From June 14 to July 14, 2024, the next Euro will take place in Germany. 21 of the 24 qualifiers will be known on November 21 at the end of the qualifiers before the play-offs scheduled for March 2024 to offer the last three tickets. 12 teams will compete in these play-offs – the 10 nations finishing 2nd in their qualifying pool and 2 drafted taking advantage of the 2022/2023 Nations League – in six semi-finals and three finals. The three winning teams of the finals will complete the list of the final phase of the Euro, three months after the draw for the competition.
The first highlight, eagerly awaited by the selectors, the draw for this 17th edition of the Euro will be held on December 2, 2023 at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. It will be broadcast live on UEFA.com.
Host country, Germany is automatically qualified and will be placed directly in group A as hat 1. The 23 other nations will be divided into four hats (1, 2, 3, 4) according to their results obtained during of the qualifying group stage. The winners of the play-offs will be placed in pot 4.
In hat 1, we will therefore find Germany and the five best teams in the qualifiers. At the top of its group with 15 points in 5 days, the French team therefore has every interest in maintaining the lead with the best possible record. To give yourself the chance of obtaining a more affordable draw than that of 2020, which placed the Blues in a “pool of death” with Hungary, Portugal and neighboring Germany.
This 17th edition of the Euro will take place from June 14 to July 14, 2024. Why not a final victory for the Blues on the national holiday?
Before that, the group stages will end on Wednesday June 26. The round of 16 will be played from Saturday June 29 to Tuesday July 2, before the quarter-finals on Friday July 5 and Saturday July 6. The semi-finals will then be held on Tuesday July 9 and Wednesday July 10, both scheduled for 9 p.m., before the grand final on Sunday July 14, also scheduled for 9 p.m.
No long trip for the Blues, Euro 2024 will take place in Germany. In total, 10 cities were selected for the organization of the matches. The “smallest” stadium is Leipzig with its 42,000 seats, while the largest structure will be the Olympiastadion in Berlin with its 70,000 seats. The final is obviously planned in this stadium. A venue which does not necessarily succeed for the Blues, because it was here that the final of the 2006 World Cup took place, sadly lost to Italy (1-1, tab 5-3).
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