UEFA have announced that the 2019/20 Champions League will be completed as a straight knockout mini-tournament in Lisbon over a 12-day period in August, with the 2020 final to be played in the Portuguese capital on Sunday 23 August.
The remaining last 16 legs will be concluded a few days earlier on 7-8 August, although a decision as to whether those games will also be played in Portugal or at their original intended location.
The Europa League will follow a similar pattern and be concluded as a straight knockout mini-tournament for the quarter-final, semi-final and final in Cologne. The outstanding last 16 ties that have not yet begun will also become one-off knockout games.
The decisions come at the end of a two-day meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee at which it was also agreed that Istanbul, the original host for this year’s Champions League final, will now host it in 2021 instead.
Each scheduled final host for the next few years have also been pushed back by 12 months, meaning St Petersburg will now host in 2022, Munich in 2023 and London in 2024.
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Source : 90min
