AUDIO: Women’s European Championship 2029 in Germany? UEFA decides (2 min)
As of: December 1, 2025 3:57 p.m
The 2029 Women’s European Football Championship will be awarded on Wednesday. The German Football Association (DFB) is convinced of its own application, but recently came away empty-handed when it came to awarding tournaments. Germany has to tremble until the end.
DFB President Bernd Neuendorf’s nerves are being put to the test. The European Football Union (UEFA) has scheduled a full four hours for its decision-makers’ meeting on Wednesday, and more than one round of voting has obviously been taken into account.
It is only at around 5.30 p.m. that the German delegation will know whether the months-long advertising tour was worth it and whether the association will be able to host a women’s European Championship in 2029 for the third time after 1989 and 2001.
“I think we have submitted a really strong application. But we also have competitors who should be taken very seriously.”
DFB boss Bernd Neuendorf
Neuendorf, who will be present at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon with women’s national coach Christian Wück, among others, believes “that we have submitted a really strong application. But we also have competitors who should be taken very seriously.” The DFB President also emphasizes: “Everyone saw at the men’s EURO last year that we can organize such tournaments perfectly.”
Germany’s competitors: Poland and a Scandinavian duo
Whether the German Football Association will be allowed to organize another European Championship in four years depends on the vote of the 18 voting ex-members. The colleagues of DFB Vice Hans-Joachim Watzke, who is not allowed to vote himself, have to choose between applications from Germany, Poland and Scandinavia (Denmark plus Sweden).
The applicants can make their “final presentation” again during the meeting. Although two competitors (Italy and Portugal) have withdrawn, the outcome appears completely open.
Most recently, the DFB failed in its World Cup bid
So that the largest individual sports association in the world does not have to deal with another setback like the failed bid for the 2027 Women’s World Cup (together with the Netherlands and Belgium), the DFB is throwing out the financial bait.
“We are confident that we can sell over a million tickets and make the European Championship an economic success,” said Neuendorf: “It would be an important step for women’s football if this tournament no longer had to be subsidized, but instead generated a profit on its own.”
Full house: Germany advertises, among other things, the fact that DFB women’s games – like here in the Nations Legaue against Spain – are always very well attended.
Neuendorf knows that he has to hit this mark. After all, that was it Finals last summer in Switzerland Although it was a complete success in terms of atmosphere, UEFA still had to foot the bill in the end. A loss in the double-digit million range was recorded.
Germany advertises with the big arenas
To make things different in Germany, the DFB is sending large stadiums into the race. The ball should roll in Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich and Wolfsburg. The arenas have far larger capacities than most stadiums at the 2011 World Cup in Germany.
“We have the stadiums, we have the spectators, we can at the moment – and I hope it stays that way for a long time – inspire people with our game,” said national coach Wück after the Nations League final first leg against Spain in Kaiserslautern (the second leg on Tuesday from 6 p.m. live on the first and in the Sports watch stream). He hopes that UEFA has paid attention and believes “that we are doing everything we can to get this European Championship to Germany.”
Strengthening women’s football: “Together WE Rise”
The DFB’s “Bid Book” comprises a total of eleven chapters. The topics covered include sustainability, security, mobility, logistics and finance. The core of the application is the topic of vision, which is expressed in the slogan “Together WE Rise”.
“An award would mean a lot for women’s football.”
National coach Christian Wück
“An award would mean a lot for women’s football,” said Wück. Neuendorf sees it that way too. “The potential in women’s and girls’ football continues to be enormous,” emphasized the DFB President: “With our application for the European Championship, among other things, we would like to give this positive development a further boost.”
The next stage is to be ignited on December 10th with the founding of the “Women’s DFL”. The DFB wants to pump 100 million euros into the professionalization of the Bundesliga – preferably, of course, into the league of the European Championship hosts.
