The UEFA Women’s Champions League final will become an "unmissable event when it separates from the men’s contest next year," UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin said ahead of this week’s "showpiece" in Kiev between VfL Wolfsburg and Olympique Lyonnais, according to Christian Radnedge of REUTERS. The two titans of women’s football will meet on Thursday, two days before Liverpool takes on Real Madrid in the men’s edition in the Ukrainian capital. However, it will be the last time the two matches take place together, "with next year’s women’s final in Budapest while the men’s version will be held in Madrid." Ceferin was confident that the club competition "could emulate the success of last year’s Women’s European Championship hosted in the Netherlands." He said, "The potential for women’s football is limitless and it is with this in mind that we decided to separate the two UEFA Champions League events. That will give the women’s game a platform of its own, to continue to grow and to become an unmissable event and television spectacle in its own right" (REUTERS, 5/23).
