2021 UEFA Champions League Final

The 2021 UEFA Champions League Final will be the final match of the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League, the 66th season of Europe's premier club football tournament run by UEFA, and the 29th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It is scheduled to be played at the Estádio do Dragão in Porto, Portugal on 29 May 2021, between English clubs Manchester City, in their first UEFA Champions League final, and three-time finalists Chelsea.

Teams 
In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era, since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era.

Venue 
The match will be the fourth European Cup/Champions League final to take place in Portugal, and the first to take place outside Lisbon.

Initial 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 Champions League final.

UEFA announced on 3 November 2017 that two associations had expressed interest in hosting the 2020 UEFA Champions League final.

The Atatürk Olympic Stadium was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Kyiv on 24 May 2018.

On 17 June 2020, the UEFA Executive Committee announced that due to the postponement and relocation of the 2020 final to the Estádio da Luz, Istanbul would instead host the 2021 final.

Change to Porto 
On 13 May 2021, UEFA announced the final was relocated to the Estádio do Dragão in Porto, Portugal due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey.

Background 
Manchester City will play in their first European Cup/UEFA Champions League final. This will be the third UEFA Champions League final for manager Pep Guardiola, and his first since the two wins with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011.

Chelsea will play in their third European Cup/UEFA Champions League final, and the first since 2012. Head coach Thomas Tuchel becomes the first coach/manager to reach the European Cup/UEFA Champions League final in successive seasons with different clubs, having lost the 2020 final when coaching Paris Saint-Germain.

Road to the final 

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

Notes

Pre-match

Officials 
On 12 May 2021, UEFA named Antonio Mateu Lahoz as the referee for the final. He was selected as an official for UEFA Euro 2020. He will be joined by six of assistant referees Pau Cebrián Devís and Roberto Díaz Pérez del Palomar. Carlos del Cerro Grande will serve as the fourth official, while Alejandro Hernández Hernández will act as the video assistant referee. Juan Martínez Munuera and Íñigo Prieto López de Cerain were appointed as assistant VAR officials, along with Polish referee Paweł Gil.

Match

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

Statistics

Related pages 

 2021 UEFA Super Cup

Notes

References

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