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Atletico's new Wanda Metripolitano stadium hoping to host European competitions

Atletico's new Wanda Metripolitano stadium hoping to host European competitions

Atletico has already had the support of the Spanish Government and the Madrid City Council also supported this goal of the Rojiblanco team. The Wanda Metropolitano will have a capacity of 69,000 seats, so it complies with the rules of the Champions League that the capacity of the stadium of the final is at least around 70,000 spectators.

 

Atletico has participated in the organization of six European finals in recent years, which provides a very important experience in this type of tournaments. The Rojiblanco club played two European League finals (in Hamburg, 2010, and in Bucharest, 2012) and two other Super Cup of Europe (both in Monaco). To them must be added those of the Champions League finals in Lisbon in 2014 and Milan in 2016. In addition, the Rojiblanco club consider that the impact will be incredible for the Madrid club, especially at the media level, since the final has an audience of 300 million people, all of whom will be able to know firsthand what is the Metropolitan Wanda.

 

The Olympic Stadium in Baku (Azerbaijan) has a similar capacity and is also candidate to host the final of the Europa League. There it competes with the Sánchez Pizjuán, stadium of the Sevilla. The Besiktas Vodafone Arena is the third and final candidate.

 

For the women Champions are candidates Ferencváros Aréna of Hungary and the Astana Arena of Kazakhstan. The Albanian Qemal Stafa Stadium, Toulouse Stadium, Sammy Ofer Stadium, the Astana Arena, the National Football Stadium of Windsor Park in Northern Ireland, the Polish GdaƄsk Arena and the Vodafone Arena Of the Besiktas.