Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona celebrates with the European Champions League trophy on Saturday in Berlin. Photo: CFP

Barcelona were crowned kings of ­Europe for the fifth time after beating Juventus 3-1 in a pulsating Champions League final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin on Saturday, capping their magnificent season with a title treble.

The Spaniards lived up to their tag as favorites and added the European Cup to their La Liga and King's Cup triumphs, matching their 2009 feat.

Goals from Croatian Ivan ­Rakitic in the fourth minute, Uruguayan Luis ­Suarez in the 68th and Brazilian Neymar with the last kick of the game sealed Barca's second treble, ­becoming the first team to twice win the ­European treble.

Barca's South American trio of ­Suarez, Neymar and Lionel Messi, known collectively as "MSN," showed spectacular form all season and Saturday's goals took their tally to an amazing 122 in all competitions.

Juve, however, became the first team in the history of the competition to get beaten in six finals and the Italian giants have now lost their last four.

Barca shrugged off a nervous start by scoring a sublime fourth-minute goal. All 10 outfield players touched the ball in a 16-pass move that ended when Neymar fed Andres Iniesta who picked out Rakitic to slot the fourth fastest goal in a European Cup final.

Juve keeper Gianluigi Buffon, who won the World Cup with Italy at the Olympic Stadium in 2006 but is still waiting to capture his first European Cup crown, denied Barca a second goal in the 13th minute with a superb one-handed save keeping out a Dani Alves shot.

The 37-year-old Buffon again came to the rescue three minutes after the restart and then Juve struck against the run of play with former Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata tapping the ball in after keeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen had saved from Carlos Tevez.

The Italians looked to be taking control of the game but their joy was short-lived. Messi took ­matters into his own hands, charging past three defenders and unleashing a low drive that Buffon could only parry to Suarez.

It was the most crucial goal of the 28-year-old Uruguayan's career and it came a year after he was branded a ­villain for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini, who missed Saturday's final through injury, at the World Cup in Brazil.

Neymar netted deep into stoppage time to provide a fitting farewell for midfielder Xavi, who is leaving Barca after collecting 25 trophies in more than two decades with the club he joined at the age of 11.