The 2012 UEFA Champions League Final will be a football match played on 19 May 2012 at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany to decide the winner of the 2011–12 season of the UEFA Champions League, Europe's premier club tournament organised annually by the UEFA confederation. The winners receive the European Champion Clubs' Cup (the European Cup). The game is the culmination of the 57th season of the tournament, and the 20th since it was renamed the Champions League.
The match will kick off at 20:45 local time and will be contested by English club Chelsea and Bayern Munich of Germany. It's the first Champions League Final to be held in the Allianz Arena (known as "Fußball Arena München" for the final) which opened in 2005. With Bayern being one of two tenants of the Arena, it's also the first time a Champions League finalist has had home stadium advantage.
The Allianz Arena was announced by UEFA as the venue of the 2012 final on 30 January 2010, although the stadium will be referred to as "Fußball Arena München" for the match, as UEFA does not recognise sponsorship by companies that are not among its partner organisations. The stadium, which opened in 2005, is the home stadium of both Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich, and was used for six matches at the 2006 FIFA World Cup including the opening match. The stadium will host its first major European final. The Olympiastadion in Munich, the previous home of Bayern Munich and 1860 Munich, hosted three European Cup Finals in 1979, 1993 and 1997.
During the match, the stadium will be illuminated in green and turquoise to represent the official UEFA emblem of the Munich final, as the outer shell of the Allianz Arena can change colour. For this reason, the illuminants have to be changed, because the Allianz Arena could only glow in different forms of red, white and pale blue, so far.
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