The Europa League final is the penultimate club game of the season before attention switches to the postponed European Championship in June.
As is the case in the Champions League, two Premier League sides are still in the competition in the form of 2016-17 winners Manchester United and 2018-19 runners-up Arsenal.
Standing in United’s way of a place in the final is Roma, who despite enduring a difficult domestic season in Serie A, have been impressive in this competition, eliminating Ajax in the quarter-final stage.
Arsenal, meanwhile, go up against a couple of familiar faces in their semi-final clash against Villarreal, in the form of French midfielder Francis Coquelin and ex-manager Unai Emery.
The final will be held in Gdansk, Poland which was scheduled to host the 2019-20 final won by Sevilla, before Uefa moved all Europa League matches to Germany due to the pandemic.
Europa League final – date, time and other key info
Date: Wednesday 26 May
Kick-off time: 8pm (BST)
Venue: Gdansk Stadium, Poland
TV: BT Sport
Stream details: The final can be streamed on the BT Sport app, website or YouTube channel
Europa League odds
Manchester United began the campaign with ambitions of reaching the latter stages of the Champions League before being bumped out of that competition by PSG and RB Leipzig.
Nevertheless, the Europa League offers Ole Gunnar Solskjaer a golden opportunity to claim his first piece of silverware as United’s manager, to go alongside his 12 honours as a player.
Arsenal are regarded as the second favourites to win the competition after emphatically disposing of Slavia Prague in the last eight.
- Manchester United – Evens
- Arsenal – 11-4
- Villarreal – 4-1
- Roma – 6-1
*Odds via Oddschecker
Will fans attend the final?
Uefa is hopeful that up to 10,000 fans will be able to attend the game, which is just under 25 per cent of the stadium’s overall capacity of 41,000.
On Thursday, the Polish government announced that as of Saturday 15 May, stadiums in Poland would be able to have a 25 per cent capacity due to falling numbers of Covid-19 cases across the country.
There could be 1,900 tickets made available for supporters of each club, although it is unclear whether that allocation will be taken up due to current travel restrictions around Europe.
Foreign travel is not permitted from the UK until Wednesday 19 May at the earliest, a week before the final is due to commence.
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