The good news today is that Wembley (or the England FA) will host the Champions' League Final in 2023, to mark the centenary of the great Stadium's foundation. So in preparation:
The new Wembley 2007.It has 2618 toilets.
The circumference around the outside of the stadium of exactly 1 km.
The cross section of the arch is longer than the length of a cross-channel Eurostar train.
The pitch dimension is 115 x 75 yards.
The roof height is 52 metres and the arch 133m high-its span is 315m, the longest single span arch in the World.
It is of course the revamped Wembley that will host the big game, but its the same footprint and many feet have trod the hallowed turf of the old stadium-including my size 7s, but that's another story at the old stadium. Privilege!
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The old Wembley has held the following European Cup Finals:
1962-3 Milan v Benfica 2-1.
1967-8 Man U and Best beat Benfica 4-1.
1970-1 Ajax v Panathiniakos 2-0.
1977-8 Liverpool v Club Brugge 1-0.
1991-2 Barcelona beat Sampdoria 1-0.
The stadium was demolished in 2003 and refurbished.
Old Trafford hosted the 2002-3 Champions League Final between Milan and Juventus which was drawn 0-0 aet and won by Milan on pens.
The new Wembley is used from 2007.
2010-11 Barcelona overwhelmed Man U 3-1
2012-13 The last European Champions League Final at Wembley was between two GERMAN clubs! Bayern Munich beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1.
I do wonder why UEFA didn't use common sense and scrap tradition, changing the venue to somewhere in Germany for this "local derby". All those air miles and plastic!
Wembley will stage the Euro 2020 semi-finals and Finals.
Future Champions League Final venues are at:
2020: The Ataturk Stadium in Istanbul, where Liverpool and AC Milan played out an important finale in 2005.
2021: the Krestovsky, St Petersburg where Zenit play, in 2021 (the only previous Russian venue was in 2008 when Manchester Utd played Chelsea (another silly venue) at the Luzhniki in Moscow) and
in 2022: at the Alliance Arena Munic, where Chelsea once played Bayern Munich.
The city hosted the first final of the "rebranded" Champions League competition in 1993, when Marseille played AC Milan at the Olympiastadion, Munich.
Seville has been given the Europa League Final and Belfast the Europa Super Cup in 2021.
Hampden park hosted the wonderful 1959-60 Final between Real Madrid 7 v Eintrach Frankfurt 7-3. I watched it "live" on black and white TV.
Another Hampden Final was Real Madrid v Bayern Leverkausen 2-1 in 2001-2.
The old stadium history:
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-pty-pty_extension&hsimp=yhs-pty_extension&hspart=pty&p=The+old+Wembley+stadium#id=1&vid=983816eaab2c675a2444dc65820c29e5&action=click
First match at the new stadium: Geoff Thomas Foundation Charity XI v Wembley Sponsors All Stars. Mark Bright and Simon Jordan (CP chair etc) scored in a 2-0 win for GT XI. 17/3/07
First serious game: England U21 v Italy U21
First very serious game: FA Trophy Final: Stevenage Borough v Kidderminster Harriers 21/5.07
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