UEFA Maintains EURO 2020 Name For Next Year’s European Championship
The Union of European Football Association (UEFA) have confirmed that though this summer’s European Championship has been rescheduled to 2021, it will still be known as EURO 2020.
UEFA postponed EURO 2020 to next year after the Coronavirus pandemic wreaked the footballing calendar, causing most European leagues to be suspended.
The postponement of EURO 2020 gives the various Football Associations ample time to complete their seasons.
The tournament was supposed to run from June 12 to July 12 2020 in selected venues across Europe but will now take place between June 11 and July 11 2021.
One question that arose from the postponement was whether a change of name would be required but following an executive committee meeting via videoconference on Thursday, Europe’s football governing body has decided to stick with the original.
A UEFA statement read: "Following the postponement of UEFA Euro 2020 to the summer of 2021 and after a thorough internal review as well as several discussions with partners, the Executive Committee has decided that the tournament will still be known as UEFA Euro 2020.
"This decision allows UEFA to keep the original vision of the tournament to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the European Football Championships (1960 – 2020).
"It will furthermore serve to remember how the whole football family came together to respond to the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and the difficult times Europe, and the world, had to go through in 2020.
"This choice is in line with UEFA's commitment to make UEFA Euro 2020 sustainable and not to generate additional amounts of waste.
"A lot of branded material had already been produced by the time of the tournament’s postponement. A change to the name of the event would have meant the destruction and reproduction of such items."
