Olympic bid rivals London and Paris are also going head to head for the right to host the 2007 Champions League final.

The Football Association are bidding to stage the final at the new Wembley stadium at the end of its first full season in operation, but the Stade de France is also being put up by the French Federation as a possible venue.

Both Wembley and the Stade de France are key components of the bids by London and Paris for the 2012 Olympics.

UEFA's executive committee will make a decision on the venues for the finals of the UEFA Cup and Champions League in 2006 and 2007 at their meeting in Tallinn, Estonia next week.

Paris have applied for either year and Wembley for 2007 but there are other contenders too: Athens (2006 or 2007), Luzhniki, Moscow (2006), and the Olympiastadion, Berlin (2007).

The Scottish FA hope fond memories of the 2002 final at Hampden Park when Zinedine Zidane's volley won the European Cup for Real Madrid will persuade European football's governing body to award them the UEFA Cup final at the same venue for 2006 or 2007. They are up against Karaiskaki, Athens (2006 or 2007), Philips Stadium, Eindhoven (2006 or 2007) and Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan, Seville (2006).

Next week's UEFA Congress will see the 52 member associations of the governing body asked to apply their new rules on 'homegrown' players - although there will be no obligation for domestic leagues to adopt the same regulations.

Under the new rules for European club tournaments squad sizes will be limited to 25 players and from season 2006/07, at least two will have to have been trained by a club's own academy with a further two places for players trained by other clubs within the same association.

This will rise to four club-trained and four association-trained players by the 2008/09 season.

UEFA said in a statement: ''UEFA is concerned that some clubs are not training enough of their own players, but simply taking them from elsewhere.

''The proposed measures have the objective of creating a better balance in domestic competitions, preventing clubs from simply hoarding players in squads and creating a system whereby locally-trained players would be given a greater opportunity to play regularly in club sides - ensuring a large reservoir of talent for national teams.''