EURO 2024
Where is Euro 2024 played: countries and stadiums
The 2024 European Championship gets underway next Friday with host nation Germany facing Scotland in Munich.
The countdown is well underway ahead of the start of the 2024 European Championship with Germany and Scotland set to meet in the tournament opener next Friday (14 June) in Munich.
The competition will run through to 14 July with 51 games coming up think and fast to decide who lifts the trophy at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium in mid July.
Italy are the reigning champions following their dramatic penalty shoot-out win over England at Wembley Stadium in 2021 with the 2020 competition being delayed for 12 months due to the Covid pandemic.
Italy, along with Spain, Portugal and hosts Germany are seen by many as outside bets but both England and France are very much the pre-tournament favourites with less than a week to go before the action commences in Germany.
Euro 2024 stadiums
Berlin: Olympiastadion Berlin (current capacity: 71,000)
Cologne: Cologne Stadium (43,000)
Dortmund: BVB Stadion Dortmund (62,000)
Dusseldorf: Düsseldorf Arena (47,000)
Frankfurt: Frankfurt Arena (47,000)
Gelsenkirchen: Arena AufSchalke (50,000)
Hamburg: Volksparkstadion Hamburg (49,000)
Leipzig: Leipzig Stadium (40,000)
Munich: Munich Football Arena (66,000)
Stuttgart: Stuttgart Arena (51,000)
10 stadiums have been selected to host the matches with Berlin’s Olympic Stadium boasting the highest capacity with 71,000 with Lepizig’s ground able to hold 41,000 fans. The traditional names of the grounds have been modified for the duration of the competition to avoid sponsorship conflicts with no Signal Iduna Park or Allianz Arena naming to be used during the tournament.
Curiously, five of the grounds are used by sides playing in the II Bundesliga with FC Koln relegated this year and Fortuna Dusseldorf’s promotion bid thwarted by VFL Bochum in the play-off promotion double header. Hertha Berlin, Hamburg SV and Schalke 04 are the other tenants of the five grounds in question.
Euro 2024 is being played solely in Germany with the next edition of the tournament set to be held across five countries with games to be staged in Wales, Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in 2028.