Germany will host the 2029 Ladies’s European Championship, Uefa has introduced.
The governing physique’s president Aleksander Ceferin mentioned Germany had pipped Poland and a joint-bid from Denmark and Sweden.
Ceferin, who was talking at a gathering of Uefa’s government committee in Nyon, Switzerland, mentioned it was “heartbreaking” that any of the three bids ought to lose, earlier than he pulled Germany’s identify out of the envelope.
The summer time match will function 16 nationwide groups and be performed throughout eight venues in Cologne, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich and Wolfsburg.
Portugal and Italy additionally submitted dossiers to host the match however withdrew to give attention to bids to co-host the lads’s Euro 2032 and 2030 males’s World Cup.
Germany obtained 15 votes from Uefa committee members with Denmark and Sweden receiving two and Poland getting none.
The 2029 finals will mark the third time that eight-time winners Germany have hosted the occasion.
They hosted it in 2001 and as West Germany in 1989, successful on each events.
“It was a protracted journey. We’ve got so many individuals working at DFB [German football association] to get this match,” mentioned the governing physique’s president Bernd Neuendorf.
“Because of all who supported us, we felt this assist all through the marketing campaign.”
Switzerland hosted Euro 2025, with England beating Spain on penalties within the closing following a tense 1-1 draw to retain their trophy.
England are due to this fact focusing on a hat-trick of Euros titles in 2029, with Germany the one crew to have ever triumphed at greater than two consecutive editions of the match – reeling off six in a row from 1995 to 2013.
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