Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 2:41 PM• Jeroen van Poppel • Last update: 15:00

UEFA plans to reward the English Football Association (FA) for its role in the dismantling of the Super League. The European Football Association wants to assign London’s Wembley extra matches at the upcoming European Championship, so assures us The Telegraph. Stadiums of the twelve clubs that were part of the Super League will certainly not get any European Championship matches.

Dublin is expected to lose its European Championship matches on Friday. No matches will be played during the European Championship in the San Mamés stadium in Bilbao, UEFA already decided on Wednesday. Due to the strict restrictions in the Basque Country surrounding the corona virus, the city of Bilbao cannot guarantee that an audience can be present, which means that UEFA is forced to felt to take the games away. The same fate awaits the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, while the Allianz Arena in Munich is also under attack. The Telegraph expects that the German stadium will keep its matches for the time being, but that Dublin will be rejected on Friday.

According to The Telegraph it is planned that some, but not all of the rescheduled matches will go to Wembley. The national stadium of England already has the most matches planned at the moment: three group matches, an eighth final, two semi-finals and the final will be played on London soil. The English newspaper also mentions the Saint Petersburg Stadium in Russia as an option for additional matches. The Russian facility currently has three group matches and a quarter-final.

The English Football Association would be rewarded with extra games for its work in torpedoing the Super League. Mark Bullingham, general manager of the FA, is said to have been at the forefront of dismantling the private elite league. “Senior officials in European football also confirmed that there is tremendous goodwill for England,” he said The Telegraph on.

Nine of the twelve original host cities have now been able to issue guarantees to UEFA for the admission of an audience during the European Championship. Wembley has promised that 25 percent of the stadium can be filled in at least the three group matches and the eighth final. That equates to approximately 22,500 fans.