UEFA Cup final for City of Manchester

The 2008 UEFA Cup final will be held in the City of Manchester Stadium – but Wembley has been overlooked for the Champions League finals in 2008 and 2009.

UEFA announced the venues for the finals for the next two seasons at an executive committee meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

The 2008 Champions League final will be in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, and a year later in Rome’s Olimpico stadium. Wembley had bid for either year.

The 2008 UEFA Cup final will be held in the City of Manchester stadium, and in 2009 in Istanbul’s Sukru Saracoglu stadium.