Euro 2028 - UK and Ireland?

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

Set to be awarded automatically to UK and Ireland on April 7 apparently - no rival bids have come forward (Turkey has decided against going for it and the bid Russia were considering has been abandoned as a non-starter for obvious reasons)

 

[Nancy]

Pity we can't bid for Eurovision

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

Pity we can't bid for Eurovision

Well if Ukraine win...

 

[win_the_game]

Not exactly a successful bid if you win by default. Let’s hope the English FA learn from their disastrous hosting of the Euro 2020 final.

 

[win_the_game]

Under UEFA co-hosting rules, all of the home nations and Ireland will need to qualify for an event we’re hosting and paying for.

Fuck that.

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

Not exactly a successful bid if you win by default.

Well, by all accounts Turkey isn't bidding cos they know they're probably not going to beat the UK/Ireland bid.

 

[ADONK5]

Well, by all accounts Turkey isn't bidding cos they know they're probably not going to beat the UK/Ireland bid.

After the Euro 2020 final debacle I thought this might actually be Turkey's year at last.

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

What happened to the Balkan bid? Or are they trying for 2032? (or the 2030 WC)?

 

[KNT]

Fucks sake. I don't think we should be shipping in more football fans when we already have our own to deal with.

Can't Dubai take them?

 

[Hard Rock Ag-elujah]

Under UEFA co-hosting rules, all of the home nations and Ireland will need to qualify for an event we’re hosting and paying for.

Fuck that.

But they can't guarantee that or suddenly rearrange who hosts if say N.I. don't qualify.

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

Also considering they’re expanding the format to 32 teams there’s no reason why all five can’t qualify automatically, particularly when three of them would be likely qualifiers anyway.

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

I suspect the other football associations would kick up quite a bit of fuss if there were five autoqualifiers, but I don't get why they couldn't have at least one or two for the ones hosting most of the games. Even just as a commercial decision - you'd surely expect interest in the tournament to be down a fair bit in the hosting nations in the event the home country hasn't qualified.

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

I think this was also partly as a result of the same nations pulling out of WC 2030 bidding, not least because UEFA seems to favour the Spain-Portugal joint bid.

The qualifying aspect is a mess and really 5 nations is a silly idea - notwithstanding that the lion’s share of matches will probably be in England anyway.

But that will be nice and no doubt lessons will have been learned from the hapless security at the Euro 2020 final.

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

Officially announced “expression of interest”

Euro 2028: UK and Ireland football associations take 'important' Uefa bid step

The UK and Republic of Ireland football associations submit a joint expression of interest in staging the European Championships in 2028.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[win_the_game]

Russian bid not abandoned after all!

Russia warned by Uefa it could face more sanctions if it bids to host Euros

Russia has been warned off bidding to host the men’s European Championship in 2028 after it submitted an unexpected declaration of interest

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

Apparently this is going to delay to the decision!

How ridiculous - they are suspended from competition, just tell them to jog on.

 

[dzjermlaw]

I think Turkey put in a bid for 2028 as well, so that will be the actual reason for the delay.

 

[La Peneloupée monte le son]

Given Turkey have also bid for 2032 I imagine it's an attempt at bartering.

 

[win_the_game]

Turkey have bid for every Euros since 2008 however it's obvious UEFA doesn't want them to host.

In the same way Istanbul kept bidding for the Olympics and the IOC couldn't have been any clearer!

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

I think the original plan was to announce the 2028 and 2032 hosts at the same time too..

 

[Madison]

Turkey can go fuck itself. They can host after Erdogan dies.

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

Boris Johnson calls for Ukraine to host Euro 2028 despite UK-Ireland bid

Boris Johnson has described Russian plans to host Euro 2028 as ‘beyond satire’ and recommended the tournament be hosted by Ukraine

www.theguardian.com

Goodness he is so stupidly careless (obviously he is right Russia should not host, but seems to have forgotten the UK/Ireland bid)

 

[Diddy]

Didn’t Ukraine co-host the Euros with Poland fairly recently anyway? (As if that wasn’t the main problem with this idea)?)

SEE I KNOW KICKBALL THINGS

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

Didn’t Ukraine co-host the Euros with Poland fairly recently anyway? (As if that wasn’t the main problem with this idea)?)

SEE I KNOW KICKBALL THINGS

Yep, it hosted Euro 2012

 

[win_the_game]

I doubt hosting an international football tournament is a priority for Ukraine.

 

[KNT]

Boris Johnson calls for Ukraine to host Euro 2028 despite UK-Ireland bid

Boris Johnson has described Russian plans to host Euro 2028 as ‘beyond satire’ and recommended the tournament be hosted by Ukraine

www.theguardian.com

Goodness he is so stupidly careless (obviously he is right Russia should not host, but seems to have forgotten the UK/Ireland bid)

No, he's right, it shouldn't be held in the UK.

THANK YOU BORIS

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

No, he's right, it shouldn't be held in the UK.

THANK YOU BORIS

Why not?

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

Türkiye withdraw their bid (and instead will bid to co-host 2032 with Italy) meaning the U.K. & Ireland are now the sole bidders for 2028. Both look to be formally announced next Tuesday.

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

That's good news! I don't think it has been confirmed if the hosts (5!) will auto qualify?

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

I do wonder if all five will automatically qualify, particularly considering they’ve ditched the idea of having 32 teams. It’d only leave 19 qualification spots.

 

[Kaleen]

They should give the spots to the 2 least likely to qualify. England doesn’t need one.

 

[Una Kratz Per San Marino]

CONFIRMED

Italy / Turkey to host EUR0 2032

 

[big ron]

England have asked to be put into the qualifying rounds as its good prep for the german euros next year

 

[Soldi Elektronike]

England have asked to be put into the qualifying rounds as its good prep for the german euros next year

Qualification for 2028 won’t start until after the World Cup?

 

[big ron]

Yes I got that completely wrong. They want to be in the qualifiers because Germany have only been playing wanky friendlies in the run up to the german euros and its not really good prep.