When and where will Euro 2024 be played? Data, dates, stadiums and television coverage

Everyone in football likes an international tournament. It is an opportunity to support your country, watch many games every day for several weeks, as well as keep an eye on players and teams that you normally do not follow in your daily life.

This is the reason why there is great expectation around Euro 2024. After the COVID-19 pandemic will force Euro 2020 to be delayed by one year, and the subsequent celebration of the 2022 World Cup in winter, international tournaments are They are happening more regularly.

There is less and less left until we can enjoy this fantastic tournament. That is why, below, we leave you with all the information you need to know about Euro 2024.

Euro 2024 will be held in Germany during the summer of 2024, and specifically will take place from June 14 to July 14.

Two countries, Germany and Turkey, announced their candidatures to host this competition in 2017, and Germany finally achieved 12 of the 17 total votes.

With the German National Team automatically classified as the host of the tournament, there were 23 spots available, and for which the different European teams had to compete in the qualification round for Euro 2024.

53 national teams were divided into ten groups, where there were seven groups of five teams, and three groups of six teams. Each team would face all members of the group both home and away, with the first and second places advancing to the final round of the tournament.

From here, there were three gaps that still had to be decided via the play-offs. These took place in the month of March 2024, with 12 teams competing for those places. The teams were selected taking into account their participation in the 2022/2023 Nations League, and that, of course, they had not yet qualified for the final round of Euro 2024.

During the international break in March, clashes took place to decide the last qualifiers for Euro 2024.

Six matches decided the three teams that went to the final round of the playoffs, and the winners of these final matches qualified for Euro 2024.

Playoff semi-finals

playoff finals

Some of the most iconic German stadiums will be in charge of hosting the Euro 2024 matches, including nine of those that were selected for the 2006 World Cup.

Olympiastadion

City: Berlin

Ability: 74,461

Matches

Allianz Arena

City: Munich

Ability: 70,076

Matches

Signal Iduna Park

City: Dortmund

Ability: 65,849

Matches

Mercedes-Benz Arena

City: Stuttgart

Ability: 54,906

Matches

Arena AufSchalke

City: Gelsenkirchen

Ability: 54,740

Matches

Deutsche Bank Park

City: Frankfurt

Ability: 54,697

Matches

Volksparkstadion

City: Hamburg

Ability: 52,245

Matches

Merkur Spielarena

City: Dusseldorf

Ability: 51,031

Matches

RheinEnergieStadion

City: Cologne

Ability: 49,827

Matches

Red Bull Arena

City: Leipzig

Ability: 42,959

Matches

The Allianz Arena and Signal Iduna Park, the two stadiums of the largest teams in Germany, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, are chosen to host the semifinals of this tournament.

They are two of the largest stadiums in the entire tournament, only behind the Olympiastadion in terms of capacity.

As expected, the Euro 2024 final will take place on July 14, 2024 at the OlympiaStadion in Berlin. It is the home of Hertha Berlin and one of the largest and most impressive stadiums in Europe.

Date: Sunday July 14

Schedule: 9:00 p.m. in Spain, 5:00 p.m. in Argentina, 2:00 p.m. in Mexico

Stadium: Olympiastadion

Ability: 74,461

City: Berlin

It is a stadium with a great history both inside and outside of football. It was built for the 1936 Olympics, under the orders of Adolf Hitler, in one of the greatest propaganda strategies ever attempted. These were the Olympic Games in which Jesse Owens, a black athlete from the United States, won four gold medals even though Hitler intended to use the event to showcase the supremacy of the Aryan race.

In football terms, it hosted three matches from the 1974 World Cup and six from the 2006 World Cup, including the final between Italy and France. The 2011 Women's World Cup and the 2015 Champions League final have also been held in this stadium.

Group A

B Group

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

The France Kylian Mbappé dreams of adding Euro 2024 to his triumphs in the 2018 World Cup and the 2021 Nations League, although England He has a dream attack that places him as one of the serious candidates for the title.

Germany, after the return of Toni Kroos, has reached a high level of play, and has young players of great technical quality, such as Musiala or Wirtz, so they have a great chance of lifting the trophy. For their part, the winners of the year 2016, Portugalled by Cristiano Ronaldo, dream of lifting the title again, so they need the best performance of players such as Bruno Fernandes, Bernardo Silva and others.

Spainif he manages to play his possession game and has his best players available, he can be one of the selections to take into account. Italyfor its part, seems a step below given that it does not have such big-name players, but it will surely be a team to take into account as well.