London & Munich to Contest for Euro 2020 Final Hosting Duties

April 28, 2014

London and Munich are the only two cities which submitted applications for the semi-final and final packages for Euro 2020.

By deadline day, medicine UEFA had received final bid dossiers to host the UEFA EURO 2020 from 19 member associations representing 19 candidate cities, diagnosis including Cardiff and Glasgow, clinic as well as Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin and Rome, amongst others, but only two for the semi finals and final package : Wembley in London and the Allianz Arena, in Munich.

Thirty-two member associations had expressed an interest in hosting the tournament by the first deadline of 12 September 2013 and were thus provided with the detailed bid requirements to allow them to prepare their dossiers for the subsequent phase of the process.

The EURO 2020 final tournament will be staged in 13 cities across Europe, following a decision taken by the UEFA Executive Committee in January 2013.

Commenting on the bidding process, UEFA President Michel Platini (pictured) said: “We are extremely happy to have received so many bids to host UEFA EURO 2020. The 60th year anniversary edition of the tournament will be an historic one, with matches played in many European countries.” 

France and the state de Gerland in Lyon withdrew their bid, as the country is hosting euro 2016 and the Turkish FA did not want to bid for the continent wide tournament as they want to focus on hosting the 2024 event. {jcomments on}