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2024 European Football Championship

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The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament will be the seventeenth European Championships and will be held in Germany between 14 June and 14 July 2024.

• 1. Host selection
• 2. Qualifying
• 3. Wales and the 2012 European Championship
• 4. Wales players used during qualifying

Host selection

On 8 March 2017, UEFA announced that only two countries, Germany and Turkey, had announced their intentions to host the tournament before the deadline of 3 March 2017. At the UEFA Executive Committee meeting on 27 September 2018 in Nyon, Switzerland, Germany secured 12 votes to Turkey's four votes with one abstention.

Qualifying

53 UEFA members entered the qualification tournament for the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship with Germany qualifying automatically as hosts.

Russia were banned from competing due to their suspension from FIFA and UEFA following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The draw for the final tournament was held on 9 October 2022 in Frankfurt, Germany with Wales in the second pot of seeds and were drawn into Group D alongside Croatia, Armenia, Turkey and Latvia.

Uefa qualifying group D

no.	date	score	scorers (wales)	venue
	25/03/2023	Armenia 1-2 Turkey		Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan	ECQ
698	25/03/2023	Croatia 1-1 Wales	Broadhead	Stadion Poljud, Split	ECQ
	28/03/2023	Turkey 0-2 Croatia		Bursa Metropolitan Stadium, Bursa	ECQ
699	28/03/2023	Wales 1-0 Latvia	Moore	Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff	ECQ
	16/06/2023	Latvia 2-3 Turkey		Skonto Stadium, Riga	ECQ
700	16/06/2023	Wales 2-4 Armenia	James, Wilson	Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff	ECQ
	19/06/2023	Armenia 2-1 Latvia		Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan	ECQ
701	19/06/2023	Turkey 2-0 Wales		Samsun 19 Mayıs Stadium, Samsun	ECQ
	08/09/2023	Croatia 5-0 Latvia		Stadion Rujevica, Rijeka	ECQ
	08/09/2023	Turkey 1-1 Armenia		New Eskişehir Stadium, Eskişehir	ECQ
	11/09/2023	Armenia 0-1 Croatia		Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan	ECQ
703	11/09/2023	Latvia 0-2 Wales	Ramsey (pen), Brookes	Skonto Stadions, Riga	ECQ
	12/10/2023	Croatia 0-1 Turkey		Opus Arena, Osijek	ECQ
	12/10/2023	Latvia 2-0 Armenia		Skonto Stadium, Riga	ECQ
	15/10/2023	Turkey 4-0 Latvia		New Adana Stadium, Adana	ECQ
705	15/10/2023	Wales 2-1 Croatia	Wilson (2)	Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff	ECQ
706	18/11/2023	Armenia 1-1 Wales	o.g.	Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, Yerevan	ECQ
	18/11/2023	Latvia 0-2 Croatia		Skonto Stadium, Riga	ECQ
	21/11/2023	Croatia 1-0 Armenia		Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb	ECQ
707	21/11/2023	Wales 1-1 Turkey	Williams	Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff	ECQ

Group standings

		P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1.	Turkey	8	5	2	1	14	7	17
2.	Croatia	8	5	1	2	13	4	16
3.	Wales	8	3	3	2	10	10	12
3.	Armenia	8	2	2	4	9	11	8
5.	Latvia	8	1	0	7	5	19	3

Wales and the 2024 European Championship

Wales were placed in the second pot of seeds and were drawn into Group D alongside Croatia, Armenia, Turkey and Latvia.

Prior to the opening game taking place Wales saw four senior players retire from international football as Gareth Bale, Joe Allen, Chris Gunter and Jonny Williams called time on their international careers.

Following Bale's retirement, Rob Page appointed Aaron Ramsey as his new captain ahead of the opening match against top seeds, Croatia, in Split.

Despite spending long periods of the game under pressure, Wales came away from Split with a valuable point following debutant, Nathan Broadhead's goal deep into injury time.

A win in Cardiff against bottom seeds Latvia saw Wales take four points from the opening two games, however the June fixtures proved to be disastrous for Wales.

Despite an early Dan James goal against Armenia in Cardiff, Wales fell to a chaotic 2-4 loss to a team ranked 97th in the FIFA rankings and to rub salt into the wounds Kieffer Moore recived a red card from the Bulgarian referee for attempting to kick the Armenian goalkeeper.

At the same time as Wales fans were shaking their heads in disbelief, Latvia thought they had secured their first point of the campaign as Kristers Tobers scored their second of the night to make it 2-2 in the fourth minute of stoppage time but Turkey found a winner a minute later to take them to the top of the group.

Wales had a chance to make amends for their shock defeat when travelling to Samsun on the Black Sea coast to face Turkey three days later, however, a second red card in as many games, this time shown to Joe Morrell, saw Wales play most of the game with 10 men.

Despite having two goals ruled out by VAR and seeing Danny Ward save Hakan Çalhanoğlu's penalty, Turkey finally found a way through, scoring two goals in the final 20 minutes to leave Wales' hopes of reaching Euro 2024 severly dented.

In September, Armenia followed up their victory in Cardiff with a draw in Turkey, taking them to within three points of Croatia who thumped Latvia 5-0 on the same evening.

Wales travelled to Latvia needing a win to keep alive any hopes of qualifying automatically for Euro 2024 and an early Aaron Ramsey penalty settled Welsh nerves before David Brooks scored his first international goal in nearly three years, and his first since recovering from cancer, to ensure a 2-0 win.

Two goals from Harry Wilson saw Wales defeat Croatia for the first time in their history to put automatic qualification hopes back in their own hands on a rousing night at the Cardiff City Stadium.

However, Armenia proved to be a thorn in Wales' side for the second time in the group as a 1-1 draw in Yerevan meant Wales, once again, were reliant on other results in order to qualify automatically.

Needing to better Croatia's result against Armenia on the same evening, Wales had the perfect start against Turkey as Neco Williams rifled home after just seven minutes, however Wales were left feeling hard done after the referee waved away three possible penalty appeals during the first half before awarding a controversial penalty against Ben Davies in the second half.

Croatia's victory over Armenia meant the result in Cardiff was immaterial with Wales having to go through the Play Offs in order to reach Euro 2024.

Players used during qualifying

Wales used 21 players during the campaign with Danny Ward and Ethan Ampadu playing every minute of every match. Connor Roberts, Joe Rodon, Neco Williams and Harry Wilson also played some part of every match.

Nathan Broadhead and Jordan James won their first caps against Croatia in Split, whilst Ollie Cooper made his first appearance in the home game against Latvia.

Player	CRO	LAT	ARM	TUR	LAT	CRO	ARM	TUR
Ethan Ampadu	90	90	90	90	90	90	90	90
Tom Bradshaw	20		9	28	3
Nathan Broadhead	26	17	9	6		10	12	61
David Brooks			20		41	57	50	29
Wes Burns	26
Ben Cabango		1		45
Ollie Cooper		1
Ben Davies			90		90	90	90	90
Dan James	64	73	81	62		33	24	20
Jordan James	1			6	90	90	90	90
Brennan Johnson			70	45	87		40	90
Chris Mepham	90	90	90	90	90	90	90
Kieffer Moore	72	90	77			90	90	6
Joe Morrell	89	90	24	41
Aaron Ramsey	64	89	66	84	49
Connor Roberts	90	90	90	90	90	90	78	90
Joe Rodon	90	90	66	90	90	90	90	90
Sorba Thomas	26
Danny Ward	90	90	90	90	90	90	90	90
Neco Williams	90	90	24	90	90	90	90	84
Harry Wilson	64	89	72	84	90	80	66	80