When and the place is Euro 2024? Dates, fixtures, stadiums and TV protection

Everybody loves worldwide tournaments, proper? It is an opportunity to cheer by yourself nation, watch a foolish quantity of soccer every single day for a number of weeks and see gamers and groups you do not usually get a have a look at.

That is why there’s a lot pleasure constructing round Euro 2024. After the COVID-19 pandemic pushed Euro 2020 again a 12 months after which the winter 2022 World Cup, worldwide tournaments are coming round thick and quick.

It will not be lengthy earlier than Euro 2024 is underway, so this is every little thing that you must find out about this summer season’s competitors.

Euro 2024 will happen in Germany in the course of the summer season of 2024 and can run from 14 June to 14 July.

Two international locations – Germany and Turkey – introduced bids to host Euro 2024 again in 2017 and the Germans took 12 of the 17 votes whole.

Hosts Germany certified routinely as is custom, which suggests 23 spots have been up for grabs within the Euro 2024 qualifying rounds.

53 nations have been divided into ten teams, with seven teams containing 5 groups and three containing six. Every group performed all people of their group residence and away, with the winners and runners-up of every group advancing to the Euro 2024 finals.

There are nonetheless three remaining spots that shall be determined through the play-offs. These will happen in March 2024 with 12 groups participating. The groups have been chosen based mostly on their efficiency within the 2022/23 Nations League, and, clearly, they could not have already certified for the finals.

With three locations on the event nonetheless up for grabs, the March worldwide break will see the Euro 2024 play-offs get underway. Made up of 12 groups, the fixtures have now been introduced for which nations will compete towards each other.

Six one-off video games will resolve the groups that make it to 3 respective play-off finals, with the victors in stated finals securing their spot at this summer season’s European Championship.

The one residence nation concerned within the play-offs is Wales, who host Finland in Cardiff on Thursday 21 March.

Euro 2024 play-off fixtures

Euro 2024 play-off finals

Numerous iconic German stadiums shall be used for Euro 2024, together with 9 that have been chosen to host video games on the 2006 World Cup.

Olympiastadion

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Allianz Enviornment

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Sign Iduna Park

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Mercedes-Benz Enviornment

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Enviornment AufSchalke

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Deutsche Financial institution Park

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Volksparkstadion

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Merkur Spielarena

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RheinEnergieStadion

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Crimson Bull Enviornment

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When and the place are the Euro 2024 semi-finals?

The Allianz Enviornment and Sign Iduna Park – grounds which host the Bundesliga’s two greatest groups Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund – have been chosen because the stadiums to host the Euro 2024 semi-finals.

They’re two of the biggest membership grounds of the ten stadiums chosen for the event, with solely the Olympiastadion boasting a better capability.

When and the place is the Euro 2024 last?

As was maybe to be anticipated, the ultimate of Euro 2024 will happen on 14 July 2024 on the Olympiastadion in Berlin. It’s the present residence of Hertha Berlin and probably the most well-known and bodily imposing stadiums in Europe.

It’s also one steeped in historical past each in relation to soccer and away from soccer. It was constructed for the 1936 Olympics underneath orders from Adolf Hitler in what was primarily one of many largest political propaganda stunts ever tried. These have been the video games the place Jesse Owens, a black athlete for the USA, gained 4 golds regardless of Hitler hoping the occasion would present the supremacy of the Aryan race.

In soccer phrases, it hosted three matches on the 1974 World Cup and 6 on the 2006 World Cup, together with the ultimate between Italy and France. It was a number stadium for the 2011 Girls’s World Cup and likewise held the 2015 Champions League last.

The Olympiastadion is situated within the far west of town, very near Grunewald Forest. It’s simply accessed on each the U-bahn and the S-bahn for travelling followers.

The six teams for Euro 2024 have been revealed, with some mouth-watering match-ups going down this summer season.

Group A sees Scotland face hosts Germany, whereas England reside in a comparatively snug Group C. The ‘group of demise’ is undoubtedly Group B, with underdogs Albania being handed no mercy of their second European Championship marketing campaign.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Every worldwide event brings with it a brand new batch of kits for followers to get pleasure from on their favorite gamers and to purchase themselves. Euro 2024 isn’t any totally different, with some scrumptious strips set to be on show in Germany.

England’s shirts have gone down effectively, whereas Belgium have produced a few corkers, too. Nonetheless, the away kits for Scotland and Spain are two designs that go away rather a lot to be desired.

Panini is the famend sticker producer for soccer albums of varied competitions, however UEFA have signed the rights over to Topps to be their new unique associate for the European Championship till 2028.

Collectors across the continent shall be swapping playing cards and shopping for packs within the hope of finishing their sticker albums over the summer season, with elusive shinies and different particular gadgets up for grabs.

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