2025 UEFA Champions League final
 The Allianz Arena in Munich will host the final. | |
| Event | 2024–25 UEFA Champions League |
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| Date | 31 May 2025 |
| Venue | Allianz Arena, Munich |
The 2025 UEFA Champions League final will be the final match of the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League, the 70th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 33rd season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It will be played at Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany, on 31 May 2025.[1] This will be the first UEFA Champions League final played under the new format of the Swiss-system.[2]
The winners will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League in the 2025 UEFA Super Cup.
Venue
[edit]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. Each of the previous four finals played in Munich saw a first-time winner of the competition crowned (Nottingham Forest in 1979, Marseille in 1993, Borussia Dortmund in 1997 and Chelsea in 2012). 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.[3] The Allianz Arena previously hosted matches at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and was chosen as a host venue for UEFA Euro 2020 and UEFA Euro 2024.
Host selection
[edit]On 16 July 2021, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul would host the 2023 UEFA Champions League final instead of Munich.[4] This was due to the fact that Istanbul twice had the Champions League final intended for their city relocated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally planned as hosts for the 2020 final, the match was moved to Lisbon and the final hosts shifted back a year, with Istanbul instead awarded the 2021 final.[5] However, weeks prior to the final, the 2021 fixture was moved to Porto due to travel restrictions.[6]
Munich, originally selected to host the 2022 final by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia on 24 September 2019,[7] was later planned to host the 2023 final after the shifting of the final hosts. However, the city was awarded the 2025 final instead after being bumped from 2023 by Istanbul.[4]
Pre-match
[edit]Identity
[edit]The visual identity of the 2025 UEFA Champions League final will be unveiled at the league phase draw in Monaco on 29 August 2024.
Match
[edit]Details
[edit]The "home" team (for administrative purposes) will be determined by an additional draw held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.
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Match rules
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See also
[edit]- 2025 UEFA Europa League final
- 2025 UEFA Conference League final
- 2025 UEFA Women's Champions League final
- 2025 UEFA Super Cup
References
[edit]- ^ "UEFA club competitions cycle 2024–27 ("Post 2024")". UEFA Circular Letter. No. 36/2023. Union of European Football Associations. 7 July 2023. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
- ^ "UEFA approves final format and access list for its club competitions as of the 2024/25 season | Inside UEFA". 10 May 2022.
- ^ "UEFA Champions League Statistics Handbook 2013/14: Finals" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
- ^ a b "Venues appointed for club competition finals". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- ^ "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ "UEFA Champions League final to move to Portugal to allow 6,000 fans of each team to attend". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 13 May 2021. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
- ^ "Champions League final hosts announced for 2021, 2022 and 2023". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.