Soccer Football - Euro 2024 Host Announcement - Nyon, Switzerland - September 27, 2018 The UEFA European Championship trophy on display ahead of the announcement REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
NYON, Switzerland (Reuters) - Germany will host the Euro 2024 football tournament after comfortably beating the only other bidders Turkey in a two-horse contest on Thursday.
Germany, which previously staged the event as West Germany in 1988 and successfully held the 2006 World Cup, won the vote among UEFA's executive committee after a four-year campaign which, for the first time, featured human rights as one of the specific bid criteria.
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