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Event | 2019–20 UEFA Europa League | ||||||
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Date | 21 August 2020 | ||||||
Venue | RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne | ||||||
Player of the Match | Luuk de Jong (Sevilla) | ||||||
Referee | Danny Makkelie (Netherlands) | ||||||
Attendance | 0 | ||||||
Weather | Partly cloudy night 24 °C (75 °F) 55% humidity | ||||||
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The 2020 UEFA Europa League Final was the final match of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, the 49th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League. It was played at the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne, Germany on 21 August 2020, between Spanish side Sevilla and Italian side Inter Milan. The match was held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.
The final was originally scheduled to be played on 27 May 2020 at the Stadion Energa Gdańsk in Gdańsk, Poland. However, UEFA announced on 23 March 2020 that the final was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 17 June 2020, the UEFA Executive Committee chose to relocate the final to Cologne, as part of a "final-eight tournament" consisting of single-match knockout ties played in four stadiums across Germany.
Sevilla won the match 3–2 for their record sixth Europa League title. As winners, Sevilla earned the right play against the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League in the 2020 UEFA Super Cup. They also qualified to enter the group stage of the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League; but since they have already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved was given to the third-placed team of the 2019–20 Ligue 1 (Rennes), the 5th-ranked association according to next season's access list.
Teams[]
In the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Europa League era.
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5 (2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016) |
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4 (1991, 1994, 1997, 1998) |
Venue[]
The UEFA Executive Committee chose RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne as the host at their meeting on 17 June 2020. This is the first UEFA club competition final hosted at the stadium and the first Europa League final held in Germany since 2010. During the two-legged final era, the country hosted either one or both legs 11 times, before hosting the single-legged 2001 UEFA Cup Final in Dortmund and the 2010 final in Hamburg.
The stadium was first opened in 1923 as the Müngersdorfer Stadion and has been the home stadium of German Bundesliga side FC Köln since 1948. It has undergone two major renovations during its lifetime. It hosted the UEFA Euro 1988 as well as the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Road to the final[]
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).
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Final standings | Group F third place
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1–1 (a) | 1–1 (A) | 0–0 (H) | Round of 32 | ![]() |
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2–0 (N) | Round of 16 | ![]() |
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2–1 (N) | Semi-finals | ![]() |
5–0 (N) |
Pre-match[]
Identity[]
The 2020 UEFA Europa League final identity was unveiled at the group stage draw on 30 August 2019.
Ambassador[]
The ambassador for the original Gdańsk final is former Polish international Andrzej Buncol, who won the 1987–88 UEFA Cup with Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
Officials[]
On 18 August 2020, UEFA named Dutchman Danny Makkelie as the referee for the final. Makkelie had been a FIFA referee since 2011, and was previously an additional assistant referee in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final and the video assistant referee in the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final. He was also an assistant video assistant referee in the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final. He was joined by four of his fellow countrymen, with Mario Diks and Hessel Steegstra as assistant referees, Jochem Kamphuis as the video assistant referee and Kevin Blom as one of the assistant VAR officials. The other assistant VAR for the final was Paweł Gil from Poland, with his compatriot Tomasz Sokolnicki serving as the offside VAR official. Anastasios Sidiropoulos of Greece was the fourth official.
Match[]
Details[]
The "home" team (for administrative purposes) will be determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw.
21 August 2020 21:00 CEST |
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3–2 | ![]() |
RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne Attendance: 0 Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands) |
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De Jong ![]() Lukaku ![]() |
Report | Lukaku ![]() Godín ![]() |
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Match rules
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Statistics[]
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See also[]
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