By Samindra Kunti
April 8 – UEFA’s deadline for host cities to confirm minimum guarantees over fan attendance and seating capacities at this summer’s Euro 2020 lapsed yesterday (Wednesday), with Dublin and Bilbao now expected to drop out from staging any matches.
April 7 – Italy’s government has decided that Rome’s Olympic stadium can admit a limited number of fans for European Championship matches this summer, a welcome boost to UEFA amid concerns some venues may not be ready.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 1 – With a view to having as many fans as possible at this summer’s delayed European Championship finals, UEFA has scrapped its own ceiling on stadium capacity for fixtures that come under its jurisdiction.
March 25 – At least 12,000 fans will be allowed to attend Euro 2020 matches this summer in Copenhagen, the Danish government has announced.
March 19 – Munich mayor Dieter Reiter has cast a shadow over the Allianz Arena welcoming fans at Euro 2020 this summer.
February 22 – UEFA has announced that Qatar Airways as the official airline of this summer’s Euro 2020 tournament.
January 29 – Increasingly concerned about how to manage next summer’s delayed Euro 2020, UEFA has brought in a leading expert in communicable diseases to help with the procedure of somehow letting fans into the 12 stadiums being used for the pan-European tournament.
January 20 – UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, who has been wrestling with how to successfully and safely put on Euro 2020 ever since it was delayed by a year because of Covid-19, is now considering staging it in a single country, according to Bayern Munich boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
By Samindra Kunti
January 15 – European governing body UEFA has been caught in a storm over Euro 2020 ticketing. In the new terms and conditions, ticket holders have only until January 26 to cancel tickets for the continental finals which were postponed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 13 – Elation for some, heartbreak for others. The race for places at next year’s delayed Euro 2020 reached feverish excitement Thursday night as the final four spots were decided.
November 3 – UEFA is considering Russia as the sole host for Euro 2020 according to French newspaper Le Parisien. The governing body have not confirmed the report.
June 11 – Amsterdam will remain a host city for next year’s Euro 2020 after its hosting credentials were questioned over the tournament’s postponement.
May 19 – UEFA has postponed a key executive committee meeting until June 17 as it grapples with how the remainder of this season’s Champions League and Europa League campaigns will pan out.
December 2 – Almost every World Cup or European Championship has a proverbial “group of death,” and Saturday’s draw for next summer’s Euro 2020 threw up one of the most mouth-watering of recent years.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 26 – Russia’s staging of four matches at Euro 2020 is reported to be under threat after a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) committee recommended the country be banned from hosting sports events for four years.