2019–20 Home Championship
Tournament details
Dates28–31 May 2020
Teams4 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Wales (13th title)
Runners-up England
Third place Scotland
Fourth place Ireland
Tournament statistics
Matches played4
Goals scored9 (2.25 per match)
← (1983–84)

The 2019–20 Home Championship will be a football tournament played between the four Home Nations (England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland) in June of that year.

It will be the first edition of the tournament played in almost 40 years, after the competition was cancelled after the 1983–84 season due to waning interest in the games and to rising violence of hooliganism.

Northern Ireland, exclusively for this kind of tournament, will compete as Ireland; the anthem will be God Save the Queen and the flag will be the traditional Saint Patrick's Saltire.

History edit

See also: British Home Championship

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Format edit

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Matches edit

Semi-finals machtings
Year First semi-final Second semi-final
2017–18   Scotland   Wales   Ireland   England
2019–20   Wales   Ireland   England   Scotland
2021–22   England   Wales   Scotland   Ireland

Venue edit

Cardiff
Principality Stadium
Capacity: 73,931
 

Teams edit

In the tournament will participate the four historical Home Nations, with Northern Ireland playing with the original name and flag of Ireland (and until 1950).

Match officials edit

For the matches three different foreign refereeing trios (not coming from neither of the four Home associations) will be selected.

Bracket edit

  Semi-finals     Final
  28 May          
    Wales 2  
    Ireland 0         31 May
        Wales 1
  28 May         England 0
    England 2    
    Scotland 1   Third place play-off
  31 May
  Ireland 0
    Scotland 3

Matches edit

Semi-finals edit

Wales  2–0  Ireland
Report

England  2–1  Scotland
Report

Third place play-off edit

Ireland  0–3  Scotland
Report

Final edit

Wales  1–0  England
Report

Notes edit

  1. ^ Northern Ireland using the original name and flag.
  2. ^ First game as Northern Ireland on 26 February 1921.
  3. ^ a b As Northern Ireland.
  4. ^ 3 (last in 1955–56) as Ireland, 5 (first in 1957–58) as Northern Ireland.