The SHOCK winner of EURO 2020 if it had 32 teams!
6What if UEFA EURO 2020 had 32 teams?
Football is an expansionist beast.
Where once World Cups used to house 16 teams in a straight knockout tournament, soon it will balloon to a 48-team, 80-plus game behemoth.
UEFA is no slouch in expanding either. In the club game, it used to be 16 of Europe’s champions compete in the European Cup—straight knockout again—now it’s a 32-team 125-match spectacle and soon to be bloated into a 36-team group phase and double the matches.
Internationally, UEFA are no different: going from 4 teams in the European Championships between 1960 and 1976 to 8 between 1980 and 1992, 16 between 1996 and 2012 before finally settling on 24 teams from 2016.
Today, we out-UEFA UEFA: forget the 24 teams: this is the European Championships with THIRTY-TWO TEAMS!
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