UEFA Euro 2024

UEFA Euro 2024
Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2024; (in German)
	; 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)
	← 2020 2028 →

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. 24 teams will compete, with Georgia as the only team making their first appearance in a UEFA European Championship finals or a major international tournament.

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 is the defending champion, having won the 2020 tournament after beating England on penalties in the final.^[3]

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.^[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]

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.^[15] Of the 20 members of the Executive Committee, two were ineligible to vote and one was absent, leaving a total of seventeen voting members.^[16]

Venues

Germany had a wide choice of stadiums that satisfied UEFA's minimum capacity requirement of 30,000 seats for European Championship matches.^[17]

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.^[18]^[19] 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.^[20] 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).^[21]

Berlin	Munich	Dortmund	Stuttgart
Olympiastadion Berlin	Fußball Arena München	BVB Stadion Dortmund	Stuttgart Arena
Capacity: 74,461	Capacity: 70,076	Capacity: 65,849	Capacity: 54,906

Gelsenkirchen	Berlin Munich Dortmund Gelsenkirchen Stuttgart Hamburg Düsseldorf Cologne Frankfurt Leipzig		Frankfurt
Arena AufSchalke			Frankfurt Arena
Capacity: 54,740			Capacity: 54,697

Hamburg	Düsseldorf	Cologne	Leipzig
Volksparkstadion	Düsseldorf Arena	Cologne Stadium	Leipzig Stadium
Capacity: 52,245	Capacity: 51,031	Capacity: 49,827	Capacity: 42,959

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.^[22]

Team	Base camp	Training ground
Albania	Kamen, Germany^[23]	SportCentrum Kaiserau
Austria	Berlin, Germany^[24]	Mommsenstadion
Belgium	Ludwigsburg, Germany^[25]	Wasenstadion, SGV Freiberg am Neckar
Croatia	Neuruppin, Germany^[26]	Volksparkstadion, MSV Neuruppin
Czech Republic	Hamburg, Germany^[27]	Edmund-Plambeck-Stadion, FC Eintracht Norderstedt 03
Denmark	Freudenstadt, Germany^[28]	Hermann-Saam-Stadion
England	Blankenhain, Germany^[29]	Golfresort Weimarer Land
France	Bad Lippspringe, Germany^[30]	Home Deluxe Arena, SC Paderborn 07
Georgia	Velbert, Germany
Germany	Herzogenaurach, Germany^[31]	Adidas Campus/HomeGround
Hungary	Weiler-Simmerberg, Germany^[32]	Tannenhof Resort, Sport & Spa
Italy	Iserlohn, Germany^[33]
Netherlands	Wolfsburg, Germany^[34]	AOK Stadion, VfL Wolfsburg (women)
Poland	Hanover, Germany^[35]	Eilenriedestadion
Portugal	Harsewinkel, Germany^[36]
Romania	Würzburg, Germany^[37]	Akon Arena, FC Würzburger Kickers
Scotland	Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany^[38]	Stadion am Gröben
Serbia	Augsburg, Germany^[39]	Rosenaustadion, FC Augsburg (Women)
Slovakia	Mainz, Germany^[40]	Bruchwegstadion, 1. FSV Mainz 05
Slovenia	Wuppertal, Germany^[41]	Stadion am Zoo, Wuppertaler SV
Spain	Donaueschingen, Germany^[42]	Der Öschberghof
Switzerland	Stuttgart, Germany^[43]	Gazi-Stadion auf der Waldau
Turkey	Barsinghausen, Germany^[44]	Sporthotel Fuchsbachtal
Ukraine	Wiesbaden, Germany

Qualification

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.^[45] 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.^[46] The draw for the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying group stage was held on 9 October 2022 at the Festhalle in Frankfurt.^[47]^[48] The qualifying group stage took place from March to November 2023, while the three play-offs were held in March 2024.^[49]

Qualified teams

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 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.^[50]

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.^[51]^[52] 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.^[53]

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^[A]
Germany^[B]	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^[C]	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^[D]	Group G runner-up	19 November 2023	5 (1960, 1968, 1976, 1984, 2000)^[E]
Czech Republic^[C]	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)

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, meaning Russia will not appear at the European Championship finals for the first time since 2000.^[58]^[59]^[60]^[61]

Final draw

The final tournament draw took place on 2 December 2023, 18:00 CET, at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.^[62] 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.^[63]^[64]^[65]^[66] The draw was disrupted by sexual noises whilst it was taking place, as the result of a prankster.^[67]^[68]

Pot 1: Germany (Host), group winners ranked 1–5
Pot 2: Group winners ranked 6–10, group runner-up ranked 1 (6–11 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)

Seeding

Pot 1
Team	Rank
Germany (hosts)	—
Portugal	1
France	2
Spain	3
Belgium	4
England	5

Pot 2
Team	Rank
Hungary	6
Turkey	7
Romania	8
Denmark	9
Albania	10
Austria	11

Pot 3
Team	Rank
Netherlands	12
Scotland	13
Croatia	14
Slovenia	15
Slovakia	16
Czech Republic	17

Pot 4^[a]
Team	Rank
Italy	18
Serbia	19
Switzerland	20
Play-off winners A	—
Play-off winners B
Play-off winners C

Draw

Group A
Pos	Team
A1	Germany
A2	Scotland
A3	Hungary
A4	Switzerland

Group B
Pos	Team
B1	Spain
B2	Croatia
B3	Italy
B4	Albania

Group C
Pos	Team
C1	Slovenia
C2	Denmark
C3	Serbia
C4	England

Group D
Pos	Team
D1	Poland^[a]
D2	Netherlands
D3	Austria
D4	France

Group E
Pos	Team
E1	Belgium
E2	Slovakia
E3	Romania
E4	Ukraine^[a]

Group F
Pos	Team
F1	Turkey
F2	Georgia^[a]
F3	Portugal
F4	Czech Republic

Match officials

In April 2024, 19 refereeing teams were selected to take charge of the 51 matches at the tournament, this included an Argentine team selected as part of a co-operation agreement between the UEFA and CONMEBOL confederations.^[69]^[70]

Refereeing teams
Country	Referee	Assistant referees
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).^[70]

Video match officials
Country	Referee(s)
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

Support match officials
Country	Fourth official	Reserve assistant referee
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

Group stage

UEFA announced the tournament schedule on 10 May 2022, which only included kick-off times for the opening match, semi-finals, and final.^[71]^[72] The kick-off times for all other matches were announced on 2 December 2023 following the draw.^[73]^[74]

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).

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied:^[63]

Higher number of points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
Superior goal difference resulting from the matches played between the teams in question;
Higher number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams who are still level to determine their final rankings.^[a] If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 10 will apply;
Superior goal difference in all group matches;
Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
If on the last round of the group stage, two teams who are facing each other are tied in points, goal difference and goals scored then they drew their match, their ranking is determined by a penalty shoot-out. (This criterion is not used if more than two teams had the same number of points.);
Lower disciplinary points total in all group matches (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card);
Higher position in the European Qualifiers overall ranking, unless the comparison involves hosts Germany, in which case a drawing of lots will take place.

Notes

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification
1	Germany (H)	Advance to knockout stage
2	Scotland	Advance to knockout stage
3	Hungary	Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4	Switzerland

First match(es) will be played: 14 June 2024. Source: UEFA
(H) Hosts

14 June 2024