Award of the European Football Championship 2024

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The host of the European Football Championship 2024 was announced on September 27, 2018 in Nyon .

Award

Procedure

The German and Turkish associations submitted the complete application documents by April 27, 2018. In the next step, UEFA checked these documents and, if necessary, requested additional information from the applicants. On-site inspection visits were also planned. UEFA and any experts commissioned by it prepared a written evaluation report for each application. This was presented on September 21, 2018. The German application was certified as having an "inspiring, creative and very professional vision". The assessment of the Turkish Football Association was also positive overall. Nevertheless, the Turkish application has to accept criticism on several points. For example, “the lack of a human rights action plan” is seen as “problematic”. The report also states: “As a result of the latest economic developments in the country, planned public investments could come under pressure.” The higher stadium capacity in Germany was also cited. Overall, Germany performed better than Turkey in the assessment by UEFA. However, the evaluation was not binding on the members of the Executive Committee. On September 27, 2018, the UEFA Executive Committee selected the venue.

Applicants

Germany

The DFB Presidium decided on October 23, 2013 that the DFB would apply to host the tournament; the next day the decision was made public at the 41st Ordinary DFB Bundestag in Nuremberg . On January 20, 2017, the now incumbent DFB Presidium, chaired by Reinhard Grindel , decided to apply again for the 2024 European Football Championship. On March 1, 2017, he finally presented the DFB's official declaration of interest in the organization to UEFA General Secretary Theodore Theodoridis. For Germany, a staging would be the fourth major tournament after the European Championship in 1988 and the two world championships in 1974 and 2006 .

Interested cities and stadiums wishing to host games in 2024 could submit a non-binding expression of interest to the DFB by February 17, 2017. By the deadline set, 18 cities and stadiums had submitted the required documents. During the application process, the cities of Dresden, Freiburg, Karlsruhe and Kaiserslautern withdrew.

By the deadline of April 26, 2017, the following cities have expressed their interest in hosting matches at the 2024 European Championship:

Applicant cities in Germany
Stages selected for application (red marking)
Stages not selected for application (blue marking) and in italics
city Stadion capacity
International capacity
Berlin Olympic Stadium 74,475 seats 74,475 seats
Bremen Weser Stadium 42,100 seats 37,441 seats
Dortmund Westfalenstadion 81,360 seats 65,851 seats
Dusseldorf Mercury game arena 54,600 seats 51,500 seats
Frankfurt a. M. Commerzbank Arena 51,500 seats 48,000 seats
Gelsenkirchen Veltins Arena 62,271 seats 54,740 seats
Hamburg Volksparkstadion 57,000 seats 51,500 seats
Hanover HDI arena 49,200 seats 45,100 seats
Cologne Rheinenergiestadion 49,968 seats 46,195 seats
Leipzig Central Stadium 42,959 seats 42,959 seats
Mönchengladbach Borussia Park 54,014 (BL) to 60,250 places 46,287 seats
Munich Allianz Arena 75,021 seats 70,000 seats
Nuremberg Max Morlock Stadium 50,000 seats 44,308 seats
Stuttgart Mercedes-Benz Arena 60,449 seats 54,812 seats

(The stages selected for application on September 15, 2017 are highlighted in yellow)

According to UEFA requirements, all stadiums must have a net seating capacity (number of publicly available seats excluding media seats and seats with impaired vision) of at least 30,000 seats.

The cities' complete application documents for the national selection process had to be submitted to the DFB by July 10, 2017. Originally, the applications should have been submitted on June 12, 2017, but this date has been postponed due to late arrival of documents from UEFA. All fourteen cities and stadiums that had expressed their interest by April 26th and had not yet withdrawn their applications submitted their applications to the DFB on time. The application committee of the DFB evaluated the submitted documents in the following weeks. In addition, from the end of July 2017, so-called "site visits" were made to all 14 stadiums in order to inspect the conditions on site and any necessary conversions and extensions.

The selection criterion for the venues was primarily the stadium capacity. So that as many people as possible can have access to the European Championship, the DFB has increased the net seating capacity required by UEFA in Category I (three stadiums must have this capacity) from at least 50,000 to at least 60,000. Other criteria included security aspects and the infrastructure . On the basis of these criteria and the cities' application documents, the DFB's application committee created a ranking of the applicant venues. There was also a regional division of the applicants into four zones spread all over the country. One to four venues could come from each of the four zones. Zone I (north) included Bremen, Hamburg and Hanover. Zone II (west) was assigned to Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne and Mönchengladbach. Zone III (south) included Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart. Zone IV (east) included Berlin and Leipzig.

The applicant cities also had to submit declarations of commitment to UEFA, for example that political and religious demonstrations would be generally prohibited within the “commercial zone” within 500 meters of the stadiums. The cities should also enact laws to protect UEFA's marketing rights. Bars near stadiums should not be allowed to set up large-format screens. Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem , former Federal Constitutional Court judge, considers parts of the declarations to be unconstitutional: encroachments on freedom of assembly are not possible for commercial interests; not cities but parliaments could legislate; the ban on big screens for restaurateurs is an illegal interference with the freedom of occupation . Those in charge of the city of Bremen shared these concerns; those responsible in Hamburg and Leipzig do not. From Hanover, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Mönchengladbach and Stuttgart, those responsible did not comment on the points, or only made evasive comments.

On September 15, 2017, the DFB Presidium selected ten cities and stadiums from the remaining 14 applicants to apply to host the 2024 European Championship at UEFA. The DFB Presidium unanimously followed the recommendation of the application committee. Places 1 to 10 were selected: Berlin, Munich, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Cologne, Hamburg, Leipzig, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen and Frankfurt. Nuremberg, Hanover, Mönchengladbach and Bremen, who landed in places 11 to 14, were not taken into account. The zoning did not have to be used, since according to the ranking no more than four cities and at least one per zone were used.

Philipp Lahm acts as the official ambassador for the German application to host the EM 2024. The former national player and captain of the national team should help convince UEFA of the German application.

The slogan of the German EM application is: "United by Football - United in the heart of Europe". The logo of the German application was determined through a design competition on the “ jovoto ” platform . Members could submit proposals there. The community of the platform selected from these 20 and the DFB five more logos. The 25 proposals were evaluated by a jury made up of experts from the design and communication industry and representatives from the world of sports, and the five best were presented on September 15, 2017. A national voting on the Internet from September 15 to 22, 2017 determined the winner. 44% of the vote went to the proposal of the Serb Igor Petrovic. The logo shows two hearts in the German national colors black-red-gold and a 24, plus the line “Germany Candidate for UEFA EURO 2024”.

The DFB President Reinhard Grindel, the General Secretary Friedrich Curtius, the application ambassador Philipp Lahm, and the former national player and DFB integration ambassador Celia Šašić submitted the bid book to UEFA General Secretary Theodore Theodoridis on April 24, 2018 Application at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon . Divided into twelve sectors, a total of 189 questions from UEFA were answered. The bid book was drawn up by the DFB in collaboration with the ten venues and external experts. It comprises 868 pages and an additional 760 pages of appendix with numerous letters of support from representatives from sport, politics and business.

On the weekend before the award, a nationwide action day was held to apply for Germany. In all games in the Bundesliga , 2nd Bundesliga , 3rd League , Allianz Women's Bundesliga and 2nd Women's Bundesliga, as well as in selected amateur games, numerous campaigns took place under the motto of the German application “United by Football”. Among other things, the teams lined up for a mixed team photo before the start of the game. The players wore the logo of the German application on their shirt sleeves, which could also be seen on the substitution boards. The referees and numerous media partners also took part in the final application. In Munich, the Allianz Arena was also illuminated in black, red and gold in combination with the European flag.

A week before the award, a clear majority of the German population was in favor of a tournament in Germany. According to a representative survey by the opinion institute FORSA , almost three quarters (74 percent) of Germans over the age of 16 supported an EM in Germany, 12 percent were still undecided. Among those interested in football, 89 percent were in favor of EURO 2024 in Germany.

Turkey

On April 25, 2014, the Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu surprisingly withdrew his application for the finals of the 2021 European Football Championship and announced that they would instead concentrate on the candidacy for the 2024 tournament. Turkey has already failed in the application process for the respective European Championships in 2008 , 2012 and 2016 and has so far not hosted either an EM or a World Cup. On February 15, 2017, the Turkish association president Yıldırım Demirören confirmed that Turkey would apply to host the event.

The following cities and stadiums were selected for application on October 20, 2017:

Candidate cities of Turkey
Stages selected for application (red marking)
city Stadion opening capacity
Ankara Başkent Stadyumu in construction phase 41,923 seats
Antalya Antalya Stadyumu October 2015 32,539 seats
Bursa Timsah Arena December 2015 43,331 seats
Eskişehir Eskişehir Yeni Ataturk Stadı November 2016 34,930 seats
Gaziantep Gaziantep Stadyumu January 2017 34,930 seats
Istanbul Basakşehir Ataturk Olympic Stadium July 2002 75,145 seats
Istanbul-Sariyer Türk Telekom Stadyumu January 2011 52,650 seats
İzmit Kocaeli Stadyumu in construction phase 33,000 seats
Konya Konya Büyükşehir Stadı September 2014 41,981 seats
Trabzon Medical Park Stadyumu December 2016 41,461 seats

On April 26, 2018, the Turkish association submitted its final application documents to UEFA on time.

Withdrawn applications

Nordic countries

On March 4, 2016, it was announced that Finland , Sweden , Norway and Denmark were considering running together for the 2024 European Championship. Neither Finland, Norway or Denmark have hosted a soccer World Cup or EM so far, Sweden hosted the 1958 World Cup and the 1992 European Championship .

In mid-February 2017, the Norwegian Football Association (NFF) withdrew from a possible application. As the association president Terje Svendsen stated, the country does not have the required stadiums for the tournament. According to Svendsen, there are only two venues in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland ( Friends Arena and Telia Parken ) that meet all UEFA requirements.

In a meeting on February 24, 2017 in Copenhagen , the five associations agreed not to bid for the 2024 European Championship. The main reason is the inadequate stadium infrastructure in the Nordic countries. The Svenska Fotbollförbundet (SvFF) announced that it is smaller on the hosting UEFA or FIFA tournaments such as the Rugby World Cup or the U-20 World Cup will focus. The current withdrawal does not mean that the plan for a Nordic European football championship has been dropped completely and that an application at a later date is excluded.

Voting result

18 of the 20 committee members were entitled to vote. The German representative Reinhard Grindel and the Turkish Servet Yardımcı were not entitled to vote as representatives of the applying associations. Lars-Christer Olsson (Sweden) was absent due to illness, so 17 members took part in the vote.

Applicants be right
GermanyGermany Germany 12
TurkeyTurkey Turkey 4th
abstention 1
total 17th

Web links

Individual evidence

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