The Netherlands will be hosting the European Indoor Football Championship from January 19 to February 6, 2022 and Groningen is one of the hosts.
The UEFA Executive Committee announced that The Netherlands would hold the tournament on Tuesday. Five other countries, including France and Portugal, had also applied. The matches are to be played at the MartiniPlaza in Groningen, and the Ziggodome in Amsterdam.
The most important matches and the final are to played in Amsterdam, whilst the MartiniPlaza has been awarded twelve games.
2022’s tournament will be the largest European Indoor Football Championship ever. For the first time, sixteen countries are taking part in a final tournament. The last time such a large indoor football tournament was organized in the Netherlands was 1989, when the Dutch lost the final in the Ahoy sports palace in Rotterdam to Brazil.
Joshua St Juste from Marum
Joshua St Juste, who is from Marum (province of Groningen), has recently been the captain of the Dutch indoor football team. He currently lives in Groningen and plays with the club Hovocubo in Hoorn.
At the Dagblad van het Noorden, he announced at the beginning of 2022 that he would like to play for his own audience in Groningen. As is traditional for host nations in such tournaments, The Netherlands are automatically qualified for the tournament.
