2025 Euro U21 Stadiums: Locations & Stadium Capacity

Slovakia will host the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship from 11 to 28 June. The appointment of the Slovak Football Association (SFZ) was made by the UEFA Executive Committee in January 2023. The matches will be played in eight venues in eight different cities across the country. This is the second Euro U21 that is being hosted in Slovakia after the previous 2000 edition, which was also the first U21 Euros appearance for the Slovakian team. Despite the tournament being the debut for Slovakia, they still managed to obtain their record best 4th position, following which they were eliminated in the group stage during the 2017 U21 Euros.

Slovakia can pride itself on being the first country to host the tournament in a standalone capacity, since its renovation as a 16-team tournament, previously held in Georgia and Romania in 2023 and Hungary and Slovenia in 2021, before its 12-team version was held for the last time in 2019 in Italy. Matches will be played in eight Slovak cities—Bratislava, Trnava, Dunajská Streda, Trenčín, Nitra, Žilina, Prešov, and Košice, with the Organizers expecting around 50,000 fans from across Europe to grace the football gala.

How to Book UEFA Euro U21 Tickets?

Fans are eagerly waiting to watch their favorite young talents take up the big European stage, to play for their country’s pride with fervor in their young hearts. Although the ample broadcast partners of UEFA are spread worldwide to ensure that no part of live action goes awry in the keen eyes of our viewers, there are still many fans who plan to take up a tour of Slovakia through the once-in-a-lifetime experience of viewing and visiting their various magnificent stadiums. The tickets for all Euro U21 matches can be obtained only through the official UEFA U21 Euros website, or any of its designated emissaries used to moderate the traffic of hoarding fans for the tickets for their preferred matches.

The tickets for these matches are divided into three statures, where category 1 tickets for group stage is 15€ quarter-final and semi-final is 20€ and 25€ tickets are available for the final for category 2 tickets, the price is set at 12€ for the group stage, 16€ for initial knockout rounds and 20€ for the final.

Another comprehensive cadre of tickets, referenced as the official hospitality tickets, is priced at a higher cost of 149€ for the group stage, 149€ for the quarters and semis, and a figure of 199€ for the finals. Thus, the fans can enjoy their favourite teams playing at affordable prices, from world-class stadiums all around Slovakia.

List of Major U21 Euros Stadiums Hosting Key Fixtures

Now, although the UEFA Euro U21 administration has explored diverse options of eight stadiums around Slovakia to ensure the smooth functioning of the tournament, along with a cultural inclusion of the resident population of the host nation, there are still certain major standout stadiums, which emphasize a greater importance for the prestigious tournament hosted at Slovakia. The following stadiums are the premium stadiums in Slovakia in terms of ambience, capacity, and the importance of matches being held in them. We will discuss some key statistics for these stadiums:

Tehelné pole (National Football Stadium)

Slovakia’s capital city of Bratislava is home to their National Football Stadium, rebuilt from scratch after the demolition of the previous Tehelne pole stadium in 2013. Since its inauguration in 2019, it has been the home ground for ŠK Slovan Bratislava and the Slovakia national football team, due to its modern architecture and affluent ambience for the 22,500 fans flocking to the stadium to quench their football fervour.

Its strategic location, straddling the Danube and lying close to Vienna and Budapest, gives it a unique appeal. It also has a significant historic appeal due to its existence during World War II, becoming a monument of the Czechoslovak era in the time of modern-day Slovakia. The stadium is approved by the UEFA committee as it satisfies its category 4 standards.

Štadión Antona Malatinského (City Arena):

The stadium was built in 1992, initially with a wooden grandstand and later expanded with landfill on the remaining sides. Thus, it needed renovations to function as a modern-day stadium, which the Slovakian government subsequently obliged through a period from 2013 to 2015, following which it was integrated into the City Arena shopping mall.

The oldest free royal town in Slovakia, Trnava, has long been a religious and cultural center, which has allowed it to become an intersection of modern lore and the ancient history of Slovakia. It has a high capacity of 18,100, which makes it the second-largest stadium in Slovakia after the National Football Stadium. It is Home to the Slovakian side Spartak Trnava and regularly used by national teams as a training and match ground. It has a unique inclusion of a Chapel which goes in sync with the values of the town, as a symbol for encouraging people to have faith in themselves on the field.

DAC Arena:

The DAC Aréna, now known as MOL Aréna, is a football stadium in Dunajská Streda, Slovakia, and has a capacity of 12,700. Located in the heart of Žitný Ostrov, Europe’s largest river island, and an area rich in biodiversity. The stadium was first set up in 1953 as the Mestský Stadion (Municipal Stadium), following which it underwent significant reconstruction in 2008 and ultimately through a modernization process in 2019.

These changes have made it eligible to receive UEFA category 4 criteria certification, while being the home ground for the Slovakian team FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda. The stadium boasts a decent attendance capacity of 12,525, which has allowed it to host several significant matches throughout the course of its rich history.