{"id":745388,"date":"2026-08-21T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745388\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:52:08","slug":"why-are-shakhtar-playing-at-chelsea-stamford-bridge-to-host-exiled-ukrainian-sides-champions-league-home-games-sky-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/745388\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are Shakhtar playing at Chelsea? Stamford Bridge to host exiled Ukrainian side&#039;s Champions League home games &#8211; Sky Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi-AFBVV95cUxOZThBTHlLX0p6OU9OemhWLVBnRkdSVENHRUNMSjdnLXBjcnFyV1JfM2lzamxEOGJsS2FHd1V2a2J2TW96R3FGZENpZ1pfR01wbzBQa3ZldnVIRkMzd0NGaTE5bzdFUVk3STJMYmJ2Qjg5Y2taUHVCMHhuMTY2alhfVGpiVkpBVjBkQllNTWJIRHo2UzZVZFU3UFBZbTFZWHc2UG9jaWEyTGY4ck9HNjdsdHk3eEtWdGZRaVRrdlRMU0libkFveEpaeDhFMzByMUdlUFlBVGhLSmRkeVlGZy1pWHlZVDFBVnZEdVBIMl9TbFFkM0c0akR0Yg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Why are Shakhtar playing at Chelsea? Stamford Bridge to host exiled Ukrainian side&#8217;s Champions League home games<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky Sports<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi0wFBVV95cUxORGVpUnJOUmVwckktamZwZXBjRl9vRTZibGhVTmZ1YlNqSERUUWZ1UWhzM3RQdmtNSXBrU0N6NXZ2Zi1XSG1qRVVVMExYNzVvMHJrR1JCejBWWW1vMGFDMW5ZdW1lSVVudldYNFhwdlVVR29QVS1yZUJsWmNEcFlQR0R2VGQyRHZNQlc3ZVFRcGFZNjdYcXFoeFZ3dldiU1Z6QXFDMjNuSTBQSm9taDhKdXBIODdLUm5Dd2VZQzRnejZBZ2h4dnFFaEtHQTBMYVp2VkZJ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Konsa joins Arsenal; Shakhtar to play European home games at Chelsea: football news \u2013 as it happened<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiZ0FVX3lxTE9PdFBwRnJEdWszV0RmdDVGbmlXbVlBdFh4SjVPanpfN2QyUDI1Q1dpc1kxLWlUNlVSTHFXeW0xU2tyYWI5QkJmUk84MW1Pd3dMOFp6enU4UXVpV3E2a1RSRkUwUldDbTA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Champions League: Shakhtar Donetsk keen to play matches at Stamford Bridge<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitgFBVV95cUxPZ0Y5cUEzdlVuN0VHTWJXUTRRVGxYNDE5ekpfcTNLUzJPSzdvTXFwSlBBYVdXYlBjR1lvYWhFVmV0dWpjSkxObjc2d0tLMjRabm1oOTR1ME9lRUZrRzNEV0xwU2p3Q0p5bGNsM0RiY1VMbkxKVkhIclZNMy0yR3gtRDhTdktxNTF6Nms0ZE1OTl9IV1JvYm5rc1NWWXJrVk85WVBWTm5sVlBGbWZONHdzTmRXSE5VUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ukraine\u2019s Shakhtar to use ex-Russian-owned Chelsea as Champions League home<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Al Jazeera<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMitwFBVV95cUxPb2VWUnZSVUw4bHl3Wmw2NFZVZWxnRmdCVlNCaUhNY01uRnd5dHN5Z1k5SVRReXJUZExpaXRJTFg2bWFHNlljcTVBYUNxWG1CWGdXYTZVQk1EdXp4NVZ4MDk4dC1zdmcySHM0UzlZTUkxYUdtSzNNakp5OXV5ZEVsZzQ2RU9ydFZHQnRtQV80T1QwSFV5ZFhUdkFOd2JlWF9oZEI1dDBzM29ETGVOeGw2QWNwdXlDUWM?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FC Shakhtar Donetsk to play home Champions League games at Stamford Bridge for the 26\/27 season<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Chelsea Football Club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why are Shakhtar playing at Chelsea? Stamford Bridge to host exiled Ukrainian side&#8217;s Champions League home games&nbsp;&nbsp;Sky SportsKonsa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-745388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}