2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final

The 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final will be the final match of the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League, the 19th season of Europe's premier women's club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Women's Cup to the UEFA Women's Champions League. It was originally scheduled to be played at the Generali Arena in Vienna, Austria, on 24 May 2020.[1][2] On 23 March 2020, UEFA announced that the final was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[3] On 17 June 2020, it was moved to the Anoeta Stadium, San Sebastián, Spain, and will be played on 30 August 2020.[4]

2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
The Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián will host the final
Event2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League
Date30 August 2020 (2020-08-30)
VenueAnoeta Stadium, San Sebastián

Venue
Generali Arena, the venue originally chosen to host the final match.

This would have been the first UEFA club competition final hosted at the Generali Arena, and the first to be hosted by the city of Vienna and Austria since the 1995 UEFA Champions League Final at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion.[5] It is the home ground of Austrian club Austria Wien. Due to UEFA regulations regarding naming rights of non-tournament sponsors, the stadium is referred to as the "Viola Park" in all UEFA materials.

The eventual venue will be Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain.[4] The stadium, city, and province will host their first ever UEFA club competition final. The greater Basque Country however had seen the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao, Biscay, hosting the second leg of the 1977 UEFA Cup Final.

Original host selection

An open bidding process was launched on 22 September 2017 by UEFA to select the venues of the finals of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Women's Champions League in 2020. Associations had until 31 October 2017 to express interest, and bid dossiers must be submitted by 1 March 2018.

UEFA announced on 3 November 2017 that three associations had expressed interest in hosting the 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League final.[6]

Bidding associations for 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
CountryStadiumCityCapacity
 AustriaGenerali ArenaVienna17,500
 BelgiumStade Maurice DufrasneLiège30,023
 RussiaVTB ArenaMoscow27,000

The Generali Arena was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Kiev on 24 May 2018.[7][1]

Postponement and relocation

The 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League was postponed indefinitely on 17 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[8] The final was officially postponed on 23 March 2020.[3] A working group was set up by UEFA to decide the calendar of the remainder of the season,[9] with the final decision made at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting on 17 June 2020.[10][11] It was decided that the remaining matches, including the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, will be played between 21 and 30 August at San Mamés, Bilbao and Anoeta Stadium, San Sebastián in Basque Country, Spain, as an eight-team single-match knockout tournament, with San Sebastián hosting the final.[4]

Unlike the UEFA Champions League and Europa League, where the host venues of future finals already awarded since 2020 were all pushed back a year, e.g., Atatürk Olympic Stadium, Istanbul would now host the 2021 UEFA Champions League Final instead of the 2020 UEFA Champions League Final, and Stadion Energa Gdańsk, Gdańsk would now host the 2021 UEFA Europa League Final instead of the 2020 UEFA Europa League Final, the host venues of future Women's Champions League finals already awarded remained the same (2021: Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg; 2022: Juventus Stadium, Turin; 2023: Philips Stadion, Eindhoven). The Austrian Football Association said over 12,00 tickets had already been sold for the final and they would all be refunded, and they would try to bring another major women's football event to Austria in the future.[12]

Pre-match

Ambassador

Austrian footballer Nina Burger was the original ambassador for the Vienna final.[13]

Match

Details

The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held on 8 November 2019, 13:30 CET (after the quarter-final and semi-final draws), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[14]

Winners of semi-final 2 v Winners of semi-final 1
Report

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Seven named substitutes.
  • Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time.[note 1]

See also

Notes
  1. Each team will only be given three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.

References
  1. "Istanbul to host 2020 UEFA Champions League Final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  2. "Road to Vienna: 2019/20 #UWCL dates, access list". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 18 May 2019.
  3. "UEFA Club Finals postponed". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 23 March 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  4. "Women's Champions League finals to be played in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020.
  5. "Vienna to host 2020 Women's Champions League final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 May 2018.
  6. "Six associations interested in hosting 2020 club finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 November 2017.
  7. "UEFA Executive Committee agenda for Kyiv meeting". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 8 May 2018.
  8. "UEFA postpones EURO 2020 by 12 months". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  9. "Resolution of the European football family on a coordinated response to the impact of the COVID-19 on competitions". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  10. "UEFA Executive Committee agenda for June meeting". UEFA.com. 11 June 2020.
  11. "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  12. "UEFA Women's Champions League Final To Be Played In San Sebastian". Forbes. 17 June 2020.
  13. "2020 Women's Champions League final: Vienna". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 November 2019.
  14. "Women's Champions League quarter-final and semi-final draw". UEFA.com.
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