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Wembley Stadium is hot favourit to be announced on Friday as the host venue for the the semi-finals
Wembley Stadium is hot favourite to be announced on Friday as the host venue for the semi-finals and final of Euro 2020. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA Photograph: Nick Potts/PA
Wembley Stadium is hot favourite to be announced on Friday as the host venue for the semi-finals and final of Euro 2020. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

England may make bid to stage Euro 2028 championship, says Greg Dyke

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FA chairman says ‘we might well bid for 2028’
Wembley expected to host final stages of Euro 2020

With Wembley hot favourite to be named as the venue for the semi-finals and final of the Euro 2020 tournament on Friday, the Football Association chairman, Greg Dyke, has hinted that the FA will bid to host the full tournament eight years later.

Only England and Germany, who put forward the Allianz Arena in Munich, have submitted venues to host the climax of Euro 2020, which is being staged in 13 different countries to mark the 60th anniversary of the tournament.

“I think if we get the final for 2020 it is unlikely we would be awarded 2024, so we won’t bid for that if we get the final,” Dyke said. “We might well bid for 2028.

“We will bid again for the World Cup at some stage but I wouldn’t be as optimistic of our chances as I would be for the Euros.”

The FA, humiliated in 2010 over its £21m bid for the 2018 tournament, has said it will not bid again for the World Cup while Sepp Blatter remains as president.

England would still have to qualify for the 2020 tournament, which will take place in stadiums across Europe in a scheme dreamed up by Uefa’s president, Michel Platini.

Dyke said the aim would be to reach at least the semi-final, matching the achievement the last time a major tournament was held on English soil, in 1996.

“It would be great for English football. It would be even better if England can reach at least the semi-finals. That’s the aim. Well, the aim is to win it but let’s try and get to the semi-finals,” said Dyke, who will travel to Geneva with an FA delegation that includes England’s manager, Roy Hodgson.

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