Fifty years after taking part in six straight matches at Wembley Stadium to win the 1966 World Cup, England might play one other six on the well-known venue on this 12 months’s European Championships.
Nine of the 24 groups will host matches within the postponed match, however no metropolis has extra video games scheduled than London.
England’s three Group D matches might be performed at Wembley, and in the event that they keep on prime, they will keep within the metropolis for the spherical of 16. From there, the workforce can go to Rome for the quarter-finals after which presumably again to Wembley for the semi-finals and finals.
By then, officers will anticipate to fill greater than 1 / 4 of the 90,000 seats if coronavirus situations enhance.
Five different groups may also play all their group matches at residence, together with three-time champions Germany and Spain in Munich and Seville respectively. Also Italy will play their group matches in Rome, Netherlands will keep in Amsterdam and Denmark will host their matches in Copenhagen.
Those video games within the Danish capital will promote the 1992 European champions for Group B matches in opposition to World Cup semifinalists Belgium, Finland and Russia.
Hungary (Budapest), Russia (St Petersburg) and Scotland (Glasgow) have two group video games every at residence.
In concept, all 9 groups have the benefit of taking part in at the least just a few video games at residence, however that may change in the event that they went forward.
The Italians will open the match in opposition to Turkey on June 11 on the Stadio Olimpico, then tackle Switzerland and Wales. But profitable the group or ending second additionally sends Azurri away from residence.
Likewise, all the remainder of the hosts will hit the highway for the spherical of 16, with the potential exception of England.
The most troublesome group seems to be Group F, which incorporates France, Germany, Portugal and Hungary. Both Germany and Hungary will function host cities, and residential matches in opposition to World Cup champions France and defending European champions Portugal might show essential.
There is little question that the host nations get some sort of enhance in main tournaments, nevertheless it has by no means been so unfold like this 12 months’s occasion. Furthermore, being the host is not any assure of final success. France was the final workforce to host and win the European Championship in 1984, when Michel Platini was ruling the midfield and scoring purpose after purpose.
Others got here shut, with France reaching the ultimate once more 5 years earlier and Portugal reaching up to now in 2004. West Germany, Sweden, England and the Netherlands all superior to the semi-finals as hosts or co-hosts.
Incidentally, France was additionally the final host of the World Cup to win the title at residence in 1998.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
