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FAW to defer bid to host Champions League final

Juventus and Real Madrid players line up at Cardiff's Principality Stadium for the 2017 Champions League finalGetty Images

Cardiff's Principality Stadium, pictured before the 2017 Champions League final, is the home of Wales' national rugby teams

Dafydd Pritchard
BBC Sport Wales

The Football Association of Wales (FAW) has deferred its bid to host the 2027 Uefa Women's Champions League final to a later date.

The FAW remains committed to staging the game at Cardiff's Principality Stadium, which hosted the men's Champions League final in 2017.

But following talks with the Welsh Government and Cardiff Council, the FAW has taken the t decision to focus its efforts on 2028 or 2029.

Uefa's executive committee will meet in Bilbao, Spain, on Wednesday morning, before Manchester United face Tottenham Hotspur in the Europa League final at the Basque city's San Mames Stadium that evening.

But European football's governing body has postponed its appointment of hosts for the 2027 men's and women's Champions League finals until the executive committee's meeting in September "for operational reasons".

Last October, the FAW was one of four national governing bodies to express an interest in hosting the women's final, along with those of Poland, Spain and Switzerland.

Warsaw's Stadion Narodowy is understood to be the favourite, with Barcelona's Nou Camp and St Jakob-Park in Basel also in the running.

Wales has hosted the Women's Champions League final once before, with Lyon beating Paris Saint-Germain on penalties at Cardiff City Stadium in 2017.

Wales will also be one of the host nations for the 2035 Women's World Cup, alongside England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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