One-off in Budapest - UEFA Supercup 2020

 24 September 2020

Bayern München vs. Real Madrid (in Budapest)

Champions League winners Bayern München will arrive in Budapest with Lufthansa on a Lufthansa Airbus A319. They will not return to Munich however, but to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden. Their next away game will be at Sinsheim, against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. Still, this seems slightly surprising, as Bayern are well known to have used widebody aircraft of Lufthansa for similar trips.

LH2570 MUC 1100-1210 BUD A319 (23/09/20)

LH2571 BUD 1530-1710 FKB A319 (25/09/20)

The Europa League winners as so often are Sevilla CF, arriving to Budapest with Privilege Style, also as so often:

PVG1890 SVQ 1400-xxxx BUD  (22/09/20)

Spanish Supercopa, 8-12 January 2020

Spanish Supercopa 2020

In an unprecedented event, the Spanish Supercopa will now not only feature four teams instead of just the La Liga champions and the winners of the Copa del Rey. It will also take place in Saudi Arabia for the first time, though previous editions have been played in Morocco as well, much to the dismay of notably a lot of the players involved. Adding extra games with extra travel does not seem to be in their favour, but after all, this is part of what they get paid for.

The semifinal line-up is as follows:

Wednesday 8 January 2020

Valencia CF vs. Real Madrid

Thursday 9 January 2020

FC Barcelona vs. Atlético de Madrid

And the teams travel like this:

Real Madrid

IB2800 MAD 0940-xxxx JED A359 EC-NCX (07/01/20)

IB2801 JED xxxx-1530 MAD A359 (13/01/20)

Atlético Madrid

HFM1903 MAD 1230-xxxx JED A388 9H-MIP (07/01/20)

HFM2003 JED xxxx-1615 MAD A388 9H-MIP (10/01/20)
HFM2003 JED xxxx-0500 MAD A388 9H-MIP (13/01/20)

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HiFly Malta Airbus A380 9H-MIP seen at Paris Airshow 2019

FC Barcelona

SV7472 JED xxxx-1130 BCN B77W HZ-AK21 (07/01/20, ferry flt)
SV7472 BCN 1300-xxxx JED B77W HZ-AK21 (07/01/20)
SV7473 JED xxxx-1445 BCN B77W HZ-AK21 (10/01/20)

Saudia B777-300/ER HZ-AK20 seen at London-Heathrow in July 2014

Valencia CF

AXY*** VLC xxxx-xxxx JED A343 9H-BIG (06/01/20)

Extra flights:

EK2515 JED 1015-1530 MAD A388 A6-EVK (05/01/20, ferry flt)

EK2516 MAD 1725-0040(+1) JED A388 A6-EVK (06/01/20)

EK2515 JED xxxx-1400 MAD A388 (09/01/20)

EK2515 JED xxxx-0450 MAD A388 (13/01/20)

Additional information is of course always welcome, particularly for the part about Valencia CF. This post should get regular updates in the next few days as well.

Update: It appears that Valencia CF were using A340-300 9H-BIG.

Italian Supercoppa, 16 January 2019

16 January 2019

Juventus vs. AC Milan (in Jeddah)

The Italian Serie A had the great idea to take the Italian Super Cup to Saudi Arabia, after ventures to other venues like China and Qatar before. While the Italian public was obviously snubbed once again, at least there were some fancy travel options to be seen, with Boeing 767-300/ER ZS-NEX for Juventus and Airbus A340-300 9H-BIG for Milan:

ARN239 JED xxxx-0420 TRN B763 ZS-NEX (17/01/19)
AXY1720 JED 0120-0530 MXP A343 9H-BIG (17/01/19)

UEFA Supercup 2018, 15 August 2018

15 August 2018

Real Madrid vs. Atletico Madrid (in Tallinn)

UX1903 MAD 1515-2015 TLL B738 (13/08/18)

IB2800 MAD 1630-2130 TLL A346 (13/08/18)

UX925 MAD 0845-xxxx TLL B738 (15/08/18)

PEV651 MAD 0900-xxxx TLL E170 (15/08/18)

IB2802 MAD 1100-xxxx TLL (15/08/18)

IB2801 TLL xxxx-0420 MAD (16/08/18)

UX2003 TLL xxxx-0455 MAD (16/08/18)

UX926 TLL xxxx-0455 MAD (16/08/18)

PEV652 TLL xxxx-1400 MAD E170 (16/08/18)