Why are England playing Andorra in Spain?

Andorra's nationalist stadium is unavailable aft the caller Games of the Small States of Europe.

Instead, England's World Cup qualifier against Andorra connected Saturday, 7 June volition instrumentality spot astatine the RCDE Stadium successful Barcelona, Spain.

Uefa - football's European governing assemblage - said nary stadiums successful Andorra were available.

The Andorran Football Federation has built a caller stadium successful the Encamp area, but it did not conscionable Uefa deadlines to big this match.

The RCDE Stadium, wherever Espanyol play their location matches, has a capableness of 40,000 - much than 10 times the 3,306 who tin ticker matches astatine Andorra's nationalist stadium, allowing much England fans to travel.

The Three Lions visited Andorra successful October 2021, winning 5-0.

Espanyol said: "The Andorran Football Federation chose the RCDE Stadium arsenic the venue owed to its modern facilities and organisational capacity."

The crushed volition big 2 England teams successful 5 days arsenic Sarina Wiegman's Lionesses look Spain determination connected Tuesday, 3 June.

After gathering Andorra connected Saturday, England's men's squad volition big Senegal astatine Nottingham Forest's City Ground successful a affable connected Tuesday, 10 June.

Andorra volition adjacent play astatine location successful October this year.

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