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Those final group-stage games will surely be played simultaneously on the respective days. So, I'd suggest that there will be no need for 4 KO times. It may therefore end up as 3pm, 6pm and 9pm (it's already confirmed that the opening game will be a 9pm kick-off / 8pm UK time).

Yep, all just a blind ballot at the moment. But you have to be in it to win it: https://www.euro2024ingermany.com/tickets

Cheers! Yes, I think looking at out of town options will be something a lot of people will want to do. The hotel prices on matchdays in the host cities are already quite high. BTW, it was announced yesterday that match tickets will include 36 hours of free travel on public transport within the regional network around the respective host city, so getting to and from a hotel in the next town will be covered by that. Some more details here: https://www.euro2024ingermany.com/latest

Understand re flights, as they can't usually be cancelled. But hotel rooms often can and prices will soar as soon as the draw is made. It's possible to 'beat the system' by reserving rooms now at current rates and then cancelling the ones you don't need once the draw is made. See more here: https://www.euro2024ingermany.com/dates

Hallo Deutschland! For all hoping to go, here's a shameless plug for my website Euro 2024 in Germany Time to start planning that trip!

I'd just left BGS when I saw that game. It was 1977. Funnily enough, I met Dieter Mueller's wife many years later, in 2006, at a cider farm (think Thatcher's, only scrumpy) that she runs not far from Frankfurt.

Enjoy. Prost! PS: The first international I saw there (maybe the first game of any sort, I'm not sure) saw George Best in one team vs Rainer Bonhof in the other. What was the year?

Yeah, even in the fan zones it will be great fun. In 2006 the Germans actively encouraged fans to come and join in the party, even if they didn't have tickets for the games. I know already, for instance, that in Frankfurt they'll be using the banks of the Main again (with a huge screen on a pontoon in the middle of the river), and in Berlin the wide avenue leading up to the Brandenburg Gate (Strasse des. 17 Juni) will again be closed to traffic and used exclusively as the 'Fan Mile'.

I expect so, yes. Though my advice for anyone hoping to go and planning to stay in hotels, is to reserve cancellable rooms now wherever you think you might need them and then cancel those you don't need once the draw has been made. Because as soon as people know where they need to be when, the demand for rooms will drive prices in the host cities sky high.

You could have a look at Wuppertal. Location-wise it would be very good for getting to all of those grounds. Hotels would also no doubt be cheaper there than in the host cities.

Yeah, the RheinEnergie Stadion in Köln also one of my favourite German stadia: probably number three after Union Berlin's (of course!) and Dortmund. I like rectangular grounds! The spread of venues is not particularly helpful in any of the groups, as my Venues by Group page shows. There's going to be a lot of travelling around.

Danke!

You're welcome! Anything you think I should add / is missing??

If you're bored by the lack of club football at the moment, why not dream ahead to next summer? As I did for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, I've put together an online guide for Euro 2024 in Germany, which - if you're thinking of going - will hopefully be of use to you. With Scotland already qualified, England looking good and Wales still in with a shout, there could be loads of Brits out there next summer. If that will include you, which group would you prefer?

Yes. I remember a pause of disbelief in the crowd before Cashley raised his arms and the goal celebrations began.

Update: Coventry game now fully booked. Tickets still available for WBA and Argyle, as shown above.

Our Fans for the Future tickets for games through to next March have nearly all been snapped up. However, there are still a few available, including for the West Brom game on Saturday, when we have 3 tickets up for grabs (2 adult tickets and 1 U19, but could be used for 1 adult and two kids). For the Plymouth match next Tuesday there are 4 tickets available (1 adult and 3x U19) and for Coventry on 21 October 5 tickets up for grabs (1 adult and 4x U19). More here: https://www.bristolcitysupporters.org/kids-be-our-guests-take-5/ If you or a friend would like to use these to take kids to a game who have never been to AG or rarely get the chance to do so, please just get in touch by e-mailing FansOfTheFuture@bristolcitysupporters.org

Jolly good - the more, the merrier!

*** BUMP *** 40% of the available tickets have been booked up inside 24 hours. If you'd like to take advantage of this offer, or know someone else who you think would like to introduce a group of kids to the joy (and pain) of a liftetime watching City, full details can be found here: https://www.bristolcitysupporters.org/kids-be-our-guests-take-5/

The Supporters Club & Trust is delighted to announce that our 'Fans of the Future' free tickets scheme is returning for a fifth season. Full details and information on how to book tickets for a group of up to 8 can be found here: https://www.bristolcitysupporters.org/kids-be-our-guests-take-5/

Yep, Berlin property prices have soared in recent years, but remain low, I'd say, for a European capital. Rents remain affordable for most and all landlord/tenant laws favour tenants. Back to the main subject of the thread, the German 50+1 rule and the fact that several top clubs remain 100% members' clubs also mean that the spectre of a league in which all the clubs are owned by yanks or sheikhs is not about to become reality in Germany any time soon.

Yep, and with no ownership by a foreign state or American asset strippers either! The club is 'owned' by 40,000+ members. It's like AFC Wimbledon getting into the CL.

Sadly, missing out on the CL as it stands ... but only need one goal in the second half to change that!

Good to see the proper name used!

I don't know the details. But the basic assumption is that clubs will live within their means. Hence the key question at relicensing time each spring being 'Does the club have the liquidity to operate throughout the whole of the next season without getting into financial difficulty?' If through the required submission of their accounts and forecasts they are unable to demonstrate that, they don't get their licence renewed, which means forced relegation to a lower division. That threat keeps the clubs in line 99% of the time. By comparison, our fines and fairly modest points deductions are no more than a slap on the wrist.