All teams will be allowed to select 26 players for this summer’s European Championship finals after Uefa agreed to an increase in the size of squads.
A vote taken by the influential national competitions committee on Monday is understood to have approved a motion to maintain the 26-player limit introduced as an emergency measure for the Covid-disrupted tournament of 2021. Numbers were to be reduced to the traditional 23 for this summer in Germany but were resisted by a number of national coaches, including England’s Gareth Southgate. The proposal must now be signed off by Uefa’s executive, with the process possibly completed as early as this week.
