Lausanne (AFP)
The next meeting of the UEFA executive committee, scheduled for Wednesday 17 June, will finally be extended by one day and stretch until Thursday 18 June due to a "very busy agenda", he said. we learned Friday from the authority.
In particular, UEFA must validate the host cities for Euro-2020 football, which has been postponed to 2021, and endorse the dates and format of the Champions League interrupted in March, which should resume in August.
Questioned Friday by AFP, the president of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël Le Graët, explained that UEFA was "finally going to (the meeting) over two days".
"I think all the international calendars, the championship rounds and the dates of the Champions League and Europa League will be official on June 18 afternoon," he said.
"Each federation can then publish its calendars. We have already prepared each other but there is nothing we can do without UEFA giving these dates (...) I think that from the 18th afternoon the Federation ( French) and the League will be able to release their calendars ".
Originally scheduled for May 27, the meeting was postponed to June 17 due to "still open" questions regarding "a small number" of Euro football host cities. They will in principle be twelve in number, spread across twelve countries.
On March 17, the European football authority announced that it would postpone Euro-2020 for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The competition is now set to take place from June 11 to July 11, 2021, with a kickoff in Rome, Italy, one of the countries hardest hit by Covid-19.
But this new programming seems to pose some problems for certain host cities.
UEFA must also validate the format of the epilogue for the 2019-2020 edition of the Champions League, which was interrupted in March at the 8th final stage and which could take place in the form of a tournament from the quarter-finals.
Thursday, the city of Frankfurt (Germany) and its region said they were interested in the organization of this final tournament. According to Bild, cities in Russia and Portugal have also indicated that they are interested.
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