Football is one of the most popular sports in the world with 5 billion fans spread across all the continents. Due to its popularity, there are hundreds of football events happening globally in 2021, in Europe alone there are 36 professional football tournaments with 950 clubs competing in them. The atmosphere at football tournaments is like no other, it is a fantastic experience with the crowds screaming and chanting for their team, watching your heroes in action, and no doubt making friends in the crowd along the way. We’ve found the 3 biggest football tournaments happening in 2021 which would be the most exciting to attend.

 

English Premier League

The English Premier League is the highest level of football in England in which 20 qualifying teams all compete for the title. Although it is the English Premier League it is followed by fans worldwide making it easy to keep up with the EPL live scores and match schedule for this season. This tournament is huge selling over 13 million tickets every year, the tickets cost around $32 per match, or you can purchase a season ticket from your favorite club for entry to all their matches for around $550.

 

FIFA World Cup

This will be the 18th FIFA World Cup and it’s one of the biggest international football tournaments. 24 teams from the 6 continental confederations all compete for the prestigious title, it is hosted in 8 different venues throughout. This tournament only takes place every 4 years and 2.5 million tickets are sold throughout the tournament costing around $110 per match. Germany were the previous winners of the FIFA World Cup in 2017 after beating Chile 1-0 in the final game, this was one of the games with the best atmosphere in the stadium.

 

UEFA European Football Championship

The EUFA European Football Championship is commonly referred to as ‘The Euros’. This is a tournament between teams in the Union of European Football Associations, the 24 best teams in this union all get to compete. This time is the 16th time it has been held and has a slight difference, usually one country hosts all the games but this time all competing countries will host including famous cities such as Budapest and Amsterdam. Portugal claimed the title in 2016 and will surely be fighting hard to retain it at this tournament next year.