UEFA puts the Champions League final for August 23 in Lisboa

The Champions League keeps on being an incógnita, at least of official form. It is necessary to do this nuance because these last weeks yes have gone out diverse informations in the press on the dates and how will return the maximum competition of clubs of Europe. It seems that the UEFA already has a plan thought to finish this edition of the League of Champions and everything aims that what subtracts of tournament will contest in Portugal.

Madrid also opted to receive the Champions, but finally has opted by the country luso, that will receive what remains of League of Champions in the month of August. Besides, in the newspaper 'Sport' even aim that already it has decided the headquarters and the date of the big final. Originally it had to be in Istanbul, but the coronavirus has forced to improvise and seemingly this final will be in Lisbon, in the Stadium gives Light of the Benfica.

The meeting would play on 23 August and the chambers and the semifinals would contest in several fields of Portugal. In addition to in Give Luz, that would receive the final and some party of fourth and 'semis', also there will be crashes in the Stadium do Dragao of the Port wine and in another stadium more than still has not chosen . All the eliminatory of these rounds would be to only party, confirming of this way the idea to do a 'Final to 8'.

What is not confirmed and seems that it will not arrive to suceder is that they contest the turns of the eighth of final that remain in Lisbon. The newspaper 'Bild' signalled that the UEFA was stirring the possibility that the FC Barcelona​-Naples, the Manchester City-Real Madrid, the Bayern of Munich-Chelsea and the Juventus of Turín-Olympique of Lyon went in the Stadium gives Luz. But the information of the 'Sport' affirms that at the end it has preferred keep these meetings in the headquarters prefixed.

On 17 June it will do official the plan of the UEFA

All this still is not official, but seems that it would be missing only a mere formalism so that it became a reality. On 17 June it will be the videoconference in which the Executive Committee of the UEFA will have to approve all this. Everything indicates that there will be any problem and that this Champions will finish as it has explained in this news. This day also will know the exact dates in which the maximum organism of the European football pretends that it return the competition.

Everything indicates that the League of Champions would have to go back the first or the second week of August. If the final is scheduled for the 23, perhaps the eighth could begin to play between the 5 and the 10. For the moment everything are speculations, but only lacking less than a week so that the UEFA gather and do at last official his plan to finish this Champions League.