UEFA appoints Türkiye and Italy to organize the 2032 tournament.
The United Kingdom and Ireland will organize the final stage of the European National Team Championship Euro 2028While Italy and Turkey will host the 2032 event, as UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin announced today in a press statement. The event was organized in Nyon (France). The news became known only a week after this was announced Spain, Portugal and Morocco will organize the 2030 World Cup.
The tournament will be born in the British Isles A Economic impact of approximately $3,000 million Euros, according to Deloitte’s calculations, which took into account that all tickets will be sold out and visits will increase significantly compared to the previous editions organized in the British Isles.
Specifically, selling About three million entries In the 51 matches that will be played. The 10 designated stadiums have an average capacity of 58,000 spectators, and several are on hold Renewal or modernization: City of Manchester Stadium, Everton Stadium in Liverpool, Villa Park Stadium in Birmingham, and Casement Park Stadium in Belfast (Northern Ireland). The latter may be the most controversial, given that… The budget has actually gone up From £77 million initially to £100 million (€116 million) currently.
It is also planned to invest around £500 million (€567 million) until 2025 in improvements. Popular sports facilities Plus another £45 million (€51 million). legacy To promote football and achieve greater profits.
Disgusting mood
The news, which was ignored when it was learned last week that Italy and Turkey would withdraw and leave the British nomination unchallenged, is a shock, to say the least. EmotionallyFor a country that has not yet found the necessary formula to return to growth and restore the quality of its public services.
For example, today The International Monetary Fund reduces economic growth in the United Kingdom from 1% to 0.6%.This is the worst number among developed countries, and lower, for example, than Russia (+1.1%). the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development He confirmed in September that the UK would be the least developed country among its partners in 2024, ahead of only Argentina. Many analysts expect a slight recession starting in the third quarter.
In total, 24 teams will meet at Euro 2028. England will host 28 matches, including the semi-finals and the final, which will be held at Wembley Stadium, with a capacity of 90,000 people. One of the challenges facing the organization will be to prevent a repeat of the events of Euro 2020, which Covid played out in 2021 in the aforementioned sports stadium, with hundreds of people who caused chaos by trying to sneak into the final match between Italy and Italy without entering Spain. Scotland, Wales and Ireland will organize six matches each, while Northern Ireland will organize five matches.
Avoid the embarrassment of 2021 at Wembley
England was already organised Euro 1996 And the 1966 World Cup, in addition to organizing matches in 2021, an edition in which Scotland also hosted some matches. For Wales, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, this event will be their first appearance.
Environmentally, it is expected that 80% of attendees will be able to attend the matches Public transportTimetables for reducing emissions are planned and a personal emissions metric will be launched with proposals to reduce the impact.
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