UEFA Euro 2024 in Dortmund
After the home World Cup in 2006, Dortmund will once again host an international championship in the summer of 2024. As one of ten host cities for UEFA Euro 2024, the city will welcome top European soccer players to Dortmund’s BVB stadium. Here is an overview of what you can experience at TU Dortmund University and in Dortmund during the European Championship.
Soccer professor at the TU Dortmund University
There will also be a very special seminar at TU Dortmund University to coincide with the European Soccer Championship: Prof. Andrei S. Markovits from the University of Michigan, whom Rector Prof. Manfred Bayer has appointed “Professor of Soccer Studies” for this period, will be holding a soccer seminar from June 17. In seven public lectures, he will deal with topics such as women’s soccer, power negotiations and anti-Semitism. Prof. Andrei S. Markovits was already “Professor of Soccer Studies” in Dortmund during the 2006 home World Cup in Germany. The soccer seminar is open to all interested parties. Those who attend all seven events can complete the seminar with a certificate.
Euro 2023 Forecast: France is the Front Runner for the Championship Title
After winning their last European Championship victory in 2000, the French men's national soccer team will start this year's tournament as front runners - at least from a statistical point of view. This is has been predicted by an international research team, involving Prof. Andreas Groll and Jonas Sternemann from TU Dortmund University, with the help of machine learning. The researchers from TU Munich, the University of Luxembourg, the University of Innsbruck, Molde University College and TU Dortmund University used complex statistical models to simulate the 2024 European championship 100,000 times. With 19.2 percent chance of winning of 19.2 percent, France took the lead in their study, followed by England (16.7 percent), Germany (13.7 percent), Spain (11.4 percent) and Portugal (10.8 percent).
European Championship matches and public screenings in Dortmund
During the European Soccer Championship 2024 from June 14 to July 14, 2024, Dortmund will be one of the ten host cities in which 24 teams from all over Europe will play for the championship. The BVB Stadion Dortmund will host four group matches, one round of 16 match and the second semi-final match:
- June 15, 2024, Saturday at 9:00 p.m., Group B: Italy - Albania
- June 18, 2024, Tuesday at 6:00 p.m., Group F: Turkey - Georgia
- June 22, 2024, Saturday at 6:00 p.m., Group F: Turkey - Portugal
- June 25, 2024, Tuesday at 6:00 p.m., Group D: France - Poland
- June 29, 2024, Saturday at 9:00 p.m., second match in the round of 16: Germany - Denmark
- July 10, 2024, Wednesday at 9:00 p.m., second semi-final: Netherlands - England
To the complete match schedule
In addition to the European Championship matches, there will also be public screening opportunities for soccer fans in Dortmund during Euro 2024. In addition, the soccer culture festival Spielräume will take place in the Rhine-Ruhr region during the European Championship with more than 60 soccer-related events.
Reduced number of parking spaces at TU Dortmund University
During the six soccer matches in Dortmund, TU Dortmund University will make some of the parking spaces on Otto-Hahn-Straße available to the City of Dortmund and UEFA. For this reason, only around 40 percent of the spaces in the parking lot on Otto-Hahn-Straße can be used on the match days. Drivers are requested to use the parking lots on Emil-Figge-Straße and Vogelpothsweg on these days or alternatively to travel to TU Dortmund University by public transport. You can find an overview of the various parking options at the university on the TU Dortmund University campus map.
News about soccer
TU “Soccer Professor” Holds Seminar on the European Championship
Digital Avatar for Dedê, Dortmund Football Legend
The New Academic Year at TU Dortmund University Kicks Off in Signal Iduna Park
University sports
In Dortmund, soccer is not only played by BVB, but also at TU Dortmund University. Every semester, the university sports team puts together a comprehensive sports program that also caters to soccer enthusiasts. Beginners and advanced players can partake in soccer courses or free play. Every semester, teams such as “Meanchester United” and “FC Teambuktu” compete for the title in TU Dortmund University’s own soccer league. In the summer semester 2024, the final of the campus league will take place on July 15, one day after the European Championship final.
Events
Fußball-Seminar zur EM 2024: Inszenierung jüdischer Identitäten und Antisemitismus
Fußball-Seminar zur EM 2024: Sport als Kampf um Teilhabe
Fußball-Seminar zur EM 2024: Fußballpolitiken – Über die Aushandlung von Macht
Zusatzveranstaltung: Fußballkulturfestival zur EURO 2024
Further events
Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games
Next year, the Ruhr region will once again host an international sports competition: the FISU World University Games will take place in the Rhine-Ruhr region in 2025. The FISU Games are the world’s second-largest multi-sport event after the Olympic Games and, like the Olympic Games, are held in winter and summer. At the last FISU World University Games in 2023 in Chengdu, China, three students from TU Dortmund University won the silver medal in the German rowing eight.
In the summer of 2025, the student competition will return to the Rhine-Ruhr region for the first time since 1989. From July 16 to 27, 2025, around 10,000 athletes from up to 170 countries will compete against each other. The competitions will take place in five cities and 18 different sports. Interested persons have until September 15, 2024 to apply as a volunteer for the sports festival.
More information about the FISU Games and the volunteer program (German only)