Article 72 Responsibilities regarding media matters – final tournament - Under-21

72.01

Each participating association must appoint an English-speaking team press officer for the whole tournament to coordinate media matters in cooperation with UEFA and the media, in accordance with UEFA’s rules and regulations. The team press officer assists UEFA with access to interviews, training sessions and other team media activities, as well as providing operational information, content and statistics as requested. The team press officer must attend all team media activities, travel with the team to all matches and work alongside the UEFA media officer at the match venues.

72.02

Teams must cooperate to the fullest extent possible with access and interview requests from UEFA media platforms before, during and after the competition. Each team must provide UEFA with access to all players in their squad, the head coach and the assistant coach for a squad access day in order to gather the following content for host broadcaster operations and UEFA digital platforms:

1. a green screen filming session with all players, the head coach and the assistant coach;

2. a photography session with all players, the head coach and the assistant coach;

3. a digital/corporate content session with ten players and the head coach;

4. an interview session with two players and the head coach.

UEFA and the association must agree in advance on the date, time and location of the squad access day and on which players will be made available. Each team’s squad access day must take place no later than four days before the team’s first match in the final tournament unless alternative arrangements are agreed by the team and UEFA.

72.03

For the final tournament, all team media activities at the match stadium are coordinated by UEFA.

72.04

Each team must hold a daily media activity, in accordance with UEFA’s specifications, featuring a minimum of two spokespersons in the form of a press conference, a mixed-zone or an alternative format agreed with UEFA in advance. The team is responsible for the technical set-up of its remote media activities. In addition, teams may hold only one fully closed training session before each match. All other training sessions must be open to the media for at least 15 minutes.