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EURO 2024
The back of the net

Finally soccer again, the European Championship is here! The grass is mowed, the beer is cold, the armchair is folded out. Our special edition on EURO 2024 brings you up to date with all the latest news on Germany's national sport!

Times are changing in football, too: for away matches, the German national squad will be playing in pink during this tournament.

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.

Alina Schwermer

Rummenigge, what a man!

German fans explain What is offside?

In this short but instructive clip, German experts explain how offside works. At least they try to.

The “yellow wall” – terraces packed with 25,000 Dortmund fans.

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.

Alina Schwermer

The female players of Türkiyemspor Berlin in the dressing room

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.

Benedikt Maria Arnold

Soccer 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 soccer, especially away from the bright lights of the modern arenas.

Hendrik Nolde

Die deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft der Herren im steht in einem Musikstudio um ein Klavier, an dem der Schlagersänger Udo Jürgens sitzt.

Soccer and Music
Soccer is Our Life

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

Hendrik Nolde

EURO 2024 The back of the net

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

Rummenigge, what a man!

German fans explain What is offside?

The EURO 2024 stadiums From a Yellow Wall to a Christening

Diversity in football “Voy, voy, voy, voy, voy, voy”