Spain will deploy 4,700 security personnel for Saturday's all-English Champions League final in Madrid which has been deemed "high risk", officials said Tuesday.

The security measures for the match between Liverpool and Tottenham will surpass those put in place for last year's "high risk" Copa Libertadores final between Argentine rivals River Plate and Boca Juniors in Madrid, said the director general of Spain's National Police, Francisco Pardo Piqueras. "This will probably be the biggest deployment to guarantee security which we will carry out at a sporting event," he told a news conference.