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UEFA EURO forecast: France will be European Champion

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France has a good chance of becoming European soccer champion - this is the conclusion of an international research team with participation from TU Dortmund University.
After winning the FIFA World Cup, France could also win the European Football Championship – this is the conclusion of researchers from the Universities of Innsbruck (Austria) and Ghent (Belgium), TU Dortmund University and the Technical University of Munich (Germany) and Molde University College (Norway). England and Spain also have a good chance of winning the title, according to the forecast.

On Friday, 11 June, Europe's men's football teams will start the European Championship a year later than planned. The favorite this time is France with a probability of winning of 14.8 percent. This is what an international team of researchers consisting of Andreas Groll and Franziska Popp (both TU Dortmund, Germany), Gunther Schauberger (TU Munich, Germany), Christophe Ley and Hans Van Eetvelde (both Ghent University, Belgium), Achim Zeileis (University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Lars Hvattum (Molde University College, Norway) has shown with the help of machine learning. Their forecast combines several statistical models for the teams' strengths with information about the team structure (such as market value, number of Champions League players, club match performance of individual players) as well as socio-economic factors of the country of origin (population and gross domestic product).