The German Football Association will select 10 venues from those that have applied to be part of its bid to host the European Championship German Football Association president Reinhard Grindel praised the country’s enthusiasm and infrastructure after 18 stadiums applied to be part of the country’s bid to host the 2024 European Championship. The DFB required all applications to include a seating capacity of 30,000 publicly available seats and both Freiburg Stadium and Karlsruhe’s Wildparkstadion included expansion plans in their submissions.