CL Final Venue | Stade de France named as new venue

[Alfie Budd]

Lyon and La Cartuja are under 60k capacity so I suspect that would rule them out. I know they're only just under 60k but UEFA are on record as saying they prefer over 70k so I suspect 60k would be the absolute lower limit.

The 70,000 stipulation was something introduced by Michel Platini in his days as UEFA supremo. Since Platini's fall from grace, UEFA seems to have distanced itself from that a little with minimum 60,000 capacity venues being fine to host the final. Prior to the pandemic, the three preceding seasons all fell into that category - Cardiff, Kyiv and Madrid (Atletico's stadium, not the Bernabeu).
Last Champions League final at a stadium with a capacity below 60,000 was at Gelsenkirchen in 2004 - I haven't included our game at Porto last season due to the late change of venue and the restricted capacity that was in place.

 

[whipper]

They won't be invading Ukraine anytime soon, if ever

Your post hasn't aged well fella

 

[urban genie]

I am gonna take a punt on it won't be in Leningrad

 

[mexico1970]

I am gonna take a punt on it won't be in Leningrad

Putin might tell UEFA that if we don't hold it in St Petersburg then he'll nuke us all.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

As posted elsewhere - hope the Scottish FA now concede the play-off match with Ukraine.

 

[urban genie]

 

[BlueT]

Istanbul or Lisbon

 

[mat]

Rob Harris reporting it. So he'll follow up with saying Talibanfield is favourite to hold it instead.

 

[Indaparkside]

Barcelona would be nice

 

[mat]

Can anyone fake a Twitter account to say the final will be held in Abu Dhabi to see the WhatsApp group totally lose their shit.