UEFA Euro 2024

The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2024 or simply Euro 2024, will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organized by UEFA. Germany will host the tournament between 14 June and 14 July 2024.[2]

UEFA Euro 2024
Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2024 (in German)
Tournament details
Host countryGermany
Dates14 June – 14 July 2024[1]
Teams24
Venue(s)10 (in 10 host cities)

It would be the third time that European Championship matches are played in German territory and the second time in reunified Germany: the former West Germany hosted the tournament of 1988, and four matches of the multi nation Euro 2020, due to be held in 2021, are scheduled to be played in Munich. However, it would be the first time the competition is held in the former East Germany with Leipzig as a host city.[3]

Bid process
Main article: UEFA Euro 2024 bids

On 8 March 2017, UEFA announced that only two countries, Germany and Turkey, had announced their intentions to host the tournament before the deadline of 3 March 2017.[4][5]

The host was selected on 27 September 2018 in Nyon, Switzerland.[6]

Voting results
Country Votes
 Germany 12
 Turkey 4
Abstention 1
Total 17

The UEFA Executive Committee voted for the host in a secret ballot, with only a simple majority required to determine the host. In the event of a tie, the UEFA President would cast the decisive vote.[7] Of the twenty members of the Executive Committee, two were ineligible to vote and one was absent, leaving a total of seventeen voting members.

Qualification

As hosts, Germany qualified for the tournament automatically. The 23 remaining spots will be determined through qualifying, with the group stage taking place from March to November 2023, and the play-offs linked with the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League in March 2024.[8] The qualifying draw is expected to take place in December 2022.[9]

Qualified teams
Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament[upper-alpha 1]
 Germany[upper-alpha 2]Host27 September 201813 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
  1. Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
  2. From 1972 to 1988, Germany competed as West Germany.

Venues

Germany had a wide choice of stadia that satisfied UEFA's minimum capacity requirement of 40,000 seats for European Championship matches.

Nine venues used at the 2006 FIFA World Cup were selected: Berlin, Dortmund, Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt and Gelsenkirchen. Düsseldorf, which was not used in 2006 but had previously been used for the 1974 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1988, will serve as a 10th venue; conversely, Hanover, Nuremberg and Kaiserslautern, host cities in 2006, will not be used for this championship.

Bremen's Weser-Stadion (37,441), Mönchengladbach's Borussia-Park (46,249), Hanover's Niedersachsenstadion (43,000), Nuremberg's Max-Morlock-Stadion (41,000) and Kaiserslautern's Fritz-Walter-Stadion (46,000) were not selected.[10] The venues covered all the main regions of Germany but the area with the highest number of venues at UEFA Euro 2024 is the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with 4 of the 10 host cities (Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen and Cologne) there.[11]

Berlin Munich Dortmund Gelsenkirchen
Olympiastadion Allianz Arena Westfalenstadion Arena AufSchalke
Capacity: 74,461 Capacity: 70,076 Capacity: 65,849 Capacity: 54,740
Stuttgart
Hamburg
Mercedes-Benz Arena Volksparkstadion
Capacity: 54,697 Capacity: 52,245
Düsseldorf Cologne Frankfurt Leipzig
Merkur Spiel-Arena RheinEnergieStadion Waldstadion Red Bull Arena
Capacity: 51,031 Capacity: 49,827 Capacity: 48,387 Capacity: 42,959

Draw

The final tournament draw will take place in December 2023. The format used in 2016 and 2020 will be retained.[8]

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References
  1. "Bericht über den Finanzplan zur Austragung der Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2024 in Berlin beschlossen" (in German).
  2. "Bericht über den Finanzplan zur Austragung der Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2024 in Berlin beschlossen" (in German).
  3. "Euro 2024: Germany beats Turkey to host tournament". BBC News. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  4. "Euro 2024: Tournament to be held in Germany or Turkey". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  5. "Germany and Turkey officially interested in hosting UEFA EURO 2024". UEFA. 8 March 2017.
  6. "Germany to host UEFA EURO 2024". UEFA. 27 September 2018.
  7. "UEFA EURO 2024: bid regulations" (PDF). UEFA. 9 December 2016.
  8. "UEFA EURO 2024: all you need to know". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
  9. "UEFA EURO 2024: tournament requirements" (PDF). UEFA. 17 March 2017.
  10. "Evaluierungsbericht Stadien/Städte" [Evaluation report stadiums/cities] (PDF). DFB.de (in German). German Football Association. 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  11. "EURO 2024 an Rhein und Ruhr". nrw.de (in German). North Rhine-Westphalia State Government. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
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