EURO 2023, in Romania? We are waiting for the official announcement from UEFA

The last month of the year not only comes with the draws for the preliminaries of the CM 2022 (December 7, Zurich) and the final of the Euro U21 tournament (December 10, Nyon), both with the “tricolor” involved in the operations .

Before that, on December 3, the UEFA Executive Committee will decide to host the EC U21 from 2023, a competition in which only two countries compete: Romania and Georgia. There was once a joint Ireland and Northern Ireland application, but the dossier did not reach the final.

The chances that our country will receive the European are very high. This despite ex-Soviets hoping that the continental forum will also look at them, because on two previous occasions they have been on the losers list:

• Euro 2020 (there was a joint file with Azerbaijan, the project was abandoned after UEFA decided that it would be an extended tournament in several countries)
• 2021 Europa League Final (Tbilisi initially lost to Sevilla, the match will eventually be played in Gdansk, Poland).

However, it hosted the 2015 European Super Cup, a spectacular Barcelona – Sevilla 5-4 after extra time, with 52,000 people in the stands of the largest stadium in the country, “Boris Paiciadze”. In fact, this is the stadium now held by Georgia’s bid holder, which has just inaugurated a new 20,000-seat complex in Batumi, on the eastern Black Sea coast, opposite Constance.

Four cities, eight stadiums

FRF entered the race with 8 stadiums, where all 31 matches would take place, with 16 competitors:

• National Stadium (Bucharest, 53,000 seats)
• Ghencea (Bucharest, 31,000 seats)
• Giulești (Bucharest, 15,000 seats)
• Arc de Triomphe (Bucharest, 8,000 seats)
• “Marin Anastasovici” (Giurgiu, 8,500 seats)
• “Ilie Oana” (Ploiesti, 15,500 seats)
• Cluj Arena (Cluj, 30,000 seats)
• “Dr. Constantin Rădulescu” (Cluj, 23,500 places).

If UEFA awards the competition to Romania, it will mean that we will have secured a place in the finals as hosts, which would be equivalent to the third consecutive appearance of the Under-21 team in the European Youth Championship, after 2019 and 2021.

In total, it would be the fourth participation, registering the first in 1998, when Romania also organized the EC, only then we did not qualify ex officio, but after the preliminaries, because that was the format at that time.

Criteria for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games

In addition, Euro 2023 will be included with an additional participation: the establishment of the four representatives of the continent for the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. Thus, at home we were able to get tickets for the second consecutive Olympic Games, because the band of I. Radu, Pușcaș and I. Hagi won access to the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2019 next summer.

Next summer we host the Euro U19

Romania is preparing to organize the European U19 between June 30 and July 13, 2021, which will be attended by 8 teams, with small “tricolor” classified by trade. The remaining 7 teams will be established in March, after the Elite Tour. Four stadiums will host the meetings: “Ilie Oană” Ploiești, Rapid & Bucharest Triumphal Arch, “Anghel Iordănescu” Volunteers.

Romania U21, ex officio in Euro

The fact that Romania organizes the CE U19 and probably the U21 will offer two or three generations the possibility of playing a final of the youth / youth tournament without going through the emotions of the preliminaries, where I won in the vast majority of cases . Who are the lucky ones who get the favor tickets at the beginning of their career?

For Euro U19 2021, players born after January 1, 2002 will be eligible. This includes the group with Drăgușin (Juventus), L. Munteanu (Fiorentina), Cârjan (Arsenal), Pitu (Viitorul), Perianu (FCSB) , R. Sava (Torino), Bani and I. Borcea (both from Dinamo).

Some of them will also play in Euro U21 2023, which will be played by those born after January 1, 2000. This is a less spectacular generation, with Mihăilă (Parma), Petrila (Sepsi), Manolache (Petrolul), Sefer (Rapid) , Horșia (Gaz Metan), Ehmann (Dinamo), R. Baicu (Astra), Screciu (U Craiova) or I. Rus (CFR).

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