Are the Euros spoiled by being spread out around Europe with some teams having home advantage?

[MissChief]

Given how the Euros are spread out around Europe and this was planned pre-Covid, are the Euros spoiled by the lack of travelling fans descending into one country (or 2-3 depending on host countries) and is it fair that so many teams are playing at home? So far there have been several teams that have played in their home stadiums, surely giving an advantage to these teams and a disadvantage to others? Belgium were the ‘home’ team against Russia, in Moscow! Thoughts?

 

[MissChief]

It's not a Covid thing, though. Iirc, bidding for this was in the slipstream of the credit crunch recession, and no-one wanted to shoulder the hosting costs.

I think you do lose a sense of identity for the tournament, not having a proper host country/pair of countries.

This. Tournaments are known by their Hosts a lot of the time as well as when they were. Italia '90, USA '94, England '66. Russia 2018 etc.

 

[MissChief]

It's a bit weird at the time but it'll make it easier in future when trying to work out which years the next ones will take place.

All to do with merchandise apparently. UEFA spent millions on stuff with Euro2020 on it and didn't want to trash it and reprint.