2023 UEFA Champions League Final

The 2023 UEFA Champions League Final will be the final match of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, the 68th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 31st season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It will be played at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany in May 2023.

2023 UEFA Champions League Final
The Allianz Arena in Munich will host the final
Event2022–23 UEFA Champions League
DateMay 2023 (2023-05)
VenueAllianz Arena, Munich

The final was originally scheduled to be played at Wembley Stadium in London, England. However, due to the postponement and relocation of the 2020 final, the final hosts were shifted back a year, with Munich instead hosting the 2023 final.[1]

The winners will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Europa League in the 2023 UEFA Super Cup.

Venue

This will be the second UEFA Champions League final hosted at the Allianz Arena; the first was held in 2012. Overall, it will be the fifth European Cup final to be held in Munich, with the 1979, 1993, and 1997 finals taking place at the Olympiastadion. The final will also be the ninth to take place in Germany, having also taken place in Stuttgart in 1959 and 1988, Gelsenkirchen in 2004, and Berlin in 2015, equalling the record of nine European Cup finals held in Italy and Spain.[2] The Allianz Arena previously hosted matches at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and will also be a host at the UEFA Euro 2020 and UEFA Euro 2024.

Host selection
For the details on the selection of Munich as the original host for the final, see 2024 UEFA Champions League Final § Host selection.

An open bidding process was launched on 22 February 2019 by UEFA to select the 2022 and 2023 UEFA Champions League final venues.[3] Associations had until 22 March 2019 to express interest, and bid dossiers had to be submitted by 1 July 2019.[4]

While the bidding associations have not been confirmed by UEFA, the German Football Association was reported to have bid with the Allianz Arena in Munich, should they not be awarded the 2021 final.[5]

The Allianz Arena was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 24 September 2019,[6] where the hosts for the 2021 and 2023 UEFA Champions League finals were also appointed.[7]

On 17 June 2020, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that due to the postponement and relocation of the 2020 final, Munich would instead host the 2023 final.[1]

Match

Details

The "home" team (for administrative purposes) will be determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.

TBD v TBD

Match rules

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Twelve named substitutes.
  • Maximum of three substitutions, with a fourth allowed in extra time.

See also

References
  1. "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  2. "UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook 2013/14: Finals" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  3. "9 associations bidding to host 2021 club finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 22 February 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  4. "London Mayor backs bid to host 2023 Champions League final at Wembley". Reuters. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  5. "DFB kandidiert auch für Champions-League-Finale 2022" [DFB also bids for 2022 Champions League Final]. Stuttgarter Zeitung (in German). 19 March 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  6. "Champions League final hosts announced for 2021, 2022 and 2023". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
  7. "UEFA Executive Committee agenda for Ljubljana meeting". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 September 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
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