UEFA chooses Metropolitano for the 2027 Champions League final

Madrid (EFE).- Atlético de Madrid’s Metropolitano stadium will host the 2027 men’s Champions League final, as decided this Thursday by the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Tirana.

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The red and white stadium will be the venue for the final of the top continental competition for the second time, after hosting it in the 2018-2019 edition, in which Liverpool took the title against Tottenham. Included among the eleven Spanish stadiums to host matches up to the semi-finals of the 2030 World Cup, the stadium was inaugurated on September 16, 2017, it is the venue where the first rojiblanco team plays its matches and has a capacity for 70,692 spectators, 96% covered The stadium has 1,000 parking spaces inside the building itself and another 3,000 spaces outside. The club has a perimeter owned by the entity itself in which two Fan zones have been set up, one next to the South End and another next to the North End. The final of this season’s ‘Champions’ will be played on May 30, 2026, at the Puskas Arena in Budapest, and the Metropolitano will host its sixth final in the Spanish capital, as before the one played in 2019 at the rojiblanco stadium, it was also played at the Santiago Bernabéu on four occasions. In 2010 Inter defeated Bayern Munich in the Madrid stadium, in 1980 Nottingham Forest defeated Hamburg, in 1969 Milan was proclaimed champion against Ajax and in 1957 Real Madrid was crowned before its public by winning against Fiorentina (2-0), with goals from Alfredo Di Stéfano and Paco Gento. The UEFA Executive also decided that the next Super Cup will be played in Salzburg (Austria), that the 2027 European Under-19 Futsal Championship will be held in Astana (Kazakhstan) and that the Women’s Futsal Euro in 2027 will also be played in Osijek (Croatia).