Everything you need to know about Euro 2020

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has postponed the Euro 2020 soccer tournament to June 2021 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. UEFA's decision to adopt the new euro system was to celebrate the 60th anniversary of organizing the competition in 2020 in a way that will make the whole continent live in celebration, and the next Euro version will be the second in which 24 teams will participate.

The upcoming European Nations Cup will not witness any qualification for any team without competing in the qualifiers, as it was known that the owner of the land automatically participates in the tournament, but with the multiplicity of countries and cities hosting the competition, it will be difficult to grant every country participating in this collective hosting the right to participate automatically.

 

Having the largest capacity of any of the stadiums entered for the competition, Wembley Stadium in London is scheduled to host the semi-finals and final for the second time, having done so before at the 1996 tournament in the stadium's former incarnation. The Stadio Olimpico in Rome was chosen to host the opening game, involving Turkey and hosts Italy. Originally to be played at 13 venues, two hosts were later removed: Brussels in December 2017 due to delays with the building of the Eurostadium, and Dublin in April 2021 as there was no guarantee for spectators to attend. Spain also changed their host city from Bilbao to Seville to allow an audience at matches.