June 15 – Just a few days into the multi-venue Euros and the spectre of nationalism is hanging over the tournament. Following the Ukraine shirt debacle prior to the competition which so irked Russia and prompted an official protest, North Macedonia is the latest team to be at the centre of historic political divisions.
June 15 – Wembley will be allowed to host up to 45,000 fans for the semi-finals and final of the European Championship after the stadium was granted an exemption from a delay in the easing of Covid-19 restrictions.
By Samindra Kunti in Saint Petersburg
June 14 – Slovakia provided the first significant upset of Euro 2020, beating ten-man Poland 2-1 with a second-half winner from Milan Skriniar to take the lead in Group E and leave their opponents’ chances hanging by a thread.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 14 – As Denmark’s Christian Eriksson continues his recovery in hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest during Saturday’s Euro 2020 fixture against Finland, support continues to pour in from across the globe – accompanied by a fair amount of criticism that the game was allowed to resume.
June 14 – A feud between strikers Kylian Mbappé and Oliver Giroud is threatening to disrupt morale in the French camp ahead of the upcoming heavyweight Euro 2020 clash against Germany.
June 14 – The international players union, FIFPro, has welcomed the announcement by UEFA that the 24 teams at Euro 2020 have signed a Concussion Charter that commits them to taking a series of measures to improve the care of players – but says more needs to be done.
By Samindra Kunti in Saint Petersburg
June 11 – On a night that football seemed to matter a little less, Belgium and Romelu Lukaku delivered an emphatic 3-0 win against Russia to spoil the host’s independence day party and underline their tournament credentials.
June 11 – At last, the wait for Euro 2020 is over. After having missed out on the 2018 World Cup, Italy return to a major finals tonight when they face Turkey in the curtain raiser of a tournament that governing body UEFA were forced to postpone for a year because of the global health crisis.
By Paul Nicholson
June 11 – Euro 2020 is coming at a pivotal time, both in Europe’s fight against the pandemic that has changed the world we all live in, as well as in a changing football world desperate to find stability with both internal and external challenges to a previously comfortable and accepted order of things.
By Paul Nicholson
June 11 – When the Swiss and the Welsh open their Euro 2020 campaigns in Baku, Azerbaijan – on the outside edge of Europe bordering on Asia – Azerbaijan FA general secretary Elkhan Mammadov can justifiably open a bottle of arag.
By Samindra Kunti
June 11 – Taking the knee, a gesture against racism, keeps dividing football ahead of Euro 2020 and Friday’s opener between Italy and Turkey. Hungarian president Victor Orban has defended his football federation’s decision to not take the knee claiming that sports and politics don’t mix, while Croatia will leave it to its players to decide.
June 10 – On the eve of Euro 2020, Spain has belatedly decided to vaccinate the national team following positive coronavirus tests of both team captain Sergio Busquets and Diego Llorente this week.
June 9 – Just days before the start of the delayed Euro 2020, Russia has sent a formal letter of complaint to UEFA over Ukraine’s alleged “political” kit that has provoked fury in Moscow.
June 9 – Fans attending England’s opening Euro 2020 match against Croatia on Sunday will be the first at a sporting event in Britain to have the option of using vaccine passports to prove they are at low risk of transmitting Covid-19.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 8 – Historical and bitter divisions between Ukraine and Russia over the embattled region of Crimea have spilled over into the upcoming Euros with the Russians furious over Ukraine’s national team shirt that featuresa map of the country which includes the disputed peninsula.