UEFA will take the 2022 Champions League final away from St Petersburg following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The decision will be made at Friday’s emergency meeting of European football’s governing body.
Russian president Vladimir Putin launched a “special military operation” in “breakaway regions” of neighbouring Ukraine on Thursday.
World football’s governing body FIFA is to meet on Thursday with Russia and Ukraine both scheduled to play in World Cup play-off matches in March.
Russia are due to play Poland on 24 March, while Scotland host Ukraine on the same day.
Ukraine’s domestic football league was set to resume this weekend after a winter break but that will remain suspended. Fifteen of the most recent 23-man Ukraine squad play in their homeland.
The Champions League final was set to be played at the Gazprom Arena in St Petersburg on 28 May but UEFA has known an escalation in the situation between Russia and Ukraine would make it impossible to stage the match.
Overnight developments have made that certain and UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has called an emergency executive committee meeting for Friday when the decision will be rubber stamped.
UEFA is in the process of evaluating alternatives but is now committed to changing the venue of its most prestigious club game at short notice for the third year running.
Meanwhile, Zenit St Petersburg’s game on Thursday will go ahead, UEFA has confirmed.
They face Spanish side Real Betis away in the Europa League at 20:00 GMT.
