With Galway not seeking to host the final stage, that honour has gone to the Swedish city of Gothenburg.
Gothenburg is Sweden's second largest city, Scandinavia's largest port and has a well earned reputation for hosting major sporting events. This will be the third time Gothenburg has hosted the Volvo Ocean Race and the second time it has staged the finale.
Gothenburg, on the west coast of Sweden, is the fifth Host Port on the 2014-15 route to be revealed so far.
Others include the city of Auckland in New Zealand (named the City of Sails for its affinity with the sea), which is host port to the main Southern Ocean leg, sending the teams on their way around Cape Horn and on to the two host ports of Recife and Itajai in Brazil.
Auckland is a world renowned sailing capital, and returned to the race route for the first time in 10 years in 2011-12.
The rest of the route will be revealed over the coming weeks.
