• 2015 will be first European final in German capital • Olympiastadion hosted 1936 Olympic Games

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Berlin will stage the Champions League final for the first time in 2015 and Warsaw will be the venue for the Europa League final, Uefa announced on Thursday.

"Two beautiful venues for our finals for 2015," the Uefa's general-secretary, Gianni Infantino, told a news conference.

The timing could not have been better as far as Germany is concerned, with an all-German Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund at Wembley on Saturday.

The 2015 match, at Berlin's Olympic Stadium – or Olympiastadion – will be the first European final in the German capital, which hosted the Olympic Games in 1936 and the 2006 World Cup final.

Two German cities have previously hosted the Champions League final: Munich did it three times in 1993, 1997 and 2012 and Gelsenkirchen staged the 2004 final.

Dortmund and Hamburg have hosted the Uefa Cup – now the Europa League – final since it became a single match in 1998.

Poland, which co-hosted Euro 2012 with Ukraine, has never staged a major European final, but Warsaw's refurbished National Stadium hosted the opening match of last year's European Championship between Poland and Greece.

It also hosted the semi-final in which Italy beat Germany 2-1.

Last year Uefa awarded the 2014 Champions League final to Lisbon and the Europa League final to Turin.