Twelve years after hosting the FIFA World Cup, UEFA have confirmed that Germany will host the 2024 European Championships.
In a two-horse race that also involved Turkey, the association's executive committee voted in favour of the German bid in Switzerland this afternoon.
With the 2020 championships set to be spread out a number of European cities, the 2024 edition will be the first hosted by an individual nation since France hosted the 2016 edition.
Although the tournament recently extended the number of qualifying nations from 16 to 24, it is likely that the 2024 championships will hold to the 24-team format also.
With a number of ready-made stadiums in place to satisfy the demands of such a tournament, the cities chosen for the bid are as follows: Berlin, Munich, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Leipzig and Frankfurt.
If the allotment of games follows the same structure as the 2006 World Cup, it is likely that the final of the 2024 European Championships will be held in Berlin's Olympiastadion.
In what will be the first time Germany have hosted the tournament as a unified nation, the 1988 tournament was held in West Germany; a particularly memorable tournament for Irish football fans.
European champions on two separate occasions (twice as West Germany), German fans will be hopeful that the Mannschaft can make bring that number to four in six years time.
By contrast, Turkey's ambitions to host an international sporting event will have to wait for the time being.
Having previously been overlooked for the 2016 European Championships and the 2020 Olympic Games, UEFA president Alexander Ceferin confirmed prior to announcing today's winner that the selection committee had been presented with "two very strong bids."
Although Turkey's bid was considered to be of a high standard, last week's evaluation report of both bids suggested that it presented certain "risks" that Germany, by contrast, had no traces of.
