Uefa to decide on Euro '28 hosting slots next week

Dublin’s Aviva Stadium will stage six games, potentially seven, as part of their co-hosting with UK federations of England, Scotland and Wales.

As Ireland will likely be third seeds, that back-door route may be invoked to ensure they figure at the first Euros since the team led by Martin O’Neill and Roy Keane reached the last-16 stage of the 2016 event in France. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Ireland’s automatic path to featuring at the Euro 2028 finals they’re co-hosting will become clearer when Uefa rubberstamp the competition structure next Wednesday.

The European governing body’s executive committee will convene ahead of the Europa League final in Bilbao, where the competition matters for the next men’s tournament tops the agenda.