UEFA retains 12-city plan and likely to reject any UK offer to host Euro 2020

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>European football’s governing body is unlikely to take up any offers from the UK to host the entire Euro 2020 tournament later this summer&comma; the PA news agency understands&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the Times&comma; the culture secretary Oliver Dowden &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;has signalled” to UEFA that crowds are expected back in UK stadiums before the rest of Europe due to progress on coronavirus vaccinations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wembley Stadium is scheduled to host the Euro 2020 semi-finals and final in July and the government is reportedly now ready to take on more games due to be played across 12 different European cities&comma; the Times said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>UEFA told the PA news agency it had nothing to add to a statement in January when it reaffirmed its commitment to hosting the tournament across the 12 designated cities&comma; including Dublin&comma; at a meeting with the host associations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And the governing body said last week that it would not be pursuing a similar offer from Israel to help with hosting Euro 2020 matches and other European club competitions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In response to Israel’s offer&comma; UEFA said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Israeli FA did offer their facilities should UEFA need them this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;However&comma; UEFA fully intends that all its events &lpar;including club finals and the EURO&rpar; will be staged in their intended venues and is working hard with its partners and stakeholders to secure that&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Department for Digital&comma; Culture&comma; Media and Sport and the Football Association declined to comment when approached by the PA news agency&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>UK Health secretary Matt Hancock was unaware of any offer to host the tournament&comma; saying on Sky News&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I haven’t seen anything on that&comma; I understand that that’s not right&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Euro 2020&comma; originally scheduled to take place in June and July last summer&comma; was postponed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic and rescheduled for June 11-July 11 this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>UEFA confirmed in January that despite concerns over coronavirus&comma; the tournament will still be held across 12 cities – London&comma; Glasgow&comma; Dublin&comma; Amsterdam&comma; Copenhagen&comma; St Petersburg&comma; Bilbao&comma; Munich&comma; Budapest&comma; Baku&comma; Rome and Bucharest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The competition is scheduled to start in Rome on June 11&comma; with the final at Wembley on July 11&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed12d65ac1c">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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