The Heineken Cup Final ... did you know?

Toulouse star Cedric Heymans could feature in a record sixth Heineken Cup final matchday squad while four more current Toulouse players - Yannick Jauzion, William Servat, Jean-Baptiste Poux and Jean Bouilhou - could appear in a fifth Heineken Cup final.

The elite 11 players to have appeared in four finals are Cedric Heymans (Brive and Toulouse), Ronan O'Gara, John Hayes, David Wallace (Munster), Yannick Jauzion, William Servat, Jean-Baptiste Poux, Fabien Pelous and Jean Bouilhou (Toulouse) and Geordan Murphy and Ben Kay (Leicester Tigers).

This is the fourth single nation final, the three previous occasions being the strictly French affairs in 2003 (Toulouse v Perpignan) and 2005 (Toulouse v Stade Francais Paris) and the battle of England in 2007 between London Wasps and Leicester Tigers.

Wayne Barnes will be the youngest referee to take charge of a Heineken Cup final. Barnes, born on 20 April, 1979, controls the showpiece occasion shortly after celebrating his 31st birthday.

There are 254 players from the 14 match day 22-man squads who own Heineken Cup final winners' medals - 55 have two medals and Cedric Heymans is out on his own with three (with Brive in 1997 and Toulouse in 2003 and 2005). Among the 55 double winners are Heyman's current Toulouse team-mates Yannick Jauzion, William Servat, Jean-Baptiste Poux and Jean Bouilhou.

Only three of those double winners have collected medals with different clubs. As well as Heymans, Philippe Carbonneau did it with Toulouse (1996) and Brive (1997) and Federico Mendez with Bath Rugby (1998) and Northampton Saints (2000).

Players from 16 different nationalities are on the winners' roll of honour, headed by 72 Englishmen, 69 Irishmen and 65 Frenchmen. There are also players from Scotland (10), Wales and New Zealand (eight each), South Africa (five), Australia and Samoa (four), Argentina (three), and one from each of Italy, USA, Canada, Poland, Fiji and the Cook Islands.

A total of 785,538 fans have gone through the turnstiles for the 14 finals so far at an average of 56,110 per match. The first final, between Cardiff and Toulouse at the old Arms Park on 6 January, 1996, attracted a crowd of 21,800.

The most tries scored in a final are the four by Brive when they beat Leicester Tigers 28-9 in Cardiff in 1997. The 19 points winning margin is the biggest in the 14 finals.

The most points scored by an individual in a final is the 30 kicked by Stade Français Paris' Diego Dominguez (nine penalty goals and a drop goal) in the 2001 defeat by Leicester.

The most points scored in a Heineken Cup final are the 64 rattled up at Parc des Princes in 2001. The 34 scored that day by Leicester Tigers is the most scored by a team in a final and the 30 scored by Stade Francais Paris is the most scored by a losing team.

Two of the 14 finals have failed to produce a try - when Ulster Rugby beat Colomiers 21-6 in 1999 and when Toulouse needed extra time in the 2005 final to beat Stade Francais Paris 18-12.

This 15th final will be tournament Match No 1,056.

Leinster were the 14th team to contest a Heineken Cup final. The other Heineken Cup finalists have been Toulouse and Leicester Tigers (5), Munster (4), London Wasps, Stade Francais Paris, Brive (2), Cardiff RFC, Bath Rugby, Ulster Rugby, Colomiers, Northampton Saints, Perpignan, Biarritz Olympique (1 each).

Raphael Ibanez, the London Wasps hooker, is the only front five forward so far to score a try in a Heineken Cup final, crossing the Leicester Tigers' line in 2007. Only six forwards have scored Heineken Cup final tries - the others being flankers David Wallace (Munster) in 2000, Neil Back (Leicester Tigers) in 2001 and Ben Woods (Leicester Tigers) in 2009 and No 8s Denis Leamy (Munster) in 2008 and Leinster's Jamie Heaslip 12 months ago.

The 14 finals have produced 25 tries - an average of 1.79 per match - with two players scoring braces. Sebastien Carrat got two for Brive in the 1997 final and Leon Lloyd crossed twice for Leicester Tigers in Paris in 2001.

Two of the finals have required extra time to determine the winner and Toulouse won on both occasions, against Cardiff in 1996 and Stade Français Paris in 2005.

Chris White (England) is the only referee to take charge of three finals, in 2003, 2005 and 2006.

Austin Healey is the only player to have won two Heineken Cup final man-of-the-match awards, doing it in the Tigers' back-to-back triumphs in 2001 and 2002.

Leinster made it an Irish clean sweep in that all three leading provinces have now lifted the trophy. They were the ninth team to lift the trophy following Toulouse (3), Leicester Tigers, Munster and London Wasps (2 each), Brive, Bath Rugby, Ulster Rugby and Northampton Saints.

The all-Ireland semi-final between Munster and Leinster at Croke Park last season was watched by a world record crowd for a club rugby match of 82,208.