UEFA Euro 2020: Rules for selecting squads.

It had been earlier fixed to be held from 12 June to 12 July, 2020. The tournament will be held in 11 cities of 11 UEFA countries. The host nations include, Azerbaijan, Denmark, England, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Scotland and Spain.

The 24 national teams from UEFA nations will participate. 19 out of 24 teams that qualified this round are returning from the 2016 edition. The qualified teams are as follows, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Spain, France, Turkey, England, Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, Austria, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Denmark, Wales, North Macedonia, Hungary, Slovakia and Scotland.

In order to lessen the load on players due to the COVID-19 pandemic, squad sizes were increased from the normal 23 that was introduced in 2004 to 26. This rule was introduced at the start of April 2021 and approved on 27 April by UEFA National Team Competitions Committee. On 4 May 2021, the Executive Committee confirmed the use of 26 – player squads.

The participating teams are required to register a squad of 26 players of which three must be goalkeepers. It should be submitted by 1 June 2021, 10 days prior to the opening match of the tournament. Only players in these squads are eligible to take part in the competition.

If a player is ruled out of the tournament through injury before their teams’s first match of the tournament, they can be replaced.

Goalkeepers ruled out through injury are able to be replaced any time. Players who are replaced cannot be readmitted to the squad later in the tournament.

The teams that have so far named their provisional squad include, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.