Understand
The three-week window
The host city is known a year out; the teams are not. Hotels and aircraft need holding before the semi-finals, then confirming after.

Jun 1970 · Europe
One match, a different European city each year, and the two teams unknown until three weeks before. Everything is arranged against a moving target, which is precisely why it is worth arranging properly.
Understand
The host city is known a year out; the teams are not. Hotels and aircraft need holding before the semi-finals, then confirming after.
Move
Final-day arrivals into a host city are the single most common way a good plan comes apart. Airspace and roads both tighten.
Go
The final rotates through cities worth two days on their own. Treat the match as the reason to be there rather than the whole of it.
Dates, tiers and price come back together, and only once the route is confirmed. Nothing here is held until you ask for it.
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