UEFA Euro 2024
The
2024 UEFA European Football Championship
, commonly referred to as
UEFA Euro 2024
(stylised as
UEFA EURO 2024
) or simply
Euro 2024
, is the ongoing 17th edition of the
UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international
football championship organised by
UEFA for the
Europeanmen's national teams of its member associations.
Germany hosts the tournament, which is taking place from 14 June 2024 to 14 July 2024. The tournament comprises 24 teams, with
Georgia the only team making their European Championship finals debut.
It is the third time that European Championship matches are played on German territory and the second time in
reunified Germany, as
West Germany hosted the tournament's
1988 edition, and four matches of the multi-national
Euro 2020 were played in
Munich. It is the first time the competition is held in what was formerly
East Germany with
Leipzig as a host city, as well as the first major tournament since the
2006 FIFA World Cup that a reunified Germany serves as a solo host nation.
[1][2] The tournament returned to its usual four-year cycle, after the 2020 edition was postponed to 2021 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Italy are the defending champions, having won the
2020 tournament against
England on
penalties in the
final.
[3] Having played in
Spain's opener against
Croatia, forward
Lamine Yamal became the youngest player to feature at a UEFA European Championship at 16 years and 338 days old.
[4] On the same matchday,
Albanian midfielder
Nedim Bajrami netted the fastest goal in European Championship history, scoring against
Italy in just 23 seconds.
[5]