European Football Championship

It's finally happening again: after more than 30 years, the European Football Championship is returning to Germany! From June 14 to July 14, 2024, 24 teams will compete for the coveted trophy. Discover everything you need to know about the tournament in our European Championship special. We'll also take a nostalgic look back at quirky soccer songs, iconic fashion moments, and the historic match between East and West Germany. Enjoy and happy kicking!

European Football Championship © Goethe-Institut e. V./Illustration: Tobias Schrank

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EURO 2024: All you need to know
Pink Jerseys and Green Promises

This summer, everything will revolve around the men’s European Football Championship in Germany – which will involve 24 nations, ten cities and millions of fans. Here you will find out everything you need to know for your next evening at the pub.

Times are changing in football, too: for away matches, the German national squad will be playing in pink during this tournament. Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Laci Perenyi/Jerry Andre

The EURO 2024 stadiums
From a Yellow Wall to a Christening

Which stadium can serve as a wedding venue, which stadium has remote control like a child’s toy and which is home to women’s football? Let us introduce you to the ten stadiums in Germany that will host the men’s European Football Championship.

Photo (detail): © picture alliance/Foto Huebner
Football and Fashion
Euros Fit-Check

Soccer and fashion: there is no other match as unpredictable as this one. At times a bad pass, at others a volley into the top corner. We have looked back at some of the highlights in the history of the European Championship and tried to find the right words.

© picture alliance / Laci Perenyi | Laci Perenyi
Football and Music
Football is Our Life

There’s music in football: as we approach the men’s Euro 2024 in Germany, we take a look at football songs, some dodgy and some successful, and the stories behind them.

© picture-alliance/ dpa/dpaweb | Marcus Thelen
East-West German Football History
Separated by Politics, United by Football

Ronald Reng has written a football book that is about much more than football. 1974 – Eine deutsche Begegnung is a captivating portrait of divided Germany in the 1970s.

© picture-alliance / dpa | Werner Baum
Diversity in football
“Voy, voy, voy, voy, voy, voy”

Girls' teams, clubs for the blind, queer fan clubs: Football shows its integrative potential above all away from the big stage. The movie “Elf Mal Morgen” takes a look at eleven different football stories in Germany.

Foto (Detail): © Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
Football in the Ruhr
In the Land of 1,000 Derbies

Matches will also be played at two stadiums in the Ruhr region during the 2024 European Football Championship. It’s not really surprising – this area in the far west of Germany is considered the nucleus of German football, especially away from the bright lights of the modern arenas.

© picture alliance / augenklick/firo Sportphoto | Jürgen Fromme