Who will host Euro 2028?

The international football calendar is always a few steps ahead of everyone and we are actually not that far away from finding out who will host Euro 2028.

Owing to how long it can take to prepare to host a major football tournament, there is a focus on Euro 2028 despite the qualification campaign for Euro 2024 still taking place.

Here is a breakdown of who has submitted a bid to host the tournament and when we will find out where it will be held.

On September 27 2021, formal applications were invited by UEFA, meaning football associations were allowed to approach UEFA and make their initial bid to host the tournament. They had until March 23 2022, to register their interest, any later and you would not be allowed to bid.

A week later on March 30, the interested bidders had the hosting requirements put forward to them and on April 5, the bidders were publicly announced to the world. The opening workshop for bidders was April 28 and by November 16, the preliminary bid dossiers had to be submitted.

The submission of final bid dossiers was made on April 12 2023. They will be evaluated by UEFA with the announcement of a host coming in September 2023.

Euro 2028 host bidding schedule

Back in June 2021, an application for Euro 2028 and 2032 was put forward by Alexej Sorokin, the organising committee director of Euro 2020 host city Saint Petersburg. That was reaffirmed in March 2022, but UEFA soon declared the Russian bids for both 2028 and 2032 ineligible.

This was because the 2022 invasion of Ukraine breaches Article 16.2 of the Bid Regulations. They state that “each bidder shall ensure that it does not act in a manner that could bring UEFA, any other bidder, the bidding procedure or European football into disrepute.”

United Kingdom and Ireland

A joint bid has been submitted by the United Kingdom and Ireland which would see games held in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The associations dropped their 2030 World Cup…