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Will the ECL league final still happen in Portugal? 07:16 - May 14 with 852 viewsChrisd

Seems bizarre we have two English clubs in the final and during this pandemic they have to play the match in another country. Will the tie get moved again due to the Portuguese Government extending their country’s lockdown? Thought the attraction of moving the tie to Porto was that fans of both clubs could attend, that looks very doubtful now.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14952055/brits-portugal-face-uncertainty-lockdown/
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Will the ECL league final still happen in Portugal? on 07:47 - May 14 with 770 viewsCheltenham_Blue

It would have happened at Wembley, but UEFA wanted delegates and stakeholders to be exempt from quarantine restrictions. The UK govt. refused, hence Lisbon.

Suspect it may now come back to Wembley.

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Will the ECL league final still happen in Portugal? on 08:32 - May 14 with 713 viewsStewart27

I think it was a good idea initially. It will stop mass protests like the ones we have seen at old Trafford. Plus it works nicely in line with the traffic light system.

I really wish they didn’t use Wembley. Games there are always so dull and the pitch is far too slow.
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Will the ECL league final still happen in Portugal? on 08:51 - May 14 with 676 viewsRadlett_blue

Will the ECL league final still happen in Portugal? on 07:47 - May 14 by Cheltenham_Blue

It would have happened at Wembley, but UEFA wanted delegates and stakeholders to be exempt from quarantine restrictions. The UK govt. refused, hence Lisbon.

Suspect it may now come back to Wembley.


Any sane governing body would move the final to England, given COVID restrictions. But the hideously corrupt UEFA (I did laugh when they were presented as the fans' champions during the ESL crisis) have to keep their sponsors, spongers & other assorted hangers-on happy so as the UK government (rightly) wouldn't give them quarantine exemptions, they're going to keep it in Portugal. Utter madness.

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Will the ECL league final still happen in Portugal? on 08:57 - May 14 with 663 viewsGeoffSentence

Will the ECL league final still happen in Portugal? on 07:47 - May 14 by Cheltenham_Blue

It would have happened at Wembley, but UEFA wanted delegates and stakeholders to be exempt from quarantine restrictions. The UK govt. refused, hence Lisbon.

Suspect it may now come back to Wembley.


My bet is that UEFA will put their delegates ahead of the fans.

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Will the ECL league final still happen in Portugal? on 10:04 - May 14 with 577 viewsChrisd

Will the ECL league final still happen in Portugal? on 08:57 - May 14 by GeoffSentence

My bet is that UEFA will put their delegates ahead of the fans.


Very true.

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Will the ECL league final still happen in Portugal? on 12:14 - May 14 with 504 viewsWestover

Will the tie get moved again due to the Portuguese Government extending their country’s lockdown.

Official: Porto to host Champions League final with 12,000 fans in attendance
By Michael Bruxo -14th May 2021
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UEFA has confirmed that the 2020/2021 Champions League final between Manchester City and Chelsea will be played on Saturday, May 29 at Porto’s Estádio do Dragão in front of a crowd of 12,000 people — 6,000 fans from each team, who will nonetheless be kept “inside a bubble” and arrive and leave on the same day.

The decision was made “following an offer to stage the game by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) and the Portuguese authorities,” Europe’s governing body for football revealed this week.

As it explained, UEFA discussed moving the match to England but, “despite exhaustive efforts on the part of the Football Association and the authorities, it was not possible to achieve the necessary exemptions from UK quarantine arrangements”.



This is when Portuguese authorities stepped in and “worked quickly and seamlessly with UEFA to offer a fitting venue for the final and, as Portugal is a green list destination for England, fans and players attending the final will not have to quarantine on their return home”.

Strict rules will still be in place, nonetheless.

Portugal’s Minister of State and Presidency announced at the end of the Council of Ministers on Thursday that fans arriving from abroad to attend the match will be kept in a “bubble”.

They will arrive and leave on the same day on charter flights and will have to present negative Covid-19 tests, Mariana Vieira da Silva said. Fans will also have reserved seats at the stadium, she added.

Meanwhile, Portugal is also planning to allow some fans back for the last round matches of this season’s Liga NOS, in what it is calling a test for next season to figure out how football fans can gradually be allowed back into stadiums.

Said the minister, attendance will be restricted to 10% of each stadium’s capacity, and only fans of the home side will be allowed to attend.

michael.bruxo@algarveresident.com

We are not in lockdown 👍
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Will the ECL league final still happen in Portugal? on 12:29 - May 14 with 480 viewsdominiciawful

Dear UEFA,

Villa Park. Job done.

Not hard, is it?

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