For context, my knowledge of current football is almost non existent.
Yearly football doesn't appeal a lot to me, but what I like about the Euro or the World Cup is seeing a large number of countries represented, and the popular enthusiasm during the matches.
I have fond memories of watching matches on a giant screen or at a friend's house, and no matter what the outcome, it's generally a great time.
So two questions:
would you guys be interested in a !euro2024@instance community? It would be mainly for match feeds and sharing other news.
Would anyone be interested in a prediction contest? You don't have to know a thing about it, it's usually the people who know the least who win.
Tbh, I think you could just use this community for that. There's really no other European football going on at the same time as the Euros. Creating a new community won't have many members (from the already small pool available). It's not like Euros is off-topic for this community.
Like others, I'd keep it on this community, but it would be fun to have a prediction contest as well as match threads and general discussion.
Not sure if it's possible to have some sort of flair system to help identify Euro24 posts and/or user affiliation. I asssume not, as not seen flairs on Lemmy, but you never know.
I'm the same really I used to follow Newcastle but lost interest when they got relegated. I do try to watch the big events though the only one I couldn't was the African World Cup were it was constant vuvuzella noise or whatever the heck their called.