February 19 – The German FA (DFB) has shortlisted 11 host cities for the nation’s bid for the ladies’s European Championship in 2029.
Berlin, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hanover, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich, Rostock and Wolfsburg made the ultimate minimize. The DFB rejected functions from Hamburg, Essen and Bremen.
“The truth that so many engaging areas need to be a part of the UEFA Girls’s EURO 2029 is additional proof of the big growth and progress potential of girls’s soccer in Germany,” stated DFB president Bernd Neuendorf in a press release.
“Our objectives are clear: We wish a European Championship that can sustainably advance the event of girls’s soccer throughout borders.”
By June, the DFB will trim the shortlist additional to pick out the profitable host cities. Bidding nations need to submit a ultimate bid file by the tip of summer time earlier than the European confederation will appoint the match hosts in December.
Germany’s bid will face competitors from Poland, Portugal and Italy. Sweden and Denmark have launched a joint bid, leaving Norway, a co-bidder within the failed try and host Euro 2025, out within the chilly.
West Germany hosted the Girls’s European Championship in 1989. The Girls’s Euro returned to a unified Germany in 2001. Along with Belgium and the Netherlands, Germany didn’t land the 2027 World Cup, dropping out to Brazil.
“We need to promote greater than one million tickets and thus be the primary ladies’s European Championship in historical past to make a monetary revenue,” stated DFB common secretary Heike Ullrich.
“We at the moment are persevering with to work intensively and are wanting ahead to the subsequent milestone on this course of, the submission of the provisional software paperwork to UEFA by March 12, 2025.”
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