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Uefa are reported to be considering pulling Euro 2020 games from three host cities, including Dublin, because of the ongoing uncertainty over whether significant numbers of people will be allowed attend the matches.
News agency, the Associated Press, cites unnamed sources at the federation “with knowledge of the tournament planning” as suggesting that Uefa wants stadiums to be at least half full for the games, something that seems extremely unlikely in the case of Lansdowne Road.
It says that Glasgow and Bilbao are also at risk of losing their matches with England one of the countries likely to host some of those that have to be relocated.
FAI chief executive Jonathan Hill hinted last Friday that Uefa might, in a worst case scenario, move Dublin’s four games, but expressed confidence that the situation would not arise as the Government will, he believes, allow some supporters to attend the three group and one round of 16 games.
“Uefa wants to see fans in all 12 of the stadia and all 12 of the cities and we are planning on the basis that we will have fans in the Aviva Stadium,” he said. “That is the current situation and that is the plan.
“We have a four- to six-week period to do that and in early April Uefa will take its decisions. But to be absolutely clear, we are committed to the hosting of our four games and we will have fans in the stadium . . . it’s just a question of how many.”
A major complication, though, is the strong preference on Uefa’s part to have a significant number of fans from the two countries involved in a given game inside the stadium, something that effectively requires international travel without the need for a prolonged period of isolation or quarantine to be permitted.
There is no prospect of that at present with attitudes hardening, if anything, on the issue of travel as the vaccine is rolled out, although the Government is due to review the current restrictions on April 5th. Hill has suggested that Uefa would be happy with 10,000 neutrals.
In a statement, the Government said that: “The public health advice is that it is too early to say how and when these restrictions should be eased given current uncertainties. We are in constant dialogue with Uefa and our intention is to work to finalise our best possible scenario consistent with public health guidelines.”