Udine will host the European Super Cup in 2025

The Uefa Executive Committee, which met on Monday 16 December, identified Udine's Bluenergy Stadium as the venue for the European Super Cup 2025, which will see the winners of the Champions League and Europa League face each other on 13 August. One of the most prestigious trophies in European football, which will be contested for the first time in Italy on a historic date for Udine and its stadium.

The choice of Udine as the venue for the Super Cup is only the latest acknowledgement of the level of the Bianconeri's facilities and the reputation it enjoys among Italian and European football institutions. Since its renovation, in fact, the Bluenergy Stadium has hosted the Italian national team on four occasions - the last in October this year - as well as being the venue for the final of the 2019 European Under-21 Championship. Udinese Calcio's various sustainability projects - such as the solar park that will soon be inaugurated at the Bluenergy Stadium - were also instrumental in Uefa's choice of the Juventus facility, and go in the direction taken by UEFA with the aim of moving towards a circular economy within European football.

This will be the most important sporting event ever hosted at the Bluenergy Stadium and in the Region in general, a match that will bring two of the best teams in Europe to the stadium of the bianconeri and will point the spotlight of the whole world on Udine and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. A result made possible thanks to the continuous commitment of Udinese Calcio, which by obtaining the organisation of this event once again becomes an ambassador of its territory in Italy and worldwide - as it already does by wearing the "I am Friuli-Venezia Giulia" brand on its shirts - promoting it and bringing positive spin-offs for the whole Region.

"After the final of the Under-21 European Championship in 2019 and four important challenges of the national team, the Bluenergy Stadium and Udinese Calcio will have the pride and honour of hosting a challenge that I would like to define epic - underlines the General Manager of the club Franco Collavino -. Important not only for sport, but for the city of Udine and for the whole Friuli Venezia Giulia region, for the role and value of sport in this region. While underlining the maximum commitment we will put into the organisation of the event, I want to stress how the Udinese project, once again, proves to be a winning one in terms of attracting events and enhancing the whole region. We would like to thank FIGC and UEFA for their trust and we are sure that we will repay it by hosting the Super Cup in the scenario of one of the most avant-garde stadiums in Europe".

'On 13 August 2025, the final of the European Super Cup, the event that traditionally opens the European football season, an event of absolute international calibre, will be played in Udine,' adds the mayor Alberto Felice De Toni. 'This is not the first time in the last year that our city has been chosen as the backdrop for major events. In May last year, our city hosted the 94th meeting of the Alpine troops, in recent months Udine has been the set for two major productions of our cinema, the Friuli stadium has hosted two national teams, first the football team and then the rugby team. Next August it will host one of the most important football events of the year, demonstrating that Udine has much to offer from an artistic, historical, tourist and attraction point of view. Thanks to the institutional commitment, in this case of the Region and the Italian Football Federation, together with that of its iconic club, Udinese Calcio, it can aim for ambitious results'.