Africa-Press – Angola. UEFA decided this Friday to move the Champions League final to Paris, taking it from Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The Stade de France is thus the new venue for the final of the biggest club competition. UEFA’s decision is based on Russia’s attacks on Ukraine.
“The UEFA Executive Committee has decided to move the Champions League final from Saint Petersburg to the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. The game will be played as initially scheduled on Saturday 28 May at 9 pm,” it reads. if in the UEFA communiqué.
UEFA thanks French president Emmanuel Macron “for his personal support and commitment to moving the most prestigious game in European club football to France at a time of unprecedented crisis”.
The final, which is scheduled for May 28, would take place in Saint Petersburg, in a stadium built for the 2018 World Cup and financed by energy giant Gazprom, one of UEFA’s major sponsors. The new venue for the final will be the Stade de France, north of Paris.
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