{"id":383060,"date":"2025-08-29T18:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/383060\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:02:27","slug":"italy-drops-womens-euro-2029-host-bid-leaving-germany-to-head-4-candidate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/383060\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy drops Women’s Euro 2029 host bid leaving Germany to head 4-candidate race"},"content":{"rendered":"

NYON, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Italy withdrew from bidding to host the 2029 Women\u2019s European Championship, leaving four contenders for the 16-team tournament.<\/p>\n

Germany, Poland, Portugal and a joint bid by Denmark and Sweden will compete in a Dec. 3 vote by the UEFA executive committee, UEFA said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Italy will co-host the men\u2019s Euro 2032 with Turkey, though is already under pressure<\/a> to deliver five modern stadiums on time.<\/p>\n

Germany appears favored<\/a> to deliver a high-revenue, 31-game tournament in 2029 that would use the stadiums of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. Those venues can seat about 70,000 people for international games.<\/p>\n

A hugely successful Euro 2025 in Switzerland in July set a tournament-record total attendance of more than 650,000 fans.<\/p>\n

England retained its title, beating Spain in a penalty shootout<\/a> after a 1-1 draw in Basel, and will seek a hat trick in 2029 if it qualifies.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYON, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Italy withdrew from bidding to host the 2029 Women\u2019s European Championship, leaving four contenders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[1062,4113,133058,2000,5215,299,1824,2199,10031,79,812,2600,461,20303,9201],"class_list":{"0":"post-383060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-bayern-munich","9":"tag-borussia-dortmund","10":"tag-borussia-dortmund-gmbh-co-kgaa","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-eurocopa-2024","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-italy","16":"tag-soccer","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sweden","19":"tag-switzerland","20":"tag-turkey","21":"tag-womens-sports","22":"tag-womens-soccer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115113370833657576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}