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FA Cup final confirmed for Millennium Stadium

Wembley Stadium will not host this season's FA Cup final
Wembley Stadium will not host this season's FA Cup final

This year's FA Cup final has been moved to Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, the company building the new Wembley Stadium have confirmed.

In a statement to the Australian stock exchange, Multiplex said the Football Association wanted "100% certainty" the stadium would be ready by 13 May, which they were unable to give them.

England's World Cup warm-ups against Hungary on May 30 and Jamaica on June 3 will be moved to Old Trafford, while the Football League's end-of-season play-off finals are also now expected to take place in Cardiff.

The decision was made after FA chief executive Brian Barwick visited the new stadium's site yesterday.

The original completion date for the stadium had been autumn 2005, with the deadline first extended to the end of January and then the end of March.

Multiplex warned in January that there was only a 70% chance of the 90,000-seat stadium being ready to stage the FA Cup final.

Multiplex will be penalised £1million a week for over-running the deadline.

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