Index – Football – European Championship 2024

According to information from the PA news agency, UEFA’s committee responsible for national competitions has already voted to allow the participating teams to travel to the European Championship with 26-man squads, but this decision must also be approved by the executive committee.

Originally, each national team captain could have named 23 players, including three goalkeepers, for the event in Germany, which started on June 14, but at the previous European Championship, citing the coronavirus epidemic, the national team was made up of 26 football players, just like in the 2022 World Cup.

During the national team matches played in March, he managed the Dutch Ronald Koeman he called it absurd that only 23 players could be nominated for the tournament, at the same time he indicated that his German colleague, Julian Nagelsmann also agrees with him. He leads the English team Gareth Southgate he didn’t take a position so clearly, but he said it would be much more difficult to select 23 players than 26.

Earlier Marco Rossi the captain of the Hungarian national team also spoke about how it will be more challenging to assemble the squad if the old-new rule remains as it was in 2021.

The Hungarian national team, which is participating in the European Championship for the third time in a row, is in the same group as the hosts Germany, as well as the Swiss and the Scots, the telegraph office noted.