EUROS-Special

Football: UEFA EURO 2024
European Championship

It's coming home: The European Football Championship is returning to Germany after more than 30 years! From June 14 to July 14, 2024, 24 teams will play for the prestigious trophy. Find out everything you need to know about the tournament in our Euros special. We'll also take a look back: at quirky footy songs, iconic fashion moments and the match between Germany and Germany. Have fun und let the games begin!

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

Alina Schwermer

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

The EURO 2024 stadiums From a Yellow Wall to a Christening

Alina Schwermer

Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel celebrates after winning the final against Germany at the 1992 European Football Championships

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.

Benedikt Maria Arnold

Hendrik Nolde

The German men's national football team stands in a music studio around a piano at which the pop singer Udo Jürgens is sitting.

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.

Hendrik Nolde

The teams of the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR line up for the anthems in Hamburg's Volksparkstadion on 22 June 1974 before the group match of the World Cup.

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.

Hendrik Nolde

Dieter Hoeneß at his desk in the office with telephone receivers

Foto (Detail): © picture alliance / Pressefoto Rudel | Herbert Rudel

Football and Language
The Wonderful World of Football

Football has given rise to quite a few bloopers - but also to phrases, technical jargon, bizarre nicknames and vivid descriptions. Stephan Reich introduces us to the wonderful world of soccer language in six entertaining articles.