Barcelona and Sevilla set for Tbilisi Super Cup

FC Barcelona and Sevilla FC are coming to Georgia to compete in the second straight all-Spanish UEFA Super Cup.

The match will take place at the Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena in Tbilisi on Tuesday, August 11.

Thanks to their UEFA Champions League final win against Juventus in Berlin yesterday, Barcelona will increase their record number of UEFA Super Cup appearances to nine.

Sevilla are in contention as UEFA Europa League winners for the second season running following their Warsaw success against FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.

Whatever happens on 11 August, Spain will extend their lead as the most titled UEFA Super Cup nation, the UEFA website said. 

The UEFA Super Cup is an annual sporting challenge between the reigning champions of the two main European club competitions – the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League.

Below is the video showing why Tbilisi was chosen to host the event.

President of the Georgian Football Federation, Domenti Sichinava, said tickets would be affordable and would cost €7, €15 or €30 (16 GEL, 35 GEL or 69 GEL respectively), depending on which area of the stadium spectators wished to sit.

Tickets will be sold on the official UEFA website from July 2015. About 40,000 tickets will be open to Georgian fans while the remaining (about 15,000) will go to UEFA officials and fans of participating teams.

The first UEFA Super Cup was officially recognized and held in 1973. Since 1998 the match was traditionally held at the Louis II Stadium in Monaco, however from 2013 it was decided the event would be held in different venues.

In 2013 Prague hosted the game at Eden Stadium and in 2014 the match was played in Cardiff, UK.