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Euro 2008 bids deadline looms

Countries wanting to bid to host soccer's Euro 2008 tournament have just 24 hours to submit their bid dossiers to UEFA.

Seven candidates are expected to submit bids, and UEFA has now confirmed they will all be invited to make a brief presentation of their bid at a ceremony in June.
Dubbed the 'official handover', bid representatives will present at the House of European Football in Nyon on June 19.
Only two of the seven bids have been submitted by a single association. The other five are based on joint ventures involving two or four national associations.

Those bidding will be Austria/Switzerland; Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia; Greece/Turkey; Hungary; the Denmark/Finland/Norway/Sweden bid known as ‘Nordic 2008’; Russia; and Scotland/Republic of Ireland.

The ceremony will be conducted by UEFA chief executive Gerhard Aigner.

For an analysis of the Austria/Switzerland bid see the features section of sportbusiness.com