Decision made in Nyon
The Women’s European Football Championship will take place in Germany in 2029
Updated on December 3, 2025 – 4:45 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
It has now been decided: Germany will host the European Women’s Football Championship in 2029. For the third time after 1989 and 2002.
Joy at the German Football Association: The 2029 Women’s European Championship will take place in Germany. This was decided on Wednesday at a UEFA meeting in Nyon. The DFB thus prevailed against competitors from Poland, Denmark and Sweden.
At 4:35 p.m., Uefa President Aleksander Čeferin pulled the piece of paper with the inscription “Germany” out of the envelope and caused great cheers among the delegation with captain Giulia Gwinn and national coach Christian Wück. It will be the first major women’s football tournament in Germany since the 2011 World Cup. There were previously women’s home European Championships in 1989 and 2001.
A good 20 hours after the lost Nations League final of the German footballers against Spain, there was good news for the German association around President Bernd Neuendorf, at least in terms of sports policy.
In its bid for the votes of UEFA delegates, the DFB relied primarily on the promise of full, large stadiums and the associated financial success. At least there should be a black zero, so far the economic losses of a women’s European Championship have always had to be cross-financed.
“Our goal is to bring over a million spectators to the stadium for the games we see,” Neuendorf announced in advance. The game is scheduled to take place in eight stadiums in the summer of 2029: Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Cologne, Leipzig, Munich and Wolfsburg. The Berlin Olympic Stadium, where 73,680 spectators watched the German start at the 2011 World Cup, is, like the Gelsenkirchen Arena, not there.
Denmark and Sweden entered the race with Stockholm and Copenhagen, among others, but also with much smaller stadiums in Malmö and Odense. Poland’s argument to advance women’s football in Eastern Europe also did not resonate with the exco members headed by UEFA boss Ceferin. Portugal and Italy had each withdrawn their applications prematurely.
The European Championship award is also an important success for DFB boss Neuendorf on the international stage. The first bid under his leadership for a major women’s tournament – together with the Netherlands and Belgium for the 2027 World Cup – resulted in a clear defeat against Brazil a good year and a half ago.
Now the European Championship is becoming the driver for the DFB’s strategy to promote the current upswing in women’s football. In a week, a separate league association is to be founded for the women’s Bundesliga. The DFB is contributing just over 100 million euros for eight years to professionalize the league