2016 UEFA European Football Championship

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The 2016 UEFA European Football Championship', or Euro 2016 for short, will be the 15th quadrennial top-level European football event. It will be held in the summer of the year 2016. The host nation(s) are yet to be selected. It is likely that 24 nations will participate.

[edit] Hosting

[edit] Scotland & Wales

In December 2006, the Football Association of Wales announced it was tentatively considering the possibility of jointly hosting the tournament with the Scottish Football Association. A bid would include the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, as well as Cardiff City's new 30,000 capacity stadium at Leckwith. Scottish stadiums likely to be used would include the national stadium, Hampden Park, along with Celtic Park and Ibrox in Glasgow and Murrayfield in Edinburgh.

[edit] External links

• UEFA official website

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