Euro hope for travelling fans
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■ competitions. I am confident that we will not have to endure the fans’ absence for long and that they will be allowed into stadiums sooner rather than later.
“I don’t know if there will be local fans, those from different clubs or no fans. If the decision was made now it would be without fans, but games are in August.”
City have still to play their home leg against Real Madrid and hold a 2-1 lead from the first tie in the Spanish capital, while Chelsea are away at Bayern Munich.
It has still to be decided whether the matches will take place at the home grounds or at a neutral venue.
The subsequent knockout games will be single-leg affairs and will be hosted in Lisbon from August 12, with the final taking place in the Portuguese capital on August 23. Istanbul, originally appointed to stage the 2020 final, will now host the 2021 final.
The Europa League, which still involves Manchester United and Wolves, will resume in the first week of August, with the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final being staged in a Final Eight tournament held between August 10-21 in Cologne, Duisburg, Dusseldorf and Gelsenkirchen.
UEFA also confirmed that all 12 original Euro 2020 host cities will stage matches in the delayed finals that will now start on June 11, 2021.
The outstanding play-off matches will be staged during the international windows starting on October 8 and November 12, while the Women’s Champions League will also be a knockout tournament, in northern Spain between August 21-30.
UEFA also set out the Nations League and Euro 2020 qualifiers with two banks of triple headers in October and November plus games in September that could put national teams in conflict with clubs already struggling with the fixture list.