Euro 2020 DLC a big possibility?
As we all know, Konami said there will come a big UEFA announcement. Konami ofcourse worked with UEFA for the CL/EL license (and the 2016 Euro license) and also had another deal to advertise in the European Qualifiers games for the 2018 World Cup.
Euro 2020 will be held in multiple countries/cities to celebrate the 60th anniversary and PES already includes 3 of the 12 host stadiums (Allianz Arena, Johan Cruyff Arena and Stadio Olimpico). 1 other stadium has also appeared in PES before (Wembley, last time in PES 2014). All the other stadiums have not been in PES, but they also are not in FIFA except for the (new) San Mames stadium from Athletic Bilbao, thanks to the La Liga license and of course Wembley, which is licensed through the FA (England is also licensed in PES). One of those host stadiums is Zenit's stadium and since PES has exclusive RPL license, I don't think FIFA will have that stadium either (they had it for the World Cup 2018 DLC).
So there is a (big) chance, that PES can license all the stadiums. San Mames is licensed through the La Liga deal, but as we can see that Camp Nou is not in FIFA it means that the club licenses take priority over the league license. So if PES can make a deal with Athletic Bilbao to be in PES (or simply make a deal to use their stadium in PES), PES could have that stadium as it's not an "exclusive" license. Same goes for Wembley, as it's owned by the FA and the FA (England) is licensed in PES. So I don't think Wembley is exclusively licensed in FIFA as well, PES simply have to ask/pay for the use to the FA (in PES 2014 and earlier games the stadium was in both games as well).
And even if PES can't make a deal for (all) stadiums, at least we have a few real ones, unlike the Euro 16 DLC where only 1 stadium was in the game.
Now one might ask: "But doesn't FIFA have the UEFA license?"
As far as I am aware, the CL/EL license does not include the Euros, as Konami had to license the Euros seperately after PES 16 was released and if anyone of you guys remember, back when PES had the CL/EL license in 2012, FIFA 12 had the Euro 2012 DLC.
So, due to the UEFA announcement that is scheduled at Gamescom, combined with some stadiums in the game + some other licenses, the fact that FIFA does not have the (exclusive) rights to the Euro 2020 stadiums and the history of the Euro licenses not being tied with the CL/EL license, the chance is very big that PES 2020 will have an Euro DLC that no matter what will be better licensed than the 2016 one.
However, knowing PES they could easily release the DLC again without any sorts of "extra's". As we can see here they do a good job for some teams and include their stadium, but we have also seen them at times add teams without any "extra's" (remember PES 2018 where they had Atleti + Wanda, but also had Fulham and Valencia without their stadium and without their proper kit fonts?) and as we saw in the Euro 2016 DLC, they didn't even bother adding more venues except for the Stade de France and in the PES 2017 and 18 CL/EL, they didn't even add any venue for the final for at least 1 competition.
But since Adam Bhatti said that they saved a lot of money by losing the UEFA license, they might still have something left to add, although if we are fair they have added a ton in PES 2019 (leagues and even some stadiums).
One might hope.
