Champions League 2017 Final to be Held in Cardiff, Confirms UEFA
The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff will host UEFA's showpiece event in 2017. The Europa League final to be played at Friends Arena in Stockholm.
The 2017 Champions League final will be held at the 74,500 capacity Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, UEFA announced Tuesday. (Barcelona Win Fifth Champions League)
The decision was made at a UEFA executive committee in Prague. The 2017 Europa League final will be at the Friends Arena in Stockholm and Europe's Super Cup will be in Skopje, said UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino.
"The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff is one of the few stadiums which can host a Champions League final, it has become such an event," Infantino told a press conference. (Vermaelen Asked to Give Back Champions League Medal)
"We can't go every year to Wembley or to Berlin or whatever, we need to rotate a little bit."
A UEFA executive committee in Prague also discussed preparations for next year's European Championships in France.
Infantino said there had been five million applications for one million tickets currently on sale. He said the applications had come from 193 countries.