Football Federation Eyeing ‘Full House’ for Euro 2020 Matches in Budapest

MTI-Hungary Today 2021.04.10.

Hungarian football association MLSZ said on Friday that it hoped all tickets would be sold out for four European championship matches to be held in Budapest’s Puskás Aréna.

European federation UEFA announced earlier in the day that the matches in the championships would be played before audiences rather than behind closed doors.

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MLSZ said on its website, however, that viewers would only be allowed in the stadium if they met “strict entry requirements”.

featured image: the stadium’s inauguration game in 2019; via Tibor Illyés/MTI