- Title: St Petersburg, Munich and Wembley to host Champions League finals
- Date: 24th September 2019
- Summary: LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA (SEPTEMBER 24, 2019) (REUTERS) UEFA PRESIDENT, ALEKSANDER CEFERIN, ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) UEFA PRESIDENT, ALEKSANDER CEFERIN, SAYING: "2021 UEFA Champions League final goes to St. Petersburg, 2022 UEFA Champions League final goes to Munich. 2023 UEFA Champions League final goes to London Wembley. 2021 UEFA Europa League final goes to Sevilla. 2021 UEFA Super Cup goes to Belfast." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS CAMERAS (SOUNDBITE) (English) UEFA PRESIDENT, ALEKSANDER CEFERIN, SAYING: "UEFA Executive Committee decided to implement VAR as from the knockout stage from 2019, 2020 UEFA Europa League. This is an important decision." SIGN READING (English): "UEFA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE LJUBLJANA 2019" NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) UEFA PRESIDENT, ALEKSANDER CEFERIN, SAYING: "As much as we know two countries in the world don't allow women and girls to watch football. We cannot punish anyone if they play against it. It's out of our jurisdiction, it's FIFA's jurisdiction. But that doesn't mean we should be quiet and say we can't do anything and we develop European football, so our advice to 55 associations and all the clubs and, this year representatives were here, will be not to play there or with the teams from those countries where the basic rights of women are not represented. And the representatives of clubs and representatives of leagues agreed with us. They stated that at our meeting." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) UEFA PRESIDENT, ALEKSANDER CEFERIN, SAYING: "Not just for environmental reasons. It's very challenging for us to organise an event like that. We have different legislation. We have visas and non-visa situation. We have European Union and non-European Union. We have Brexit and we don't know if it is non-European Union or not. So, it's quite challenging and I don't think that we should organise such a big event. It's symbolically very, very nice, it's pan-European, it's east, west, north, south, it's 60 years, but to do it every time I would say it's too challenging." END OF NEWS CONFERENCE CEFERIN SPEAKING TO UEFA DEPUTY GENERAL, GIORGIO MARCHETTI CEFERIN SPEAKING TO REPORTERS CEFERIN
- Embargoed: 8th October 2019 19:50
- Keywords: UEFA football soccer Alexander Ceferin UCL Champions League
- Location: LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA / LONDON ,ENGLAND, UK / MUNICH, GERMANY / ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
- City: LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA / LONDON ,ENGLAND, UK / MUNICH, GERMANY / ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
- Country: Slovenia
- Topics: Soccer,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA001AY0QC73
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: St. Petersburg, Munich and Wembley Stadium in London will host the three Champions League finals from 2021, European football's governing body UEFA said on Tuesday (September 24).
Istanbul in Turkey is already scheduled to hold the final of the 2019/2020 campaign on May 30 at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium.
The 2021 final will be the second to be staged in Russia after Moscow hosted Manchester United's penalty shootout win against Chelsea at the Luzhniki Stadium in 2008.
Munich hosted Chelsea's victory over home side Bayern in 2012 while Wembley will take charge of Europe's premier club final for the eighth time.
Wembley will in 2023 be celebrating the 100th year since the opening of the original stadium in London.
Seville will host the 2021 UEFA Europa League final while Belfast will host that year's Super Cup.
UEFA President, Aleksander Ceferin, also announced after the meeting of the UEFA executive committee in Ljubljana, Slovenia, that the governing body warned members not to play games in countries where the rights of women to watch games were not respected.
Ceferin also revealed the challenge of organising a Euro championship tournament across the continent, as will happen at Euro 2020, is unlikely to take place further in the future due to the logistics and visa issues involved with organising such an event.
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