{"id":410572,"date":"2025-09-09T13:51:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410572\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:51:28","slug":"rams-set-to-host-england-under-21s-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410572\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams set to host England Under-21s game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingderby.co.uk\/bondholders\/derby-county-football-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derby County<\/a>\u2019s Pride Park Stadium is set to host an England Men\u2019s Under-21s game next month.<\/p>\n<p>Managed by former Rams midfielder Lee Carsley, they were the winners of the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in July, having also won the competition in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1820\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/England-U21-jksdjfkdjgfkdjgkdjgkidgtedlgt-1820x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51868\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Under-21s will face Andorra, for their first home fixture since that summer triumph, in a 2027 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Group D qualifier, on Monday 13 October.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the seventh time that Pride Park has hosted an England Under-21s fixture, with the most recent being in 2014 against Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Derby County\u2019s chief executive Stephen Pearce said: \u201cWe are delighted that the Football Association has selected Pride Park Stadium as the venue for England Under-21s\u2019 first home match since winning the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will, no doubt, be a fantastic occasion for the city of Derby and we will be working with the Football Association to welcome a strong crowd to Pride Park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Related Articles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derby County\u2019s Pride Park Stadium is set to host an England Men\u2019s Under-21s game next month. Managed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,140402,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-410572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-derby-county-football-club","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115174669287624405","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}