Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2024 (in German) | |
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Tournament details | |
Host country | Germany |
Dates | 14 June – 14 July |
Teams | 24 |
Venue(s) | 10 (in 10 host cities) |
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 European men's national teams of its member associations. Germany will host the tournament, which is scheduled to take place from 14 June to 14 July 2024 and the winner will later compete in the 2025 CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions against the 2024 Copa América winner. The tournament will comprise 24 teams, with Georgia the only team making its European Championship finals debut.
It will be the third time that European Championship matches are played on German territory and the second time in reunified Germany, as West Germany hosted the tournament's 1988 edition, and four matches of the multi-national Euro 2020 were played in Munich. It will be the first time the competition is held in what was formerly East Germany with Leipzig as a host city, as well as the first time that a reunified Germany serves as a solo host nation. [1] [2] The tournament will return to its usual four-year cycle, after the 2020 edition was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Italy are the defending champions, having won the 2020 tournament against England on penalties in the final. [3]
On 8 March 2017, UEFA announced that 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 chosen by the UEFA Executive Committee in a confidential ballot, [6] [7] needing only a simple majority of votes to win. If the votes were equal, the final decision rested with UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin. [8] [9] Out of the 20 members on the UEFA Executive Committee, Reinhard Grindel (Germany) and Servet Yardımcı (Turkey) couldn't vote because they were ineligible. Lars-Christer Olsson (Sweden) was also absent due to illness. In total, 17 members were able to vote. [10] [11]
The host was selected on 27 September 2018 in Nyon, Switzerland. [10] [12] [13] Germany initially planned to fully host Euro 2020 although never announced any firm interest by May 2012. [14]
Country | Votes |
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Germany | 12 |
Turkey | 4 |
Abstention | 1 |
Total | 17 |
Germany had a wide choice of stadiums that satisfied UEFA's minimum capacity requirement of 30,000 seats for European Championship matches. [15]
Of the ten venues selected for Euro 2024, nine were used for the 2006 FIFA World Cup: Berlin, Dortmund, Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, and Gelsenkirchen. [16] [17] 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 the tenth venue; conversely, Hanover, Nuremberg and Kaiserslautern, host cities in 2006 (in addition to 1974 and 1988 in Hanover's case), will not be used for this championship. Munich was also a host city at the multi-national UEFA Euro 2020 tournament, hosting four matches (three involving Germany) in front of a greatly reduced number of spectators due to COVID-19 restrictions.[ citation needed ]
Various other stadiums, such as those in Bremen and Mönchengladbach, were not selected. [18] 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 ten host cities (Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen and Cologne). [19]
Berlin | Munich | Dortmund | Stuttgart |
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Olympiastadion Berlin | Fußball Arena München | Westfalenstadion | Stuttgart Arena |
Capacity: 70,033 | Capacity: 66,026 | Capacity: 61,524 | Capacity: 50,998 |
Gelsenkirchen | Frankfurt | ||
Arena AufSchalke | Frankfurt Arena | ||
Capacity: 49,471 | Capacity: 48,057 | ||
Hamburg | Düsseldorf | Cologne | Leipzig |
Volksparkstadion | Düsseldorf Arena | Cologne Stadium | Leipzig Stadium |
Capacity: 50,215 | Capacity: 46,264 | Capacity: 46,922 | Capacity: 46,635 |
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 Germany. [20]
As hosts, Germany qualified for the tournament automatically. The 23 remaining spots were determined by a qualifying tournament; 20 spots were 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. [43] Places in the play-offs were given to the teams that performed the best in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League who did not already qualify via the main qualifying tournament. [44] The draw for the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying group stage was held on 9 October 2022 at the Festhalle in Frankfurt. [45] [46] The qualifying group stage took place from March to November 2023, while the three play-offs were held in March 2024. [47]
Of the 24 teams that qualified for the tournament, 19 participated in the previous edition. These include the defending champions Italy and runners-up England, as well as 2022 World Cup runners-up France and bronze medalist Croatia. Portugal were the only team to qualify with a flawless record, whilst France, England, Belgium, Hungary, and Romania also qualified without a loss. [48]
Albania and Romania returned after missing out on Euro 2020, the former qualifying for only their second major tournament. Serbia and Slovenia both returned for the first time since Euro 2000, with Serbia qualifying for the first time since Serbia and Montenegro became separate nations, and Slovenia qualifying for their fourth major tournament as an independent nation. [49] [50] Georgia beat Greece on penalties in the play-offs to qualify for their first-ever tournament since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, also becoming the only debutants for this edition and ensuring every final tournament since the first one in 1960 saw one new team make their debut. [51]
Notable absentees include Sweden, Russia, and Wales. Sweden failed to reach the finals for the first time since Euro 1996 and also failed to qualify for their second major tournament in a row, having missed out on the 2022 World Cup. Russia, who were regulars at finals since Euro 2000, were barred from the qualifiers altogether in the aftermath of the country's invasion of Ukraine, the first time a national team had been banned from the competition since FR Yugoslavia in 1992. Wales, who reached the knockout stages at the previous two editions, including the semi-finals at Euro 2016, lost to Poland on penalties in the play-offs. Having made their debut at the previous edition, North Macedonia and Finland failed to qualify for this edition.
Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament [upper-alpha 1] |
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Germany [upper-alpha 2] | Host | 27 September 2018 | 13 ( 1972 , 1976, 1980 , 1984, 1988 , 1992, 1996 , 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 ) |
Belgium | Group F winner | 13 October 2023 | 6 ( 1972 , 1980, 1984, 2000 , 2016, 2020) |
France | Group B winner | 13 October 2023 | 10 ( 1960 , 1984 , 1992, 1996, 2000 , 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 , 2020) |
Portugal | Group J winner | 13 October 2023 | 8 (1984, 1996, 2000, 2004 , 2008, 2012, 2016 , 2020) |
Scotland | Group A runner-up | 15 October 2023 | 3 (1992, 1996, 2020 ) |
Spain | Group A winner | 15 October 2023 | 11 ( 1964 , 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 , 2012 , 2016, 2020 ) |
Turkey | Group D winner | 15 October 2023 | 5 (1996, 2000, 2008, 2016, 2020) |
Austria | Group F runner-up | 16 October 2023 | 3 ( 2008 , 2016, 2020) |
England | Group C winner | 17 October 2023 | 10 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996 , 2000, 2004, 2012, 2016, 2020 ) |
Hungary | Group G winner | 16 November 2023 | 4 (1964, 1972, 2016, 2020 ) |
Slovakia [upper-alpha 3] | Group J runner-up | 16 November 2023 | 5 (1960, 1976 , 1980, 2016, 2020) |
Albania | Group E winner | 17 November 2023 | 1 (2016) |
Denmark | Group H winner | 17 November 2023 | 9 (1964, 1984, 1988, 1992 , 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012, 2020 ) |
Netherlands | Group B runner-up | 18 November 2023 | 10 (1976, 1980, 1988 , 1992, 1996, 2000 , 2004, 2008, 2012, 2020 ) |
Romania | Group I winner | 18 November 2023 | 5 (1984, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2016) |
Switzerland | Group I runner-up | 18 November 2023 | 5 (1996, 2004, 2008 , 2016, 2020) |
Serbia [upper-alpha 4] | Group G runner-up | 19 November 2023 | 5 (1960, 1968, 1976 , 1984, 2000) [upper-alpha 5] |
Czech Republic [upper-alpha 3] | Group E runner-up | 20 November 2023 | 10 (1960, 1976 , 1980, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) |
Italy | Group C runner-up | 20 November 2023 | 10 ( 1968 , 1980 , 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 ) |
Slovenia | Group H runner-up | 20 November 2023 | 1 (2000) |
Croatia | Group D runner-up | 21 November 2023 | 6 (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) |
Georgia | Play-off Path C winner | 26 March 2024 | 0 (debut) |
Ukraine | Play-off Path B winner | 26 March 2024 | 3 ( 2012 , 2016, 2020) |
Poland | Play-off Path A winner | 26 March 2024 | 4 (2008, 2012 , 2016, 2020) |
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, reaffirming the suspension of all Russian teams following the country's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and making this the first European Championship finals Russia would miss since 2000. [56] [57] [58] [59]
The final tournament draw took place on 2 December 2023, 18:00 CET, at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. [60] The teams were seeded in accordance with the overall European Qualifiers rankings. Hosts Germany were automatically seeded into pot 1, and they were placed in position A1. The three play-off winners were not known at the time of the draw, and the teams participating in those play-offs, scheduled to be held in March 2024, were placed into pot 4 for the draw. [61] [62] [63] [64] The draw was disrupted by sexual noises whilst it was taking place, as the result of a prankster. [65] [66]
Team | Rank |
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Germany (hosts) | — |
Portugal | 1 |
France | 2 |
Spain | 3 |
Belgium | 4 |
England | 5 |
Team | Rank |
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Hungary | 6 |
Turkey | 7 |
Romania | 8 |
Denmark | 9 |
Albania | 10 |
Austria | 11 |
Team | Rank |
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Netherlands | 12 |
Scotland | 13 |
Croatia | 14 |
Slovenia | 15 |
Slovakia | 16 |
Czech Republic | 17 |
Team | Rank |
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Italy | 18 |
Serbia | 19 |
Switzerland | 20 |
Play-off winners A | — |
Play-off winners B | |
Play-off winners C |
Pos | Team |
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A1 | Germany |
A2 | Scotland |
A3 | Hungary |
A4 | Switzerland |
Pos | Team |
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B1 | Spain |
B2 | Croatia |
B3 | Italy |
B4 | Albania |
Pos | Team |
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C1 | Slovenia |
C2 | Denmark |
C3 | Serbia |
C4 | England |
Pos | Team |
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D1 | Poland [lower-alpha 1] |
D2 | Netherlands |
D3 | Austria |
D4 | France |
Pos | Team |
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E1 | Belgium |
E2 | Slovakia |
E3 | Romania |
E4 | Ukraine [lower-alpha 1] |
Pos | Team |
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F1 | Turkey |
F2 | Georgia [lower-alpha 1] |
F3 | Portugal |
F4 | Czech Republic |
The maximum squad size of the teams was increased from the original quota of 23 to 26 players. Teams must provide the list containing a minimum of 23 players and a maximum of 26 by the deadline of 7 June. [67]
In April 2024, 19 refereeing teams were selected to take charge of the 51 matches at the tournament, including an Argentine team selected as part of a co-operation agreement between the UEFA and CONMEBOL confederations. [68] [69]
Country | Referee | Assistant referees | Matches assigned |
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Spain | Jesús Gil Manzano | Diego Barbero Sevilla Ángel Nevado Rodriguez | |
Italy | Marco Guida | Filippo Meli Giorgio Peretti | |
Romania | István Kovács | Vasile Florin Marinescu Mihai Ovidiu Artene | |
Slovakia | Ivan Kružliak | Branislav Hancko Jan Pozor | |
France | François Letexier | Cyril Mugnier Mehdi Rahmouni | |
Netherlands | Danny Makkelie | Hessel Steegstra Jan de Vries | |
Poland | Szymon Marciniak | Tomasz Listkiewicz Adam Kupsik | |
Turkey | Halil Umut Meler | Mustafa Emre Eyisoy Kerem Ersoy | |
Sweden | Glenn Nyberg | Mahbod Beigi Andreas Söderkvist | |
England | Michael Oliver | Stuart Burt Dan Cook | |
Italy | Daniele Orsato | Ciro Carbone Alessandro Giallatini | |
Switzerland | Sandro Schärer | Stéphane de Almeida Bekim Zogaj | |
Germany | Daniel Siebert | Jan Seidel Rafael Foltyn | |
Portugal | Artur Soares Dias | Paulo Soares Pedro Ribeiro | |
England | Anthony Taylor | Gary Beswick Adam Nunn | |
Argentina | Facundo Tello | Gabriel Chade Ezequiel Brailovsky | |
France | Clément Turpin | Nicolas Danos Benjamin Pages | |
Slovenia | Slavko Vinčić | Tomaž Klančnik Andraž Kovačič | |
Germany | Felix Zwayer | Stefan Lupp Marco Achmüller |
In addition, UEFA announced twenty video match officials and twelve support match officials (who will act as fourth official or reserve assistant referee). [69]
Country | Referee(s) |
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England | Stuart Attwell David Coote |
France | Jérôme Brisard Willy Delajod |
Germany | Bastian Dankert Christian Dingert Marco Fritz |
Italy | Massimiliano Irrati Paolo Valeri |
Netherlands | Rob Dieperink Pol van Boekel |
Poland | Bartosz Frankowski Tomasz Kwiatkowski |
Romania | Catalin Popa |
Slovenia | Nejc Kajtazovič |
Portugal | Tiago Martins |
Spain | Alejandro Hernández Hernández Juan Martínez Munuera |
Switzerland | Fedayi San |
Turkey | Alper Ulusoy |
Country | Fourth official | Reserve assistant referee |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina | Irfan Peljto | Senad Ibrišimbegović |
Lithuania | Donatas Rumšas | Aleksandr Radiuš |
Netherlands | Serdar Gözübüyük | Johan Balder |
Norway | Espen Eskås | Jan Erik Engan |
Slovenia | Rade Obrenović | Jure Praprotnik |
Ukraine | Mykola Balakin | Oleksandr Berkut |
UEFA announced the tournament schedule on 10 May 2022, which only included kick-off times for the opening match, semi-finals, and final. [70] [71] The kick-off times for all other matches were announced on 2 December 2023 following the draw. [72] [73]
Group winners, runners-up and the best four third-placed teams will advance to the round of 16.
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied: [61]
Notes
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Germany (H) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Scotland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage based on ranking |
4 | Switzerland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Spain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Croatia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | Italy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage based on ranking |
4 | Albania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Slovenia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Denmark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | Serbia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage based on ranking |
4 | England | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | Austria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage based on ranking |
4 | France | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Belgium | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Slovakia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | Romania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage based on ranking |
4 | Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Turkey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Georgia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | Portugal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Possible knockout stage based on ranking |
4 | Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | A | Third place Group A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | B | Third place Group B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | C | Third place Group C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
4 | D | Third place Group D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
5 | E | Third place Group E | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
6 | F | Third place Group F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
In the knockout stage, 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. [61]
As with every tournament since UEFA Euro 1984, there is no third place play-off.
The specific match-ups involving the third-placed teams depend on which four third-placed teams qualify for the round of 16: [61]
Third-placed teams qualify from groups | 1B vs | 1C vs | 1E vs | 1F vs | ||||||
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A | B | C | D | 3A | 3D | 3B | 3C | |||
A | B | C | E | 3A | 3E | 3B | 3C | |||
A | B | C | F | 3A | 3F | 3B | 3C | |||
A | B | D | E | 3D | 3E | 3A | 3B | |||
A | B | D | F | 3D | 3F | 3A | 3B | |||
A | B | E | F | 3E | 3F | 3B | 3A | |||
A | C | D | E | 3E | 3D | 3C | 3A | |||
A | C | D | F | 3F | 3D | 3C | 3A | |||
A | C | E | F | 3E | 3F | 3C | 3A | |||
A | D | E | F | 3E | 3F | 3D | 3A | |||
B | C | D | E | 3E | 3D | 3B | 3C | |||
B | C | D | F | 3F | 3D | 3C | 3B | |||
B | C | E | F | 3F | 3E | 3C | 3B | |||
B | D | E | F | 3F | 3E | 3D | 3B | |||
C | D | E | F | 3F | 3E | 3D | 3C |
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
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30 June – Gelsenkirchen | ||||||||||||||
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29 June – Berlin | ||||||||||||||
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The official logo was unveiled on 5 October 2021, during a ceremony at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. The logo depicts the Henri Delaunay Trophy with 24 coloured slices around the trophy representing the 24 participating nations, and the ellipse reflects the shape of the Olympiastadion. [75] In addition, each of the ten host cities has their own unique logo, featuring the following local sights: [76]
The official slogan of the tournament is "United by Football. Vereint im Herzen Europas." The slogan was chosen to promote diversity and inclusion. [77]
In November 2023, it was announced that EA Sports had picked up the rights for the UEFA Euro 2024 video game, and that the Euro 2024 downloadable update would be coming to EA Sports FC 24 , EA Sports FC Mobile , and EA Sports FC Online in the summer of 2024. [78]
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In December 2023, Italian DJ group Meduza, American pop band OneRepublic and German singer Kim Petras were all announced as the official music artists of the tournament. [81] However, in March 2024, it was announced that Petras had withdrawn from production due to scheduling issues, and was replaced by German singer Leony. [82] The official song, "Fire", was released on 10 May 2024. [83]
The International Broadcast Centre (IBC) will be located at the halls of the Leipzig Trade Fair in Leipzig, Germany. [84]
Unlike the previous two tournaments, UEFA has discontinued 4K ultra-high-definition broadcasts due to technical constraints, and amid lukewarm interest in the format among European broadcasters in comparison to high-dynamic-range (HDR) color. [85]
UEFA will use virtual advertising for the first time in the history of Euros, having three different types of sponsorship besides the Global sponsors, one pack for Germany, one for USA and another for the Chinese market. [86]
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The official match ball of the tournament, "Fussballliebe", was unveiled by UEFA and Adidas on 15 November 2023. [109] Translated from the German as "Love of football", it features black wing shapes with red, blue, orange and green edges and curves to showcase the qualified nations' vibrancy to the tournament, and the love that fans around the world give to football. Created with sustainable organic materials[ citation needed ], this is the first ball for a UEFA Euro to feature "Connected Ball Technology", where it contains internal electronic sensors, allowing detection of its movement for UEFA match officials to use to assist in decision-making. [110]
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The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2020 or simply Euro 2020, was the 16th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
The UEFA European Championship is one of the major competitive international football tournaments, first played in 1960. The finals stage of the tournament takes place every four years, with a qualifying competition beforehand. The sixteenth tournament was held across Europe in 2021.
The 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 21st edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, a biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe. The final tournament was hosted in Poland for the first time, after their bid was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee on 26 January 2015 in Nyon, Switzerland. The tournament took place from 16–30 June 2017. Players born on or after 1 January 1994 were eligible for the tournament.
The UEFA European Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA. Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current name in 1968. Starting with the 1996 tournament, specific championships are often referred to in the form "Euro 2008" or whichever year is appropriate. Prior to entering the tournament all teams other than the host nations compete in a qualifying process.
The UEFA European Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA. Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current name in 1968. Starting with the 1996 tournament, specific championships are often referred to in the form "Euro 2008" or whichever year is appropriate. Prior to entering the tournament, all teams other than the host nations compete in a qualifying process.
Poland have participated in four UEFA European Championships so far, all consecutively: Euro 2008, Euro 2012, Euro 2016 and Euro 2020, with an upcoming fifth appearance at Euro 2024.
Ukraine have appeared in three UEFA European Championships – Euro 2012, Euro 2016, and Euro 2020, with an upcoming fourth appearance at Euro 2024. Before 1996, some of its players played for the Soviet Union national team and CIS national team – Oleksiy Mykhailychenko, Hennadiy Lytovchenko, Oleh Luzhnyi, Ivan Hetsko and others.
The 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 22nd edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe. The final tournament was hosted by Italy in mid-2019, after their bid was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee on 9 December 2016 in Nyon, Switzerland.
Albania have qualified twice for the UEFA European Championship — in 2016 and 2024. On both occasions, they directly qualified after securing a top two spot in their qualifying group. Euro 2016 was the side's first ever appearance at a major tournament finals.
The 2022 UEFA European Women's Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Women's Euro 2022 or simply Euro 2022, was the 13th edition of the UEFA Women's Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by UEFA for the women's national teams of Europe. It was the second edition since it was expanded to 16 teams. The tournament was hosted by England, and was originally scheduled to take place from 7 July to 1 August 2021. However, the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe in early 2020 resulted in subsequent postponements of the 2020 Summer Olympics and UEFA Euro 2020 to summer 2021, so the tournament was rescheduled for 6 to 31 July 2022 – unlike some other major tournaments which were similarly delayed, it was also re-titled. England last hosted the tournament in 2005, which had been the final tournament to feature just eight teams.
The 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 23rd edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe. Initially, 12 teams were to play in the tournament, however on 6 February 2019, UEFA's executive committee increased this number to 16. Only players born on or after 1 January 1998 were eligible to participate.
The 2022 UEFA European Under-19 Championship was the 19th edition of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship, the annual international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-19 national teams of Europe. Slovakia hosted the tournament between 18 June and 1 July 2022. A total of eight teams played in the tournament, with players born on or after 1 January 2003 eligible to participate.
The 2022–23 UEFA Nations League was the third season of the UEFA Nations League, an international association football competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of UEFA. The competition was held from June to September 2022, June 2023, and March 2024.
The 2024 UEFA Champions League final will be the final match of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League, the 69th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 32nd season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League. It will be held at Wembley Stadium in London, England, on 1 June 2024, between German club Borussia Dortmund and Spanish club Real Madrid. Due to the postponement and relocation of the 2020 final, the final hosts were shifted back a year, with London instead hosting the 2024 final.
The 2023 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 24th edition of the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by UEFA for the men's under-21 national teams of Europe. A total of 16 teams played in the final tournament, and only players born on or after 1 January 2000 were eligible to participate.
The play-offs of the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying tournament decided the last three teams that qualified for the UEFA Euro 2024 final tournament in Germany. The twelve participants of the play-offs were selected based on their performance in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League. The teams were divided into three paths, each containing four teams, with each play-off path featuring two single-leg semi-finals, and one single-leg final. The three play-off path winners joined hosts Germany and the twenty other teams already qualified for UEFA Euro 2024.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)on 20 March 2024 it was announced that due to unforeseen scheduling issues Kim Petras could no longer be part of the production of the official UEFA EURO 2024 song. Instead, German singer and songwriter Leony was announced as an official UEFA EURO 2024 music artist, who together with Italian producers Meduza and American pop-rock trailblazers OneRepublic will perform the official tournament song.