EURO 2020 Hosts - Europe?

It is now widely known that former French superstar and current UEFA boss, Michel Platini, is quite keen to  spread EURO 2020 around the UEFA member nations instead of traditionally selecting one host nation. Platini said that the present difficult economic climate in Europe make it unfair for one or two  nations to shoulder the costs of hosting the tournament which will be expanded from 16 to 24 teams for the next edition in France in 2016.

The EUROs - European Championships if you will - will also turn 60 in 2020 and a Europe wide tournament would be an apt way to celebrate this milestone.

It has to be said that Europe has really now become the United States of Europe given that the borderless Schengen zone now extends all the way to the edges of Russia and the Ukraine and that most of the EU states (unfortunately) now use the euro. Therefore, it is pretty apt that the tournament is held throughout united Europe.

Europe is really the United States of Europe now.

So what would EURO 2020 look like? We know that Wembley Stadium is favourite to host the semifinals and final but what about the rest of the tournament?

Group Stages
A -
Estadio de Luz, Lisboa
Estadio de La Cartuja, Sevilla

B -
Friends Arena, Stockholm
Parken Stadion, Kobenhavn

C -
Veltins Arena, Hamburg
Rheinenergie Stadion. Koln

D -
Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
King Badouin Stadium, Brussels

E -
Hampden Park, Glasgow
Aviva Stadium, Dublin

F -
Arena Nationala, Bucharest
Arena of the Roses, Sofia

Round of 16 -
Millenium Stadium, Cardiff
Old Trafford, Manchester
Allianz Arena, Munich
Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Olympic Stadium, Athens
Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow
Atatturk Stadium, Istanbul

Quarterfinals -
Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund
Stade de France, Paris
San Siro, Milan
Camp Nou, Barcelona

Semifinals 1 & 2-
Wembley Stadium, London

Final -
Wembley Stadium, London