Euro 2020

[ali jenkins]

Scotland, Wales and Ireland to bid to co-host.

Are there enough stadium big enough when you take into account that only one city can have 2 stadiums?

 

[spoonie]

errr yes easily London, Glasgow, Cardiff, Manchester, Newcastle then there are loads of stadoiums upwards of 35k

 

[pasty]

According to wiki....Top 10 in Scotland by capacity:

1 Celtic Park Glasgow, Celtic, 60,832
2 Hampden Park Glasgow 52,025
3 Ibrox Stadium Glasgow 51,082
4 Pittodrie Stadium Aberdeen 22,199
5 Easter Road Hibs 20,421
6 Rugby Park Kilmarnock 18,128
7 Tynecastle Stadium Hearts 17,420
8 Meadowbank Stadium Edinburgh 16,000
9 Tannadice Park Dundee Utd 14,209
10 Fir Park Motherwell 13,742

 

[GYM]

errr yes easily London, Glasgow, Cardiff, Manchester, Newcastle then there are loads of stadoiums upwards of 35k

Errrrrrmmmmmm.

I think you need to read it again Spoonie

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

Would be 3 qualification spots taken by 3 average/poor teams.

 

[NickBHAFC18]

Also, like this years they would possibly build a few new ones. A lot of the stadiums this summer will be played in for the first time.

 

[Stat Brother]

I think Spoonie has got it right.

Thread's first line states:-
A bunch of Northerners, who don't have the desire, wealth, health, intelligence, and linguistic skills to be English, want the Euros.

Next they'll be trying to muscle in on The South East's Olympics.

 

[rjbseagull]

Surely you can't have three team who ordinarily wouldn't qualify hosting a tournament?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Scotland, Wales and Ireland to bid to co-host.

Are there enough stadium big enough when you take into account that only one city can have 2 stadiums?

Not sure how big the criteria are, but Scotland has (2 of) Celtic / Ibrox and Hampden, Wales has the MillStad, and Ireland has Croke Park and the Aviva Stadium, all over 50,000

 

[Frutos]

errr yes easily London, Glasgow, Cardiff, Manchester, Newcastle then there are loads of stadoiums upwards of 35k

I can see a tiny flaw in your logic.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

You only need eight stadiums of at least 30,000 seats, so I'd say it is definitely realistic.

WALES: Millennium Stadium plus an expanded Liberty Stadium.

IRELAND: Aviva Stadium

JOCKOLAND: Celtic Park, Hampden Park, plus an expanded stadium in Aberdeen or Edinburgh

Considering some countries build several new stadiums to host a tournament, knocking up a couple of other new ones between three countries shouldn't be a problem. I guess the biggest obstacle will be coming up with some else fairly major in Ireland that isn't in Dublin.

You've missed off Croke Park in Dublin which is MAHOOSIVE (82,000!), and outside of Dublin, Thomond Park (home of Munster rugby) is a lovely ground which holds 27k and could very easily be extended at the ends.


Croke Park:

Thomond Park:

 

[Simster]

Why are these nations bidding together? Surely UEFA won't let THREE teams all qualify as hosts in a 16 team competition? And the other thing is that Cardiff, Dublin and Glasgow would presumably all expect more than one stadium to be used - which is against the rules at the moment I think.

And does Scotland have the VISION to make this happen? They should really be looking to build a 30k all seater for the two Edinburgh teams to share, and a similar but slightly smaller one (20k) in Dundee. Wales has three decent stadiums and would presumably redevelop Wrexham to prevent accusations of a South Wales monopoly on the tournament.

 

[Simster]

Not sure how big the criteria are, but Scotland has (2 of) Celtic / Ibrox and Hampden, Wales has the MillStad, and Ireland has Croke Park and the Aviva Stadium, all over 50,000

You can imagine the binfest if Celtic Park was chosen and not Ibrox, or vice versa.

 

[Springal]

Euros are going 24 teams after this I think

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Scotland, Wales and Ireland to bid to co-host.

Are there enough stadium big enough when you take into account that only one city can have 2 stadiums?

wouldn't have thought so...........france is using 10 stadiums for euro 2016, so i guess they'd need that as well for 2020

ireland have a surprising amount, but apart from the new aviva stadium in dublin they're basically all GAA stadiums and hardly any are all-seater

scotland have 4 big stadiums, but 3 of them are in glasgow (murrayfield being the other)....

wales only really have the millenium stadium.........the cardiff city stadium and the liberty would both need expanding, after that there's basically nothing

i guess the 10 could be:

Millenium Stadium (Cardiff)
Cardiff City Stadium (Cardiff)/Liberty Stadium (Swansea) (whichever could be expanded easiest)
Celtic Park (Glasgow)
Hampden Park (Glasgow)
Murrayfield (Edinburgh)
Pittodrie (Aberdeen) (with expansion)
Aviva Stadium (Dublin)
Croke Park (Dublin)

and then two of

McHale Park (Castlebar, which is all seater), Semple Stadium (Thurles 55,000 capacity, 36,000 seating), Gaelic Ground (Limerick 49,500 capacity, 35,000 seating), Páirc Uí Chaoimh (Cork 43,500 19,500 seating), Fitzgerald Stadium (Killarney 43,000 capacity, 9,000 seating)

forgive me if i'm wrong, but don't the GAA take a fairly dim view of football being played at GAA stadiums as well?

the main obstacle though, is that with 3 hosts that basically means that 3 teams will automatically qualify....can't see uefa going for that, especially when those 3 teams hardly have a sparkling international pedigree

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I forgot Croke Park. Although if the below is true, that's of no use to them. And for the same reason, I imagine Celtic Park will get the chop as they'll use the national stadium.



Even Brazil, which has had to come up with 12 grounds for the World Cup and whose football teams seem fairly heavily weighted in Rio and Sao Paulo, is not using more than one stadium in any city, so this is probably true. That surely leaves this triple-shit nation bid in tatters.

I think they'd need to use:
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
Dublin
Another in Ireland
Cardiff
Swansea
Wrexham

The prospect of Spain or Germany having to play in Wrexham is laughable.

Simster's point is not true, as far as I know. Euro 2004 for example, used two stadia in Lisbon and two in Porto.

 

[Simster]

forgive me if i'm wrong, but don't the GAA take a fairly dim view of football being played at GAA stadiums as well?

They used to before the peace process, but not really anymore. Apart from anything else, the GAA are majorly influential in Irish life, and the Irish public would be seriously pissed off if their intransigence in these more tolerant times ended up torpedoing their bid, as it might weaken the GAA's position.

 

[Simster]

Simster's point is not true, as far as I know. Euro 2004 for example, used two stadia in Lisbon and two in Porto.

Indeed not. Apologies - I misread an earlier post.