Euro 2024: when and where is the final played?

From 14 June through to 14 July, football fans around the world will be tuning into the action in Germany as the host nation and Scotland kickstart a month of football as Euro 2024 gets 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 with Italy the reigning champions.

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 leaving eight sides packing their bags and exiting the tournament.

France are primed to go all the way and in a team brimming with talent in every department, the likes of Mbappé, Griezmann, Camavinga, Coman and Saliba are tipped by the Oddspedia supercomputer to bag their third European Championship with a 27.8% chance of being crowned champions.

England are second favourites for many and lead a pack of teams given an outside chance that include the likes of Portugal, Spain, Germany and Italy.

Euro 2024 host cities and final venue

Matches are set to be played ten German cities: Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Stuttgart, Munich and Frankfurt with the showpiece final on 14 July scheduled for Berlin’s Olympic Stadium where the winners will be crowned before a capacity 71,000 fans.

The venue is also home to Hertha Berlin one of the two footballing powers in the capital city with BSC now languishing in the II Bundesliga as the enviously look to city rivals from Kopernick as Union Berlin, traditionally the smaller team in town managed to secure top flight survival and earlier in the season graced the group stage of the Champions League for the first time in the club’s history.