The 2024 European Football Championship ( German : Fußball-Europameisterschaft 2024 ), commonly known as UEFA Euro 2024 , is the 17th edition of the European Football Championship , an international football tournament won every four years. for national teams belonging to UEFA members . The tournament will take place in Germany from June 14 to July 14, 2024.
This will be the third time the European Football Championship has been held on German territory and the second time within a reunified Germany: the former West Germany hosted the 1988 tournament and four matches of Euro 2020 (held organization in 11 countries) was held in 2021 in Munich . However, this will be the first time the tournament will be held in the former East Germany with Leipzig as a host city. [first]
The event will return to the Euro’s traditional four-year cycle after Euro 2020 was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic . [2]
Italy are the defending champions going into the tournament, having defeated England on penalties in the 2020 final .
As hosts, Germany automatically qualified for the tournament. The remaining 23 places are determined through qualifying, with the group stage to be played from March to November 2023 and the play-offs linked to the 2022–24 UEFA Nations League in March 2024. [8 ] The qualifying draw will be held in Hamburg on 9 October 2022.
The format is similar to Euro 2020 qualifying . In the first qualifying round (group stage), 53 teams are divided into 10 groups, including 7 groups of 5 teams and 3 groups of 6 teams. The qualifying draw will take place on 9 October 2022, after the group stage of the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League has concluded. The four teams that reach the finals of the Nations League will be drawn into groups of 5 teams (so that the teams can compete in the Nations League finals taking place in June 2023). The qualifying round takes place from March to November 2023, the top two teams in 10 groups will win direct tickets to the final round. [9] The qualifying matches will take place in a round-robin format in March, June, September, October and November 2023.
The remaining three teams will be determined through the play-off round taking place in March 2024. Twelve teams will participate in the play-off round based on their performance in the 2022-2023 Nations League, and will be divided into 3 brackets, including 2 bracket semi-finals and 1 bracket final. The three winning teams in the three branches will qualify for Euro 2024. The top teams in League A, B, C (Divisions A, B, C) will win the right to participate in the play-off round. If the top team of that group has won tickets to the Euro finals through the first qualifying round, then the team with the next best record in that League’s rankings will have a play-off spot. If League A, B and C all have 4 teams left to play in the play-offs, then 3 play-off brackets will be established. But if there is at least one League (Division) that does not have 4 representative teams, then determining the play-off teams as well as the branching for 12 teams will be separated into 2 separate stages. The missing first spot will be reserved for the team with the best record on the League D rankings (Division D), and if there are still not enough 12 teams, the remaining spots will be reserved for the best performing teams. Next best on the overall Nations League standings. The branching for the 12 teams will then be done one by one from League C to League A. The teams that rank first in the group in any League will be able to enter that League’s branch, and the teams that do not rank first in the group will be allowed to enter. draw lots to determine the bracket. If the group winners of League B and C have to participate in the play-off round, they will not face teams from higher Leagues, but will only face teams from the same League ( Division) or lower Leagues.
The three play-off branches will host 2 branch semi-finals, and 1 branch final. In the branch semi-finals, the highest ranked team of the 4 teams will play at home, and face the team with the lowest ranking, while the 2nd highest ranked team will play at home, and host the team with the lowest ranking. 3rd highest ranking. The home team in the branch finals will be determined by drawing lots between the 2 winning teams in the branch semi-finals. The three winning teams in the three brackets will qualify for the Euro 2024 finals along with the 20 teams who won tickets through the first qualifying round.
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