UEFA EURO 2024 opening ceremony to honour Franz Beckenbauer

The opening ceremony for UEFA’s Euro 2024 tournament is tonight at the Allianz Arena in Munich (for this competition it will be known as the Munich Football Arena) .The ceremony is expected to start after 7pm BST. The tournament will then start at 8pm BST with the host nation, Germany, hosting Scotland in a Group A match. The match will be shown in the UK on ITV.

The opening ceremony will honour Germany legend Franz Beckanbauer. Beckenbauer, is one of his country’s greatest players, and he captained West Germany to a European Championship triumph in 1972 and a World Cup success in 1974 before winning the World Cup again as manager in 1990. He died earlier this year aged 78.

The opening ceremony is likely to feature the official UEFA Euro 2024 song: MEDUZA, OneRepublic, Leony – Fire. Which can be seen here on YouTube

Germany will be expected to beat Scotland tonight, and currently have the better form Form with WDWWLL, while Scotland’s form is DWLLDD. The head to head count for Scotland is P17, W4, D5, L8, GF 23, GA 26. Most matches have a close result, so a 1-0 or 2-1 result is most like.

Match officials for Germany vs Scotland will be from France:-

Referee: Clément Turpin
Assistant referees: Nicolas Danos and Benjamin Pages
Fourth official: François Letexier
Video Assistant Referee: Jérôme Brisard FRA

The second Group A place will take place tomorrow (Saturday) at 2pm BST and will feature Hungary versus Switzerland. The match will be played in Cologne at the Cologne Stadium. The match officials for this game will come from Slovenia:-

Referee: Slavko Vinčić
Assistant referees: Tomaž Klančnik and Andraž Kovačič
Fourth official: Rade Obrenovic
Video Assistant Referee: Nejc Kajtazovic

The game will be shown on ITV and STV.