UEFA Cup final for Lansdowne 2011

Spud83 · 29-01-2009 04:57PM #1

London's Wembley Stadium and the Fußball Arena München will host the 2011 and 2012 UEFA Champions League finals, with Dublin's Lansdowne Road and Bucharest's National Stadium the venues for the 2011 and 2012 UEFA Europa League showcases.

UEFA decision
The UEFA Executive Committee has decided on the host venues for the two major UEFA club competitions at its meeting in Nyon. The 2010/11 UEFA Champions League will conclude with a final at the new Wembley, with the same season seeing the first major UEFA final in the Republic of Ireland, with the UEFA Europa League decider taking place at the new Lansdowne Road which is currently under construction. The following year will see the UEFA Champions League final take place at the Fußball Arena München, while the UEFA Europa League final will be the first major club final to be staged in the Romanian capital in the new National Stadium.

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Frisbee · 29-01-2009 05:00PM

Good stuff

emc2 · 29-01-2009 05:00PM

excellent!

admiralofthefleet · 29-01-2009 05:16PM

great news

Draupnir · 29-01-2009 05:18PM

I hope a couple of huge continental clubs make it to the final, imagine the scenes if Rangers are in it, I dread to think about the crap that could occur.

redout · 29-01-2009 05:20PM

Brilliant. Big F U to all the fools on here the other day who said we should not get it.

Tom65 · 29-01-2009 05:22PM

Draupnir wrote: »

I hope a couple of huge continental clubs make it to the final, imagine the scenes if Rangers are in it, I dread to think about the crap that could occur.

That occurred to me too.

Still though. Great news. Only two years to wait, now.

Mr. Incognito · 29-01-2009 05:27PM

That's a huge coup cup for Ireland.

Mr.Nice Guy · 29-01-2009 05:42PM

Cool, there's a lot of Liverpool fans here in Dublin so they'll enjoy the day out.

Paulw · 29-01-2009 05:43PM

Brilliant news. It would be good to see two very large clubs play this game. Maybe two teams that were knocked out of the Champions League.

internelligent · 29-01-2009 05:45PM

Oh no......

_blank_ · 29-01-2009 05:46PM

nope, I haven't

Pigman II · 29-01-2009 06:05PM

Hope a couple of unfashionable Eastern European teams make it to the final and the whole world will see how 'soccer mad' this country really is.

ArmaniJeanss · 29-01-2009 06:15PM

Pigman II wrote: »

Hope a couple of unfashionable Eastern European teams make it to the final and the whole world will see how 'soccer mad' this country really is.

It'll be a sell-out no matter who is in the final, though the promised €30 Million boost to the local economy won't happen if ZenitSP play FC Tirana in the final.

Would be fun if 2 LOI teams battled to the final. UCD v Shels in front of 50000 people.

stovelid · 29-01-2009 06:15PM

Any chances of Rangers getting to the final, I wonder.

Frisbee · 29-01-2009 06:22PM

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Would be fun if 2 LOI teams battled to the final. UCD v Shels in front of 50000 people.

Wouldn't fill 50,000 people...

Daysha · 29-01-2009 06:39PM

So am I going to be the first (and only) person to actually congratulate the FAI for pulling this off? :P

Well done FAI, brilliant news.

ctrl-alt-delete · 29-01-2009 06:54PM

Delaney was just interviewed on SkySportsNews,

Basically he is delighted for Irish Soccer, the Country and the Fans,

Says the stadium is on time and on budget right now, due to be completed April 2010.

It will be as significant as the Ryder Cup, he actually said between €30 and €100 million to be generated, and thanked the Government, Daa, Dublin Bus and Dublin Hoteliers - who played a role in the process.

Great to see it coming anyways no matter who plays.

Well done to the F.A.I.

gd1987 · 29-01-2009 06:56PM

deise59 wrote: »

Well done FAI, brilliant news.

I agree, its great. I can Imagine tickets will be in short supply no matter whos playing. Would love to go.

Benedict XVI · 29-01-2009 07:41PM

Actually folks it's the 'Europa League final' that will be held in Lansdowne, not the UEFA cup final.

I don't know what ye are getting so excited about:rolleyes:

dreamers75 · 29-01-2009 07:46PM

gd1987 wrote: »

I agree, its great. I can Imagine tickets will be in short supply no matter whos playing. Would love to go.

ehh you buy them early then tout them to whatever teams fans get to the final.

Thats how it normally works.

Fair play to FAI.

shane86 · 29-01-2009 08:09PM

redout wrote: »

Brilliant. Big F U to all the fools on here the other day who said we should not get it.

Indeed. Harping on about patriotism, they are the biggest gang of anti patriotic whingers you are ever likely to meet.

Brilliant news, cant wait for this, could be one hell of a party if certain clubs make it

If they avoid relegation this year Man City could push a traditional EPL top 4 into this bracket.

Zebra3 · 29-01-2009 10:05PM

Benedict XVI wrote: »

Actually folks it's the 'Europa League final' that will be held in Lansdowne, not the UEFA cup final.

I don't know what ye are getting so excited about:rolleyes:

Totally agree with you. There's gonna be a much bigger game with real teams and the best players in the world playing in England the following week, so why get excited about this game?

The only ones getting worked up about this one would the self-confessed real fans of football. :rolleyes:

CiaranC · 29-01-2009 10:07PM

Shane, ill have one last go at trying to explain why some LoI fans arent crazy about the Irish national team.

None of the team play in Ireland for Irish clubs.
Half of them have English accents.
None of them live in Ireland.
The management isnt Irish.
The large majority of people who follow them follow English football.

It just doesnt feel very Irish. Some think that their clubs are more representative of them and Ireland than the national team is.

Diabhal Beag · 29-01-2009 10:18PM

Well done FAI.

Thank god we won't have to travel thousands of miles to see Galway United beat Marseille in 2011

shane86 · 29-01-2009 10:43PM

CiaranC wrote: »

Shane, ill have one last go at trying to explain why some LoI fans arent crazy about the Irish national team.

None of the team play in Ireland for Irish clubs.

Most of the best national French players dont play in France, or will be on the move within a year.
Most of the best Brazillians play outside Brazil.
Most of the.....I could go on, but essentially bar Spain, Italy, England and possibly Germany any decent international team is comprised of players plying their trade elsewhere.

Half of them have English accents.

Shame on Steve Finnan for picking up an accent from spending almost his entire childhood in England. For shame.

And half? As in 7 of the 14 who will likely play? The Stan teams in 2007 had 3 out of 14 who would take to the field who were English born (Carsley, Reid and one other, I remember counting just cant remember who I am omitting.). Currently we have Folan and Kiely prob making the bench, and Reid when he gets back. Considering some European sides are going with shady arrangements like drafting Brazillian league players we have the moral highpoint on this one. It is a fact of life that nearly every country that in recent decades was a large exporter of immigrants will have children of those migrants in their squad, we are not unique. Turkey, Morocco, Algeria, Carribean countries, even England and Germany have granny rulers (Hargreaves, Kuryani)

None of them live in Ireland.

So feckin what? Would you be shocked and appaled to find one of your teams best players actually lives in Kildare?

The management isnt Irish.

Who the **** cares? The Irish managers got to fcuk all tournaments. The LOI has a few foreign players, directors (Nick Leeson, the El Tel of E.L

) and at least one manager if memory serves me right. If your club had a foreign manager and a squad composed of a few foreigners and Irish out of towners would it make it less legit?

SantryRed · 29-01-2009 10:49PM

Load of f*****g bollocks.

Zebra3 · 29-01-2009 10:52PM

shane86 wrote: »

Most of the best national French players dont play in France, or will be on the move within a year.

And you'll find most fans of French clubs don't give a toss about their national team.....

Bounty Hunter · 29-01-2009 11:02PM

dont turn this into another LOI /EPL Irish fans thing, having a showpiece event in Ireland is a positive no matter how we look at it and because its so rare that i can id like to say the FAI have done a very good job by getting us this.

This will sell out no matter what and could include some really big teams especially when you consider that just from england Villa, Spurs and City are in it atm and by 2011 could be joined/replaced by the current big4 sides. Add to that Italy, Spain etc and teams that drop from the champions league, honestly the chances are we would be hosting some top class players that night and the question of how it would look if two eastern european teams for example were in the final is one likely to never be answered imo.

What would happen if a team like Rangers were in the final is an interesting one but the answer should not be a reason to not want the game but instead perhaps one that (could have already been answered in applying for such a role as hosts) means we should just address security issues and in doing so pave the way for other such games such as a intenational vs England. On the flipside what if Celtic made it to the final? would there be trouble? would it be a great piss-up? would they see it as almost a home game?

redout · 29-01-2009 11:05PM

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

This will sell out no matter what and could include some really big teams especially when you consider that just from england Villa, Spurs and City are in it atm and by 2011 could be joined/replaced by the current big4 sides. ?

LoL

joe123 · 29-01-2009 11:11PM

Zebra3 wrote: »

And you'll find most fans of French clubs don't give a toss about their national team.....

my god some people on here...:rolleyes:

Its great news for Ireland and the FAI.

UEFA Cup final for Lansdowne 2011

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