The 2011 UEFA Champions League Final will be the final match of the 2010-11 UEFA Champions League the 56th season of the UEFA Champions League football tournament, and the 19th in the Champions League era. The match will be played on 28 May 2011 at Wembley Stadium in London, which will be hosting a record sixth European Cup final after the 1963, 1968, 1971, 1978 and 1992 finals. The winners will play against the winners of the 2011 UEFA Europa League Final in the 2011 UEFA Super Cup, and also enter the semi-finals of the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup.

Wembley Stadium has hosted five European Cup finals prior to 2011. The 1968 and 1978 finals were both won by English sides: Manchester United beat S.L. Benfica 4-1 in 1968 and Liverpool beat Club Brugge 1-0 in 1978. Benfica also lost in the 1963 final, beaten 2-1 by Milan, while Ajax won the first of three consecutive European Cups at Wembley in 1971, beating Panathinaikos 2-0.

The stadium was first opened for the British Empire Exhibition in 1923, when it was known as the Empire Stadium. That year, the stadium hosted its first FA Cup Final, when almost 200,000 spectators attempted to watch the match between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United. Wembley played host to all of England's matches at the 1966 FIFA World Cup, including the 4-2 victory over West Germany in the final, and at UEFA Euro 1996.

The original stadium was closed in 2000 and demolished three years later, to be replaced by a 90,000-capacity arena, which opened in 2007.

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