UEFA Euro 2024

The **2024 UEFA European Football Championship**, commonly referred to as **UEFA Euro 2024** (stylised as **UEFA EURO 2024**) or simply **Euro 2024**, will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by UEFA for the men's national teams of its member associations. Turkey will host the tournament, which is scheduled to take place from 14 June to 14 July 2024.

It will be the first time in Turkey's history that a major tournament is being hosted on their territory. They have attempted to bid before in previous UEFA Euros and a FIFA World Cup one time but failed all them times. The tournament will return to its usual 4-year cycle as the UEFA Euro 2020 actually took place in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

France are the defending champions, having won the 2020 tournament after beating Russia 6-3 in the Final.

## Bid Process

On 6th March 2017, the Bidding Process began, with Germany and Turkey the two countries which have bidded for UEFA Euro 2024. The host was selected on 26 September 2018 in Nyon, Switzerland after 20 members from the UEFA executive comittee hosted a secret ballot, but 1 was absent, leaving only 19 members to vote. Turkey won 11-8 and ultimately were named hosts of UEFA Euro 2024, which was their first major tournament being played on their own territory.

Voting results
 Germany
 Absent
 Total

## Qualification

*Main Article: UEFA Euro 2024 Qualification*

as hosts, Turkey qualified for the tournament automatically. The 23 remaining spots will be determined by a qualifying tournament; 20 spots will be decided by the direct qualification of the winners and runners-up of the 10 qualifying groups, with the remaining three spots decided by play-offs. Places in the play-offs will be given to the teams that perform the best in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League who have not already qualified via the main qualifying tournament.

The draw for the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying group stage was held on 9 October 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. The qualifying group stage will take place from March to November 2023, while the three play-offs will be held in March 2024.

### Disqualification of Russia

At a meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee in Hvar, Croatia, on 20 September 2022, it was confirmed that Russia would be excluded from qualifying for Euro 2024, all Russian teams having been suspended by UEFA following the country's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This meant Russia would not appear at the European Championship finals for the first time since 2000. Russia were the runners up of UEFA Euro 2020 too.

## Venues

There is 10 stadiums hosting the tournament in Turkey, with 4 of them being in Istanbul, and Izmir, Bursa, Konya, Trabzon, Adana and Izmit also being host cities with 1 stadium in each of the cities.

### Team Base Camps

Each team chose a "team base camp" for its stay between the matches. The teams will train and reside in these locations throughout the tournament, travelling to games staged away from their bases. The "team base camp" needs to be in Turkey.

## Final Draw

The Draw for the final tournament will take place on the 2nd December 2023 at 18:00 CET in Istanbul, Turkey. The teams will be seeded in accordance with the overall European Qualifiers rankings. Hosts Turkey will be automatically seeded into pot 1, and placed in position A1. The three play-off winners will not be known at the time of the draw, and the teams participating in those play-offs, scheduled to be held in March 2024, will be placed into pot 4 for the draw.

* Pot 1: Turkey (Host), group winners ranked 1–5
* Pot 2: Group winners ranked 6–10, group runner-up ranked 1 (11 overall)
* Pot 3: Group runners-up ranked 2–7 (12–17 overall)
* Pot 4: Group runners-up ranked 8–10 (18–20 overall), play-off winners A–C (identity unknown at the time of the draw)

## Group Stage

The schedule was announced on 6th May 2022, but only kickoff times confirmed for Opening Match, Semi Finals and Final.

All times are in Turkey's local time (GMT +3)

## Knockout Stage

In the knockout phase, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each). If still tied after extra time, the match is decided by a penalty shoot-out.

As with every tournament since UEFA Euro 1984, there is no third place play-off.

The specific match-ups involving the third-placed teams depended on which four third-placed teams qualify for the round of 16:

## Marketing

### Logo and Slogan

The UEFA Euro 2024 logo was revealed on 5th October 2021, during a ceremony at the Araturk Olympic Stadium, with the logo being circular, with the turkish flag, and the Euro Trophy infront of it, with people celebrating near the trophy, and a red football and a football pitch at the bottom. The slogan in Turkish is Bu bizim zamanımız, bu bizim oyunumuz. That is english for, This is our time, this is our game.

### Mascot

The official UEFA EURO 2024 mascot was unveiled on 20 July 2023. The Mascot is a Turkey Teddy Bear, with a shirt with the Euro 2024 logo on. A public vote was used to select the name of the mascot, with options being Ali, Mustafa, Hasan or Kemal. With 36% of the vote, the Mascot was named Hasan.

### Sponsorship

* "Official Global Sponsors": Adidas, Alibaba Group (Alipay brand), Atos, Engelbert Strauss, Lidl, Vivo Mobile
* "Official Local Sponsors": Turkish Airlines

## Broadcasters

* ITV Sport and BBC Sport will broadcast in the UK

* Sxm Sports will broadcast in the USA and Canada

## References

1. ↑ UEFA Euro 2024: Heres all you need to know as all roads lead to Turkey for next European Championship
2. ↑ UEFA Euro 2024: Turkey will host its first major tournament in 2024
3. ↑ France 6-3 Russia: France dominant in 9-goal thriller Final as France claim another European Title
4. ↑ UEFA Euro 2024: Germany and Turkey bidding to become hosts in tournament 7 years from now
5. ↑ 26th September 2018: UEFA announces Turkey as host for UEFA Euro in 6 years time, their first time hosting a major tournament
6. ↑ How does qualification to the UEFA European Championship Work?
7. ↑ UEFA Euro 2024 Qualifying Draw: Exciting Groups as the road to Turkey begins in March 2023
8. ↑ Russia will be suspended from Qualification for UEFA Euro 2024
9. ↑ Russia will not be at the UEFA Euros tournament for the first time since 1996
10. ↑ UEFA Euro 2024: Turkey announces the 10 stadiums hosting UEFA Euro 2024
11. ↑ UEFA Euro 2024: Draw to be held in December 2023
12. ↑ UEFA Euro 2024: The Final Tournament Draw
13. ↑ UEFA Euro: Knockout Stage Rules
14. ↑ UEFA announces potential round of 16 schedule for Euro 2024
15. ↑ UEFA Euro 2024 Logo Revealed
16. ↑ UEFA Euro 2024 Slogan: This is our time, this is our game.
17. ↑ UEFA Euro 2024 Marketing: Logo and Slogan
18. ↑ UEFA Euro 2024 Mascot named Hasan after 36% of public voted for the name.
19. ↑ Global Sponsors for Euro 2024: Adidas among one of many sponsors for Turkey 24
20. ↑ UEFA Euro 2024: Turkish Airline becomes official local sponsor for Turkey 24
21. ↑ ITV and BBC broadcasting UEFA Euro 2024 in the UK
22. ↑ Sxm Sports sign a deal with UEFA to broadcast UEFA Euro 2024 and UEFA Euro 2028 in the USA (along with FOX Sports, will split the games) and Canada (showing all 51 games)