In March 2020, UEFA, alongside many other sports bodies, were forced to postpone the 2020 summer tournament in light of the Coronavirus outbreak. On 17 June, the UEFA Executive Committee met and approved the rescheduling of the tournament by almost an exact year.
The tournament will now take place from 11 June to 11 July 2021. To add a little confusion, the official tournament name will remain Euro 2020, at least for the moment – it's retro cool.
The good news for fans is that the host cities and fixtures follow the same fixtures pattern across the 12 host cities: Amsterdam, Baku, Bilbao, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Glasgow, London, Munich, Rome, and St Petersburg. London’s Wembley Stadium will host the final on Sunday, 11 July 2021. This should help to reduce complexity and hopefully allow most fans to push their existing plans back 12 months.
If you have already purchased tickets, you have the following options:
- If you are able to make the new dates - you do not need to do anything except keep hold of your existing tickets and attend in 2021
- If you cannot attend the new dates - you can return all of your tickets for a full refund, but this must be done before 25 June 2020
- If some of your guests cannot attend the new dates - you can partially return some tickets but note that the ticket buyer must still attend. As above, return requests must be done before 25 June 2020
If you do not yet have a ticket and would like to attend, then a new round of ticket sales may open at a later date depending on returns. However, demand is expected to be extremely high, with UEFA revealing it received more than 28 million ticket requests in the original sales period, but only had 3 million tickets available.
If you would like to attend in style, hospitality tickets are still available, with prices starting from EUR €780 per person for The Club package.