{"id":1438,"date":"2026-03-27T11:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:58:33","slug":"champions-league-semi-final-dates-confirmed-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"Champions League semi-final dates confirmed | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The dates for the UEFA Champions League semi-final have been announced, should we get past Sporting CP in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Should we emerge triumphant against the Portuguese champions, we will face either FC Barcelona or Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid in the final four.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-final first leg will take place in Spain on Wednesday, April 29, at 8pm (UK time), with the return fixture at Emirates Stadium on Tuesday, May 5, also at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>We head to Lisbon for the first leg of the quarter-final on Tuesday, April 7, following our FA Cup clash against Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>The second leg will then be back in N5 on Wednesday, April 15, at 8pm (UK time).<\/p>\n<p>The Champions League final will take place on Saturday, May 30, in Budapest, Hungary, at 5pm (UK time).<\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"b9faf30f-a9b8-4509-849d-513deb9f0f1b\" data-embed-button=\"article_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:node.tiny\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<article data-article-id=\"125744\" about=\"https:\/\/www.arsenal.com\/tickets\/arsenal\/2026-Apr-07\/sporting-clube-de-portugal\">\n<div class=\"article-card article-card--tiny card\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 200, small: 550, medium: 640, large: 768\">\n<div class=\"card__content\">\n<p>\n         <span class=\"h6 article-card__subhead\">Read more<\/span>                             <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-card__title\" title=\"Ticket info: Sporting CP v Arsenal\"><span class=\"article-card__title-words\">  Ticket info: Sporting CP v Arsenal <\/span><br \/>\n          <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dates for the UEFA Champions League semi-final have been announced, should we get past Sporting CP in the quarter-finals. Should we emerge triumphant against the Portuguese champions, we will &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipsport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}