VIDEO SHOWS: ANNOUNCEMENT THAT GERMANY WILL HOST THE 2029 WOMEN'S EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP RESENDING WITH FULL SCRIPT SHOWS: NYON, SWITZERLAND (DECEMBER 3, 2025) (UEFA – See restrictions) 1. UEFA PRESIDENT ALEKSANDER CEFERIN WALKS ON TO STAGE 2. CEFERIN IS INTRODUCED 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ALEKSANDER CEFERIN, UEFA PRESIDENT, SAYING: "First of all, welcome, also in my name, at the house of European football. We are deciding about an important tournament. Now, for me, it's heartbreaking that with three fantastic bids, only one can host. All the presentations were great, all the bids were great, but that's how it is. One wins, and that's also in football the same, and I would say in life as well. So the UEFA Women's Euro 2029 will be hosted in Germany." 4. WIDE SHOT OF STAGE 5. GERMAN DELEGATION CELEBRATING 6. CEFERIN CONGRATULATES DFB PRESIDENT BERND NEUENDORF 7. GERMAN DELEGATION ON STAGE WITH CEFERIN 8. CEFERIN HANDS OVER PENNANT TO NEUENDORF 9. DELEGATION AND CEFERIN POSE FOR PHOTOS WITH PENNANT 10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BERND NEUENDORF, DFB PRESIDENT, SAYING: "It was a long journey, and it's not just all of us standing up here, but we had so many people working at the DFB to get this tournament to achieve what we achieved now. And so thank you to all of the people who supported us at the DFB and elsewhere from the teams. And so it was really great support that we felt from the beginning. And I would like to thank all the others in this room, especially to the other bidders, Poland and of course the Nordics. I think it was always fair and we had a good relation and I think we all invite you to come to Germany. As we said, it's a tournament for all in Europe, not just for Germany, but I think you're all welcome, we all like to see you, we all hope to learn from each other and that's going on with a big tournament like ours, I think." STORY: Germany will host the 2029 Women's European Championship, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said at the governing body's executive committee on Wednesday (December 3). Denmark and Sweden had submitted a joint bid while Poland was also a candidate. Italy and Portugal had withdrawn their bids before the vote, focusing on their preparations to co-host the men's Euro 2032 and 2030 men's World Cup, respectively. "All the presentations were great, all the bids were great, but that's how it is. One wins, and that's also in football the same, and I would say in life as well," Ceferin said. Germany hosted the tournament in 2001 and as West Germany in 1989, both times winning on home soil. "It was a long journey, and it's not just all of us standing up here, but we had so many people working at the DFB (German football association) to get this tournament to achieve what we achieved now. And so thank you to all of the people who supported us at the DFB," DFB president Bernd Neuendorf said. Before the executive committee meeting, a small group of activists unfurled a banner demanding UEFA ban Israel from European competition over the country's military operations in Gaza, also setting off pink flares. They were overseen by police and no incident was reported. (Production: Andy Ragg)
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