Geneva – The final of the Champions League, is at the head of Lisbon, with the UEFA scheduling of a Needle. 23 final to cap a seven-transmission nights in 12 days, period of elite European teams playing knockout football.
Widely reported that UEFA want to hold an eight-team knockout bracket in two stages, gaps in the capital of Portugal, was confirmed in the report Monday by the television broadcaster Sky Italia.
The UEFA executive committee must agree on the plan Wednesday, including a series of decisions to re-program the international football — for the Europe of the clubs and national teams — after the coronavirus pandemic shocked the global sports calendar.
The federal government priority during the shutdown was to stabilize hundreds of clubs, allowing you the time to finish the national championships and cups from the first weekend of August.
The next in line is running to finish in the Champions League and meet the broadcasting contracts that help pay the club more than 2 billion euros (2.3 billion dollars) in prize money. If UEFA and reschedule the plan succeeds, only two transmissions slots are lost.
Lisbon was the losing candidate in May 2018, when UEFA chose Istanbul to host this season’s Champions League. Now, will host seven games instead of one.
The most prized trophy in club football will be decided in a rare Sunday’s final at Benfica’s Stadium of Light. It was originally from Saturday, May 30, at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, but the UEFA has pointed out elsewhere, when the city was not the most practical.
Semi-finals will be shared with the Stadium of Light and the near home stadium of Sporting Lisbon in August. 18-19. The four quarter-finals are scheduled consecutive nights from Aug. 12-15, Sky Italia has reported.
Four fourths are yet to decide, and the UEFA executive panel must decide on Wednesday where to schedule the second leg games in the round of 16 that have been postponed to March.
Those games which could also go to Lisbon or to be played without fans in the home stadiums of Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus and Manchester City.
The Europa League mini-tournament is set to be shared by the four cities of western Germany, Cologne is hosting the final of Friday, August. 21. It was thought to be the Wednesday, May 27, in Gdansk, Poland.
The second level of competition even during the pause at the roundabout on March 16. You went, games were played and two — Inter Milan-Getafe and Rome-Sevilla — could not be played in Italy, when the country was hit hard by the coronavirus cases.
The Women’s Champions League is set to resume in the quarter-finals with a mini-tournament in Spain before a Needle. 30 final, postponed from the 24th of May in Vienna.
UEFA will also have its hands full planning for the next season.
In a typical campaign, teams from 55 UEFA federations to play qualifying rounds in the Champions League and Europa League from late June to August. Six places in the Champions League, and 31 seats in the Europa League, in the food supply in the group stage draws in Monaco at the end of August.
This process that involves a lot of travel has been complicated by the pandemic.
To UEFA’s club competitions panel will meet on Wednesday in front of the executive body, to help make efficient the sense of challenge.
The next group stage will probably start in the month of October instead of September. Istanbul and Gdansk, you may also get their hosting possibilities, a year.
The Super Cup match between the Champions League and the Europa League is also moved to mid-August in Portugal in September. 24 in Budapest, Hungary.
UEFA is also expected to ratify the renewed contractual commitments for the postponed European Championship of the 12 host cities, and finalize a program for the final round of qualifying playoffs, which were originally scheduled for March and June, and are now likely to take place in the month of October and November.
The new dates for the Nations League, which determines the seeding for the 2022 World Cup qualifying, as well as the makeup dates for the World Cup qualifiers themselves must be determined.
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