Germany to host 2024 European Football Championship: UEFA

Germany is elected host of Euro 2024, beating rival Turkey in a vote by the executive committee of European football ruling body UEFA, to stage the tournament for a second time.

According to UEFA, Germany received 12 votes and Turkey, four. There was one abstention.

After congratulating both football associations for their bids, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin said: "I am really looking forward to another celebration of the best of European national team football in 2024 and I know that Germany will be fantastic hosts and that we will see a wonderful tournament both on and off the pitch."

The vote at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon came after final 15-minute presentations from both bidders, and a technical evaluation report which appeared to give Germany slightly better marks.

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin, the Swedish Vice President Karl-Erik Nilsson, Portuguese counterpart Fernando Gomes, Ukrainian Grigoriy Surkis, Italian Michele Uva and British David Gill voted in the election.

The executive members, who were eligible to vote, included Polish Zbigniew Boniek, Hungarian Sandor Csanyi, Irish John Delaney, Swedish Peter Gillieron, French Florence Hardouin, Bulgarian Borislav Mihaylov, Spanish Juan Luis Larrea Sarobe, Croatian Davor Suker, Dutch Michael van Praag, Italian Andrea Agnelli and British Ivan Gazidis.

Sweden's Lars-Christer Olsson, a member of the executive committee, was unlikely to participate in the election due to health issues.

Turkey's Servet Yardımcı, the executive committee member, and Germany's Reinhard Grindel, the UEFA Vice President, were not eligible to vote.

Germany hosted Euro 1988, and Munich is also among the venues for the pan-European 2020 edition. The nation has also staged two World Cups, in 1974 and 2006.

Turkey failed for the fourth time to land a major tournament, the earlier unsuccessful bids coming for Euro 2008, 2012 and 2016.