• PA Media: Sport

    UEFA to consider increasing Euro 2024 squad sizes at meeting next month

    A number of coaches have called on European football’s governing body to allow countries to take 26 players to Germany instead of 23.

  • The Independent

    Uefa considers drastic late change to Euro 2024 squad rules amid manager pressure

    Squads were set to return to 23 players for Euro 2024 after two major tournaments with an increased allowance of 26, but that could be about to change at the last moment

  • The Canadian Press

    Larry Lloyd, former Liverpool and Nottingham Forest defender, dies at age 75

    NOTTINGHAM, England (AP) — Larry Lloyd, the former England international who was an integral part of Nottingham Forest’s back-to-back European Cup-winning teams, has died. He was 75. Forest announced the death of Lloyd on Thursday, without disclosing any further details. Lloyd, a center back, played for Liverpool from 1969-74 — the final five years of Bill Shankly’s era-defining managerial reign — and won the first division as well as the now-defunct UEFA Cup in 1973. After a spell at Coventry,

  • The Canadian Press

    UEFA will listen if Euro 2024 coaches want larger 26-player squads to lessen risks from injury

    NYON, Switzerland (AP) — European Championship organizer UEFA said on Thursday it will listen to national team coaches if they want bigger squads of 26 players instead of 23 for the tournament in Germany. Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman said this week the number of injuries in modern soccer meant it was absurd to return to the traditional squad size of 23. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, increased 26-man squads were allowed by UEFA at Euro 2020, a delayed edition played in 2021, and at FIFA’s