Part of the matches scheduled for Dublin will take place at Gazprom Arena in St. Petersburg. – Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP
UEFA excluded Bilbao and Dublin from the host cities of the Euro this summer on Friday for lack of guarantees on the reception of spectators, reallocating the matches scheduled in the Basque Country to Seville and sharing those in Dublin between Saint Petersburg and London .
Already postponed by a year due to the pandemic, the tournament will finally take place in eleven cities across eleven countries: Munich, in the hot seat, has been confirmed and will welcome the Germany-France shock on June 15, while it There was no longer any doubt about Baku, Rome, Bucharest, Glasgow, Copenhagen, Budapest and Amsterdam.
UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin was delighted to be able to “guarantee a safe and festive environment”, with spectators “at all matches”, a requirement posed by the body in March despite the health crisis.
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“Today, we are going on 50% [de spectateurs]. This is the limit confirmed by UEFA. If there is the possibility of changing, it will be an increase ”, underlined Friday in the newspaper. Sport-Express the president of the Russian organizing committee, Alexeï Sorokine. For its part, London will resume the round of 16 scheduled in Dublin, which will therefore be added to the seven meetings that the British capital was to host in the legendary Wembley stadium, including the semi-finals and the final.
Not provided for in the initial organization, Seville had for several days been the preferred solution for the Spanish federation to resume the four meetings scheduled in Bilbao, excluded Wednesday by UEFA for having set too drastic sanitary conditions for the reception of the public. Faced with this “unilateral” decision, the Basque organizers have indicated that they plan to take legal action to recover the expenses of 1.2 million euros already incurred.