All eyes on Friday night will be locked on the Munich Football Arena as Germany and Scotland kickstart a month of football as Euro 2024gets underway.
51 games will be staged in that timeframe to decide which teams gets to lift the Henri Delaunay trophy in the Berlin final on 14 July.
Italy are the current holders with the ‘Azzurri’ beating England on a penalty shoot-out at Wembley Stadium in 2021 with the previous edition of the tournament delayed for a year as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic with games being played in half-empty stadiums across the continent as a manner of social distancing in an attempt to contain the virus.
Ahead of the tournament, two clear favourites have emerged with France and England widely tipped to go all the way with a chasing pack of contenders including Spain, Portugal, Italy and the host nation.
Euro 2024 format
24 nations have progressed to the finals and are set to play in six groups of four teams with the top two progressing along with the four third best teams leafing eight sides packing their bags and exiting the tournament.
The competition then follows a familiar knockout path of: Round of 16, quarterfinals, semi-final and final match.
The final group stage games will be held on 26 June with the Round of 16 matches taking place between 29 June and 2 July, and the quarterfinals on July 5 and 6. Only four teams will be left at that point ahead of the two semifinals which are schedule for 9/10 July.
Four days later, on 14 July, all eyes with be on Berlin’s Olympic Stadium to discover who are the champions of European football.
The tournament will be staged in ten German cities: Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Stuttgart, Munich and Frankfurt.