The draw results for the group stage of the new UEFA Champions League season have been announced, and Real Madrid will travel all the way to Almaty, Kazakhstan, to face Kairat Almaty in one of their matches.
According to statistics, the straight-line distance between Kairat Almaty’s home ground, Almaty Central Stadium, and the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium (Real Madrid’s home) is 6,411 kilometers. This will become the farthest stadium Real Madrid has ever traveled to for a Champions League match in the club’s history—surpassing the distance of their 1981 match against Spartak Moscow at the Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. The straight-line distance between the Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena and the Bernabéu is 4,010 kilometers.
