European’s football governing body UEFA has announced that Cardiff has won the rights to stage the 2014 UEFA Super Cup Final.
The match, which is a one-off showpiece between the previous season’s winners of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League, is leaving its regular home of the Stade Louis II stadium in Monaco after this year.
Monaco has held the final since 1998 and has seen English triumph for Chelsea in the same year when defeating Real Madrid and Liverpool overcoming CSKA Moscow after extra-time in 2005.
Slightly surprisingly, this exhibition match will take place at the home of Championship side Cardiff City.
The Cardiff City Stadium will stage the match, rather than the more modern and bigger Millennium Stadium, which has played host to many FA Cup and League Cup finals at the start of the 21st century.
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Cardiff City Stadium holds a capacity of 27,000 and has already seen six Wales international matches take place there.
It will also be used as the venue of two of Wales’s 2014 World Cup qualifiers against Belgium and Scotland.
The one-off game will be played in Eden, Prague in the Czech Republic next year and then goes to Tbilisi in 2015.
It will be moved to a mid-August date after the decision was taken to scrap the unpopular August international friendly date.
The current holders of the Super Cup are Barcelona, having defeated FC Porto 2-0 last year, courtesy of goals from Lionel Messi and Cesc Fabregas.
There will be English representation this season, with Chelsea facing Atletico Madrid in the 2012 edition on Friday 31 August.
By Simon Wright – Follow me on Twitter @Siwri88
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