Euro 2020 will finally take place this summer, a year after the scheduled competition was originally planned following the postponement due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
With the tournament held in 2021, why does the name still remain Euro 2020?
Qualification for the tournament started began in March 2019 with the delayed play-offs taking place in November 2020.
It was early as October 2019 that Roberto Martinez's Belgium had qualified for the tournament after they coasted to qualification from qualifying Group I.
The coronavirus pandemic posed a number of different obstacles and Euro 2020 was no different. UEFA insisted that maintaining the name would “keep the vision of the competition”.
But also, prior to the global lockdowns, marketing and branding material had already been released with more merchandise in the pipeline.
UEFA said in a statement: “It will furthermore serve as a reminder of how the whole football family came together to respond to the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, and of the difficult times that Europe, and the world, had to go through in 2020.
“This choice is in line with UEFA’s commitment to make UEFA EURO 2020 sustainable and not to generate additional amounts of waste.
"A lot of branded material had already been produced by the time of the tournament’s postponement. A name change for the event would have meant the destruction and reproduction of such items.”
