{"id":1542,"date":"2024-02-09T01:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T01:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2024-02-09T01:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T01:25:11","slug":"sweden-denmark-team-up-to-bid-for-euro-2029-in-womens-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"Sweden, Denmark team up to bid for Euro 2029 in women&#039;s soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Denmark and Sweden will bid to host the 2029 Women\u2019s European Championship, the two federations said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>They are no longer with their Nordic neighbors Norway and Finland after their four-nation bid for the 2025 edition lost out to Switzerland in a final round of voting by UEFA\u2019s executive committee last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>The tournament of 16 teams and 31 games requires up to eight stadiums to host.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Swedish and Danish soccer leaders announced their bid project in Paris after the annual meeting of UEFA where both had supported its president Aleksander \u010ceferin in a potentially controversial vote on extending term limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Earlier at the UEFA congress, Norway was one of three &#8220;no&#8221; votes, with England and Iceland, in an attempt to separate the term-limit issue from a bloc vote on a wider package of statutes changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Ceferin got all his proposed legal changes approved, then announced at a post-meeting news conference he would not be a candidate in 2027 in an election that could have stretched his presidency to 15 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Ceferin&#8217;s senior vice president at UEFA is Karl-Erik Nilsson of Sweden. Jesper Moller of Denmark is also a UEFA executive committee member and chairs its legal committee which steered the changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Norway is one of the few federations in world soccer to have a female president, Lise Klaveness, who is a former national-team player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>Norway is a two-time European champion in women&#8217;s soccer, and Sweden won the first edition in 1984. Denmark never won the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad>UEFA has yet to open formal bidding for the Women\u2019s Euro 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad><i>Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"mg-t-b-20 ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt88 mg-t-b-20 article-content\" data-v-253f0cad><i><strong>[Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? <\/strong><\/i><i><strong>Create or log in to your FOX Sports account, follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily<\/strong><\/i><i><strong>.]<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark and Sweden will bid to host the 2029 Women\u2019s European Championship, the two federations said Thursday. They are no longer with their Nordic neighbors Norway and Finland after their four-nation bid for the 2025 edition lost out to Switzerland in a final round of voting by UEFA\u2019s executive committee last year. 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