UEFA Euro 2020 bids

The bidding process for the UEFA Euro 2020 is the process by which the location for the 16th European Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2020, was selected. The process officially began on 21 March 2012 with the intent to announce the hosts in late 2013 or early 2014. Despite interest from Turkey, a joint bid from Scotland, the Republic of Ireland and Wales and a proposal from Georgia and Azerbaijan, UEFA announced on 6 December 2012 that it had made the unprecedented decision to host the tournament in multiple cities across Europe.

Background

Euro 2020 will be the second tournament to involve 24 nations, following UEFA Euro 2016 four years previously.

Initial bidding process

It was initially envisaged that the tournament would be contained within one, two or three countries. In the case of multiple countries hosting the tournament, these countries would have to share a border. Assuming no changes from the Euro 2016 bidding process, the basic hosting requirements were to be as follows:[1]

Schedule

On 21 March 2012, UEFA announced that the bidding process would be as set out below in the event that more than one expression of interest in bidding was received by UEFA before 15 May 2012.[2] Without a second bid, UEFA stated that the hosts would be confirmed on 15 May, subject to the confederation receiving the necessary guarantees. On 16 May 2012, UEFA announced that, because more than one national association had submitted their interest, it would begin its formal selection process and would allow any of the 54 national federations to bid, even if they chose not to declare an interest prior to the deadline. The timeline for the rest of the procedure was announced by UEFA on 30 June 2012.[3]

Phase Date Notes
First 21 March 2012 Declarations of interest formally invited[2]
15 May 2012 Last date to submit a "letter of intent" to UEFA[2]
Second 30 June 2012 UEFA to announce timeline for the rest of the bid process[3]
July / December 2012 UEFA will hold discussions with all national associations[3]
6 December 2012 Decision that Euro 2020 will be spread across the European continent[4]
28 March 2013 Approval of the bidding requirements and bid regulations
April 2013 Publication of the bid requirements and launch of the bidding phase
September 2013 Formal confirmation of their bid by the candidates
April/May 2014 Submission of bid dossiers and start of the evaluation phase
September 2014 Appointment of the host cities by the UEFA Executive Committee

Expressions of interest

Turkey, a joint Scottish, Irish and Welsh bid and an Azerbaijani-Georgian bid all formally confirmed their interest in hosting Euro 2020 with UEFA in the spring of 2012.[5][6] The deadline for declarations of interest was at midnight on 15 May 2012, but UEFA announced that further bids were welcome on 16 May.[3][7]

By and large, this was seen as a disappointing group of hosts to select from, especially as favourite for the bid Turkey favoured a bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics in its largest city Istanbul, held in the same year and seen as an obstacle to the hosting of Euro 2020.[8] UEFA President Michel Platini was previously reported to have promised the tournament to Turkey.[9]

The Celtic (Scotland, Republic of Ireland and Wales) bid was a late bid that arose after the lack of interest throughout the rest of Europe, Turkey aside.[6][10]

The Azerbaijani-Georgian coalition was doubted by some due to Azerbaijan's preference for a successful Baku bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[11] On 15 May 2012, hours after the announcement of the three-way Irish, Scottish and Welsh bid, Georgian Sports Minister Vladimir Vardzelashvili announced his country's intention to declare an interest in hosting Euro 2020 alone.[12] Nine days later, however, Azerbaijan notified UEFA that they planned to join forces with Georgia in a bid for Euro 2020 after Baku failed to make the IOC's shortlist as a contender to bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.[13]

Several other nations made a less committed effort to the host the tournament, but never announced a firm interest. Among these were Belgium, a joint Bosnia and Herzegovina–Croatia–Serbia bid, a proposal from Romania alongside either Bulgaria or Hungary and sole bids from Germany and the Netherlands.[14][15][16][17][18][19]

Change to pan-European tournament format

On 30 June 2012, at a press conference a day before the UEFA Euro 2012 Final, UEFA President Michel Platini suggested that instead of having one host country (or joint hosting by multiple countries), Euro 2020 may be spread over "12 or 13 cities" across the continent.[4] A similar system is in use for its male and female under-age competitions. On 6 December 2012, UEFA announced that the 2020 championships would be held in multiple cities all over Europe to mark 60 years of the tournament's existence.[20][21] Platini reasoned that this was the logical decision at a time of financial difficulty across Europe.[22]

Schedule of process

Venue selection

On 25 January 2013, the UEFA Executive Committee approved the principles of venue selection:[25][26]

In May 2013, UEFA President Michel Platini announced that his personal priority was to have the competition hosted at venues that have never hosted European Championship matches before.[28]

Expressions of interest

The deadline for expressions of interest was 12 September 2013.[24] On 20 September, UEFA confirmed expressions of interest from 32 football associations to act as host cities.[29][30] Of the FAs which have applied to host EURO 2020, 19 associations have not previously hosted the final stages of tournament, (labeled with *). Whilst neither Croatia or Serbia have hosted an international football tournament as independent countries, the Serbian and Croatian capitals both hosted finals matches for Euro 1972 as part of then Yugoslavia.

Expressed interest in bidding for Finals Package and Standard Package

Expressed interest in bidding for Finals Package

Expressed interest in bidding for Standard Package

Withdrawn interest

The Finnish Football Association withdrew its bid on 4 March 2014 as redevelopments to its chosen venue, the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, will leave it below the standards required to host matches at the tournament.[58] The Czech Football Association also withdrew its candidacy in March 2014 citing that the government was not ready to provide the guarantees for building a new stadium.[59]

The Italian Football Federation withdrew Milan's San Siro Stadium after selecting Rome's Stadio Olimpico as the country's sole venue to host Euro 2020 matches.[60]

Several federations withdrew their bids in late April 2014, before the final dossiers were submitted on 25 April. Four nations who had hosted recent tournaments - Euro 2008 hosts Switzerland (St. Jakob-Park, Basel),[61] Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland (National Stadium, Warsaw and Silesian Stadium, Katowice) and Ukraine (Olympic Stadium, Kiev),[62] and Euro 2016 hosts France (Stade des Lumières, Lyon) [61] - withdrew after deciding that their chances of success were minimal.[63] Despite being favourites to host the final, Turkey withdrew its bid to host the final at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul in favour of bidding to host UEFA Euro 2024.[64]

In addition, other withdrawn bids included: both Portuguese bids, at the Estádio da Luz and Estádio do Dragão, due to lack of support from local councils;[65] the bid from the Czech Football Association in Prague due to lack of financial guarantees from city authorities;[63] the Croatian Football Federation's bid in Zagreb, due to financial problems;[66] Armenia;[62] Greece;[62] Kazakhstan;[62] and Serbia.[62]

Bidding venues

The final list of bids was published by UEFA on 26 April 2014 with a decision on the hosts to be made by the UEFA Executive Committee on 19 September 2014. There were two bids for the Finals Package (of which one was successful, marked with blue colour for Semi-Finals and Final) and 19 bids for the Standard Package (of which 12 were successful, marked with green colour for Quarter-Finals and Group Stage, yellow colour for Round of 16 and Group Stage).[67]

Cities that bid to host matches at UEFA Euro 2020
Red: Bidding for standard package; Yellow: Bidding for both standard and final packages
Cities that bid to host matches at UEFA Euro 2020
Country City Venue Capacity Package
 Azerbaijan Baku Baku National Stadium 68,700 Standard Package
 Belarus Minsk Traktar Stadium 16,500 (to be expanded to 33,000) Rejected Standard Package
 Belgium Brussels Eurostadium (proposed new national stadium) 50,000 (60,000 potentially) Standard Package
 Bulgaria Sofia Vasil Levski National Stadium 43,000 (to be expanded to 50,000) Rejected Standard Package
 Denmark Copenhagen Telia Parken 38,065 Standard Package
 England London Wembley Stadium 90,000 Finals Package (and withdrawn Standard Package)
 Germany Munich Allianz Arena 67,812 (to be expanded to 75,000) Standard Package (and withdrawn Finals Package)
 Hungary Budapest New Puskás Ferenc Stadium 56,000 (proposed new 68,000 stadium) Standard Package
 Ireland Dublin Aviva Stadium 51,700 Standard Package
 Israel Jerusalem Teddy Stadium 34,000 (to be expanded to 53,000) Rejected Standard Package
 Italy Rome Stadio Olimpico 72,698 Standard Package
 Macedonia Skopje Philip II Arena 33,460 Rejected Standard Package
 Netherlands Amsterdam Amsterdam Arena 53,052 (to be expanded to 55-56,000) Standard Package
 Romania Bucharest Arena Națională 55,600 Standard Package
 Russia Saint Petersburg New Zenit Stadium 69,500 (under construction) Standard Package
 Scotland Glasgow Hampden Park 52,063 Standard Package
 Spain Bilbao San Mamés Stadium 53,332 Standard Package
 Sweden Solna, Stockholm Friends Arena 50,000 Eliminated Standard Package
 Wales Cardiff Millennium Stadium 74,500 Eliminated Standard Package

On 10 September 2014, UEFA published the evaluation reports of the 19 bids.[68][69] Before the voting on 19 September 2014, UEFA judged that the candidatures of Belarus (Minsk), Bulgaria (Sofia), Macedonia (Skopje) and Israel (Jerusalem) did not fulfill the bid requirements, so they did not participate at all in the selection phases.[70]

Voting

Procedure

The voting procedure of the venues was approved by the UEFA Executive Committee on 13 May 2014:[71]

The voting will be done by secret ballot and Executive Committee members which are associated with the bidding associations will not be allowed to vote.[72]

The announcement ceremony of the selected venues took place at the Espace Hippomène in Geneva on 19 September 2014, 13:00 CEST, right after the voting in the morning.[73]

Summary

Location of stadiums of the UEFA Euro 2020.
Blue: Semi-finals and Final; Green: Quarter-finals and group stage; Yellow: Round of 16 and group stage.

The 13 venues were selected and announced on 19 September 2014:[74]

Since Minsk, Sofia, Skopje and Jerusalem did not fulfill UEFA's requirements, Cardiff and Stockholm were the only cities not selected among the eligible bids.[70]

First phase

In the first phase, the venue which will host the semi-finals and final was selected. Munich withdrew prior to the vote, and London was selected by acclamation.[70]

City Votes
England London
Germany Munich w/d

Second phase

In the second phase, the four venues which will host one quarter-final and three group stage matches were selected. The seven candidate venues with a capacity of at least 60,000 were eligible. Each voting member ranked the venues in their order of preference: four points for their first choice, three points for their second choice, two points for their third choice, and one point for their fourth choice. The four venues with the highest points total were selected.[70]

City Points
Germany Munich 38
Azerbaijan Baku 37
Russia Saint Petersburg 29
Italy Rome 20
Belgium Brussels 11
Wales Cardiff 3
Hungary Budapest 2

Third phase

In the third phase, a venue from each of the geographical zones which had not yet been chosen was selected to host a round of 16 match and three group stage matches. The six geographical zones were:

Prior to the vote, the venues of Belarus (Minsk), Bulgaria (Sofia), Macedonia (Skopje), and Israel (Jerusalem) were determined to have failed bid requirements, and thus were not involved in the final two phases.[70]

Of the six zones, Zones 1, 3, 5 and 6 already had venues chosen in the first two phases. Therefore, only Zones 2 and 4 were involved in this phase.[70]

Zone 2
City Votes
Denmark Copenhagen 13
Sweden Stockholm 3
Zone 4
City Votes
Romania Bucharest 12
Hungary Budapest 3

Fourth phase

In the fourth phase, the six remaining venues which will host one round of 16 and three group stage matches were selected among the remaining candidate venues. Each voting member ranked the venues in their order of preference: six points for their first choice, five points for their second choice, four points for their third choice, three points for their fourth choice, two points for their fifth choice, and one point for their sixth choice. The six venues with the highest points total were selected.[70]

City Points
Netherlands Amsterdam 58
Republic of Ireland Dublin 55
Spain Bilbao 50
Hungary Budapest 48
Belgium Brussels 43
Scotland Glasgow 22
Wales Cardiff 21
Sweden Stockholm 18

Selected venues

Country City Venue Capacity Games Previous hosts
 Azerbaijan Baku Baku National Stadium 68,700 (new stadium) QF and GS —
 Belgium Brussels Eurostadium 50,000 (60,000 potentially) R16 and GS 1972 & 2000
 Denmark Copenhagen Telia Parken 38,065 R16 and GS —
 England London Wembley Stadium 90,000 F and SF 1996
 Germany Munich Allianz Arena 67,812 (to be expanded to 75,000) QF and GS 1988
 Hungary Budapest New Puskás Ferenc Stadium 56,000 (proposed new 68,000 stadium) R16 and GS —
 Ireland Dublin Aviva Stadium 51,700 R16 and GS —
 Italy Rome Stadio Olimpico 72,698 QF and GS 1968 & 1980
 Netherlands Amsterdam Amsterdam Arena 53,052 (to be expanded to 55-56,000) R16 and GS 2000
 Romania Bucharest Arena Națională 55,600 R16 and GS —
 Russia Saint Petersburg New Zenit Stadium 69,500 (under construction) QF and GS —
 Scotland Glasgow Hampden Park 52,063 R16 and GS —
 Spain Bilbao San Mamés Stadium 53,332 R16 and GS 1964

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