Champions League Final 2027 Madrid or Baku?

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Where has the best shuttle buses?

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Baku looks like a great city, and on the water, too, so maybe even a nice destination for a few days? Hee hee hee!

Have only flown over it, and it’s surrounded by absolute fuck all, but the city itself looks like a rich petro-city, just across the Caspian Sea from Tehran!

And, bonus…along the waterfront (no beach, just prom) there is a nice military park full of captured military equipment for you to enjoy. SCORE!!!

Madrid doesn’t have ANY of that stuff, just a new billion dollar stadium in a major European capital with strong transportation links, plenty of bars, restaurants and hotels and will be very close…perhaps too close…for fans wanting to see their team in the Final!!

 

[cptaidan88]

genuine question, why not baku apart from it being further away its a beautiful place

It's just a very difficult place to get 60k people to at the same time. Not that many routes.

Would love a City away game there but will be easier when there's only 2-3k fans trying to get there.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Should be Madrid but it will be Baku as they'll pay for everything UEFA wants again.

 

[solley attwell]

Baku will turn a lot of people off from travelling .Tickets might go to season ticket holders not on the cup scheme

 

[Impeccable One]

Where has the best shuttle buses?

And is their car park tarmac’d ?

 

[Magicpole]

Baku is as much European as I am Peruvian. Even though I wear traditional Peruvian costume daily and am a dab hand at the old pan pipes. I am not Peruvian!!! Have we got that?

Thank you.

 

[Pell]

Baku.

Fuck Madrid.

Yep, I hope it's Back ooo.

 

[M23 Citizen]

Very far away and very inconvenient for traveling supporters. I don’t think the stadium is that great either.

Never been to Baku but would much rather go to Spain ( and I have been there loads of times) than Azerbaijan.

Don’t think the Chelsea and Arsenal fans enjoyed it too much. They would have much rather had it closer to home.

It’s only very far away for us because we live in the far North West of Europe.

It wouldn’t be very far away if the final was between Galatasaray and Shakhtar Donetsk. If Russian teams were still playing in the CL, Baku would be further west for teams like Rubin Kazan or Ufa (who we bought Zinchenko from).

 

[cptaidan88]

It’s only very far away for us because we live in the far North West of Europe.

It wouldn’t be very far away if the final was between Galatasaray and Shakhtar Donetsk. If Russian teams were still playing in the CL, Baku would be further west for teams like Rubin Kazan or Ufa (who we bought Zinchenko from).

How far back would you go to find a team east of Munich in the final? The final won't be between Gala and Shakhtar.

Without the USSR influence, Azerbaijan would otherwise be categorised as Asia.

I'd personally quite like to visit at some stage but it's not a practical venue for a major European final.

Financial clout means the two teams in the final will be from Western European nations and there is not sufficient route network to and from Azerbaijan to get 60k people there at the same time. Arsenal v Chelsea barely managed to get 5k supporters each for a European final - it was and is unacceptable.