UEFA Super Cup Final Will be Held with Spec­ta­tors in Budapest

Budapest’s Puskás Aré­na will host the UEFA Super Cup final on Sep­tem­ber 24, 2020. Now it is also offi­cial that the match will be held in front of spec­ta­tors. With Bay­ern München win­ning the 2019 – 2020 Cham­pi­ons League sea­son and Sevil­la tri­umph­ing in the Europa League, these two teams will play for the Euro­pean Super Cup. 

Accord­ing to the Euro­pean Foot­ball Association’s deci­sion (UEFA), a reduced num­ber of spec­ta­tors – up to 30% of the capac­i­ty of the sta­di­um – will be allowed to attend. The Puskás Are­na can accom­mo­date up to 67,000 peo­ple, which means around 20,000 spec­ta­tors will be able to watch the match on the spot.Related article

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Budapest’s Puskás Aré­na will host the UEFA Super Cup final on Sep­tem­ber 24, 2020. With Bay­ern Munich win­ning the 2019 – 2020 Cham­pi­ons League sea­son and Sevil­la tri­umph­ing in the Europa League, these two teams will play in the Super Cup match at Puskás Are­na this fall. Although there is no final deci­sion yet, it seems very […]Con­tin­ue reading

This will be the first Euro­pean Cup match to which spec­ta­tors will be admit­ted. The orga­ni­za­tion will look at the impact of allow­ing foot­ball fans into the sta­di­ums for inter­na­tion­al match­es at this match and will decide on fur­ther mea­sures afterwards.

Accord­ing to the UEFA’s state­ment, these deci­sions fol­low the con­sul­ta­tive meet­ing that UEFA held with its 55 mem­ber asso­ci­a­tions and where such mat­ters were dis­cussed on August 19, 2020. UEFA Pres­i­dent Alek­sander Čeferin said:

“While it has been impor­tant to show that foot­ball can car­ry on in dif­fi­cult times, with­out fans, the game has lost some­thing of its char­ac­ter. We hope to use the UEFA Super Cup in Budapest as a pilot that will begin to see the return of fans to our matches.”

“We are work­ing close­ly with the Hun­gar­i­an Fed­er­a­tion and its gov­ern­ment to imple­ment mea­sures to ensure the health of all those attend­ing and par­tic­i­pat­ing in the game. We will not take risks with people’s safe­ty,” he added.

The UEFA Super Cup decider is the lat­est of a num­ber of major Euro­pean soc­cer events Hun­gary has won stag­ing rights for in recent years. These include the 2019 UEFA Women’s Cham­pi­ons League final, the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onship (which has been post­poned until next year), the 2021 Euro­pean Under-21 Cham­pi­onship, and the 2022 Europa League final to be orga­nized in 2023.

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Source: hun​gary​to​day​.hu