The 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final was the final match of the

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, the 19th season of Europe's premier women's club

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tournament organised by

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, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Women's Cup to the

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. It was played on 30 August 2020 at the

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, Spain, between German club

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and French club

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. The match was originally scheduled to be played at the

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, Austria, on 24 May 2020. On 23 March 2020, UEFA announced that the final was postponed indefinitely due to the

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. On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced the match would take place in

behind closed doors, as part of a "final-eight tournament" consisting of single-match knockout ties played in two stadiums across the Basque Country. Lyon won the final 3–1 for their fifth consecutive and seventh overall UEFA Women's Champions League title. As Lyon also won the

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and the

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, they completed the treble, the club's second consecutive and fifth overall.

Teams

''In the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Women's Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Women's Champions League era.''

Venue

Anoeta estadioa 37, Donostia, Gipuzkoa, Euskal Herria

The final took place at the

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, Basque Country. The stadium, city, and province hosted their first ever UEFA club competition final. The greater Basque Country however had seen the San Mamés Stadium in

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hosting the second leg of the 1977 UEFA Cup Final.

Original host selection

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on 24 May 2018. This would have been the first UEFA club competition final hosted at the Generali Arena, and the first to be hosted by the city of Vienna and Austria since the 1995 UEFA Champions League Final at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion. It is the home ground of Austrian club Austria Wien. Due to UEFA regulations regarding naming rights of non-tournament sponsors, the stadium was referred to as the "Viola Park" in UEFA materials.

Relocation to San Sebastián

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. The final was officially postponed on 23 March 2020. A working group was set up by UEFA to decide the calendar of the remainder of the season, with the final decision made at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting on 17 June 2020. It was decided that the remaining matches, including the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, would be played between 21 and 30 August at San Mamés,

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and

in Basque Country, Spain, as an eight-team single-match knockout tournament, with San Sebastián hosting the final. Unlike the UEFA Champions League and Europa League, where the host venues of future finals already awarded since 2020 were all pushed back a year, the host venues of future Women's Champions League finals already awarded remained the same. The

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said over 12,000 tickets had already been sold for the final and they would all be refunded.

Road to the final

''Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).''

Pre-match

Ambassador

Austrian footballer

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was the original ambassador for the Vienna final.

Officials

On 28 August 2020, UEFA named Swiss official Esther Staubli as the referee for the final. Staubli had been a

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since 2006, and was previously the referee for the 2015 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. She also was a lead referee at the

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and 2017, including the

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of the latter, as well as FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and 2019. She was joined by assistant referees Sanja Rođak-Karšić of Croatia and Oleksandra Ardasheva of Ukraine, with the latter's compatriot Maryna Striletska serving as the reserve assistant referee.

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of the Czech Republic was the fourth official. Spaniard José María Sánchez Martínez worked as the

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in the debut of the system in a Women's Champions League final, and was joined by his compatriot Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea as the assistant VAR official.

Match

Details

The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held on 8 November 2019, 13:30

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(after the quarter-final and semi-final draws), at the UEFA headquarters in

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, Switzerland.

Statistics

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Uefa Women's Champions League Final 2020

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