2020 UEFA Women's Champions League final

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2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
The Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián will host the final
Event2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League
Date30 August 2020 (2020-08-30)
VenueAnoeta Stadium, San Sebastián
2019
2021

The 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final will be the final match of the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League, the 19th season of Europe's premier women's club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Women's Cup to the UEFA Women's Champions League. It was originally scheduled to be played at the Generali Arena in Vienna, Austria, on 24 May 2020.[1][2] On 23 March 2020, UEFA announced that the final was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[3] A working group was set up to decide the calendar of the remainder of the season.[4] On 17 June 2020, it was moved to the Anoeta Stadium, San Sebastián.[5]

Venue

Generali Arena, the venue originally chosen to host the final match.

This would have been the first UEFA club competition final hosted at the Generali Arena, and the first to be hosted by the city of Vienna and Austria since the 1995 UEFA Champions League Final at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion.[6] It is the home ground of Austrian club Austria Wien. Due to UEFA regulations regarding naming rights of non-tournament sponsors, the stadium is referred to as the "Viola Park" in all UEFA materials.

The eventual venue will be Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain.[5] The stadium, city, and province will host their first ever UEFA club competition final. The greater Basque Country however had seen the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao, Biscay, hosting the second leg of the 1977 UEFA Cup Final.

Host selection

An open bidding process was launched on 22 September 2017 by UEFA to select the venues of the finals of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Women's Champions League in 2020. Associations had until 31 October 2017 to express interest, and bid dossiers must be submitted by 1 March 2018.

UEFA announced on 3 November 2017 that three associations had expressed interest in hosting the 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League final.[7]

Bidding associations for 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
Country Stadium City Capacity
 Austria Generali Arena Vienna 17,500
 Belgium Stade Maurice Dufrasne Liège 30,023
 Russia VTB Arena Moscow 27,000

The Generali Arena was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Kiev on 24 May 2018.[8][1] On 17 June 2020, it was moved to San Sebastián.[5]

Pre-match

Ambassador

Austrian footballer Nina Burger was the original ambassador for the Vienna final.[9]

Match

Details

The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held on 8 November 2019, 13:30 CET (after the quarter-final and semi-final draws), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[10]

Winners of semi-final 2 v Winners of semi-final 1
Report

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Seven named substitutes.
  • Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time.[note 1]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Each team will only be given three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.

References

  1. ^ a b "Istanbul to host 2020 UEFA Champions League Final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Road to Vienna: 2019/20 #UWCL dates, access list". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 18 May 2019.
  3. ^ "UEFA Club Finals postponed". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 23 March 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  4. ^ "UEFA postpones EURO 2020 by 12 months". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  5. ^ a b c "Women's Champions League finals to be played in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Vienna to host 2020 Women's Champions League final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Six associations interested in hosting 2020 club finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 November 2017.
  8. ^ "UEFA Executive Committee agenda for Kyiv meeting". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 8 May 2018.
  9. ^ "2020 Women's Champions League final: Vienna". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 November 2019.
  10. ^ "Women's Champions League quarter-final and semi-final draw". UEFA.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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