Euro 2024: Full schedule, groups and timings
The Hindu
Euro 2024: Germany will be hosting the tournament, which is scheduled to take place from June 14 to July 14. It will comprise 24 teams, with Georgia the only team making its European championship finals debut.
Euro 2024 will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial football tournament organised by UEFA. Germany will be hosting the tournament, which is scheduled to take place from June 14 to July 14. The tournament will comprise 24 teams, with Georgia the only team making its European championship finals debut.
This is the third time European championship will be plaed on German territory and the second time in reunified Germany. West Germany hosted the tournament’s 1988 edition and four matches of the multi-national Euro 2020 were played in Munich. The tournament will return to its usual four-year cycle after the 2020 edition was postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Italy are the defending champions, having won the 2020 tournament against England on penalties in the final.
The venues are Olymplastadion Berlin, Fubbal Arena Munchen, Westfalenstadion, Stuttgard Arena, Arena AutSchalke, Frankfurt Arena, Volksparkstadion, Dusseldorf Arena, Cologne Stadium, Leipzig Stadium.
The participating 24 teams are grouped in six groups.
Group A: Germany, Scotland, Hungary, Switzerland
Group B: Spain, Croatia, Italy, Albania
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