Euro 2028 bid: Liverpool and Arsenal stadiums fail to make final host selection list

September 21 - Only six English stadiums will host Euro 2028 if the UK and Ireland win the tournament bid, with Liverpool's Anfield and Arsenal's Emirates Stadium omitted from the list of ten stadiums . .

The Times reports that the number of English stadiums to be used for the 2028 European Championship will be limited to six. Liverpool's Anfield and Leeds' Elland Road did not make the final cut. MK Don's Stadium MK has been included.

The ten stadiums on the final selection list are Wembley, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London Stadium, Villa Park, Stadium MK, Old Trafford, Etihad, Everton's Bramley Moore Dock, The Stadium of Light from Sunderland and the St from Newcastle United. James Park.

England and Ireland are candidates for the 2028 final and will face a rival bid from Turkey. Mehmet Buyukeksi, president of the Turkish federation, insisted that Turkey would not withdraw from the race to concentrate its efforts on obtaining the rights to organize the tournament four years later.

The 2028 European Championship could well take place in an expanded format to 32 teams. In 2016, the tournament was expanded to 24 teams with six groups of four in the first round and 10 venues in nine cities. Last year, eleven cities from eleven host countries hosted a Pan-European Championship which was delayed due to the global health crisis.

Germany will host Euro 2024.

UEFA will ask applicants to submit a preliminary dossier by mid-November with a final dossier expected in April next year. The confederation will then take a deciding vote on the 2028 hosts in September.

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