Seville & St Petersburg to host Euro 2020 matches, announces UEFA

Seville in Spain will replace Bilbao as a host city for Euro 2020 with Russia’s St Petersburg taking three games from Dublin, UEFA vice-president Zbigniew Boniek said on Friday.

Notably, UEFA’s executive committee held a meeting on Friday to chalk out plans after Bilbao and Dublin were not able to allow spectators at the matches.

“Seville and San Petersburg – officially. There is a bit of work ahead of us, we start over, camp, journeys, all logistics,” tweeted Boniek, who is an official of the Polish FA.

Poland were scheduled to play their games in Dublin and Bilbao.

It was not immediately clear which fixtures Boniek was referring to as Dublin was also scheduled to host games in the knockout round of 16.

Seville will take all Bilbao’s group games and its round of 16 match.

Meanwhile, Munich was the third host city that had been unable to offer UEFA the fan guarantees it needed. However, a new plan to allow at least few thousands fans of the 75,000-capacity Allianz Arena is likley to be approved despite rise in infections numbers in Germany.

“Despite the current negative situation with the pandemic in Germany it is expected that the situation will improve until June,” the German football federation (DFB) said in a statement.

“That is why a scenario with a minimum capacity of 14,500 spectators in Munich for the Euros is seen as realistic,” it said. Germany are scheduled to play all three of their group games in Munich.

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