The Europa League final originally scheduled for Wednesday 27 May in Gdansk before falling on the road when the Panvid-19 pandemic broke the sporting calendar.
UEFA has reorganized and reformated the Europa League and Champions League to remain the first exclusively confined to Germany and the time to Portugal to check and prevent the spread of Covid-19.
This year’s Ultimate will be played at FC Koln’s 49,695-seat stadium on Friday, August 21 at 8 pm BST.
It will be the first time Cologne will host a European grand final when it will be the first Europa League final to be played in Germany since Atletico Madrid beat Fulham in Hamburg a decade ago.
BT Sport has intensified its participation in the Europa League and Champions League in its existing World Cup-style format by naming them ‘BT Sport Club 2020’.
The coverage of the latest will start at 7 pm on BT Sport 1HD and BT Sport Ultimate, while you will also be loose on the BT Sport website, the mobile app and the YouTube channel.
In the last decade, since the UEFA Cup was renamed the Europa League, the festival has been ruled through Spanish and English clubs, and only the Portuguese port team has managed to break the duopoly in 2011.
Atletico Madrid and Seville have won the festival 3 times since 2010, while Chelsea have won twice and Manchester United lifted it in 2017 against Ajax with Jose Mourinho.
Although he ruled the tournament in the 1990s with seven victories, it has been 21 years since an Italian team lifted the festival with a star-studded Parma with Gianluigi Buffon, Lilian Thuram and Fabio Cannavaro in 1999.
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Shakhtar, meanwhile, is the only Ukrainian team to have enjoyed good fortune in 2009 by beating Werder Bremen 2–1 thanks to a winning purpose from Brazilian midfielder Jadson.
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The Europa League nutritional edition has made the final stages of the festival less attractive with the quarter-finals and semi-finals with a drama-filled stage.
Manchester United was on track for a moment of final appearance in four seasons when Bruno Fernandes sent them back to Seville in the semi-finals before the waste in attack and disastrous elegance in defence saw them collide in Cologne.
Sevilla, the most successful club in the history of the competition, will now face Inter in the final. Inter beat Shakhtar Donetsk in the other semi-final, with Romelu Lukaku adding two more to his already impressive overall goals for the season.
The Europa League final originally scheduled for Wednesday 27 May in Gdansk before falling on the road when the Panvid-19 pandemic broke the sporting calendar.
UEFA has reorganized and reformated the Europa League and Champions League so that the former is limited exclusively to Germany and the time to Portugal to check and prevent the spread of Covid-19.
This year’s Ultimate will be played at FC Koln’s 49,695-seat stadium on Friday, August 21 at 8 pm BST.
It will be the first time Cologne will host a European grand final when it will be the first Europa League final to be played in Germany since Atletico Madrid beat Fulham in Hamburg a decade ago.
BT Sport has intensified its participation in the Europa League and Champions League in its existing World Cup-style format by naming them ‘BT Sport Club 2020’.
The coverage of the latest will start at 7 pm on BT Sport 1HD and BT Sport Ultimate, while it will also be available to watch on the BT Sport website, the mobile app and youTube channel.
In the last decade, since the UEFA Cup was renamed the Europa League, the festival has been ruled through Spanish and English clubs, and only the Portuguese port team has managed to break the duopoly in 2011.
Atletico Madrid and Seville have won the festival 3 times since 2010, while Chelsea have won twice and Manchester United lifted it in 2017 against Ajax with Jose Mourinho.
Although he ruled the tournament in the 1990s with seven victories, it has been 21 years since an Italian team lifted the festival with a star-studded Parma with Gianluigi Buffon, Lilian Thuram and Fabio Cannavaro in 1999.
Champions League draw and calendar – complete: dates and semi-finals Bayern Munich vs Lyon and PSG vs RB Leipzig
Shakhtar, meanwhile, is the only Ukrainian team to have enjoyed good fortune in 2009 by beating Werder Bremen 2–1 thanks to a winning purpose from Brazilian midfielder Jadson.
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