The Eurocup is here. With a year of delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the Italian and Turkish teams will jump to the playing field of the Olympic in Rome this Friday to play the opening match of a final phase with 24 teams but with an unprecedented format: it will be played in 11 cities in 11 countries.
Rome, Seville, London, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Copenhagen, Munich, Budapest, Bucharest, Saint Petersburg and Baku are the cities that will host this European Championship. UEFA left Bilbao and Dublin without headquarters on the grounds that they did not provide the required guarantees for public attendance at stadiums, something essential for the body that governs European football.
Regarding the number of fans that will be able to attend each stadium, each venue has discussed the issue with UEFA and, in terms of percentage of capacity, it ranges from 20 percent at the Allianz Arena in Munich (about 14,000 spectators ) up to 100 percent at the Puskas Arena in Budapest (68,976). In La Cartuja de Sevilla, 30 percent (the total capacity is 60,000).
This European Championship initially scheduled for 2020 and postponed due to the pandemic begins this Friday the 11th at the Olympic Games in Rome, with the aforementioned Italy-Turkey, and will end in London, at the mythical Wembley, scene of the final. The so-called ‘group of death’ is F, which includes France, Germany, Portugal and Hungary.