More than 330 police and security officials from across Europe met online for UEFA’s annual Stadium & Security Conference, in preparation for the start of the 2021/22 football season. This year, there was something different about UEFA’s Stadium & Security Conference. Instead of the traditional face-to-face gathering, and owing to …
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In May 2021, the FIFA Congress mandated the FIFA administration to conduct a study into the feasibility of a Men’s and Women’s World Cup every two years. UEFA assumes that the word ‘feasibility’ encompasses all effects and consequences and includes all issues relating to: the calendar, formats and access of …
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The branding for the 2022 UEFA Champions League final at the Gazprom Arena in Saint Petersburg is inspired by famous Russian art movements, while also referencing some of the city’s most spectacular features. In an abstract art style, inspired by Russian artists Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich, the key visual …
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At its meeting on Friday, September 17, and still having to rely on media reports as the only source of information, the DFB Presidium discussed the proposal for a complete revision of the international competition calendar and the associated staging of the FIFA World Cup every two years, which was …
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Liechtenstein’s Football Association (LFV) has taken a giant step along its five-year roadmap for improving technical standards in both the men’s and the women’s games with the launch of a state-of-the-art national training centre. Funded in part by UEFA’s HatTrick development programme, which channels EURO revenue into football projects in …
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UEFA have announced a new three-year deal with established partner Enterprise Rent-A-Car. An Official Partner since 2015, this enhanced agreement covers two different competitions – the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League. The partnership will run from 2021 until 2024 and is Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s third cycle as a …
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UEFA and European football’s major stakeholders held positive discussions at the Convention on the Future of European Football on Thursday and Friday this week. The two-day gathering marked the start of a landmark consultation process to unite European football and strengthen the future of the game for the benefit of …
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UEFA have announced that it has signed a ground-breaking partnership with bwin to become an Official Partner of the UEFA Europa League and the newly formed UEFA Europa Conference League, for the next three seasons (2021-24). Guy-Laurent Epstein, UEFA marketing director, said, “We’re delighted to have secured bwin as the …
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The UEFA Executive Committee has approved significant amendments to the fifth edition of the UEFA Return to Play Protocol, which sets out the framework of sanitary and hygiene-related procedures as well as operational protocols to be applied when staging UEFA competition matches. With respect to the medical principles, the amendments …
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UEFA EURO 2020 acted as a timely reminder of the importance major sport plays in delivering those special, but increasingly infrequent, mass appointment-to-view moments. The first major sporting event to be staged since the world was paused by the global pandemic, UEFA EURO 2020 has emerged successful. Having dominated viewer …
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