Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin has admitted that he would not advocate a repeat of Euro 2020, where the tournament is spread across several nations. England play Italy in Sunday’s final at Wembley after a championship that has been played in cities in 11 countries and Ceferin now believes the format was a mistake.
Aleksander Ceferin said: “I would not support it anymore. In a way, it is not correct that some teams have to travel more than 10,000km while others have to only travel 1,000km. It is not fair to fans, who had to be in Rome one day and in Baku over the next few, which is a four and a half hour flight. We had to travel a lot, into countries with different jurisdictions, different currencies, countries in the European Union (EU) and Non-EU, so it was not easy. It was a format that was decided before I came [into post] and I respect it. It is an interesting idea but it is hard to implement and I don’t think we will do it again.”
