2020 UCI Women's World Tour, Events
The following day, The Women's Tour was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Three Belgian races were postponed on 17 March, with the Amstel Gold Race also postponed the following day. By mid-April, only one race had been completed, while thirteen other races had been either postponed or cancelled outright; no racing was rescheduled before July.


2020 UCI Women's World Tour, Events
On 5 May 2020, a revised calendar was announced by the UCI, with 18 races to be held between 1 August and 8 November, including the introduction of a women's Paris–Roubaix. In June, in line with the men's race, the Tour of Guangxi was moved from 20 October to 10 November.


2020 UCI Women's World Tour, Events, Cancelled events
Three events that were initially postponed in the first half of 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were not able to rescheduled during the season; these were the Ronde van Drenthe due to be held on 15 March, the Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Comune di Cittiglio due to be held on 2 June (initially 22 March), and The Women's Tour due to be held from 8 to 13 June.


2020 UCI Women's World Tour, Events, Cancelled events
Following the release of the revised calendar on 5 May, the Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden TTT and Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden, scheduled for 8 and 9 August, were cancelled on 14 May. The Ladies Tour of Norway, scheduled between 13–16 August, was cancelled on 4 June. The Holland Ladies Tour, scheduled for 1–6 September (initially 25–30 August), was cancelled on 27 July. In August, the Chinese races at the Tour of Chongming Island (23–25 October, initially 7–9 May) and the Tour of Guangxi (10 November, initially 20 October) were cancelled.


2020 UCI Women's World Tour, Events, Cancelled events
On 30 September, the Amstel Gold Race (initially scheduled for 19 April, and then rescheduled to 10 October), was cancelled following a surge of cases attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. On 9 October, the inaugural Paris–Roubaix (scheduled for 25 October) was delayed until 2021, following a surge of cases attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic in France.


2020 UCI Women's World Tour, Points standings
For the 2020 season, a revised point-scoring system was introduced by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). As had been the case since 2018, the top 40 riders in each race accumulated points towards the individual and team rankings. Instead of receiving 200 points, each race winner received 400 points, 320 points were given for a runner-up placing, 260 points for third place and so forth down to 8 points for finishes between 31st and 40th. There were also tweaks to the stage points and points for wearing the leader's jersey in stage races.


2020 UCI Women's World Tour, Points standings, Individual
Riders tied with the same number of points were classified by number of victories, then number of second places, third places, and so on, in World Tour events and stages.


2020 UCI Women's World Tour, Points standings, Youth
The top three riders in the final results of each World Tour event's young rider classification received points towards the standings. Six points were awarded to first place, four points to second place and two points to third place.


2020 UCI Women's World Tour, Points standings, Team
Team rankings were calculated by adding the ranking points of all the riders of a team in the table.


2020 UCI World Tour
The 2020 UCI World Tour was a series of races that was scheduled to include thirty-six road cycling events throughout the 2020 cycling season. However, some of races were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tour started with the opening stage of the Tour Down Under on 21 January, and concluded with the final stage of the Vuelta a España on 8 November.


2020 UCI World Tour, Events
The 2020 calendar was initially announced in June 2019. In October 2019, the calendar was officially presented by the UCI.


2020 UCI World Tour, Events
There were two races fewer in the original schedule than in the 2019 UCI World Tour:


2020 UCI World Tour, Events
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic that commenced in the spring, numerous races were postponed, including all three Grand Tours and four of the five annual 'monuments'. As a result, race organisers requested new date allocations with the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) for many of these events. On 5 May 2020, a revised calendar was announced by the UCI, with 25 races to be held between 1 August and 8 November; several races are scheduled to overlap, including the Giro d'Italia, the Vuelta a España and Paris–Roubaix. Of the 25, Eschborn–Frankfurt and the EuroEyes Cyclassics had dates still to be confirmed at the time of the calendar's publication. Further amendments were made to the calendar in June, with two more races being cancelled, several others moving dates and the EuroEyes Cyclassics was scheduled for October.


2020 UCI World Tour, Events, Cancelled events
A total of fifteen events were not able to be rescheduled, or were definitively cancelled during the 2020 season. The centennial Volta a Catalunya (23–29 March), the Tour of the Basque Country (6–11 April), the Tour de Romandie (28 April to 3 May), the Tour de Suisse (7–14 June), and the Clásica de San Sebastián (25 July) were all cancelled prior to any updated calendars being released by the UCI.


2020 UCI World Tour, Events, Cancelled events
Following the May calendar update, the E3 BinckBank Classic (27 March), and the RideLondon–Surrey Classic (16 August) were both cancelled; in the June calendar update, Eschborn–Frankfurt (initially scheduled for 1 May), and Dwars door Vlaanderen (having been rescheduled for 14 October) were also cancelled. In July, the EuroEyes Cyclassics (initially scheduled for 16 August, and then rescheduled to 3 October), and the two Canadian races in Québec City and Montréal (scheduled for 11 and 13 September) were cancelled.


2020 UCI World Tour, Events, Cancelled events
Following the recommencement of racing on 1 August, the season-ending Tour of Guangxi (initially scheduled for 15–20 October, and then rescheduled to 5–10 November) was cancelled on 10 August. On 30 September, the day after Dutch stages were removed from the BinckBank Tour, the Amstel Gold Race (initially scheduled for 19 April, and then rescheduled to 10 October), was cancelled following a surge of cases attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. On 9 October, Paris–Roubaix (initially scheduled for 12 April, and then rescheduled to 25 October) was cancelled after a rise in cases attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic in France.


2020 UCLA Bruins baseball team
The 2020 UCLA Bruins baseball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season as a member of the Pac-12 Conference. The team was coached by John Savage and played their home games at Jackie Robinson Stadium.


2020 UCLA Bruins baseball team
The Bruins began the 2020 season with high hopes after the successes of the prior season, earning the #12 ranking from Collegiate Baseball (CB) and #8 ranking in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll in preseason polls. These rankings proved accurate, as UCLA began the season on a 12-game win streak and earned the #1 ranking from CB in their Week 2 and 3 rankings. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was cut short in early March. On March 12, the NCAA announced all spring and winter sports championships were cancelled, and UCLA made the decision to suspend academic and athletic activities through the month of March on the same day. Also on March 12, the Pac-12 Conference cancelled all athletics until further notice.


2020 UCLA Bruins baseball team, Previous season
The Bruins finished 2019 with a 52–11 record, finishing first in the Pac-12 with a 24–5 record. After earning the top overall seed for the 2019 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, the Bruins advanced to the Los Angeles Super Regional, where they were defeated two games to one by eventual national runner-up Michigan.


2020 UCLA Bruins baseball team, Rankings
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.


2020 UCLA Bruins football team
The 2020 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 2020 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by third-year head coach Chip Kelly and competed as members of the Pac-12 Conference in the South Division.


2020 UCLA Bruins football team
On August 11, the Pac-12 Conference initially canceled all fall sports competitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On September 24, the conference announced that a six-game conference-only season would begin on November 6, with the Pac-12 Championship Game to be played December 18. Teams not selected for the championship game would be seeded to play a seventh game.


2020 UCLA Bruins football team
On December 17, with a 3–3 record and one game left to play, the program announced that they would decline any invitation to a bowl game. The Bruins lost their final game, finishing their season with a 3–4 record. The combined deficit in their four defeats was only 15 points, including a one-point loss to Stanford in double overtime, 48–47, in the season finale.


2020 UCLA Bruins football team
Overall on the season, the Bruins outscored their opponents by a total of 248 to 215.


2020 UCLA Bruins football team, Previous season
The Bruins finished 4–8 in 2019 and 4–5 in conference play, tying Arizona State for a third-place finish in the South Division.


2020 UCLA Bruins football team, Offseason, Impact of coronavirus pandemic
On August 5, 2020, the Los Angeles County Health Director announced that eight UCLA football players tested positive for COVID-19.


2020 UCLA Bruins football team, Preseason, Pac-12 media days
The Preseason Media poll shows the Bruins at 4th place in the South Division.


2020 UCLA Bruins football team, Schedule
UCLA's 2020 regular season was announced on January 16. The Bruins had games scheduled against New Mexico State, Hawaii, and San Diego State, but canceled these games on July 10 due to the Pac-12 Conference's decision to play a conference-only schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 UCLA Bruins football team, Schedule
On November 13, UCLA's scheduled home game against Utah was canceled after a COVID-19 outbreak within the Utah program. The same day, the Pac-12 announced UCLA would instead host California the morning of November 15; the Golden Bears' scheduled game at Arizona State had also been canceled after Arizona State had a COVID-19 outbreak. UCLA's game at Oregon was moved by a day to Saturday, November 21, to accommodate the other changes.


2020 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, at Colorado
While UCLA attempted a valiant second-half comeback, their four turnovers in the first half proved too much to overcome and the Bruins were defeated, 48–42.


2020 UCLA Bruins football team, Rankings
On December 6, UCLA received a vote in the AP Poll for the first time since 2017.


2020 UConn Huskies baseball team
The 2020 UConn Huskies baseball team represents the University of Connecticut in the 2020 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Huskies play their home games at Elliot Ballpark, their brand new stadium on campus in Storrs, Connecticut. The team is coached by Jim Penders, in his 17th season at UConn.


2020 UConn Huskies baseball team
On March 12, 2020, the season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.


2020 UConn Huskies baseball team, Previous Season
The Huskies posted an overall record of 39–25 in 2019, finishing 4th in the American with a 12–12 record. They reached the 2019 American Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament final, where they fell to Cincinnati. In the NCAA Oklahoma City Regional, the Huskies also advanced to the final, forcing a decisive game, before falling to host Oklahoma State.


2020 UConn Huskies men's soccer team
The 2020 UConn Huskies men's soccer team represented the University of Connecticut during the 2020 NCAA Division I men's soccer season and the 2020 Big East Conference men's soccer season. The regular season began on February 16, 2021 and was set to conclude on April 10. It was the program's 90th season fielding a men's varsity soccer team, and their first season back in the Big East Conference since the realignment of the Big East Conference in 2013. The 2020 season was Ray Reid's 24th year as head coach for the program.


2020 UConn Huskies men's soccer team, Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Big East postponed the fall sports, with the hope of playing in the spring.


2020 UConn Huskies men's soccer team, Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic
On November 4, 2020, the NCAA approved a plan for college soccer to be played in the spring. The Big East announced their plans for the spring season in January 2021.


2020 UConn Huskies men's soccer team, Rejoining the Big East
It was announced in June of 2019 that UConn would be rejoining the Big East, after departing in 2013. The move became official on July 1, 2020.


2020 UConn Huskies men's soccer team, Roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2020 UEC European Track Championships
The 2020 UEC European Track Championships was the eleventh edition of the elite UEC European Track Championships in track cycling and took place at the Kolodruma in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, between 11 and 15 November 2020. The event was organised by the European Cycling Union. All European champions are awarded the UEC European Champion jersey which may be worn by the champion throughout the year when competing in the same event at other competitions.


2020 UEC European Track Championships (under-23 & junior)
The 2020 UEC European Track Championships (under-23 & junior) were the 20th continental championships for European under-23 and junior track cyclists, and the 11th since the event was renamed following the reorganisation of European track cycling in 2010. The event took place at the Velodromo Attilio Pavesi in Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Italy from 8 to 13 October 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's 1 km time trial
The men's 1 km time trial competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 15 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's elimination race
The men's elimination race competition at the 2020  UEC European Track Championships was held on 11 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's individual pursuit
The men's individual pursuit competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 14 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's individual pursuit, Results, Qualifying
The first two racers raced for gold, the third and fourth fastest rider raced for the bronze medal.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's keirin
The men's keirin competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 14 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's keirin, Results, First round
The first two riders in each heat qualified to the semifinals, all other riders advanced to the first round repechages.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's keirin, Results, First round repechage
The first three riders in each heat qualified to the semifinals.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's keirin, Results, Semifinals
The first three riders in each heat qualified to final 1–6, all other riders advanced to final 7–12.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's madison
The men's madison competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 15 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's omnium
The men's omnium competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 13 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's omnium, Results, Points race and final standings
The final ranking is given by the sum of the points obtained in the 4 specialties.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's points race
The men's points race competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships will be held on 14 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's scratch
The men's scratch competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 12 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's scratch, Results
First rider across the line without a net lap loss wins.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's sprint
The men's sprint competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 12 and 13 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's sprint, Results, Qualifying
The top 12 riders qualified for the 1/8 finals, the others proceed to the 1/16 finals.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's sprint, Results, Quarterfinals
Matches are extended to a best-of-three format hereon; winners proceed to the semifinals.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's sprint, Results, Semifinals
Winners proceed to the gold medal final; losers proceed to the bronze medal final.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's team pursuit
The men's team pursuit competition at the 2020  UEC European Track Championships was held on 11 and 12 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's team pursuit, Results, First round
First round heats were held as follows:Heat 1: 5th v 6th fastestHeat 2: 2nd v 3rd fastestHeat 3: 1st v 4th fastest


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's team pursuit, Results, First round
The winners of heats 2 and 3 proceeded to the gold medal race. The remaining four teams were ranked on time, from which the top two proceeded to the bronze medal race.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's team sprint
The men's team pursuit competition at the 2020  UEC European Track Championships was held on 11 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's team sprint, Results, First round
First round heats were held as follows:Heat 1: 1st v 6th fastestHeat 2: 2nd v 5th fastestHeat 3: 3rd v 4th fastest


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Men's team sprint, Results, First round
The winners of heats 1 and 2 proceeded to the gold medal race. The winner of heat 3 and the faster loser proceeded to the bronze medal race.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's 500 m time trial
The women's 500 m time trial competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 15 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's elimination race
The women's elimination race competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 12 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's individual pursuit
The women's individual pursuit competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 13 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's individual pursuit, Results, Qualifying
The first two racers raced for gold, the third and fourth fastest rider raced for the bronze medal.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's keirin
The women's keirin competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 14 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's keirin, Results, First round
The first three riders in each heat qualified to final 1–6, all other riders advanced to final 7–12.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's madison
The women's madison competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 15 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's omnium
The women's omnium competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships will be held on 13 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's omnium, Results, Points race and final standings
The final ranking is given by the sum of the points obtained in the 4 specialties.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's points race
The women's points race competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 14 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's scratch
The women's scratch competition at the 2020  UEC European Track Championships was held on 11 November 2020. Hanna Tserakh of Belarus attacked with 13 laps to go and stayed in the front until the end, however Martina Fidanza of Italy accelerated with  two laps to go, managing to overtake Tserakh right on the line, taking the title.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's scratch, Results
First rider across the line without a net lap loss wins.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's sprint
The women's sprint competition at the 2020 UEC European Track Championships was held on 12 and 13 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's sprint, Results, Qualifying
The top 3 riders qualified for the 1/4 finals, the others proceed to the 1/8 finals.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's sprint, Results, Quarterfinals
Matches are extended to a best-of-three format hereon; winners proceed to the semifinals.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's sprint, Results, Semifinals
Winners proceed to the gold medal final; losers proceed to the bronze medal final.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's team pursuit
The women's team pursuit competition at the 2020  UEC European Track Championships was held on 11 and 12 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's team pursuit, Results, First round
Heat 1: 1st v 4th fastestHeat 2: 2nd v 3rd fastest


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's team pursuit, Results, First round
The winners of each heat proceeded to the gold medal race. The remaining two teams proceeded to the bronze medal race.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's team sprint
The women's team sprint competition at the 2020  UEC European Track Championships was held on 11 November 2020.


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's team sprint, Results, First round
First round heats were held as follows:Heat 1: 2nd v 3rd fastestHeat 2: 1st v 4th fastest


2020 UEC European Track Championships – Women's team sprint, Results, First round
The winners of each heat proceeded to the gold medal race. The remaining two teams proceeded to the bronze medal race.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final
The 2020 UEFA Champions League Final was the final match of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, the 65th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 28th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It was played on 23 August 2020 at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, between French club Paris Saint-Germain, in their first European Cup final, and German club Bayern Munich. The match was held behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final
Originally, it had been scheduled to be played at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, on 30 May 2020. On 17 June 2020, the UEFA Executive Committee chose to relocate the final to Lisbon as part of a "final-eight tournament" consisting of single-match knockout ties played in two stadiums across the city. The match was the first European premier tournament final to be played on a Sunday, and the first since 2009 to not be played on a Saturday. It was also the first final of the competition to be played after June.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final
Bayern Munich won the final 1–0 thanks to a 59th-minute goal scored by former Paris Saint-Germain player Kingsley Coman, who was later selected as man of the match. Bayern secured their sixth European Cup title and second continental treble, becoming the second European men's football team to win the continental treble twice. Bayern also became the first team to claim any European competition with a 100% winning record.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final
As winners, they earned the right to play against the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, Sevilla, in the 2020 UEFA Super Cup, and also qualified for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar; Bayern went on to win both and complete a historic sextuple (six trophies in a year).


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Teams
In the following table, finals until 1992 were in the European Cup era, since 1993 were in the UEFA Champions League era.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Venue
The final was originally scheduled to be played at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, on 30 May 2020. 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 Lisbon as part of a "final-eight tournament" consisting of single-match knockout ties played in two stadiums across the city. The match was the first European Cup/Champions League final to be played on a Sunday and the first since 2009 to not be played on a Saturday. It was also the first final of the competition to be played after June.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Venue
The UEFA Executive Committee chose the Estádio da Luz, officially known as the Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, in Lisbon as the final venue at their meeting on 17 June 2020. This is the second UEFA Champions League final hosted at the stadium; the first was in 2014, when Real Madrid secured their 10th title by beating Atlético Madrid 4–1 in the first final between teams from the same city.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Venue
The home stadium of Portuguese Primeira Liga side Benfica since 2003, it was rebuilt to host five matches of UEFA Euro 2004, including the final. Before its demolition in 2003, to make way for the new 65,000-capacity ground, the original Estádio da Luz hosted the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, where Werder Bremen beat Monaco 2–0, and the second leg of the 1983 UEFA Cup Final, where Anderlecht secured a 1–1 draw with Benfica to lift the trophy.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Venue
Lisbon had also staged a European Cup final in 1967, when Scottish side Celtic beat Inter Milan of Italy 2–1 at the Estádio Nacional. The Portuguese capital also hosted the 2005 UEFA Cup Final at the Estádio José Alvalade, home of Benfica's local rivals and finalists Sporting CP, who lost 3–1 to CSKA Moscow.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
As with the 2010 and 2015 finals, both teams were seeking a win to secure the continental treble.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) reached their first European Cup/Champions League final, becoming the fifth finalist representing France and the 41st overall. They entered the final having played 110 prior matches in the European Cup and Champions League, the most for a final debutant, surpassing Arsenal's record of 90 matches prior to their final debut in 2006. The match was the seventh final to feature a French team, and the first since Monaco in 2004. Marseille are the only French club to have won the competition, doing so in 1993.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
The match was the third time Paris Saint-Germain have appeared in the final of a UEFA competition, having previously appeared in two consecutive finals of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. The club won the 1996 final 1–0 against Rapid Wien, before losing 1–0 against Barcelona while attempting to defend their title in 1997. PSG also featured in the 1996 UEFA Super Cup, losing 9–2 on aggregate to Juventus.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
Paris were attempting to become the first French team to complete a continental treble, having won Ligue 1, which was awarded to them based on PPG ratio as the season was ended prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, and the Coupe de France. The club also won the final season of the Coupe de la Ligue (league cup) and the Trophée des Champions (super cup), thus winning all four domestic titles, though only the main domestic cup competition was considered for a continental treble.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
In eighteen matches, Paris Saint-Germain had a record of eleven wins, two draws and five losses against German clubs in European competition. PSG won all four prior knockout ties in which they met German opposition, including earlier in the season against Borussia Dortmund in the round of 16 and RB Leipzig in the semi-finals.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
Bayern Munich reached their eleventh European Cup/Champions League final, tying Milan for the second-most finals behind Real Madrid's 16. Most recently they appeared in the 2013 final, in which they won 2–1 against fellow German club Borussia Dortmund for their fifth title. In their prior finals, Bayern Munich won on four other occasions in 1974, 1975, 1976 and 2001, and lost in 1982, 1987, 1999, 2010 and 2012.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
The match was Bayern's 13th overall final in European competition, having won the 1967 European Cup Winners' Cup Final 1–0 after extra time against Rangers and the 1996 UEFA Cup Final 5–1 on aggregate against Bordeaux. Bayern Munich were chasing a second treble in club history (previously doing so in 2012–13), having won the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal. Entering the final, Bayern are on a 20-match winning streak and undefeated in 2020, having not lost in their prior 29 matches (winning 28 and drawing once).


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
With their semi-final win, Bayern also tied the record for the most consecutive wins in the competition proper, as well as the most wins from the start of the competition proper, with 10. Bayern are the second team to have entered the final with a perfect winning record, after Milan in 1993, who lost to the only French winners in competition history, Marseille. Bayern are also the second club to reach the final after winning all six group stage matches, after the aforementioned Milan team in 1992–93.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
Bayern Munich scored 42 goals in 10 matches during the competition prior to the final, second only to Barcelona's record of 45 goals in 16 matches during the 1999–2000 season. However, Bayern set a new record for the best goals per game ratio in competition history following their quarter-final (regardless of the outcome of the remainder of the competition), with 4.2 per match after their semi-final victory.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
Entering the final, forward Robert Lewandowski scored 15 goals in 9 matches during the Champions League season, with only Cristiano Ronaldo having scored more in a single campaign (17 in 2013–14 and 16 in 2015–16). Lewandowski also tied Ruud van Nistelrooy's mark from 2002–03 of scoring in nine consecutive Champions League matches, second only to Ronaldo's 11 from 2017–18. Lewandowski and Serge Gnabry set a record for the most prolific scoring partnership in a season with 24 combined goals, surpassing the record of 23 between Ronaldo and Gareth Bale in 2013–14. Bayern manager Hansi Flick became the 15th individual to appear in a Champions League final as both a player and manager, having played for Bayern in their loss to Porto in the 1987 final.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
In 34 matches, Bayern Munich had a record of 19 wins, 5 draws and ten losses against French clubs in European competition. Bayern won six of their seven previous knockout ties against French opposition, two of which were finals, including their semi-final win over Lyon to reach the 2020 final. Bayern's only loss was 3–2 on aggregate against Saint-Étienne in the first round of the 1969–70 European Cup.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
The final was the ninth meeting between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich, with a record of five wins for PSG and three wins for Bayern. The fixture was the first knockout match between the sides, with all their prior meetings occurring in the Champions League group stages. The sides most recently met in the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League group stage; Paris won the first match 3–0 at home, while Bayern won the return match 3–1. As the sides were level on points, PSG won the group on head-to-head goal difference.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
The match was the second European Cup final to feature a French and German team, after the 1976 final between Bayern and Saint-Étienne. Overall, it was the fourth final in European competition between teams from France and Germany, also occurring in the 1992 European Cup Winners' Cup Final (between Werder Bremen and Monaco) and the 1996 UEFA Cup Final (between Bayern and Bordeaux). On all three occasions, German teams were victorious.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
It was also the third final in which both teams entered the match seeking a win to secure the treble, previously occurring in 2010, in which Bayern lost to Inter Milan, and 2015, when Barcelona defeated Juventus. The 1999 final, won by Manchester United, also had both finalists seeking a treble, though Bayern had not yet contested their domestic cup final (which they ultimately lost). Both sides came into the final having won their domestic leagues the previous season, the first time this had happened since the 1998 final between Juventus and Real Madrid.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Background
It was also the first time since 1994 that both finalists won their domestic league in the previous and same season as reaching the final. The final was also the second to feature two German managers, after the 2013 final with managers Jürgen Klopp of Borussia Dortmund and Jupp Heynckes of Bayern Munich.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Paris Saint-Germain
Paris Saint-Germain qualified for the Champions League group stage by winning the 2018–19 Ligue 1 season, their sixth title in seven seasons and eighth overall French title. In the group stage, they were drawn into Group A alongside Real Madrid of Spain, record winners of the European Cup, as well as Galatasaray of Turkey and Club Brugge of Belgium.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Paris Saint-Germain
In the opening match of the group stage, Paris faced Real Madrid at the Parc des Princes and won 3–0 via a first-half brace from former Madrid player Ángel Di María and a second-half stoppage time goal from Thomas Meunier. On matchday 2, PSG won 1–0 against Galatasaray at the Türk Telekom Stadium with a 52nd-minute goal from Mauro Icardi. Paris Saint-Germain continued their perfect start to the competition by defeating Club Brugge 5–0 at the Jan Breydel Stadium, with a brace from Icardi and hat-trick from Kylian Mbappé.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Paris Saint-Germain
In their home meeting against Brugge, Icardi scored PSG's lone goal in a 1–0 win to advance to the knockout stage. On matchday 5, Paris recovered from a two-goal deficit to draw 2–2 at the Santiago Bernabéu against Madrid and win Group A, with Mbappé and Pablo Sarabia's late goals offsetting a Karim Benzema brace. In their final match, Paris Saint-Germain won 5–0 at home against Galatasaray to finish the group stage undefeated and having only conceded two goals.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Paris Saint-Germain
In the round of 16, PSG were drawn against German club Borussia Dortmund. In the first leg at the Westfalenstadion, Paris lost 2–1 with Neymar scoring a goal in between a brace from Erling Haaland. The second leg was one of the last European matches played prior to the suspension of the competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and took place behind closed doors on 11 March 2020. PSG won the match 2–0 with first-half goals from Neymar and Juan Bernat, securing a 3–2 aggregate win for the Parisians and their first quarter-final appearance since the 2015–16 season.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Paris Saint-Germain
Paris were drawn against Italian club Atalanta in the quarter-finals, who were participating in their debut season of the Champions League. The one-off tie was played on 12 August 2020 at the neutral Estádio da Luz. Atalanta took the lead in the first-half with a goal from Mario Pašalić. PSG struggled to find an equaliser in the second half, until Marquinhos scored from close range in the 90th minute before substitute Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting scored three minutes later to snatch a late win for Paris. Paris Saint-Germain advanced to the Champions League semi-finals for the second time in their history after the 1994–95 season.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Paris Saint-Germain
In the semi-finals, Paris Saint-Germain faced RB Leipzig of Germany, who had qualified to the Champions League knockout stage for the first time in only their second season competing in the competition. Marquinhos and Di María scored in the first half at Estádio da Luz, while Bernat scored 11 minutes into the second period to earn PSG a 3–0 win and a spot in their first Champions League final.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Bayern Munich
Bayern Munich qualified directly for the group stage of the Champions League by winning the 2018–19 Bundesliga, their 7th consecutive and 29th overall German title. In the group stage, they were drawn into Group B alongside Tottenham Hotspur of England, runners-up of the previous Champions League season, as well as Olympiacos of Greece and Red Star Belgrade of Serbia. The team began their season under Croatian manager Niko Kovač.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Bayern Munich
In their first match, Bayern faced Red Star Belgrade in a home match at the Allianz Arena and won 3–0 with goals from Kingsley Coman, Robert Lewandowski and Thomas Müller. In their second fixture against Tottenham at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Bayern won 7–2 with a goal from Joshua Kimmich, a brace from Lewandowski and four goals scored by Serge Gnabry. The result was the heaviest home loss by an English club in European competition. On matchday 3, Bayern faced Olympiacos at the Karaiskakis Stadium and recovered from a deficit to win 3–2 and maintain their lead in the group with a brace from Lewandowski followed by a curled goal from Corentin Tolisso, while Youssef El-Arabi and Guilherme scored for the Greek side.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Bayern Munich
However, as Bayern lost 5–1 to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga on 2 November, manager Niko Kovač was sacked the following day and replaced by former assistant Hansi Flick on an interim basis. In Flick's first match in charge three days later, Bayern won the rematch against Olympiacos 2–0 via second-half goals from Lewandowski and Ivan Perišić, thus securing a spot in the knockout stage. On 26 November, Bayern Munich won 6–0 against Red Star Belgrade at the Red Star Stadium to win Group B, with Lewandowski scoring four times between goals from Leon Goretzka and Tolisso.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Bayern Munich
In their final match, goals from Coman, Müller and Philippe Coutinho earned Bayern a 3–1 home win against Tottenham Hotspur to finish with a perfect group stage record, while Ryan Sessegnon scored the only goal for the visitors. This was the seventh occasion a team finished the group stage with six wins from six, with Bayern the sixth club to do so. Following a successful spell as interim manager, Bayern announced on 22 December that Flick would remain manager until the end of season.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Bayern Munich
Bayern were drawn against English club Chelsea in the round of 16, with the last Champions League meeting between the sides taking place in the 2012 final. In the first leg away at Stamford Bridge, Bayern won 3–0 via a brace from Gnabry followed by a tap-in from Lewandowski set-up by Alphonso Davies. Chelsea defender Marcos Alonso was sent off late in the match, which was the club's heaviest home loss in European competition. Following the match, Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge suggested Flick would stay permanently as manager.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Bayern Munich
On 3 April, Flick signed a new contract with the club lasting until 2023. Due to the suspension of the competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the second leg was delayed from 18 March until 8 August 2020, and was played behind closed doors at the Allianz Arena. Bayern won the second meeting 4–1, with a Lewandowski brace and goals from Perišić and Tolisso earning a 7–1 victory on aggregate, while Tammy Abraham scored for the visitors. The result was Chelsea's heaviest defeat in a two-legged European tie.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Bayern Munich
As a result of the draw, Bayern faced Spanish club Barcelona in the quarter-finals. The match, played at the Estádio da Luz, finished as an 8–2 win for Bayern Munich, with Perišić, Gnabry, Kimmich and Lewandowski scoring once each while Müller and Coutinho both earned braces. David Alaba scored an early own goal for Barcelona, who netted their only other goal via a Luis Suárez strike in the 57th minute.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Bayern Munich
For Bayern Munich, the result was the most goals scored by the club in a match during the Champions League era, and the second most for them in competition history after nine scored against Omonia in the 1972–73 European Cup. The match was the first time Barcelona conceded six goals or more in European competition, and the first time they conceded four goals in the first half of a Champions League match. It was Barcelona's heaviest defeat since 1951, when they lost 6–0 to Espanyol in the 1950–51 La Liga, and the first time they conceded eight goals in a game since 1946, when they lost 8–0 to Sevilla in the 1946 Copa del Generalísimo.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Road to the final, Bayern Munich
Bayern met French club Lyon in the semi-finals of the competition at the Estádio José Alvalade, a rematch of the 2009–10 semi-finals. Bayern won 3–0 with a brace from Gnabry followed by a late goal from Lewandowski to advance to their first Champions League final since 2013.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Identity
The original identity of the 2020 UEFA Champions League Final was unveiled at the group stage draw on 29 August 2019.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Ambassador
The ambassador for the original Istanbul final was former Turkish international Hamit Altıntop, who finished as runner-up in the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League with Bayern Munich as well as winning the 2003 and 2004 UEFA Intertoto Cups with Schalke 04.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Officials
On 20 August 2020, UEFA named Italian Daniele Orsato as the referee for the final. Orsato had been a FIFA referee since 2010, and was previously the fourth official in the 2019 UEFA Europa League Final. He was also an assistant video assistant referee in the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final. He was also an additional assistant referee at UEFA Euro 2016 and a video assistant referee at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Officials
He was joined by four of his fellow countrymen, with Lorenzo Manganelli and Alessandro Giallatini as assistant referees, Massimiliano Irrati as the video assistant referee and Marco Guida as the assistant VAR official. The fourth official was Ovidiu Hațegan of Romania, while Spaniards Roberto Díaz Pérez del Palomar and Alejandro Hernández Hernández served as the offside and support VAR officials, respectively.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Pre-match, Team selection
Each team made one change to their starting line-up following the semi-finals. After recovering from injury, Paris Saint-Germain first-choice goalkeeper Keylor Navas started in place of Sergio Rico. For Bayern Munich, manager Hansi Flick decided to replace Ivan Perišić, who had started in the three prior Champions League matches, with Paris native Kingsley Coman on the left wing. Centre-back Jérôme Boateng was also deemed fit to start for Bayern, having suffered a minor injury in the semi-final which required him to be substituted off at half-time.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary
Paris Saint-Germain kicked off the match, though Bayern Munich began quickly in the opening stages, before Paris found their way into the game after 10 minutes. In the 18th minute, PSG had their first clear opportunity when Kylian Mbappé passed to Neymar on the left side of the penalty area, but his shot was blocked by the leg of Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer. In the 22nd minute, Bayern forward Robert Lewandowski received the ball in the penalty area, swiveling and shooting the ball towards the goal which deflected off the inside of the left post and back into play.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary
Two minutes later, Ángel Di María found himself with space in front of goal after a one-two with Ander Herrera, but shot the ball over the crossbar of Neuer's goal. During the sequence, Bayern defender Jérôme Boateng injured himself, and had to be replaced by Niklas Süle. Herrera had a drop-kick deflected wide of the Bayern goal in the 29th minute, while Lewandowski's 31st-minute dipping header was parried by PSG goalkeeper Keylor Navas.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary
In the 45th minute, a misplaced pass by David Alaba in the Bayern back line fell in front of Mbappé, who played a one-two with Herrera before shooting the ball straight at Neuer when confronted by a clear opening on goal. In the following minute of first-half stoppage time, Kingsley Coman was hit on the shoulder by the arm of defender Thilo Kehrer and went down in the penalty area after cutting down the goal line. However, referee Daniele Orsato dismissed the Bayern appeals for a penalty, and blew for half-time with the match scoreless.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary
In the second half, Bayern scored the only goal in the 59th minute with a header by Coman, a PSG academy graduate. Thomas Müller laid a pass from Serge Gnabry back to right-back Joshua Kimmich, who crossed the ball from the right into the box towards the unmarked Coman at the far post, which was headed across the goal past Navas and into the right corner of the net. Following the goal, Bayern quickly created additional opportunities in the Parisian half, but were unable to capitalise on the chances.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary
Bayern subsequently switched to a more defensive approach, and in the 70th minute Neuer made another save with his leg after Marquinhos found himself clear on goal following a pass from Ángel Di María into the left side of the penalty box. Three minutes later, Mbappé was caught on the back of his foot by Kimmich after cutting inside the Bayern penalty area, but referee Orsato again decided to not award a penalty.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Summary
The final chance of the match came in stoppage time, when Mbappé ran down the inside-left channel and passed to Neymar on the left side of Bayern's penalty box, who turned sharply and shot wide of the far post, with substitute Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting's outstretched leg failing to meet the ball directly in front of the goal. Minutes later, the match ended as a 1–0 win for Bayern, securing the continental treble.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Details
The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held on 10 July 2020 (after the quarter-final and semi-final draws), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Lorenzo Manganelli (Italy)Alessandro Giallatini (Italy)Fourth official:Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)Video assistant referee:Massimiliano Irrati (Italy)Assistant video assistant referee:Marco Guida (Italy)Offside video assistant referee:Roberto Díaz Pérez del Palomar (Spain)Support video assistant referee:Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Spain)


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match
With the win, Bayern Munich secured their sixth European Cup title to draw level with Liverpool, only behind Real Madrid (13 titles) and Milan (7 titles). As Bayern also won the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal, they secured a second continental treble after the 2012–13 season. It was the ninth treble won in Europe, with Bayern Munich only the second club to win it twice after Barcelona in 2008–09 and 2014–15.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match
Former Paris Saint-Germain player Kingsley Coman, who scored the winning goal for Bayern, earned the man of the match award. Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer was voted as the Champions League player of the week, having made three saves during the match to keep a clean sheet. Bayern became the first club to win any European competition with a perfect winning record, emerging victorious in all eleven matches. As a result, it was also the 14th occasion a club won the Champions League unbeaten, with Bayern the 10th club to do so, and the first since Manchester United in 2007–08.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match
With the win, six Bayern players secured their second European Cup title, five of which were from the club's victorious 2012–13 Champions League campaign: David Alaba, Jérôme Boateng, Javi Martínez, Thomas Müller and Manuel Neuer. Therefore, these five joined eight other players who have won two European trebles: Dani Alves, Sergio Busquets, Andrés Iniesta, Lionel Messi, Pedro, Gerard Piqué and Xavi with Barcelona in 2008–09 and 2014–15, as well as Samuel Eto'o with Barcelona in 2008–09 and Inter Milan in 2009–10. Thiago was the only other Bayern player to have won the Champions League prior, doing so with Barcelona in 2010–11. Alphonso Davies became the first Canadian male international to win the Champions League.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match
Paris Saint-Germain's defeat meant that the past seven final debutants since the success of Borussia Dortmund in 1997 had all lost, including fellow Ligue 1 club Monaco in 2004. This also meant their arch-rival Marseille were still the only French club to ever win the European Cup, having done so in 1993. The match was the lowest-scoring Champions League final since the goalless 2003 edition between Juventus and Milan and the first final to be ended 1–0 since Real Madrid's victory over Juventus in 1998.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match
Following the completion of the competition, UEFA's Technical Observers named nine Bayern Munich players in the Champions League squad of the season: David Alaba, Alphonso Davies, Serge Gnabry, Leon Goretzka, Joshua Kimmich, Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller, Manuel Neuer and Thiago. For Paris Saint-Germain, Marquinhos, Kylian Mbappé and Neymar were included in the squad.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match
As the winners, Bayern also qualified to enter the group stage of the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League; however as Bayern already qualified through their league performance, the berth reserved was given to the team that was top of the abandoned 2019–20 Eredivisie (Ajax), the 11th-ranked association according to next season's access list.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match
Following the loss, Paris Saint-Germain fans clashed with riot police in Paris, including on the Champs-Élysées and near the Parc des Princes. Cars were ignited, buildings were attacked, and flares and fireworks were shot at police after tear gas was used to disperse fans.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match
The two teams met again the following season at the quarter-final stage. The scores were level at 3–3 after the two legs, but Paris Saint-Germain won on away goals.


2020 UEFA Champions League Final, Post-match, Viewership
In France, the final was televised on TF1, and drew an average of 11.1 million viewers, making it the third most watched Champions League final ever in France, after the 1993 and 2004 finals which also involved teams from the country. The game was also shown live on RMC Sport, who did not disclose their viewing figures. In Germany, the match drew a viewership of 12.8 million, which was around 39.9% of the market share, on state-owned ZDF, and another 1.04 million viewers watching the match through pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final
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.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final
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.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final
Sevilla won the match 3–2 for their record sixth UEFA Cup/Europa League title. As winners, they earned the right to play against the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, Bayern Munich, in the 2020 UEFA Super Cup. They also qualified to enter the group stage of the 2020–21 UEFA Champions League; since Sevilla had 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.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final, Teams
In the following table, finals until 2009 were in the UEFA Cup era, since 2010 were in the UEFA Europa League era.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final, Venue
The UEFA Executive Committee chose RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne as the host at their meeting on 17 June 2020. This was 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.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final, Venue
The stadium was first opened in 1923 as the Müngersdorfer Stadion and has been the home stadium of German Bundesliga side 1. FC Köln since 1948. It underwent two major renovations during its lifetime. It hosted UEFA Euro 1988 as well as the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2006 FIFA World Cup.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final, Background
The match was a record-extending sixth UEFA Cup/Europa League final for Sevilla, the most successful team in competition history. The club won all their prior finals in 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015 and 2016.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final, Background
Inter Milan reached their fifth UEFA Cup/Europa League final, second only to Sevilla. They previously won three finals in 1991, 1994 and 1998, and lost to Schalke 04 in 1997. They were the first Italian team to reach a UEFA Cup/Europa League final since Parma in 1999.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final, Road to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).


2020 UEFA Europa League Final, Pre-match, Identity
The original identity of the 2020 UEFA Europa League Final was unveiled at the group stage draw on 30 August 2019.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final, Pre-match, Ambassador
The original ambassador for the Gdańsk final was former Polish international Andrzej Buncol, who won the 1987–88 UEFA Cup with Bayer Leverkusen.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final, Pre-match, 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.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final, Match, Details
The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held on 10 July 2020 (after the quarter-final and semi-final draws), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2020 UEFA Europa League Final, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Mario Diks (Netherlands)Hessel Steegstra (Netherlands)Fourth official:Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)Video assistant referee:Jochem Kamphuis (Netherlands)Assistant video assistant referees:Kevin Blom (Netherlands)Paweł Gil (Poland)Offside video assistant referee:Tomasz Sokolnicki (Poland)


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
The 2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-17 Euro 2020) was originally to be held as the 19th edition of the UEFA European Under-17 Championship (38th edition if the Under-16 era is also included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-17 national teams of Europe, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Estonia, which were selected by UEFA on 9 December 2016, were originally to host the tournament. A total of 16 teams were originally to play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2003 eligible to participate.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship
The final tournament was originally scheduled to be played between 21 May and 6 June 2020. After initially being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UEFA announced on 1 April 2020 that the tournament had been cancelled.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification
All 55 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Estonia qualifying automatically, the other 54 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: Qualifying round, which takes place in autumn 2019, and Elite round, which takes place in spring 2020.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-17 era (since 2002).


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Final draw
The final draw was originally to be held on 8 April 2020 in Tallinn, Estonia. The 16 teams would be drawn into four groups of four teams. The hosts Estonia would be assigned to position A1 in the draw, while the other teams would be seeded according to their results in the qualification elite round.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Final draw
The seven best elite round group winners (counting all elite round results) would be placed in Pot 1 and drawn to positions 1 and 2 in the groups, and the remaining eight teams (the eighth-best elite round group winner and the seven elite round group runners-up) would be placed in Pot 2 and drawn to positions 3 and 4 in the groups.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Venues
The tournament were originally to be held in eight venues.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Squads
Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 38).


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Group stage
In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01 and 17.02):


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner if necessary (no extra time is played).


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
The 2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-17 football competition that was originally to determine the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Estonia in the 2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship final tournament, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification
Apart from Estonia, all remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 2003 are eligible to participate.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Format
The schedule of each group is as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
In the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. To determine the seven best runners-up from the elite round, all results are considered. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01, 15.02 and 15.03):


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 6 December 2018, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, the following pairs of teams could not be drawn in the same group: Russia and Ukraine, Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, Azerbaijan and Armenia.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
The qualifying round must be played by 19 November 2019.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
Times up to 26 October 2019 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Ranking of third-placed teams
To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The draw for the elite round was held on 3 December 2019, 12:45 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Spain and England, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Russia and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
The elite round was originally scheduled to be played between 25 and 31 March 2020. On 12 March 2020, UEFA announced that the elite round had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. UEFA announced on 1 April 2020 that the tournament had been cancelled.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
Times up to 28 March 2020 are CET (UTC+1), thereafter times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Ranking of second-placed teams
To determine the seven best second-placed teams from the elite round which qualify for the final tournament, all results are taken into account (Regulations Article 15.02). This is different from the elite round of previous qualifying tournaments where the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded.


2020 UEFA European Under-17 Championship qualification, Goalscorers
In the qualifying round, there were 289 goals scored in 78 matches, for an average of 3.71 goals per match.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
The 2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Under-19 Euro 2020) was scheduled to be the 19th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship (69th edition if the Under-18 and Junior eras are included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was initially postponed, rescheduled and was cancelled in October 2020.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
Northern Ireland, which last hosted the tournament in 2005, was selected as host by UEFA on 9 December 2016.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship
As in previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament was due to act as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. The top five teams of the tournament were to qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the UEFA representatives. Following the cancellation of the tournament, UEFA instead nominated the top five ranked countries in the qualifying round coefficient ranking.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Postponements and eventual cancellation
The final tournament was originally scheduled to be played between 19 July – 1 August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UEFA announced on 1 April 2020 that the tournament had been postponed until further notice. On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the final tournament had been rescheduled and would be played in two periods, with the group stage played between 7–14 October 2020, and the knockout stage, which would consist of the semi-finals, the FIFA U-20 World Cup play-off and the final, played between 11 and 14 November 2020.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Postponements and eventual cancellation
UEFA then announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the final tournament had been further postponed, with the group stage played in November 2020 and the knockout stage played in March 2021. On 16 September 2020, UEFA announced that the tournament would be played in March 2021 in straight knock-out format, consisting of the quarter-finals, semi-finals, final, and play-off matches to decide the fifth team to qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Postponements and eventual cancellation
Finally, the tournament was cancelled by UEFA on 20 October 2020.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Qualification
A total of 54 UEFA nations entered the competition. The hosts Northern Ireland would have qualified automatically, with the other 53 teams competing in the qualifying competition.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship, Venues
The tournament was due to be held in four venues:


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
The 2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a men's under-19 football competition  that was originally to determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Northern Ireland in the 2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship final tournament, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification
Apart from Northern Ireland, 53 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to participate.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Format
The schedule of each group is as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
In the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
To determine the best third-placed team from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Articles 15.01 and 15.02):


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 6 December 2018, 10:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, the following pairs of teams could not be drawn in the same group: Spain and Gibraltar, Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, Azerbaijan and Armenia.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
The qualifying round must be played by 19 November 2019.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
Times up to 26 October 2019 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups, Group 10
The Switzerland v Republic of Ireland and Austria v Gibraltar matches, originally scheduled to be played on 13 November 2019 at 11:00 and 14:30 respectively, were postponed to 14 November at 13:00 due to snow.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Ranking of third-placed teams
To determine the best third-placed team from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The draw for the elite round was held on 3 December 2019, 12:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Portugal, which received a bye to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Teams from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Russia and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
The elite round was originally scheduled to be played between 25–31 March 2020. On 12 March 2020, UEFA announced that the elite round had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the elite round had been rescheduled to 2–8 September 2020. However, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the elite round had been further postponed to October 2020. On 16 September 2020, UEFA announced that the elite round had been further postponed to November 2020. UEFA announced on 20 October 2020 that the tournament had been cancelled.


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
All times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).


2020 UEFA European Under-19 Championship qualification, Goalscorers
In the qualifying round, there were 306 goals scored in 78 matches, for an average of 3.92 goals per match.


2020 UEFA Super Cup
The 2020 UEFA Super Cup was the 45th edition of the UEFA Super Cup, an annual football match organised by UEFA and contested by the reigning champions of the two main European club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. The match featured German club Bayern Munich, the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, and Spanish club Sevilla, the winners of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League. It was played at the Puskás Aréna in Budapest, Hungary on 24 September 2020.


2020 UEFA Super Cup
The match was originally scheduled to be played at the Estádio do Dragão in Porto, Portugal, on 12 August 2020. However, after the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe caused the postponements of the previous season's club finals, the UEFA Executive Committee chose to award the rescheduled Champions League final to Portugal, and postponed and relocated the Super Cup to Budapest.


2020 UEFA Super Cup
Following discussions with its 55 member associations on 19 August 2020, the UEFA Executive Committee decided on 25 August 2020 to use the 2020 UEFA Super Cup as a pilot match for which a reduced number of spectators, up to 30% of the capacity of the stadium, can be allowed in, and it became the first official UEFA match to have spectators since their competitions were resumed in August 2020.


2020 UEFA Super Cup
Bayern Munich won the match 2–1 after extra time to secure their second UEFA Super Cup title.


2020 UEFA Super Cup, Venue
The Estádio do Dragão was scheduled to stage its first ever UEFA Super Cup match. It had hosted the UEFA Euro 2004 and the 2019 UEFA Nations League Final. The city of Porto and Portugal as a whole, however, had seen one Super Cup match before in 1987, as the now-demolished Estádio das Antas hosted the second leg.


2020 UEFA Super Cup, Venue
This was the first UEFA club competition final hosted at the Puskás Aréna and the second for Budapest and Hungary, having hosted the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League Final at the Groupama Arena. Prior to the relocation, the stadium had been selected as one of the hosts for the UEFA Euro 2020 as well as hosting the 2022 UEFA Europa League Final, before being rescheduled to 2023.


2020 UEFA Super Cup, Venue, Host selection
An open bidding process was launched on 8 December 2017 by UEFA to select the venue of the UEFA Super Cup in 2020. Associations had until 12 January 2018 to express interest, and bid dossiers had to be submitted by 29 March 2018. Associations hosting matches at UEFA Euro 2020 were not allowed to bid for the 2020 UEFA Super Cup.


2020 UEFA Super Cup, Venue, Host selection
UEFA announced on 15 January 2018 that nine associations had expressed interest in hosting the 2020 UEFA Super Cup.


2020 UEFA Super Cup, Venue, Host selection
The Estádio do Dragão was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Kyiv on 24 May 2018.


2020 UEFA Super Cup, Venue, Host selection
The UEFA Executive Committee relocated the match to Puskás Aréna in Budapest at their meeting on 17 June 2020.


2020 UEFA Super Cup, Pre-match, Ticketing
Tickets were on sale for the general public until 9 September 2020. Moreover, 3,000 tickets were available for the supporters of each team. In total, 15,500 tickets were sold. Strict hygiene measures, including social distancing and wearing of face masks when social distancing could not be respected, were in place during the match. Ticket holders from overseas had to present proof of a negative SARS-CoV-2 PCR test performed within three days of entry, and had to leave the country within 72 hours after their entry.


2020 UEFA Super Cup, Pre-match, Ticketing
Despite Hungarian government insisting that the match would be safe to attend, there was opposition to the decision to have spectators. Hungarian politician Ildikó Borbély called the game an "unacceptable experiment", while Minister President of Bavaria Markus Söder urged Bayern fans not to travel, fearing that the match could turn into a "hotbed for COVID-19 to spread". Hungarian Medical Chamber advisor, epidemiologist András Csilek, stated that the Chamber also considered it wrong, saying that it "carries unnecessary risk adding" and "shouldn't be allowed".


2020 UEFA Super Cup, Pre-match, Officials
On 15 September 2020, UEFA named English official Anthony Taylor as the referee for the match. Taylor had been a FIFA referee since 2013, and previously worked as one of the additional assistant referees in the 2014 UEFA Super Cup, 2015 UEFA Europa League Final, 2016 UEFA Champions League Final and UEFA Euro 2016 Final. He was joined by his fellow countrymen, with Gary Beswick and Adam Nunn as assistant referees, Stuart Attwell as the video assistant referee (VAR) and Paul Tierney as the assistant VAR. Israeli referee Orel Grinfeld served as the fourth official.


2020 UEFA Super Cup, Match, Summary
Sevilla were awarded a penalty after 13 minutes when Ivan Rakitić was blocked and bundled over in the penalty area by David Alaba. Lucas Ocampos scored the penalty shooting to the left corner to put Sevilla ahead. Leon Goretzka made it 1–1 in the 34th minute, with a side foot finish to the left corner of the net after a take down assist from Robert Lewandowski. The game went into extra time, with substitute Javi Martínez getting the winner for Bayern in the 104th minute with a powerful header to the top left corner of the net when the ball fell to him, after Sevilla goalkeeper Yassine Bounou had punched the ball back into play.


2020 UEFA Super Cup, Match, Details
The Champions League winners were designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes.


2020 UEFA Super Cup, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Gary Beswick (England)Adam Nunn (England)Fourth official:Orel Grinfeld (Israel)Video assistant referee:Stuart Attwell (England)Assistant video assistant referee:Paul Tierney (England)


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
The 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final was the final match of the 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League, the 19th season of Europe's premier women's club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Women's Cup to the UEFA Women's Champions League. It was played on 30 August 2020 at the Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián, Spain, between German club VfL Wolfsburg and French club Lyon.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
The match was originally scheduled to be played at the Generali Arena in Vienna, Austria, on 24 May 2020. On 23 March 2020, UEFA announced that the final was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced the match would take place in San Sebastián behind closed doors, as part of a "final-eight tournament" consisting of single-match knockout ties played in two stadiums across the Basque Country.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final
Lyon won the final 3–1 for their fifth consecutive and seventh overall UEFA Women's Champions League title. As Lyon also won the Division 1 Féminine and the Coupe de France féminine, they completed the treble, the club's second consecutive and fifth overall.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, 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.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Venue
The final took place at the Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, 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 Bilbao hosting the second leg of the 1977 UEFA Cup Final.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Venue, Original host selection
An open bidding process was launched on 22 September 2017 by UEFA to select the venues of the finals of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Women's Champions League in 2020. Associations had until 31 October 2017 to express interest, and bid dossiers must be submitted by 1 March 2018.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Venue, Original host selection
UEFA announced on 3 November 2017 that three associations had expressed interest in hosting the 2020 UEFA Women's Champions League final.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Venue, Original host selection
The Generali Arena was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Kyiv 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.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Venue, Postponement and relocation
The 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League was postponed indefinitely on 17 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. 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, Bilbao and Anoeta Stadium, San Sebastián in Basque Country, Spain, as an eight-team single-match knockout tournament, with San Sebastián hosting the final.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Venue, Postponement and relocation
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 Austrian Football Association said over 12,000 tickets had already been sold for the final and they would all be refunded.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Road to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral).


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Pre-match, Ambassador
Austrian footballer Nina Burger was the original ambassador for the Vienna final.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Pre-match, Officials
On 28 August 2020, UEFA named Swiss official Esther Staubli as the referee for the final. Staubli had been a FIFA referee since 2006, and was previously the referee for the 2015 UEFA Women's Champions League Final. She also was a lead referee at the UEFA Women's Championship in 2013 and 2017, including the final 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. Jana Adámková of the Czech Republic was the fourth official. Spaniard José María Sánchez Martínez worked as the video assistant referee 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.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Details
The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held on 8 November 2019, 13:30 CET (after the quarter-final and semi-final draws), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2020 UEFA Women's Champions League Final, Match, Details
Assistant referees:Sanja Rođak-Karšić (Croatia)Oleksandra Ardasheva (Ukraine)Fourth official:Jana Adámková (Czech Republic)Reserve assistant referee:Maryna Striletska (Ukraine)Video assistant referee:José María Sánchez Martínez (Spain)Assistant video assistant referee:Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea (Spain)


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
The 2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-17 Euro 2020) was originally to be held as the 13th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-17 national teams of Europe, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sweden, which were selected by UEFA on 9 December 2016, were originally to host the tournament. A total of eight teams were originally to play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2003 eligible to participate.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
The final tournament was originally scheduled to be played between 9–22 May 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UEFA announced on 1 April 2020 that the tournament had been postponed until further notice. On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the final tournament had been rescheduled to 4–10 October 2020, and would be played in straight knock-out format, consisting of the quarter-finals, semi-finals, final, and the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off. However, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the tournament had been cancelled. However, FIFA announced on 17 November 2020 that this edition of the World Cup would be cancelled.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
Same as previous editions held in even-numbered years, the tournament would act as the UEFA qualifiers for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. The top three teams of the tournament would qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup (originally 2020 but postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic) in India as the UEFA representatives. With the cancellation of the tournament, the UEFA Executive Committee nominated the three teams with the highest coefficient ranking for the qualifying draw, Spain, Germany and England, as the UEFA representatives.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualification
A total of 47 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Sweden qualifying automatically, the other 46 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consisted of two rounds: Qualifying round, which took place in autumn 2019, and Elite round, which took place in spring 2020.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Final draw
The final draw was originally to be held on 3 April 2020 in Halmstad, Sweden. The eight teams would have been drawn into two groups of four teams. There would have been no seeding, except that the hosts Sweden would have been assigned to position A1 in the draw.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualification, Final draw
The final draw for the straight knock-out tournament was later rescheduled to be held on 22 September 2020, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The eight teams would have been split into four quarter-finals.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Venues
The tournament was originally to be held in four venues:


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Original format and schedule
Under the original format before the cancellation of the group stage, the group winners and runners-up would advance to the semi-finals. The semi-final winners would qualify for the 2020 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, and the semi-final losers would enter the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup play-off for the final World Cup berth. The following matches would have been played under the original schedule in May 2020:


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
The following three teams from UEFA, nominated by the UEFA Executive Committee, would have qualified for the 2021 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup before the tournament was cancelled.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
The 2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-17 football competition that was originally to determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Sweden in the 2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship final tournament, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification
Apart from Sweden, 46 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 2003 were eligible to participate.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Format
The schedule of each group is as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
In the qualifying round and elite round, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 15.01):


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The draw for the qualifying round was held on 23 November 2018, 09:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Draw
Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Russia and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
The qualifying round is provisionally scheduled between 5 August and 27 October 2019.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups
Times up to 26 October 2019 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Groups, Group 9
Note: Poland v Kazakhstan, originally to be played on 2 October 2019, 17:15 local time, was postponed to the next day.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Qualifying round, Ranking of third-placed teams
To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round which advance to the elite round, only the results of the third-placed teams against the first and second-placed teams in their group are taken into account.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The draw for the elite round was held on 29 November 2019, 11:40 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Draw
The teams were seeded according to their results in the qualifying round. Spain and Germany, which received byes to the elite round, were automatically seeded into Pot A. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and one team from Pot D. Winners and runners-up from the same qualifying round group could not be drawn in the same group, but the best third-placed teams could be drawn in the same group as winners or runners-up from the same qualifying round group. Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Russia and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
The elite round was originally scheduled to be played between 14 and 29 March 2020. On 12 March 2020, UEFA announced that the elite round had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the elite round had been rescheduled to 12–21 September 2020. However, UEFA announced on 13 August 2020 that after consultation with the 55 member associations, the tournament had been cancelled.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups
Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups, Group 1
Originally scheduled to be played between 22 and 28 March 2020.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups, Group 2
Originally scheduled to be played between 18 and 24 March 2020.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups, Group 3
Originally scheduled to be played between 23 and 29 March 2020.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups, Group 4
Originally scheduled to be played between 14 and 20 March 2020.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups, Group 5
Originally scheduled to be played between 16 and 22 March 2020.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups, Group 6
Originally scheduled to be played between 19 and 25 March 2020.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification, Elite round, Groups, Group 7
Originally scheduled to be played between 23 and 29 March 2020.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
The 2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (also known as UEFA Women's Under-19 Euro 2020) was originally to be held as the 19th edition of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (23rd edition if the Under-18 era is included), the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the women's under-19 national teams of Europe, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. Georgia, which were selected by UEFA on 9 December 2016, were originally to host the tournament. A total of eight teams were originally to play in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2001 eligible to participate.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
The final tournament was originally scheduled to be played between 21 July to 2 August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, UEFA announced on 1 April 2020 that the tournament had been cancelled.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Qualification
A total of 49 UEFA nations entered the competition, and with the hosts Georgia qualifying automatically, the other 48 teams competed in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining seven spots in the final tournament. The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: Qualifying round, which takes place in autumn 2019, and Elite round, which takes place in spring 2020.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Qualification, Qualified teams
Note: All appearance statistics include only U-19 era (since 2002).


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Qualification, Final draw
The final draw was originally to be held on 22 April 2020 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The eight teams would be drawn into two groups of four teams. There would be no seeding, except that the hosts Georgia would be assigned to position A1 in the draw.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Squads
Each national team have to submit a squad of 20 players (Regulations Article 39).


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Group stage
In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 17.01 and 17.02):


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship, Knockout stage
In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
The 2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualifying competition was a women's under-19 football competition that was originally to determine the seven teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Georgia in the 2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship final tournament, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification
Apart from Georgia, 48 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition. Players born on or after 1 January 2001 were eligible to participate.


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Format
The qualifying competition was planned to consist of two rounds:


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Format
The schedule of each group was planned as follows, with two rest days between each matchday (Regulations Article 20.04):


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
In the qualifying round and planned elite round, teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 14.01 and 14.02):


2020 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship qualification, Format, Tiebreakers
To determine the four best third-placed teams from the qualifying round, the results against the teams in fourth place were discarded. The following criteria were applied (Regulations Article 15.01):