The Champions League final kick-off will move from 20:00 BST to 17:00 BST starting in the 2025–26 season. The 2026 final is scheduled for Saturday 30 May at the Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary. The decision aims to enhance the matchday experience and benefit fans, teams and host cities by providing a more accessible broadcasting window and reaching a broader range of audiences. The change seeks to make attendance easier for families and children and to simplify and improve transport safety for travelling supporters. The move follows criticism over transport and crowd-handling problems at recent finals, including long queues after the 2023 Istanbul final and crowd-control issues before the 2022 Paris final.
enhance the matchday experience and benefit fans, teams and host cities
With this change, we are placing the fans' experience at the heart of our planning,
The new kick-off time will make it even more accessible, inclusive and impactful for everyone involved.
It also means that transport should be easier for traveling fans and safer to reach their destinations after the match.
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