UEFA EURO 2020 - logo to remain

At Thursday’s UEFA Executive Committee meeting it was decided that the governing body's European Championship tournament, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2020, will continue to be known as UEFA EURO 2020 even though it will be contested by the 24 qualified nations one year later than planned, in the summer of 2021.

In addition to the anniversary celebration, environmental awareness has also played a role in the decision because many products with the EURO 2020 logo are already completed or ready, so if the name would have been changed they would need to have been disposed of and new ones would have been needed.

According to UEFA, in future the name will remind everyone of how the football world came together against the coronavirus epidemic in 2020, the 60th anniversary of the European Championships. Marco Rossi’s Hungary team would have played Bulgaria in their European Championship qualifying play-off semi-final at the end of March, but that fixture was also postponed due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

European football's governing body has also decided to postpone the 2021 UEFA Women's European Championship, that tournament now due to be held in England in July 2022, thus avoiding the need to hold several major football events all in one summer.

UEFA's Executive Committee has also decided that, in view of the situation caused by the coronavirus epidemic, it will already pay the compensation fees due to the clubs which released players to play in the EURO 2020 qualifiers. Accordingly, UEFA will distribute 17.7 million euros among those relevant clubs, further to which the clubs will receive an additional 2.7 million euros on completion of the play-offs.

The UEFA Executive Committee meeting is covered in more detail in English at www.uefa.com.