England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Republic of Ireland, which are all UEFA member federations and are close to each other, had been the favorites to win the event bid for a long time.
The European football title will be held in the UK and Ireland in 2028. In 2032, it will be held in Italy and Turkey together.
On Tuesday in Switzerland, UEFA made the decision. Italy and Turkey, two former rival bidders, officially joined forces under one joint bid in the summer.
That deal took Turkey out of the Euro 2028 Tournament. For a long time, the team made up of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Republic of Ireland, all of which are UEFA member states and are close to each other, was seen as the favorite to win.
The 2028 bid plan includes six stadiums in England. Aston Villa, Manchester City, Newcastle, Tottenham, and Everton, who are constructing a new home in Liverpool’s docks, are among the clubs that use the other five in addition to Wembley Stadium.
There will be games at the national venues of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, as well as a planned new stadium in Belfast that will be built on the empty Casement Park.
Euro 2024 will be held in Germany, which is becoming a more and more rare case in modern soccer of a single host country.
UEFA wants the Euros of 2024 and 2028 to be very profitable events that bring in at least €2 billion each time. UEFA wants to get its cash stocks back up to over €500 million after they were used up during the pandemic.
Turkey will finally be able to host a match
Following several failed bids, including one vote against France for the Euro 2016 event, Turkey will finally get to host a European Championship.
Even though Italy was having trouble finishing a huge project to build and improve the stadiums needed for a 24-team, 51-game event, Turkey was also likely to lose any vote for 2032.
Even though UEFA’s own bid rules say that only member federations that are close to each other can suggest co-hosting, the organization will be more stable if Italy and Turkey each have to provide only five stadiums.
The Mediterranean Sea and the Aegean Sea split Rome and Istanbul by about 1,400 kilometers. It takes more than two hours to fly between the two cities.
These UEFA picks aren’t even the most dispersed and hard to get to for a major soccer game this month.
FIFA chose last week that the 2030 World Cup will be held in six different countries on three different continents.
A European-led bid that began with Spain and Portugal and then added Morocco now includes Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, which hosted the first World Cup in 1930.
In 2017, Ukraine was a part of that project, but it was canceled without any public notice.
The 2030 bidding deal sped up the process of starting the 2034 bidding process, which was only open to member federations from Asia and Oceania. Saudi Arabia is clearly the favorite to win this competition.
