Sasic, who won the Euros twice with the national team, is fully optimistic that Germany will be awarded the hosting rights.
“But at the end of the day, it’s a competition and an election process; you can’t predict the outcome,” he said.
DW answers the key questions about the awards for the Women’s European Championship.
Who decides the host of the 2029 Women’s European Championship?
The decision is up to the 20-member UEFA Executive Committee, which is to vote on December 3 at the headquarters of football’s European governing body in Nyon, Switzerland. CET results are expected around 5 pm.
Slovenia’s UEFA President Aleksandar Ceferin is the chairman of the committee. Sixteen members of the committee are elected by the UEFA Congress, two are appointed by the European Football Club Association, and one represents the European League Association.
The German representative on the executive committee is Hans-Joachim Watzke, chairman of the supervisory board of the German Football League (DFL) and chairman of Borussia Dortmund. However, because Germany is one of the bidders to host the 2029 Women’s European Championship, Watzke is not allowed to vote.
What is Germany’s view?
The slogan of the bid is: “WE’29 – Together we will rise.” According to the DFB’s pitch, it is much more than just a tournament.
“Our aim is to create a tournament that promotes women’s football in every corner of Europe, with world-class venues, substantial revenue streams and expanded opportunities for knowledge exchange. We will not leave any country out.”
If Germany’s bid is successful, eight German cities will host the matches: Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Hanover, Wolfsburg and Leipzig.
The DFB is promising that it will be the first women’s European Championship to make a profit. This is based on an estimate of over one million tickets sold, financial commitments from each potential host city, and support from German business. Since no previous Women’s Euros had made a profit, it is sure to score points with UEFA decision makers.
UEFA lost an estimated €35 million ($40 million) on the 2025 Women’s Euro in Switzerland. By comparison, the 2024 men’s European Championship in Germany made a profit of €1.3 billion.
Who else is bidding to host Euro 2029?
The field of competitors has shrunk. Only three of the original five applicants remain. At the end of August, Italy withdrew its bid without giving any reason. It is possible that the Italians did not want to overextend themselves financially, as they – together with Turkey – are already hosting the 2032 men’s European Championship.
The Portuguese Football Association (FPF) withdrew from the race on 19 November, saying it wanted to focus on the 2030 Men’s World Cup, the first to be held across three continents with Morocco, Portugal and Spain as main hosts.
This leaves Poland’s bid as well as the joint bid from Denmark and Sweden as Germany’s only competition.
What are Germany’s prospects?
As host of the 2024 Men’s European Championships, which ran smoothly, Germany presented itself in good light. The last Women’s European Championships to be hosted by Germany was almost a quarter of a century ago, in 2001. Then, the record European champions won the tournament – as they also did in 1989, when Germany hosted the Women’s European Championships for the first time.
However, the choice is not a foregone conclusion, as demonstrated by FIFA’s vote to host the 2027 Women’s World Cup in the spring of 2024: Germany, along with the Netherlands and Belgium, lost to Brazil, who would become the first South American country to host the tournament.
Poland will be the first Eastern European country to host this tournament. However, support for Poland within UEFA does not appear to be very strong. In the 2023 voting for the 2025 host, Poland failed to reach the decisive third round, where Switzerland prevailed over the trio of Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
The defeat of the Scandinavian bid was seen as a rebuke from UEFA to the outspoken president of the Norwegian FA, Lise Klevnes.
In the current polling, only Denmark and Sweden remain, who, by this logic, would improve their chances. Sweden, on the other hand, hosted the Women’s European Championship in 2013 – much more recently than Germany.
This article was originally published in German.
Edited by: Jonathan Harding
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