• The match in Warsaw was the highest-scoring of the six UEFA Europa League finals. There had never been more than three goals registered in any of the previous five finals. Indeed, the five goals in the Polish capital lifted the goals-per-game average for the UEFA Europa League showpiece from 2.0 to 2.5. Overall, the scoring average in the 2014/15 competition was 2.67 – the third highest in its six seasons – with 548 goals notched in the 205 matches, group stage to final.

• Sevilla's winning coach Unai Emery had double cause for celebration as he not only became the first coach to lift the UEFA Europa League twice, but also became the first man to take charge of 50 games in the competition. Defeated Dnipro coach Myron Markevych is second in the all-time list on 42 fixtures.

• Sevilla's final tally of 29 goals in the 2014/15 tournament is seven more than they managed in landing the trophy last term. It is the third-best total in a UEFA Europa League campaign, with only Porto (37 in 2010/11) and Atlético (33 in 2011/2) having scored more.

• José Antonio Reyes, Sevilla's captain in Warsaw, achieved the remarkable distinction of winning the UEFA Europa League for the fourth time, having also claimed the trophy twice with Atlético before triumphing for the first time with Sevilla in 2013/14. Beto now has three winners' medals.

• Carlos Bacca's double against Dnipro enabled him to become the third player to score twice in a UEFA Europa League final, that feat having previously been performed by fellow South Americans Diego Forlán (2010) and Radamel Falcao (2012), both with Atlético.

• Bacca's brace took his haul of UEFA Europa League goals to 12, placing him joint seventh in the competition's all-time rankings – albeit 18 behind top scorer and compatriot Falcao.

• Dnipro captain Ruslan Rotan's first-half equaliser against the Liga side was the 14th goal in a UEFA Europa League final, but the first netted by a player of the same nationality as his club.

• Sevilla have now gone ten successive matches without defeat in the UEFA Europa League, which is five short of the record set by Atlético from November 2011 to October 2012 and one shy of the record over a single campaign, established this term by Club Brugge KV (group stage to final).

• For the third campaign running the top scorer in the UEFA Europa League has finished with eight goals. However, this season, for the first time, the prize has been shared, with Alan of FC Salzburg and Romelu Lukaku of Everton FC finishing level at the head of the standings. The record tally for a single campaign is Falcao's 17 with Porto in 2010/11.