If a team arranges to hold a training session the day before the match in the match hall, it must be open to all sectors of the media for at least 15 minutes. If access is restricted to 15 minutes, the host association is responsible for ensuring that the hall is clear of media after this time and that all cameras are turned off.
If requested, associations must make their head coach and one player available the day before each match for interviews with the host broadcaster and the main audiovisual rights holders from the territories of the competing associations.
Each association must make their head coach and at least one player available to the media on the day before the match if requested to do so. Depending on the number of media representatives present, this media activity may be in the form of a press conference or in a less structured format. If the head coach is suspended for the match, the association has the option of replacing them with the assistant coach for this pre-match media activity. The pre-match media activities must be arranged by the associations in such a way that the media can attend both. For the final tournament, UEFA may arrange a larger media day with the relevant coaches ahead of the first match in order to promote the event.
Each team must make its head coach available to the media after the match. Depending on the number of media representatives present, this media activity may be in the form of a press conference or in a less structured format. It must start no later than 20 minutes after the final whistle. If the head coach is suspended for the match, the association has the option of replacing them with the assistant coach. The host association is responsible for providing any technical facilities necessary.
After the match, a mixed zone is set up to offer reporters additional opportunities to conduct interviews. This area is located close to the field of play and the teams' dressing rooms and is accessible only to coaches, players and media representatives.
Each team must provide a minimum of three players who participated in the match to conduct interviews in each section of the mixed zone upon request.
Interviews are not permitted before or during the match on the field of play itself or in its immediate vicinity.
Pre-match, half-time and post-match interviews may take place in the hall as follows. Their timings and locations must be agreed in advance by UEFA and each team.
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The association must make its head coach or a player on the match sheet available for a pre-match interview relating exclusively to the match in question. In principle, this interview is conducted by the host broadcaster and/or the main audiovisual rights holder of the country of the association.
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Additional pre-match interviews may be conducted with the head coach and players, subject to their agreement.
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Half-time interviews may be conducted with the head coach, assistant coach and players, subject to their agreement.
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Each team must make one player available for a super-flash interview with the host broadcaster or the main audiovisual rights holder from its country, as determined by UEFA.
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Flash interviews take place immediately after the final whistle in an area between the substitutes’ benches and the dressing rooms. Both teams must make their head coach and at least two key players available to audiovisual rights holders, if requested.