Germany is to host the 2029 Women’s European Championship, UEFA has announced.
Germany beat Poland and a joint bid from Denmark and Sweden to host the 15th edition of this competition.
Germany is a record eight-time European champion, and the 2029 tournament will come five years after the nation hosted the men’s equivalent competition.
Portugal and Italy originally submitted a bid but withdrew to focus on a men’s competition instead of the men’s Euros in 2032 and the World Cup in 2030.
Ceferin, who was speaking at a meeting of UEFA's executive committee in Nyon, Switzerland, said it was "heartbreaking" that any of the three bids should lose, before he pulled Germany's name out of the envelope.
The tournament will feature 16 national teams and will be played across eight venues, but not in Berlin, the capital of Germany.
The eight venues are in Cologne, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich and Wolfsburg. The stadiums are as follows.
- Cologne Stadium (Cologne)
- BVB Stadion Dortmund (Dortmund)
- Düsseldorf Arena (Düsseldorf)
- Frankfurt Arena (Frankfurt)
- Niedersachsenstadion (Hanover)
- Leipzig Stadium (Leipzig)
- Munich Football Arena (Munich)
- Wolfsburg Arena (Wolfsburg)
Of the eight venues, seven have capacities of at least 45,000 fans. The smallest venue is Wolfsburg’s Volkswagen Arena, and even that ground is larger than all but three of the stadiums used in Switzerland.
Germany was the ultimately convincing winner, receiving 15 votes from committee members, with Denmark and Sweden receiving two each and Poland receiving none.
The 2029 finals will mark the third time that eight-time winners Germany have hosted the event.
They staged it in 2001 and as West Germany in 1989, winning on both occasions.
“We are absolutely convinced that the tournament in Germany will attract more than a million fans and that UEFA will make a financial profit for the first time with a Women’s Euro. We are looking forward to celebrating a great festival of women’s football in the summer of 2029,” said the German governing body's president, Bernd Neuendorf.
England is therefore targeting a hat-trick of Euros titles in 2029, with Germany the only team to have ever triumphed at more than two consecutive editions of the tournament, reeling off six in a row from 1995 to 2013.
Bayern’s home ground will once again host big international fixtures, following the 2006 World Cup, the 2012 and 2025 Champions League finals, games during Euro 2020 and 2024, and the UEFA Nations League finals in 2025.
The largest stadium to stage matches will be the Allianz Arena in Munich, which has a capacity of 75,024, approximately double that of the biggest venue used at this summer’s Women’s Euros; Basel’s St Jakob-Park, where the Lionesses beat Spain on penalties to retain their European title.
FC Bayern applied to host the 2029 tournament with its men’s and women’s teams. As part of a league-wide campaign in the men’s Bundesliga, various actions were taken around the Allianz Arena to support the bid. FC Bayern Women drew attention to the bid in several fixtures to highlight the relevance of a home Euros for women’s football in Germany.
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