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| Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2024 (in German) | |
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 United by Football. Vereint im Herzen Europas. (United in the heart of Europe.) | |
| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Germany |
| Dates | 14 June – 14 July |
| Teams | 24 |
| Venue(s) | 10 (in 10 host cities) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 21 |
| Goals scored | 54 (2.57 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,092,023 (52,001 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Jamal Musiala Ivan Schranz(2 goals each) |
The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2024 (stylised as UEFA EURO 2024) or simply Euro 2024, is the ongoing 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 hosts the tournament, which is taking place from 14 June 2024 to 14 July 2024. The tournament comprises 24 teams, with Georgia the only team making their European Championship finals debut.
It is 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 is the first time the competition is held in what was formerly East Germany with Leipzig as a host city, as well as the first major tournament since the 2006 FIFA World Cup that Germany serves as a solo host nation.[1][2] The tournament returned 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] Having played in Spain's opener against Croatia, forward Lamine Yamal became the youngest player to feature at a UEFA European Championship at 16 years and 338 days old.[4] On the same matchday, Albanian midfielder Nedim Bajrami netted the fastest goal in the European Championship history, scoring against Italy in just 23 seconds.[5] With his start against the Czech Republic, Portugal's Pepe became the oldest player to make an appearance in the final tournament of the European Championship.[6]
Host selection
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.[7][8]
The host was chosen by the UEFA Executive Committee in a confidential ballot,[9][10] needing only a simple majority of votes to win. If the votes were equal, the final decision rested with UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin.[11][12] Out of the 20 members on the UEFA Executive Committee, Reinhard Grindel (Germany) and Servet Yardımcı (Turkey) could not vote because they were ineligible. Lars-Christer Olsson (Sweden) was also absent due to illness. In total, 17 members were able to vote.[13][14]
The host was selected on 27 September 2018 in Nyon, Switzerland.[13][15][16] Germany initially planned to fully host Euro 2020 although never announced any firm interest by May 2012.[17]
| Country | Votes |
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| Germany
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12 |
 Turkey
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4 |
| Abstention | 1 |
| Total | 17 |
Venues
Germany had a wide choice of stadiums that satisfied UEFA's minimum capacity requirement of 30,000 seats for European Championship matches.[18]
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.[19][20] 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, the site of the first game of UEFA Euro 2024, 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.[21]
Various other stadiums, such as those in Bremen and Mönchengladbach, were not selected.[22] 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).[23]
| Berlin | Munich | Dortmund | Stuttgart |
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| Olympiastadion | Munich Football Arena | BVB Stadion Dortmund | Stuttgart Arena |
| Capacity: 71,000[24] | Capacity: 66,000[25] | Capacity: 62,000[26] | Capacity: 54,800[27][28] |
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| Gelsenkirchen | Location of the host cities of the UEFA Euro 2024. |
Frankfurt | |
| Arena AufSchalke | Frankfurt Arena | ||
| Capacity: 50,000[29] | Capacity: 47,000[30] | ||
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| Hamburg | Düsseldorf | Cologne | Leipzig |
| Volksparkstadion | Düsseldorf Arena | Cologne Stadium | Leipzig Stadium |
| Capacity: 49,000[31] | Capacity: 47,000[32] | Capacity: 43,000[33] | Capacity: 40,000[34] |
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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 Germany.[35]
