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Event Information:
The
UEFA Champions League Final
will be a football match played on
19 May at the Allianz Arena in
Munich, Germany to decide the winner
of the –12 season of the UEFA
Champions League, Europe's premier
club tournament organised annually
by the UEFA confederation. The
winners receive the European
Champion Clubs' Cup (the European
Cup). The game is the culmination of
the 57th season of the tournament,
and the 20th since it was renamed
the Champions League.
The
match will kick off at 20:45 local
time and will be contested by
English club Chelsea and Bayern
Munich of Germany. It's the first
Champions League Final to be held in
the Allianz Arena (known as "Fußball
Arena München" for the final) which
opened in 2005. With Bayern being
one of two tenants of the Arena,
it's also the first time a Champions
League finalist has had home stadium
advantage.
The
Allianz Arena was announced by UEFA
as the venue of the final on 30
January 2010, although the stadium
will be referred to as "Fußball
Arena München" for the match, as
UEFA does not recognise sponsorship
by companies that are not among its
partner organisations. The stadium,
which opened in 2005, is the home
stadium of both Bayern Munich and
1860 Munich, and was used for six
matches at the 2006 FIFA World Cup
including the opening match. The
stadium will host its first major
European final. The Olympiastadion
in Munich, the previous home of
Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich,
hosted three European Cup Finals in
1979, 1993 and 1997.
During
the match, the stadium will be
illuminated in green and turquoise
to represent the official UEFA
emblem of the Munich final, as the
outer shell of the Allianz Arena can
change colour. For this reason, the
illuminants have to be changed,
because the Allianz Arena could only
glow in different forms of red,
white and pale blue, so far.
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