The 2023 UEFA Super Cup is played at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on Wednesday 16 August 2023.
UEFA Champions League winners Manchester City will take on UEFA Europa League winners Sevilla in the traditional final of the new European season.
The match will be the first UEFA club competition final to be held in Greece since Milan beat Liverpool 2-1 in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League Final in Athens.
This stadium will be the 11th venue for the UEFA Super Cup since the match was moved from the historic Monaco stadium, after Prague (2013), Cardiff (2014), Tbilisi (2015), Trondheim (2016). ), Skopje (2017), Tallinn (2018), Istanbul (2019), Budapest (2020), Belfast (2021) and Helsinki (2022).
The stadium was completely rebuilt to host the 2004 Olympic football tournament and now has a capacity of just over 30,000.
It has hosted concerts by Rihanna, Aerosmith, 50 Cent and the Sex Pistols, among others, and is accustomed to raucous events – Olympiacos fans are some of the most passionate fans of Greek football.
What is the UEFA Super Cup?
An annual event featuring the reigning UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League champions, conceived by Dutch journalist Anton Wittkamp to ultimately determine the best club in Europe.
The European Cup/UEFA Champions League winners have always been involved, facing the winners of the European Cup/UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup (1973–99) or the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League (2000–).
Trophy
The current model is 58 cm tall and weighs 12.2 kg.
The current trophy has been in use since 2006 but retains the basic design of its predecessor, conceived and created in the Bertoni workshop in Milan.
The classic bowl is held high on a base that is slightly twisted like a skein of wool, and the two handles leave enough room for the winners to grip it tightly as they complete the lap of honor.
The winners have the right to make a copy, provided that it does not exceed four-fifths of the size of the original.
Article by Stefano Ghezzi – Sportpress24.com