Paris, France | XINHUA | The Champions League will expand from 32 teams to 36 staring from 2024/2025 season, as the European football governing body UEFA released several revolutions across its club competitions on Monday, hours after 12 elite clubs created the European Super League. According to the UEFA, the …
Read More »UEFA still planning to host Euro 2020 across 12 cities
London, England | THE INDEPENDENT | UEFA reaffirmed its plan to host the delayed Euro 2020 tournament across 12 European cities, as the continent’s football governing body met representatives of the 12 host associations and tournament organizers in a routine meeting on Wednesday. The tournament was originally planned to be …
Read More »UEFA Super Cup to allow spectators attend
London, UK | XINHUA | Next month’s UEFA Super Cup will see a reduced number of spectators permitted to attend, European football’s governing body announced in a statement on Tuesday. The 2020 UEFA Super Cup will be played between Champions League winners Bayern Munich and Europa League victors Sevilla in …
Read More »Champions League to be completed with ‘final eight’ in Lisbon in August
Paris, France | AFP | The 2019-2020 Champions League, suspended since March because of the coronavirus pandemic, will be completed in a ‘final eight’ format in Lisbon in August, UEFA said on Wednesday. Europe’s top club competition will be decided by a series of one-off matches beginning in the Portuguese capital on August 12, with the …
Read More »A year to go but postponed Euro leaves UEFA with plenty to ponder
Paris, France | AFP | In different circumstances, the eyes of the football world would have been on Rome for the opening game of Euro 2020 this Friday, but instead the tournament was postponed by a year and UEFA are considering changes to the unprecedented format in a Europe shaken by …
Read More »UEFA chief hopes Champions League will finish by ‘end of August’
Lisbon, Portugal | AFP | UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin is aiming to finish this year’s Champions League by the end of August as football in Europe slowly starts to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic. “Our plan is to finish it between now and the end of August,” Ceferin said in an interview with Portuguese …
Read More »UEFA look for light at end of tunnel in bid to resume European football season
Paris, France | AFP | As European countries take steps towards easing lockdown measures imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic, UEFA will meet with the continent’s football clubs and associations this week to try to mark out a pathway towards resuming the season. European football’s governing body is eager to steer …
Read More »UEFA president Ceferin said leagues ready to play behind closed doors
Milan, Italy | AFP | UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said Monday that leagues across Europe were ready to return to action behind closed doors in a bid to limit the damage caused by coronavirus. Football leagues have been suspended since mid-March due to the pandemic which has claimed more than 100,000 lives throughout the continent. …
Read More »A month into lockdown, football forced to play waiting game
Paris, France | AFP | A month has now passed since the last football matches were played before packed stadiums in Europe, and the havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic means that nobody can say with any certainty when the sport might return. A crowd of 50,000 filled Ibrox Stadium in …
Read More »Europe mulls finishing football season at end of year
Rome, Italy | AFP | Europe’s football bosses have not given up hope of finishing this pandemic-hit season — even if it might have to be done at the start of the next one. The novel coronavirus has created an existential challenge to the world’s most widely played and watched sport. …
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