TheEuro2020has been the 16thUEFA European Championship.It takes place every four yearsand isorganized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). Thesoccercompetition was originally scheduled forJune 12toJuly 12, 2020. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournamentwas delayed for a wholeyear and has begunonJune 11and will end onJuly 11, 2021.
TheWembley Stadium in London has beenthe host cityfor the Semi-Finals and the Finalsince it has thehighest capacity of all of the stadiums. The Stadio Olimpico in Rome was the opening venue. The tournament was originally meant to have 13 host venues, but two of them werelater removed – Brussels, and Dublin.
As a result, it has beenheld in11 cities in 11 differentcountries:Amsterdam, Baku, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Glasgow, London, Munich, Rome, Seville, and Saint Petersburg. GermanyandSpainare the tournament’s most successful teams, having won it three times each.
UEFA Euro: Year and host for the next edition
A general view of the Allianz Arena in Munich. (Getty)
This will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial European Men’s Soccer Championship in Europe, organized by the UEFA, and is known generally as the UEFA Euro 2024or just Euro 2024. The tournament will take place from June 14 to July 14, 2024, in Germany. For the third time on the German territory and for the second time in reunified Germany, the European Championship games will be held. The event was hosted by former West Germany in 1988, and in addition, four multi-national Euro 2020 matches were played in Munich.
It would nevertheless be the first time that the competition isconducted in former East Germanywith Leipzigserving as the host city. Germany was able to choose a broad selection of stadiums to meet UEFA’s 30.000 seat minimum capacity criteria. Nine townswere chosen to compete: Berlin,Dortmund,Munich,Cologne,Stuttgart,Hamburg,Leipzig,Frankfurt, andGelsenkirchen.Dusseldorf will serve as a tenth host city, butHanover, Nuremberg, and Kaiserslautern will not be used for this championship.
Several other stadiums, including those in Bremen and Monchengladbach, were not chosen. The venues spanned all of Germany’s major regions, although the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia had the most venues for UEFA Euro 2024, with four of the ten host cities (Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, and Cologne).
