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Euro, Copa America, Olympic Games: the major events of the year 2021

Euro: from June 11 to July 11 (in twelve countries).
France will try to double the World Cup / Euro but will have to come out of a difficult group with Germany, Portugal and Hungary.

League of Nations: October 6-10 (in Italy)
Who will succeed Portugal, winner of the first edition in 2019? The first semi-final will pit Italy against Spain and the second, Belgium against France, for a rematch of the 2018 World Cup.

Copa América: June 11 to July 10 (in Argentina and Colombia)
In five appearances in the Copa America, Lionel Messi has never lifted the trophy, losing three times in the final (2007, 2015, 2016). The Argentinian will therefore try his luck again and cross paths with an exotic opponent during the group stage: Australia. Qatar is also in the game after a first participation in 2019.

Gold Cup: July 10 to August 1 (host country yet to be announced)
Mexico and the United States are as usual the big favorites of the tournament bringing together the selections of North America, Central America and the Caribbean.

Martinique is once again qualified and will have a lot to do in Group B with the USA and Canada. And of course, Qatar will be there and will face, in Group D, Honduras, Panama and Grenada.

Olympic Games: July 21 to August 7 (in Japan)
For the first time since the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, the France Espoirs team will participate in the final phase. With Mbappé? The PSG striker wants to compete in the event but his club is not obliged to release …

With the teams able to select three players over the age of 24, Argentina will be hoping to field Lionel Messi and Egypt to do the same with Mohamed Salah. As for Spain, they want to offer Sergio Ramos the only international title missing from their record.

Champions League and Europa League
The Champions League final is scheduled for May 29 at the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul and the Europa League final will take place three days earlier on May 26 at Miejski Stadium in Gdansk, Poland.

The winners will then meet for the European Supercup in August 2021. The precise date is not yet known and four stadiums are applying to host the meeting: the Dinamo stadium in Minsk (Belarus), the Olympic stadium in Helsinki (Finland), Windsor Park in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and the Metalist regional sports complex in Karkhiv (Ukraine).

For the women, the Champions League final will be played on May 16 at Gamla Ullevi in ​​Gothenburg, Sweden. Defending champion Olympique Lyonnais will try to win an eighth trophy.

FIFA Club World Cup: December 2021 (in Japan)
Seven clubs representing six confederations are expected in Japan including the winner of the Champions League and the Copa Libertadores. The winner of the Japanese championship, the J. League, will qualify as the representative of the host country.

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Ligue 1, Coupe de France, Champions Trophy
The thirty-eighth and last day of Ligue 1 will take place on May 23 and we hope that the championship will remain undecided until the goal as the first leg has been tight.

The Coupe de France final is scheduled for April 24 at the Stade de France.

This year 2021 will also see the 2020 Champions Trophy being played, on January 13, between PSG and OM, at the Bollaert-Delelis stadium, in Lens.

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