UEFA Euro 2024

The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, also known as UEFA Euro 2024 or simply Euro 2024, was the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship. Germany was hosting the tournament. It took place from 14 June to 14 July 2024. Spain won the tournament against England, winning their 4th title.

Historical background
It would be the third time that the matches are played on German territory and the second time in reunified Germany. The former West Germany hosted the tournament of 1988. Four matches of the multi-national Euro 2020 were played in Munich.

However, it would be the first time the match is held in the former East Germany with Leipzig as a host city.

Italy are the defending champions going into the tournament. They have beaten England on penalties in the 2020 final.

Bid process

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.

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

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The UEFA Executive Committee voted for the host in a secret ballot, with only a simple majority (more than half of the valid votes) required to determine the host. In the event of a tie, the UEFA President would cast the decisive vote. Of the twenty members of the Executive Committee, two were ineligible to vote and one was not there, 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. The qualifying draw is expected to take place in Hamburg in December 2022.

Qualified teams
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Venues
Germany had a wide choice of stadia that satisfied UEFA's minimum capacity requirement of 30,000 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.

Many other stadiums, such as those in Bremen and Mönchengladbach were not selected. 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 four of the 10 host cities (Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen and Cologne).

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Draw
The final tournament draw will take place in December 2023 at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. The format used in 2016 and 2020 will be used again.

 Group stage 

 Group A 

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14 June 20245–115 June 20241–319 June 20242–0 1–123 June 20241–10–1

 Group B 

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15 June 20243–02–119 June 20242–220 June 20241–024 June 20240–11–1

 Group C 

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16 June 20241–10–120 June 20241–11–125 June 20240–00–0

 Group D 

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16 June 20241–217 June 20240–121 June 20241–30–025 June 20242–31–1

 Group E 

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17 June 20243–00–121 June 20241–222 June 20242–026 June 20241–10–0

 Group F 

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18 June 20243–12–122 June 20241–10–326 June 20242–01–2

 Ranking of 3rd place teams 

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Bracket

 Final 

 Statistics 
 Goalscorers 3 goals Harry Kane
 Georges Mikautadze
 Jamal Musiala
 Cody Gakpo
 Ivan Schranz
 Dani Olmo2 goals Jude Bellingham
 Niclas Füllkrug
 Kai Havertz
 Florian Wirtz
 Donyell Malen
 Răzvan Marin
 Fabián Ruiz
 Nico Williams
 Breel Embolo
 Merih Demiral1 goal Nedim Bajrami
 Klaus Gjasula
 Qazim Laçi
 Marko Arnautović
 Christoph Baumgartner
 Michael Gregoritsch
 Marcel Sabitzer
 Romano Schmid
 Gernot Trauner
 Kevin De Bruyne
 Youri Tielemans
 Andrej Kramarić
 Luka Modrić
 Lukáš Provod
 Patrik Schick
 Tomáš Souček
 Christian Eriksen
 Morten Hjulmand
 Cole Palmer
 Bukayo Saka
 Ollie Watkins
 Randal Kolo Muani
 Kylian Mbappé
 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
 Emre Can
 İlkay Gündoğan
 Kevin Csoboth
 Barnabás Varga
 Nicolò Barella
 Alessandro Bastoni
 Mattia Zaccagni
 Memphis Depay
 Stefan de Vrij
 Xavi Simons
 Wout Weghorst
 Adam Buksa
 Robert Lewandowski
 Krzysztof Piątek
 Francisco Conceição
 Bruno Fernandes
 Bernardo Silva
 Denis Drăguș
 Nicolae Stanciu
 Scott McTominay
 Luka Jović
 Ondrej Duda
 Erik Janža
 Žan Karničnik
 Dani Carvajal
 Mikel Merino
 Álvaro Morata
 Mikel Oyarzabal
 Rodri
 Ferran Torres
 Lamine Yamal
 Michel Aebischer
 Kwadwo Duah
 Remo Freuler
 Dan Ndoye
 Xherdan Shaqiri
 Ruben Vargas
 Samet Akaydin
 Kerem Aktürkoğlu
 Hakan Çalhanoğlu
 Arda Güler
 Mert Müldür
 Cenk Tosun
 Mykola Shaparenko
 Roman Yaremchuk1 own goal'''

 Klaus Gjasula (against Croatia)
 Maximilian Wöber (against France)
 Jan Vertonghen (against France)
 Robin Hranáč (against Portugal)
 Antonio Rüdiger (against Scotland)
 Riccardo Calafiori (against Spain)
 Donyell Malen (against Austria)
 Robin Le Normand (against Georgia)
 Samet Akaydin (against Portugal)
 Mert Müldür (against Netherlands)

Broadcasters

The International Broadcast Centre (IBC) will be located at the halls of the Leipzig Trade Fair in Leipzig, Germany.

References

Other websites

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