Despite contrasting home success in recent years, Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain have remarkably related European information.
Neither have lifted continental silverware because the flip of the millennium. PSG received the now-defunct Cup Winners’ Cup in 1996 and had been runners-up the next season — their lack of European achievements since have been symptomatic of Ligue 1 groups in Europe.
Dortmund lifted the Champions League the season after PSG’s success, in 1997. The two sides have solely appeared in a single Champions League remaining every since these trophies, each defeated by Bayern Munich — Dortmund, 2-1 at Wembley in 2013; PSG, 1-0, in 2020, having knocked Dortmund out within the spherical of 16.
With Bayern dealing with Real Madrid within the different semi-final, it opens the opportunity of a repeat remaining — Dortmund or PSG towards Bayern could be the ninth totally different Champions League remaining to have been performed no less than twice.