The 2022 UEFA Super Cup will be the 47th edition of the UEFA Super Cup, an annual football match organised by UEFA, here are the details.
2022 UEFA Super Cup : Teams, Venue, Schedule
The match will feature Spanish club Real Madrid, winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League, and German club Eintracht Frankfurt, winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League.
| Date | 10 August 2022 |
|---|---|
| Venue | Olympic Stadium, Helsinki |
It will be played at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland on 10 August 2022.
The match is also a repetition of the 1960 European Cup Final between both clubs, which Real Madrid won 7–3.
Alfredo di Stéfano scored three and Ferenc Puskás four for the winners, though Richard Kress briefly put Frankfurt in front and Erwin Stein struck twice for the German side in the second half.
Celtic great Jimmy Johnstone watched the match and remembered: “It was like a fantasy staged in heaven. I had never seen football like it, nor would I ever again. I’ll recite the names of that Madrid forward line till the day I die.”
2022 UEFA Super Cup Teams
UEFA Champions League winners Real Madrid will meet UEFA Europa League winners Eintracht Frankfurt in the traditional curtain-raiser to the new European season.
| Teams | Qualification |
Previous participations (bold indicates winners) |
|---|---|---|
| Real Madrid | Winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League |
7 (1998, 2000, 2002, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018) |
| Eintracht Frankfurt | Winners of the 2021–22 UEFA Europa League | None |
It will be the sides’ first competitive meeting since the sensational 1960 European Cup final, when Real Madrid won the competition for the fifth time in a row, beating Frankfurt 7-3 at Hampden Park in Glasgow.
This will be Frankfurt’s first UEFA Super Cup appearance; when they won the UEFA Cup in 1980, it was the European Cup Winners’ Cup holders who took on the European Cup winners for the Super Cup.
Real Madrid are making their eighth appearance in the Super Cup, having qualified as European champions on every occasion.
2022 UEFA Super Cup Venue
The 2022 UEFA Super Cup will be played at the at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. The match will be the first UEFA club competition final to be held in Finland, though it previously staged the final of the 2009 UEFA Women’s EURO.
This venue will be the tenth to stage the UEFA Super Cup since the fixture switched from its long-term home of Monaco, after Prague (2013), Cardiff (2014), Tbilisi (2015), Trondheim (2016), Skopje (2017), Tallinn (2018), Istanbul (2019), Budapest (2020) and Belfast (2021).
As the name suggests, the stadium was built to host the Olympics that eventually took place in 1952 and underwent major renovations from 2016 to 2020. Its distinct tower stands at 72.71m – the distance thrown by gold-medal winning Matti Järvinen in the javelin at the 1932 Olympics.
Schedule
The match will be played on Wednesday, August 10th, with kick off at 21:00 CEST. In the UK, that is 20:00 BST.
| Date | 10 August 2022 |
|---|---|
| Venue | Olympic Stadium, Helsinki |
The game is taking place at the same time of year as last season, even though some leagues are starting earlier in 2022 due to the winter World Cup.