UEFA European Championship, 2024

Euro 2024 was the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship.

In March 2017, UEFA confirmed that two nations, Germany and Turkey, had submitted their intentions to host the tournament.

Germany were selected as the hosts on 27 September 2018 in Nyon, Switzerland by a margin of 12 votes to four.

Nine of the ten venues selected for Euro 2024 were used at the 2006 FIFA World Cup: Berlin, Dortmund, Munich, Cologne, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, and Gelsenkirchen. The tenth venue was Düsseldorf.

Euro 2024 was the third UEFA European Championship tournament to feature 24 nations.

UEFA announced the tournament schedule on 10 May 2022.

Germany qualified as hosts with the 23 remaining teams were decided in the qualifying stage. 20 went to the winners and runners-up of the ten qualifying groups, with the remaining three decided by play-offs.

Play-off places were allocated to the best performing teams in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League who did not qualify through the qualifying stage.

19 of the 24 nations had also participated at Euro 2020. Serbia qualified for the first time as an independent nation (previously as Serbia and Montenegro) while Georgia reached their first-ever major tournament.

The most notable absentee was Russia. Due to their invasion of Ukraine, they became the first national team to be banned from a UEFA competition since Yugoslavia in 1992.

The tournament draw took place on 2 December 2023 in Hamburg. The teams were seeded in accordance with the overall UEFA qualifiers rankings. The three play-off winners were not known at the time as they were due to be played in March 2024.

The 51 games at Euro 2024 produced 117 goals; an average of 2.29 per game.

The total attendance was 2,681,288; an average of 52,574.

Spain’s Rodri was named Player of the Tournament.

Lamine Yamal of Spain was named Young Player of the Tournament.

Six players shared the leading scorer accolade with three goals each; Dani Olmo (Spain), Cody Gakpo (Netherlands), Harry Kane (England), Georges Mikautadze (Georgia), Jamal Musiala (Germany) and Ivan Schranz (Slovakia).