Alvalade Stadium will host the final of the women’s championship in 2025

The news was published this Wednesday on the UEFA Twitter page.

Lisbon and the “home” of Sporting won the race to Istanbul.

The Portuguese capital will host the decisive match of the women’s “Championship” for the second time after it was already played at the Restelo stadium in the 2013/14 season, when the German team from Wolfsburg beat the Swedish team from Tireso with a score of 4: 3.

“The decision to host the final of the Women’s Champions League at the José de Alvalade Stadium shows recognition of the organizational capacity of the Portuguese Football Federation (FFF), as previously demonstrated by a series of events organized by UEFA. I remember the Champions League final in 2014. , 2020 and 2021, the final of the women’s championship also in 2014 at the Estádio do Restelo,” said the president of the federation.

Fernando Gomez believes that this decision “also rewards the efforts and investments that the FPF has made in the development of women’s football.”

“This is a very welcome sign that complements all our football promotion activities aimed at women, girls and girls, and that we want more and more people to play this sport,” he emphasized, emphasizing that this “one of the big stakes of our mandate”.

This will be the 13th final of the European football tournament to be held in Portugal.

In addition to the previous women’s “champions” playoff, the men’s version has already had finals at the Estádio do Dragão, in Porto, in 2020/21, at the Estádio da Luz, also in Lisbon, in 2019/20 and 2013/. 14 and at the National Stadium in Oeiras in the 1966/67 season, which was then called the European Cup.

Euro 2004 and the stadiums built for the competition in which Portugal reached the final led to another decisive clash in the Portuguese capital and the Estádio da Luz stadium on 4 July, when the Kinas team was defeated by Greece by 1: 0. missed out on the European title he would win 12 years later in France.

Less than a year later, on May 18, 2015, the 2004/05 UEFA Cup Final took place at the José Alvalade Stadium, in which Sporting lost 3-1 to CSKA Moscow.

Another Euro 2004 stadium, the Estádio do Bessa in Porto, hosted the UEFA European Under-21 Championship final.

The former Estadio da Luz stadium hosted the defunct Cup Winners’ Cup final in 1991/92 and the second leg of the UEFA Cup final in 1982/83, where Anderlecht were crowned champions after a 1-1 draw against Benfica (the Belgians won in Brussels with a score of 1:0).

In 2019, the Portuguese team added their second European senior title by winning the final of the first edition of the Nations League, whose “final four” were played in Guimarães and Porto, while the Quinas team defeated the Baixos countries (1-0) at the Estádio do Dragão .

At youth level, Portugal has also hosted two finals and won both, the first in 1961 when it won the European Under-18 Championship by beating Poland 4-0, at the old Luz Stadium in Lisbon, and the second in 2003 . at the Estádio do Fontelo in Viseu where he defeated Spain 2–1 in the UEFA European Under-17 Championship decider.