2021 UEFA Europa League Final

The 2021 UEFA Europa League Final will be the final match of the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League, the 50th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 12th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. It will be played on 26 May 2021 at the Stadion Miejski in Gdańsk, Poland.

2021 UEFA Europa League Final
The Stadion Miejski in Gdańsk will host the final.
Event2020–21 UEFA Europa League
Date26 May 2021 (2021-05-26)
VenueStadion Miejski, Gdańsk

The final was originally scheduled to be played at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Stadium in Seville, Spain. However, due to the postponement and relocation of the 2020 final to Cologne, the final hosts were shifted back a year, with Gdańsk instead hosting the 2021 final, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[1]

The winners will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League in the 2021 UEFA Super Cup. They will also qualify to enter the group stage of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League, and if they have already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved will be given to the third-placed team of the 2020–21 Ligue 1, the 5th-ranked association according to next season's access list.[2]

Venue

The match will be played at Stadion Miejski in Gdańsk, Poland. At the meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Kyiv in May 2018, the stadium was initially selected to host the 2020 UEFA Europa League Final,[3] but when the COVID-19 pandemic forced UEFA to move the latter stages of the 2019–20 competition to Germany, the UEFA Executive Committee delayed Stadion Miejski's hosting of the Europa League final to 2021. The original venues for the 2021 and 2022 finals were also delayed by a year.[4]

This will be the first UEFA club match hosted at the stadium, which was one of the venues for UEFA Euro 2012.[5] It is the second UEFA club competition final to be played in Poland, as the 2015 UEFA Europa League Final was played at the National Stadium in Warsaw. When the stadium was selected to host the 2020 final, it was known as Stadion Energa Gdańsk, so due to UEFA sponsorship regulations, marketing materials for the match referred to the venue as Gdańsk Stadium. Although the sponsorship deal with Energa was ended in November 2020, the stadium will continue to be known as Gdańsk Stadium for the final.[6]

Host selection
For the details on the selection of Seville as the original host for the final, see 2022 UEFA Europa League Final § Host selection.

An open bidding process was launched on 22 September 2017 by UEFA to select the venues of the finals of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Women's Champions League in 2020. Associations had until 31 October 2017 to express interest, and bid dossiers must be submitted by 1 March 2018. Associations hosting matches at UEFA Euro 2020 were not allowed to bid for the 2020 UEFA Europa League final.

UEFA announced on 3 November 2017 that two associations had expressed interest in hosting the 2020 UEFA Europa League final.[7]

Bidding associations for final
CountryStadiumCityCapacityNotes
 PolandStadion MiejskiGdańsk43,615
 PortugalEstádio do DragãoPorto50,035Also bid for 2020 UEFA Super Cup

The Stadion Miejski in Gdańsk was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Kyiv on 24 May 2018.[8][6]

On 17 June 2020, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that due to the postponement and relocation of the 2020 final, Gdańsk would instead host the 2021 final.[1]

Match

Details

The "home" team (for administrative purposes) will be determined by an additional draw to be held after the quarter-final and semi-final draws.

TBD v TBD
Report

Match rules[9][10]

  • 90 minutes.
  • 30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
  • Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
  • Twelve named substitutes.
  • Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time.[note 1]

See also

Notes
  1. Each team will be given only three opportunities to make substitutions, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.

References
  1. "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  2. "Champions League and Europa League changes next season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 27 February 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  3. "Istanbul to host 2020 UEFA Champions League Final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  4. "Europa League to resume on 5 August, final on 21 August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  5. "2021 UEFA Europa League final: Gdańsk". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 1 September 2020. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  6. "Gdansk to host 2020 UEFA Europa League final". Union of European Football Associations. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  7. "Six associations interested in hosting 2020 club finals". UEFA. 3 November 2017.
  8. "Seville to host 2021 UEFA Europa League final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
  9. "Regulations of the UEFA Europa League, 2020/21". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 August 2020.
  10. "Two triple-headers approved for 2021 March and September national team windows". UEFA. 24 September 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
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