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UEFA Super Cup final to be played in Tallinn on Aug 15, 2018
The 2018 UEFA
Super Cup will be played on Aug. 15, 2018 at Tallinn's Lillekula Arena,
marking the first time ever that a senior UEFA final is played in Estonia,
reports LETA/BNS.
"Preparations
for the UEFA Super Cup final are under way. Our delegation recently visited
Skopje, where this year's final was played. In October a delegation of UEFA
will make another week-long visit to Tallinn," the secretary general of
the Estonian Football Association, Anne
Rei, said.
The game will be
the first European club final held in Estonia, which did host the 2012 UEFA
European Under-19 Championship. The year 2018 also marks the centenary of the
creation of the Republic of Estonia. The decision was made at a UEFA Executive Committee
meeting in Athens in September 2016, UEFA has said.
The winner of the
UEFA Champions League and the winner of the UEFA Europa League meet in the
final of the UEFA Super Cup. The match will be broadcast in more than 200
countries around the world and some 50 million people will watch it live.
The UEFA Super Cup
final is expected to bring thousands of tourists to Estonia.
Tallinn follows in
the footsteps of Prague (2013), Cardiff (2014), Tbilisi (2015), Trondheim
(2016) and Skopje (2017), as cities to be awarded the UEFA Super Cup since the
fixture switched from its permanent home of Monaco.
The names of the
clubs that will be pitted against each other in Tallinn will become known by
May 26, 2018, the date of the UEFA Champions League finals. After that ticket
sales to the Tallinn match will start via the UEFA website.