EUROVISION 2020: DUTCH CITIES WANT IT - AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM OR UTRECHT?

It's been less than two days since Duncan Laurence sung his Arcade to the Eurovision victory and gave The Netherlands their fifth win after 44 years after Ding-a-dong in 1975. Already ten venues in eight cities have showed interest to host Eurovision 2020, added by the whole region of North Brabant.... later specified capital s'-Hertogenbosch's Brabanthallen as the venue. The front runners are Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam but also places like Arnhem, Leeuwarden, Maastricht, Zwolle and The Hague, the host of 1976 and 1980 editions. It's a bit like when Finland won all sort of Rovaniemi and Lahti wanted to be game and quoting Duncan "bidding is a losing game" for them from the start. Simply because they don't have a suitable venue to start with. or they do and it doesn't have a roof.....

But then we have Amsterdam's Ziggo Dome (17.000) and Amsterdam RAI (13.000), already a host for the 1970 contest, and Rotterdam's Ahoy (16.000) with Utrecht's Jaarbeurs (11.000). I suppose it's quite easy to bet on those four with Ziggo and Ahoy as front runners.

Eurovision 2020 will be also fifth time the Netherlands will be hosting the show after Hilversum 1958 in AVRO Studios, Amsterdam 1970 beforementioned Amsterdam RAI, 1976 in Nederlands Congresgebouw (today World Forum) in The Hague that also hosted the 1980 contest after Israel declined to host it again after their 1979 win so there's a nice The Netherlands-Israel coincidence happening!

Amsterdam 1970, 2020?

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