The 17th edition of the European Football Championship, known as Euro 2024, begins on Saturday morning (Singapore time) when host nation Germany play Scotland in Munich. The final will be held at Berlin's Olympiastadion on July 15
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Number of participating teams
Georgia will be
making their debut appearance. On a related note, Serbia are playing at
the Euros for the first time as an independent nation
Number of host cities - Berlin, Cologne, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart
10
Most goals scored in a single match, when Yugoslavia beat France 5-4 in 1960
9
Most number of appearances, by Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo He is also the tournament’s highest scorer
with 14 goals
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The fastest goal was scored by
Russia's Dmitri Kirichenko, when he scored
after 1 minute and 7 seconds against
Greece in 2004
67 seconds
Capacity of the tournament's largest venue, the Olympiastadion in Berlin
74,475
Number of championships won by Germany and Spain, a joint record
Total number of matches, played over 31 days
51
Age of Poland's Kacper Kozlowski when he played against Spain at Euro
2020 in June 2021, making him the competition’s youngest player
17 years 246 days
Albart is the 12th Euro mascot since Pinocchio became the first in 1980
12th
2.4b euros
Projected commercial revenue for Euro 2024. (Euro 2020 generated a revenue of 1.88 billion euros)
Total prize money to be distributed to the 24 teams, the same amount as Euro 2020
331m euros
Berti Vogts is the only man to have won a Euro as a player (West Germany, 1972) and a head coach (Germany, 1996)
Fun fact
Champions roll-call
1960 - Soviet Union 1964 - Spain 1968 - Italy 1972 - West Germany 1976 - Czechoslovakia 1980 - West Germany 1984 - France 1988 - Netherlands
1976 - Czechoslovakia 1980 - West Germany 1984 - France 1988 - Netherlands 1992 - Denmark
1996 - Germany 2000 - France 2004 - Greece
2008 - Spain 2012 - Spain 2016 - Portugal 2020 - Italy*
2008 - Spain 2012 - Spain 2016 - Portugal 2020 - Italy*
*Euro 2020 was held in 2021 due to the pandemic
BTVisual Chaytanya Bandishte, Hyrie Rahmat, Simon ANg
The 17th edition of the European Football Championship, known as Euro 2024, begins on Saturday morning (Singapore time) when host nation Germany play Scotland in Munich. The final will be held at Berlin's Olympiastadion on July 15
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1st
1992 - Denmark
1996 - Germany 2000 - France 2004 - Greece 2008 - Spain 2012 - Spain 2016 - Portugal 2020 - Italy*
Age of Poland's Kacper Kozlowski when he played against Spain
at Euro
2020
in June
2021,
making him the competition’s youngest player