the biggest news is the remaining games of the playoffs of the Champions League will be held from 12 to 23 August in Lisbon in the format of the Final eight. The quarterfinals will be played August 12-15, semi – finals on August 18-19. At the moment it is reported that all meetings will be held without spectators.
All games of the last two stages of the tournament will consist of one match. At the moment there are four party 1/4 final: Atalanta (Italy), Atletico Madrid (Spain), “Paris Saint-Germain” (France) and “RB Leipzig” (Germany). They knocked, respectively, Valencia (Spain), Liverpool (England), Borussia (Germany) and “Tottenham” (England).
In other pairs of 1/8 finals was the first match. Talking about confrontations real Madrid – Manchester city (first game in Madrid ended with the score 2:1 in favor of the guests), Lyon – Juventus (the first game in France ended with the victory of the hosts 1:0), “Napoli” – “Barcelona” (the first game in Italy ended 1:1) and Chelsea – Bayern (Bayern won in London 3:0). Where will be the second leg of these pairs, is open to question.
What is important is that the UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin, founder made it clear that completing the European Cup format the Final eight is a special case, which will not be used in the future on a permanent basis.
Yes, the format is interesting, but we were forced to resort to it in order to finish the season in the form of a coronavirus pandemic, said the Ceferin, founder.
the Head of UEFA also explained why the remaining matches of the playoffs of the Champions League will be held in Lisbon. “The football Federation of Portugal first came to us and announced their readiness to host the tournament. Said that are in contact with the government and there are no contraindications. No, roughly speaking, the fight for the right to host these meetings between Britain, Germany, Spain and Portugal was not” – said the Ceferin, founder.
on Wednesday it became known that the final match of the Champions League will be held in St. Petersburg in 2021, as planned, in 2022. The transfer of the decisive meeting of the tournament for a year due to the fact that this season finale will not take place in Istanbul due to pandemic coronavirus. Thus, the match in Turkey will take place in 2021, one year later, in St. Petersburg, 2023, in Munich, in 2024-m – at the London “Wembley”.
it Also became known that Kazan would retain the right the match for the UEFA super Cup in 2023. In this match will play the winners of the Champions League and Europa League in season 2022/23.
Now for the Europa League this season. According to the decision of UEFA final tournament will be held in Germany from 10 to 21 August in four cities: Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg, düsseldorf and Cologne. The decisive game will play in Cologne.
the Remaining matches of 1/8 finals will take place on 5-6 August. However, while not defined, which will host these games in Germany or in the fields of the owners.
All the teams aboutstore one match. Clubs who failed to start a confrontation in the 1/8 finals, will also hold one meeting in Germany. We are talking about the pairs “inter” (Italy) – Getafe (Spain) and Sevilla (Spain) – “Rum” (Italy).
the Team, played one match, playing the second game according to the original rules. Before the suspension of the Europa League 1/8 finals were held the following matches: “Basaksehir Istanbul” (Turkey) – Copenhagen (1:0), Olympiakos (Greece) – “the wolves” (1:1), Rangers (Scotland) – “Bayer 04” (Germany) – 1:3, “Wolfsburg” (Germany) – Shakhtar (Ukraine) – 1:2, “Eintracht Frankfurt” (Germany) – “Basel” (Switzerland) – 0:3, LASK (Austria) – “Manchester United” (England) – 0:5.
the draw for the mini-tournament of League of Europe will take place in Nyon, Switzerland on July 10. It is also noted that UEFA will assess the epidemiological situation and will be in touch with the authorities to assess the likelihood of the return of spectators to the stadiums. Recall: initially, the Europa League final was held in Gdansk, Poland, but now the city will take it next year. In 2022, the final will take place in Seville, in 2023 in Budapest.
UEFA also approved the new dates of the European championship and the list of cities that will host matches of the tournament. Meetings will be held from 11 June to 11 July next year. All 12 host cities of the Euro will be able to host tournament games. Talking about London, Munich, Baku, Rome, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Dublin, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Budapest, Bilbao and Saint Petersburg. The semifinals and finals will take the London “Wembley”.
In St.-Petersburg is planned to hold four meetings: Belgium – Russia (June 13), Finland – Russia (17 June) Finland – Belgium (June 22) and one match of 1/8 final (3 July).
in addition, UEFA approved the calendar of the group stage of the League of Nations. It is noted that the window for teams meetings will take place three matches, not two as previously.
the national team of Russia will play their first match in group at home against Serbia in the period from 3 to 5 September. Next, the players Stanislav Cherchesov will go on a visit to Hungary (6-8 September). On October 10-11 we will be taking the Turks, on October 13-14 will play the second game with the Hungarians, November 14-15, pay a visit to Turkey on November 17-18, will complete the group stage in Serbia.
Meanwhile, the football club “Rostov” has published a statement on the situation with six players infected with coronavirus. The band confirmed this information and announced that the team goes on a two-week quarantine. This means that the matches they played against “Sochi” and “Arsenal” will not take place.
