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Tbilisi competes for hosting the UEFA Europa League club finals in 2021

The UEFA Executive Committee will select the host associations for the finals on May 29, 2019. Photo: Getty Images

Agenda.ge, 23 Feb 2019 - 19:20, Tbilisi,Georgia

UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations) announced that it has received bid dossiers from nine member associations to host UEFA club competition finals in 2021, Tbilisi among them.

Tbilisi's Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena will be competing with Sevilla's Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán for hosting the UEFA Europa League club finals.

The UEFA Executive Committee will select the successful host associations for the finals of the 2021 UEFA Europa League, UEFA Women’s Champions League and UEFA Super Cup on 29 May 2019.

The bidding procedure for the selection of the venues to host the finals in 2021 was launched in October 2018.

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