Euro 2024 Groups, fixture dates and who be di favourites?

Italian football players celebrating their Euro 2020 victory — Defending champions Italy dey Group B wit Spain, Croatia and Albania

E don almost reach oh! na three days remain, for top European national football teams to start to play for Euro 2024.

Di draws don set, and each team potential road to glory dey established, BBC don provide all di key details for dis ogbonge tournament.

Wen di tournament dey start?

Na Germany dey host Euro 2024 edition and e go officially begin on Friday, 14 June 2024 for di Allianz Arena, di home of Bayern Munich.

Scotland go face di hosts dat day for di first match of di tournament.

Di group stages go see two to four games every day until 26 June and di round of 16 wey go start on 29 June.

Di tournament go end on Sunday, 14 July for di Olympiastadion for Berlin.

Dis go be di first time wey Germany dey host di tournament since dia reunification, di 1988 edition bin hold for West Germany.

Euro 2024 Fixtures

Group Stage

14 June

Group A: Germany vs Scotland (Munich Football Arena, Munich, 8pm WAT)

15 June

Group A: Hungary vs Switzerland (Cologne Stadium, Cologne, 2pm WAT)
Group B: Spain vs Croatia (Olympiastadion, Berlin, 5pm WAT)
Group B: Italy vs Albania (BVB Stadion, Dortmund, 8pm WAT)

16 June

Group D: Poland vs Netherlands (Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, 2pm WAT)
Group C: Slovenia vs Denmark (Stuttgart Arena, Stuttgart, 5pm WAT)
Group C: Serbia vs England (Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen, 8pm WAT)

17 June

Group E: Romania vs Ukraine (Munich Football Arena, Munich, 2pm WAT)
Group E: Belgium vs Slovakia (Frankfurt Arena, Frankfurt, 5pm WAT)
Group D: Austria vs France (Düsseldorf Arena, Düsseldorf, 8pm WAT)

18 June

Group F: Turkey vs Georgia (BVB Stadion, Dortmund, 5pm WAT)
Group F: Portugal vs Czech Republic (Leipzig Stadium, Leipzig, 8pm WAT)

19 June

Group B: Croatia vs Albania (Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, 2pm WAT)
Group A: Germany vs Hungary (Stuttgart Arena, Stuttgart, 5pm WAT)
Group A: Scotland vs Switzerland (Cologne Stadium, Cologne, 8pm WAT)

20 June

Group C: Slovenia vs Serbia (Munich Football Arena, Munich, 2pm WAT)
Group C: Denmark vs England (Frankfurt Arena, Frankfurt, 5pm WAT)
Group B: Spain vs Italy (Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen, 8pm WAT)

21 June

Group E: Slovakia vs Ukraine (Dusseldorf Arena, Dusseldorf, 2pm WAT)
Group D: Poland vs Austria (Olympiastadion, Berlin, 5pm WAT)
Group D: Netherlands vs France (Leipzig Stadium, Leipzig, 8pm WAT)

22 June

Group F: Georgia vs Czech Republic (Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, 2pm WAT)
Group F: Turkey vs Portugal (BVB Stadion, Dortmund, 5pm WAT)
Group E: Belgium vs Romania (Cologne Stadium, Cologne, 8pm WAT)

23 June

Group A: Switzerland vs Germany (Frankfurt Arena, Frankfurt, 8pm WAT)
Group A: Scotland vs Hungary (Stuttgart Arena, Stuttgart, 8pm WAT)

24 June

Group B: Croatia vs Italy (Leipzig Stadium, Leipzig, 8pm WAT)
Group B: Albania vs Spain (Dusseldorf Arena, Dusseldorf, 8pm WAT)

25 June

Group D: Netherlands vs Austria (Olympiastadion, Berlin, 5pm WAT)
Group D: France vs Poland (BVB Stadion, Dortmund, 5pm WAT)
Group C: England vs Slovenia (Cologne Stadium, Cologne, 8pm WAT)
Group C: Denmark vs Serbia (Munich Football Arena, Munich, 8pm WAT)

26 June

Group E: Slovakia vs Romania (Frankfurt Arena, Frankfurt, 5pm WAT)
Group E: Ukraine vs Belgium (Stuttgart Arena, Stuttgart, 5pm WAT)
Group F: Czech Republic vs Turkey (Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, 8pm WAT)
Group F: Georgia vs Portugal (Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen, 8pm WAT)

Rest days na 27 and 28 June

Round of 16

29 June

2A vs 2B (Olympiastadion, Berlin, 5pm WAT)
1A vs 2C (BVB Stadion, Dortmund, 8pm WAT)

30 June

1C vs 3D/E/F (Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen, 5pm WAT)
1B vs 3A/D/E/F (Cologne Stadium, Cologne, 8pm WAT)

1 July

2D vs 2E (Dusseldorf Arena, Dusseldorf, 5pm WAT)
1F vs 3A/B/C (Frankfurt Arena, Frankfurt, 8pm WAT)

2 July

1E vs 3A/B/C/D (Munich Football Arena, Munich, 5pm WAT)
1D vs 2F (Leipzig Stadium, Leipzig, 8pm WAT)

Rest days na 3 and 4 July

Quarterfinals

5 July

Quarterfinal 1 (Stuttgart Arena, Stuttgart, 5pm WAT)
Quarterfinal 2 (Volksparkstadion, Hamburg, 8pm WAT)

6 July

Quarterfinal 3 (Dusseldorf Arena, Dusseldorf, 5pm WAT)
Quarterfinal 4 (Olympiastadion, Berlin, 8pm WAT)

Rest days na 7 and 8 July

Semifinals

9 July

Semifinal 1 (Munich Football Arena, Munich, 8pm wat)

10 July

Semifinal 2 (BVB Stadion, Dortmund, 8pm wat)

Rest days na 11, 12 and 13 July

Final

14 July

Final (Olympiastadion, Berlin, 8pm wat)

Who be di favourites?

England na di favourite, according to British bookmakers, wit odds of 3/1.

France na second with 4/1 and di hosts Germany na third wit 5/1.

Georgia, Albania, Slovenia and Slovakia dey less likely to win, dia odds na from 200/1 to 900/1.

How to watch Euro 2024?

All di games for Euro 2024 football tournament go dey live for Nigeria for SuperSports.

Which teams dey form?

Coming into di tournament, six teams dey unbeaten during dia qualifiers – dem be France, England, Portugal, Belgium, Romania and Hungary.

Portugal na di only side wey win all dia match, and dem score 36 goals for di qualifiers and concede only two.

Spain and Scotland lose only one match, while Turkey and Austria also qualify wit impressive records too.

Even though say Portugal win all dia qualifying matches, no be dem get di top goalscorer across dis games. Di top goalscorer na Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku, im score 14 goals in eight matches for Belgium.

Stadiums wey go host di games?

Di two stadium wey we go see throughout di tournament, na Allianz Arena and Olympiastadion but di host cities na 10 in total, including Cologne and Dortmund.

Signal Iduna Park, home of Borussia Dortmund ‘yellow wall’, go host matches for Groups B, D and F, E also dey selected as one of di venues for di last 16 and di semi-finals.

See di full list of venues for di tournament:

Berlin: Olympiastadion (70,000 capacity)
Cologne: Cologne Stadium (47,000),
Dortmund: BVB Stadion Dortmund (66,000)
Dusseldorf: Dusseldorf Arena (47,000)
Frankfurt: Frankfurt Arena (48,000)
Gelsenkirchen: Arena AufSchalke (50,000)
Hamburg: Volksparkstadion Hamburg (50,000)
Leipzig: Leipzig Stadium (42,000)
Munich: Munich Football Arena (67,000)
Stuttgart: Stuttgart Arena (54,000)

Which kontri go miss di tournament?

Manchester City forward Erling Haaland and Arsenal midfielder Martin Odegaard no go play for di competition dis summer as Norway fail to qualify.

Dem bin dey di same group as Spain and Scotland, but dem no get enough points to gain automatic spot and also dem bin no fit qualify through di play-offs either.

Sweden na another kontri wey no go take part for Germany, dem fail to qualify for di first time since 1996.