Today at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting held in Tallinn, the cities that will host the 2006 and 2007 Champions League finals were named, reports the official UEFA website. The decisive match of the most prestigious European club tournament of the 2005/06 season will take place in Paris, and in 2007 - in Athens. In addition, the venues for the two upcoming UEFA Cup finals have been determined - they are Eindhoven (2006) and Glasgow (2007).
Decisions were also made regarding a possible change to the format of the Euro 2008 qualifying stage. It was decided that all European national teams will be divided into seven groups, with the winners of the first two places in each group receiving tickets to the final tournament, which will be hosted by Austria and Switzerland. Thus, there will no longer be playoff matches in the qualifying tournament. Two host teams will join the fourteen qualification winners in the final tournament.