The next iteration of the UEFA European Championships will offer something completely new for the 24 teams that make it to the finals in 2020.

With qualifying kicking off next March, now is the perfect time to acquaint yourself with everything you need to know ahead of the biggest tournament in European football history.

THE DATES

Qualifying for the 2020 UEFA European Championships will take place from March 2019 to March 2020, with 55 teams set to battle it out in a group stage qualification tournament in a bid to earn one of the 24 qualification spots for the Finals.

The Finals themselves will run from 12 June to 12 July across 12 host cities in 12 nations. 

THE HOST NATIONS

That's right, there's more than one host nation for the 2020 UEFA European Championships. Rather than just the one host nation, UEFA have decided to instead select 12 host cities across the continent to create a truly pan-European tournament.

London, Munich, Rome, Baku, Saint Petersburg, Bucharest, Amsterdam, Dublin, Bilbao, Budapest, Glasgow and Copenhagen will host the tournament, with each of the six groups of teams being allocated two host cities as follows:

Group A: Rome and Baku

Group B: Saint Petersburg and Copenhagen

Group C: Amsterdam and Bucharest

Group D: London and Glasgow

Group E: Bilbao and Dublin

Group F: Munich and Budapest

Unlike previous tournaments, no host nation gets an automatic pass to the Finals. Everyone has to qualify.

THE FINAL

The final of the competition will be held at Wembley Stadium in London. 

Long revered as one of the showpiece stadia in world football, Wembley underwent a total rebuild in the early 2000s and is now once again considered one of the premier outdoor arenas in the world.

Such is the respect held for Wembley, and the long history of football in England, that the famous London venue was selected as the venue for the 2020 final.

The old version of Wembley Stadium played host to two major tournament finals, the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final and the 1996 UEFA European Championship Final.

Now, 24 years after the huge success of Euro '96, London has the honour of hosting seven matches during the tournament, including the final itself.

The big question for England fans is whether Gareth Southgate's Three Lions side can go one better than their semi-final appearance in the World Cup and make it all the way to the Final on home soil.

THE FAVOURITES

We're still two years away from the finals themselves - and indeed, the qualification tournament hasn't even started - but the international football betting markets for the 2020 UEFA European Championships are already live.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the early favourites for the tournament are newly-crowned World Cup winners France, who are currently 7/2 with bet365 to make it a World Cup-European Championships double.

Germany are always there or thereabouts in the big tournaments, and a disappointing World Cup showing hasn't hurt their early odds for the Euros. They're 7/1 joint-third-favourites to win the title, and just behind another disappointing World Cup performer, Spain, at 9/2.

World Cup semi-finalists Belgium and England are 7/1 and 8/1 respectively, while Portugal are available at 12/1. 

And if you like a value bet, World Cup finalists Croatia are 25/1 to win the Euros in 2020. And with half the odds available to reach the final, they look an excellent each-way bet, too.

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