There will be a new name on the Heineken Cup after the 18th tournament final at the Aviva Stadium - but will it be ASM Clermont Auvergne or will it be Toulon?

And whoever triumphs at the home of Irish rugby in Dublin will be only the third French winner of European club rugby’s most coveted silverware.

Here are a few Heineken Cup facts and figures…

* First time finalists ASM Clermont Auvergne and Toulon will make it 16 clubs who have contested the 18 Heineken Cup finals. The other Heineken Cup finalists have been Toulouse (6), Leicester Tigers (5), Munster (4), Leinster (3), London Wasps, Stade Francais Paris, Brive, Biarritz Olympique, Northampton Saints, Ulster Rugby (2), Cardiff RFC, Bath Rugby, Colomiers, Perpignan (1 each).

* ASM Clermont Auvergne and Toulon are each bidding to become only the 10th club to lift the trophy. The roll of honour is headed by Toulouse with four triumphs followed by Leinster on three, Leicester Tigers, Munster and London Wasps on two each and Brive, Bath Rugby, Ulster Rugby and Northampton Saints on one apiece.

* Clermont’s Nathan Hines and David Skrela are bidding to join an exclusive club – so far only four winners have collected medals with different clubs. Outside half Skrela was a winner with Toulouse in 2010, lock Hines with Leinster in 2011. Cedric Heymans did it with Brive in 1997 and Toulouse in 2003, 2005 and 2010; Philippe Carbonneau (Toulouse, 1996 / Brive, 1997); Federico Mendez (Bath Rugby, 1998 / Northampton Saints, 2000) and Eoin Reddan (London Wasps, 2007 / Leinster Rugby, 2011 and 2012).

* It will be the sixth one-nation final – and the fourth all-French affair. Toulouse won all three previous all-French contests while there have also been finals between English and Irish clubs.

* The most tries scored in a final are the five by Leinster when they beat Ulster Rugby 42-14 at Twickenham Stadium 12 months ago. The 28 points winning margin is the biggest in the 17 finals.

* ASM Clermont Auvergne are bidding to become the first French club to win both the Heineken Cup and the Amlin Challenge Cup. They won the Amlin CC in 1999 and 2007. Other teams to win both European trophies are: Bath Rugby (HC 1997 / ACC 2008), Northampton Saints (HC 2000 / ACC 2009), London Wasps (ACC 2003 / HC 2004, 2007). Leinster Rugby could join the list if they beat Stade Francais Paris in the Amlin Challenge Cup Final on Friday, 17 May.

There are a number of European winners in the two squads:
Toulon: Sebastien Bruno (ACC 2005), Rocky Elsom (HC 2009), Gethin Jenkins (ACC 2010), Frederic Michalak (HC 2003/2005), Simon Shaw (ACC 2003, HC 2004/2007), Andrew Sheridan (ACC 2005).
ASM Clermont Auvergne: Jamie Cudmore (ACC 2007), Anthony Floch (ACC 2007), Nathan Hines (HC 2009), Loic Jacquet (ACC 2007), Brock James (ACC 2007), Julien Malzieu (ACC 2007), Aurelien Rougerie (ACC 2007), David Skrela (ACC 1998, HC 2010), Elvis Vermuelen (ACC 2007)

* As well as their two former Heineken Cup winners, Nathan Hines and David Skrela, ASM Clermont Auvergne also have two other players who have played in a final. Regan King was a replacement for Stade Francais Paris in the 2005 final at Murrayfield when they lost to Toulouse after extra-time, and Benjamin Kayser, who came on for Leicester Tigers in their 2009 defeat to Leinster Rugby in Edinburgh.

* David Skrela is bidding to play a part in a fourth Heineken Cup and a third all-French affair. He was a replacement for Colomiers in the 1999 Heineken Cup final in Dublin, when the French side lost to Ulster Rugby. He was then at No 10 for Stade Francais Paris against Toulouse in Edinburgh in 2005 and at outside half for Toulouse when they beat Biarritz Olympique in 2010.

* Welsh referee Nigel Owens (2008, 2009 and 2012) and England’s Chris White (2003, 2005 and 2006) as the only officials to referee three Heineken Cup finals.

* 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.

* Two of the 17 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. But the 17 finals have still produced 38 tries – an average of just over two per match.

* The all-Ireland semi-final between Munster and Leinster at Croke Park in 2009 was watched by a world record crowd for a club rugby match of 82,208.

* 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 Tigers.

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

* 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.

* There has never been a try hat-trick scored in a final. Three players have scores braces - Sebastien Carrat for Brive against Bath Rugby in 1998, Leon Lloyd for Leicester Tigers against Stade Français Paris in 2001 and Jonny Sexton for Leinster against Northampton Saints in 2011.