António Costa announced this Wednesday at the 47th UEFA Congress in Lisbon that Portugal intends to host the final of the Women’s Champions League in 2025, having already submitted an application to UEFA for the José Alvalade Stadium can be the stage of the game that will crown the European champion of the 2024/2025 season.
«At a time of great brilliance of our national women’s football team – which I congratulate for, for the first time, having qualified for a final phase of the World Cup – we are again candidates for the organization of the final of the Women’s Champions League in 2025, a competition that we have successfully received in the past», he began by saying, in a ceremony that will re-elect Aleksander Ceferin as UEFA president for the quadrennium until 2027.
The Prime Minister was confident that the choice would fall to Portugal: «We are confident that this will be another candidacy with a positive outcome.»
Remember that Portugal has already hosted a Champions League final, in this case at Estádio do Restelo, in 2013/2014, when the Germans from Wolfsburg beat the Swedish Tyreso, by 4-3.
