In an average year, UEFA and a host venue want 12 months to plan a final of the festival. In 2020, it took a few months to organize 3 mini-tournament finals: the Champions League, europa League and the Women’s Champions League in Portugal, Germany and Spain respectively. In a series of articles, we asked the national agreement how it proceeded.
Four months after UEFA announced the suspension of its 2019-20 competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, its elite club competitions return to action with a series of knockout tournaments organized through the national federations of Portugal (Champions League), Germany (UEFA Europa League) and Spain (UEFA Women’s Champions League).
When they were announced in June, UEFA President Aleksander Eefin quickly thanked the national federations for their cooperation.
“I would especially like to thank all the federations that have been concerned about the adjustments that have been made to the sites,” he said. adapt to the stage and have shown wonderful solidarity, which is for our paintings in the future.
The creation, organization and delivery of the new tournament formats in 3 months required unprecedented degrees of collaboration and coordination between UEFA, national federations, clubs and other stakeholders.
“The entire football network has worked hand in hand to get to the point where the game can resume, and I thank all the members of world football and the governments that helped us get to the stage we are on today. Array»
The collaboration between the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) and UEFA has been to relaunch the Champions League this season.
“Dating between all UEFA and FPF grades will have to be fluid and based on trust, communication and exchange of experiences,” said Daniel Ribeiro, Director of FPF. “Because the luxury of time does not exist, transparent decisions and rapid planning must be made in partnership with the purpose of providing an occasion that turns out to have been planned for years.
“Once the dust settles, we can get an idea of what we end up providing because it’s so dynamic. An impressive statistic is the time it takes to plan and organize such a prestigious event. From June to August, in less than 3 months, everything would have been done from the beginning to the end.
– Estedio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica – José Alvalade
Quarter-finals: 12-15 August Semifinals: 18-19 August Final: 23 August
The full UEFA Champions League draw will be held here.
Speaking once with the Portuguese president and prime minister, FPF President Fernando Gomes said: “The Champions League is immediately taking a stand in Portugal because we have clubs that invest in infrastructure and keep them at a higher level. Not only its stages, but also the schools that will be so applicable in this unprecedented [final eight]. Without the clubs, we wouldn’t be here.
“In fact, Lisbonne has provided a case study on how overall engagement and the fact that everyone pulls in the same direction are the key pillars of the power and effectiveness of any operation,” Ribeiro explains. “It started with the Portuguese government event at the highest point, adding the fitness government and the two clubs, Sport Lisboa e Benfica and Sporting Clube Portugal, making them have their stadiums and educational fields.
“One of the most demanding situations to align the hotels and educational fields closest to the hotels to satisfy the wishes of each team”, adds Ribeiro.
Hotels and air required close coordination to create certain simple, personal and safe environments for each moving team. Lisbon has two world-class stadiums, nine high-level educational services and a host of adapted hotels, which have been selected through individual clubs.
“This is a natural team service event, which deserves to focus on the groups and face the most productive imaginable situations for each of them when they arrive in Lisbon.”
1967 – 1992 UEFA European Cup Final – UEFA Cup Final – UEFA European Cup Final 2005 – UEFA Cup Final UEFA2006 – UEFA League Championship2014 – UEFA Champions League Final2014 – UEFA Women’s Champions League Final2019 – UEFA Nations League Final
This list comes with the UEFA Cup finals of two matches in which the Portuguese groups competed as a home team.
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