The 2019 Champions League final will be held in Baku or at Atlético Madrid’s new stadium after both submitted bids to stage the biggest club game in football.

Hampden Park was also put forward to stage that year’s Europa League final and also the Super Cup – which Belfast wants to host – as part of Uefa’s new procedure for awarding its major finals.

No European final has never been staged as far east as Azerbaijan, which has a land border with Iran and whose government has been accused of human rights abuses.

However, Baku’s 68,700-capacity Olympic Stadium already been awarded group stage matches and a quarter-final of the continent-wide 2020 European Championship.

Atlético’s new home, the Wanda Metropolitano, will hold 67,000 when it opens at the start of next season.

The four previous European Cup finals to be staged in Madrid were all held at Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu, most recently in 2010.

Baku was also one of seven cities to bid for the Europa League final, along with Glasgow, Seville (Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuan), Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Istanbul (Besiktas Arena) and Tblisi.