The capital of Romania has been selected as one of the host-cities for the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, according to UEFA.
Baku, Munich, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Dublin, Bilbao, Budapest, Brussels and Glasgow will also hold games, with the finals and semifinals to take place in London.
The UEFA EURO 2020 hosts in full
Final and semi-finals
England/London
Three group games, one quarter-final
Azerbaijan/Baku
Germany/Munich
Italy/Rome
Russia/Saint Petersburg
Three group games, one round of 16 game
Belgium/Brussels
Denmark/Copenhagen
Hungary/Budapest
Netherlands/Amsterdam
Republic of Ireland/Dublin
Romania/Bucharest
Scotland/Glasgow
Spain/Bilbao
UEFA’s Executive Committee decided in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 6 December 2012 to stage a ‘EURO for Europe’ in 2020, rather than a tournament in one or two host countries.
UEFA President Michel Platini, the initiator of the idea, expressed great anticipation for UEFA EURO 2020.
“In 2020, the EURO will never have better lived up to its name,” he said. “It will be decidedly continental and profoundly European. It will be a EURO of unity and shared experiences. It will, of course, be a new challenge – a challenge of a new kind … [and with] one single language: football.”