{"id":5101,"date":"2015-07-01T02:56:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T01:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5101"},"modified":"2015-07-01T02:56:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T01:56:59","slug":"2017-champions-league-final-at-cardiffs-millennium-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/2017-champions-league-final-at-cardiffs-millennium-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Champions League final at Cardiff&#8217;s Millennium Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2017-Champions-League-final-at-Cardiffs-Millennium-Stadium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5102\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2017-Champions-League-final-at-Cardiffs-Millennium-Stadium.jpg\" alt=\"2017 Champions League final at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>The Champions League final will be played in Wales for the first time in 2017 at Cardiff&#8217;s Millennium Stadium.<br \/>\nThe venue, with around 74,000 seats, was awarded the hosting rights by UEFA&#8217;s executive committee at a meeting on Tuesday in Prague, after unsuccessfully bidding for matches at the pan-continent 2020 European Championship.<br \/>\nThe decision comes with Wales on the verge of reaching the European Championship for the first time, as it tops its 2016 qualifying group.<br \/>\n\u201cThese are exciting times for Welsh football,\u201d Real Madrid and Wales forward Gareth Bale said. \u201cI know how passionate the Welsh football fans are, so it&#8217;s great the UEFA Champions League final is coming to my home city of Cardiff.<br \/>\n\u201cI loved playing in the UEFA Super Cup last year, and it would be fantastic to be involved in front of a packed crowd at such an iconic stadium in 2017.\u201d<br \/>\nThe game will be played on June 3, 2017, with the women&#8217;s final at Cardiff City Stadium two days earlier.<br \/>\nStockholm has also been awarded a UEFA showpiece match after missing out on Euro 2020 matches, with the Europa League in May 2017 going to Friends Arena.<br \/>\nThe 2017 Super Cup between the winners of the two UEFA club competitions will be in Skopje, Macedonia, at Philip II Arena.<br \/>\nIn 2016, the Champions League final will be at Milan&#8217;s San Siro, and the Europa League final at St. Jakob-Park in the Swiss city of Basel.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/2017-champions-league-final-at-cardiffs-millennium-stadium\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Champions League final will be played in Wales for the first time in 2017 at Cardiff&#8217;s Millennium Stadium. 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