The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship (Euro 2024) opens today with Germany hosting the event. This is the 17th edition of the tournament.

24 countries are represented with Georgia making their debut.

Italy is the defending Champions after beating England in a shootout in the Euro 2020 tournament (held in 2021 due to the pandemic.)

The most successful countries in the history of the tournament are Germany and Spain with three titles each. The defending champions, Italy, and France are the next most successful countries with two titles each.

Germany was voted the host of the tournament in 2017. This is the third time that Germany has hosted the Euro tournament – the first time was in 1988 (West Germany at the time) and as one of the hosts of the 2020 tournament.

The teams are divided into six groups for the round robin:

Group A
Germany
Scotland
Hungary
Switzerland

Group B
Spain
Croatia
Italy
Albania

Group C
Slovenia
Denmark
Serbia
England

Group D
Poland
Netherlands
Austria
France

Group E
Belgium
Slovakia
Romania
Ukraine

Group F
Turkey
Georgia
Portugal
Czech Republic

The top two teams from each group, plus the top four third place teams will advance to the knockout round, for 16 teams total.

Look for the following 16 teams to advance:

Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Hungry
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
Romania
Scotland
Spain
Ukraine