Millennium Stadium to host 2017 final Confirmed

Cardiff's Millennium Stadium has been confirmed as the venue for the 2017 Champions League final by Uefa.

Tuesday 30th June 2015

The match will be played on Saturday, 3 June while the Women's Champions League final will be held two days earlier at Cardiff City Stadium.
The 74,500-capacity Millennium Stadium hosted the FA Cup final, League Cup final, Community Shield and Football League play-offs from 2001 to 2006.
Olympic football games were played there in 2012.
The major city centre venue in the Welsh capital will also stage eight 2015 Rugby World Cup matches.

Football Association of Wales chief executive Jonathan Ford welcomed the announcement by European football's governing body.
"We believe that staging both the 2017 Uefa Champions League final and 2017 Uefa Women's Champions League final will have a positive and long-lasting effect on Welsh football," said Ford.
"Today's announcement is the culmination of two years' of hard work and I'd like to thank all those who've helped the FAW fulfil its ambition."

FAW president Trefor Lloyd Hughes said: "Welsh football is certainly on the up and we look forward to working closely with Uefa and all of our stakeholders over the next two years to deliver two memorable finals."
WRU chief executive Rogers Lewis said: "The Millennium Stadium is one of Europe's great sporting arenas and I am confident it will provide a fitting stage for the 2017 Uefa Champions League final."
Wales Women's team manager Jayne Ludlow also welcomed Cardiff hosting the 2017 female final.
"Having played in the competition with Arsenal and having had the honour of lifting the trophy in 2007, it will be great to welcome the world's best female footballers to Wales in 2017," said Ludlow.
The Welsh capital has a history of hosting major sporting events, including the final of the 1999 Rugby World Cup.
Cardiff City Stadium played host to the 2014 Super Cup, in which Real Madrid - the club of Wales star Gareth Bale - beat Sevilla.

Hasn't Roger Lewis left the WRU now..? and with all due respect to the womens game for some woman to say that they played in the competition AND lifting the Champions League is f*cking laughable!!

Wales online reporting at its best I see

If we have got it then econimically thats a huge boost for the city!

Hasn't Roger Lewis left the WRU now..? and with all due respect to the womens game for some woman to say that they played in the competition AND lifting the Champions League is f*cking laughable!!

Wales online reporting at its best I see

Got from BBC Sport.

Hasn't Roger Lewis left the WRU now..? and with all due respect to the womens game for some woman to say that they played in the competition AND lifting the Champions League is f*cking laughable!!

Wales online reporting at its best I see

Got from BBC Sport.

Even worse then as we are actually paying for this kind of reporting ffs

Anyway it will fantastic for Cardiff and I just hope that Real make it through as my house will full of family

Hasn't Roger Lewis left the WRU now..? and with all due respect to the womens game for some woman to say that they played in the competition AND lifting the Champions League is f*cking laughable!!

Wales online reporting at its best I see

Got from BBC Sport.

Even worse then as we are actually paying for this kind of reporting ffs

Anyway it will fantastic for Cardiff and I just hope that Real make it through as my house will full of family

Real v Barca in Cardiff would be superb.

Hasn't Roger Lewis left the WRU now..? and with all due respect to the womens game for some woman to say that they played in the competition AND lifting the Champions League is f*cking laughable!!

Wales online reporting at its best I see

Got from BBC Sport.

Even worse then as we are actually paying for this kind of reporting ffs

Anyway it will fantastic for Cardiff and I just hope that Real make it through as my house will full of family

Real v Barca in Cardiff would be superb.

be interesting outside the ground that's for sure

Like to see 2 teams from different nations

But not Italians!

German and Spain maybe Real vs Bayern

hope it ain't Chelsea

we still have a chance of getting there

I hope that the pitch will be up to standard for football. Apart from that - great news.

Huge news

I hope that the pitch will be up to standard for football. Apart from that - great news.

They've laid the same pitch as we have at the CCS, so it should be awesome.

I think the biggest draw would be a real Madrid Manchester united final. Probably the 2 biggest supported clubs in world football, Also the biggest generators of sponsorship money in football

This is huge news and (as much as I knock them) big congratulations are due to the FAW

Cardiff (and Wales) at the forefront of major sporting events yet again and as worthy and vibrant a host as any modern European capital city!

Yet another 'big' story first broken on this Forum!

Where AAMB leads, others (inc. Media Wales) follow!

I hope that the pitch will be up to standard for football. Apart from that - great news.

They've laid the same pitch as we have at the CCS, so it should be awesome.

True. It's one of them hybrid pitches. They done away with the pallet pitch that was causing so many problems. Also the inside of the stadium is having a multi million pound facelift, new seats ect, so should be a fantastic sporting event like you say

Cardiff get's everything-he he he

Hasn't Roger Lewis left the WRU now..? and with all due respect to the womens game for some woman to say that they played in the competition AND lifting the Champions League is f*cking laughable!!

Wales online reporting at its best I see

Got from BBC Sport.

Even worse then as we are actually paying for this kind of reporting ffs

Anyway it will fantastic for Cardiff and I just hope that Real make it through as my house will full of family

I wouldn't mock women's football at all. Its big on the continent, & with the English women's team being successful then it makes it even more important. I hope & wish the Welsh ladies football team all the best in the future!

Cardiff get's everything-he he he

Just noticed the women's champions league final is at the CCS as well, fair play, another high profile occasion for our stadium. An ideal game to take your daughter or neices. Probably be easy to get hold of tickets for that one.

so, whats our chances on getting tickets?

Wow thats amazing for our country

Hasn't Roger Lewis left the WRU now..? and with all due respect to the womens game for some woman to say that they played in the competition AND lifting the Champions League is f*cking laughable!!

Wales online reporting at its best I see

Got from BBC Sport.

Even worse then as we are actually paying for this kind of reporting ffs

Anyway it will fantastic for Cardiff and I just hope that Real make it through as my house will full of family

I wouldn't mock women's football at all. Its big on the continent, & with the English women's team being successful then it makes it even more important. I hope & wish the Welsh ladies football team all the best in the future!

It's mocking the fact that they are trying to say that they played in the SAME competition and that's f*cking nonsense