{"id":74458,"date":"2025-08-28T15:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74458"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:38:17","slug":"uefa-shifts-2026-champions-league-final-to-earlier-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/28\/uefa-shifts-2026-champions-league-final-to-earlier-kick-off\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA Shifts 2026 Champions League Final to Earlier Kick-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UEFA has confirmed that the 2026 Champions League final in Budapest will kick off at 6:00 p.m. local time, three hours earlier than the traditional 9:00 p.m. slot.<\/p>\n<p>The final, set for Saturday, May 30 at the Pusk\u00e1s Ar\u00e9na, will benefit fans by easing travel logistics and allowing same-day trips, according to UEFA and Football Supporters Europe.<\/p>\n<p>UEFA President Aleksander \u010ceferin said while late kick-offs suit midweek fixtures, a Saturday final should finish earlier, even with extra time or penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The Champions League final has been played on Saturdays since 2010. In 2025, Paris Saint-Germain lifted their first title with a 5-0 win over Inter Milan in Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; UEFA has confirmed that the 2026 Champions League final in Budapest will kick off at 6:00 p.m. local time, three hours earlier than the traditional 9:00 p.m. slot. The final, set for Saturday, May 30 at the Pusk\u00e1s Ar\u00e9na, will benefit fans by easing travel logistics and allowing same-day trips, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74460,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74458\/revisions\/74460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}