UEFA Confuse Everyone By Claiming Next Summer's Tournament Will Still Be 'Euro 2020' Before Deleting Tweet

The world is a weird place right now but UEFA added to the confusion with an announcement that next summer's Euros will still be called Euro 2020, before going back on the announcement.

There's currently no football taking place in any of the major leagues in Europe and that's meant a delay to this summer's Euros, which were due to take place across the continent.

Instead the tournament will take place next summer but on Friday UEFA confused many with a tweet claiming it would still be called Euro 2020, despite taking place in 2021.

"CONFIRMED: Although it will provisionally take place from 11 June- 11 July 2021, #EURO2020 will still be known as UEFA EURO 2020," the statement said.

However after several replies about UEFA being 'too lazy' to change the logo the governing body deleted the original tweet and sent a new one, going back on their original decision.

Apparently the earlier tweet had been sent 'by mistake' and no decision has been made on the name, although Euro 2021 seems like the obvious choice.

The decision to move the Euros, which is undoubtedly the right one, means that the Women's Euros, which is being held in England, will move to summer 2022, presumably no name had been decided for that either.

That summer is free of international tournaments because the World Cup in Qatar won't be played until the winter, and this might be the first time that's been a positive.

UEFA also agreed to extend the domestic seasons until the end of June and the FA have followed suit in their announcements.

Football in England won't start again until at least the end of April but the 1st June season deadline has been lifted to allow all the games to go ahead.

There is currently no guarantee that football will be able to continue in May, or even later in the summer, and no decision on what will happen if countries can't finish their football season by the end of June.

When it's all over at least we'll have next summer's Euros to look forward to, no matter what they're called.

Topics: Football News, Football, UEFA

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