The Euro 2024 football tournament, awarded in September 2018 to Germany, will open on June 14 at the Allianz Arena in Munich and end on July 14 with the final at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, UEFA announced on Tuesday. .
The executive committee of the body has established the calendar for the final phase, which will take place in ten German cities with the return to a single host country after a Euro 2020 organized last year across the whole continent.
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For the first time
", says UEFA, the environmental impact "
has been included in the criteria of the tournament regulations
", so the ten cities have been divided into three regions: north/north-east (Berlin, Hamburg , Leipzig), west (including Dortmund, Düsseldorf and Cologne) and south (Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich).
During the group stage, the matches "
will only be held in two regions, to reduce the distances for the teams and the supporters
", and "
to favor the delegations which travel by train or bus from their base camp to the place of the matches
", explains the organization.
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Hosted by eleven host cities from eleven countries, from London to Baku, Euro-2020 had been marked by long trips for some of the teams, with extremely uneven weather conditions, adding to the headache already caused by the crossing of multiple borders in the midst of a pandemic.