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Leiria succeeds Braga and appreciates the decisions of the competition.
Leiria will host the Cup final four for the next three seasons, succeeding Braga. The decision was known this Friday, at the Kick-Off.
The city was chosen over Funchal, on the island of Madeira, and will host at the Municipal Stadium the first of the three editions of the Final Four between January 16 and 23, 2021, in a version of the event with an exceptionally reduced format due to the pandemic. of covid-19.
The Municipal Stadium of Leiria – Dr. Magalhães Pessoa was one of the new stadiums built from scratch to host the 2004 European Championship, but it has not hosted matches of the Portuguese 1st football league since 2012, when the União de Leiria was demoted administratively from professional competitions.
However, it will be the second time that the Estádio Municipal de Leiria receives the decision of the League Cup, after hosting the final of the seventh edition of the competition in 2013/14, in which Benfica won 2-0 to Rio Ave.
The city of Braga hosted the final of the League Cup in the last three seasons, already in final four format, which had as winners the teams of Sporting (2017/18 and 2018/19) and Sporting de Braga (2019 /twenty).
The stadiums and cities of Faro / Loulé (2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2016/17), Coimbra (2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2014/15 and 2015/16) were the other cities will host the final of the League Cup in its 13 previous editions.
Gonçalo Lopes, mayor of Leiria, showed pride. “I would like to thank you for the opportunity to host this important competition on the national scene. A note to all the other candidate cities, is the clear demonstration that the League has managed to create a desirable competition. Leiria has all the capacity to host this and others competitions “, referred.
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