Dutch designer Sabine Marcelis has created colourful football plinths for the Euro 2024 group stage games, while German studio Gonzalez Haase AAS has designed a stripy aluminium plinth for the opening game.
The designers were invited by sportswear brand Adidas, which makes the official Fussballliebe match ball, to design the plinths on which the balls are placed ahead of the games.
Marcelis wanted her plinths to celebrate the ball itself, while making the plinth more than a rectangular box.
Sabine Marcelis designed resin plinths for the Euros 2024
"We approached the plinth in a way that we wanted to create a new interpretation of the closed box," she told Dezeen.
"Instead, opening it up to become three volumes that hold up and celebrate the ball," she added. "Not only referencing the three iconic stripes of Adidas, but also the three worlds coming together in this project; UEFA, Adidas and Studio Sabine Marcelis."
The plinths have a gradient effect
The plinths, which like many of her pieces were cast from resin, where designed to look like that are "lifting up" the ball.
"We were able to create the gradient effect by casting it in two colours on an angle to also give the uplifting illusion to the plinth," she explained.

Marcelis worked on a number of different designs before settling on the final version, which she made in blue, yellow, red and green.
They will be used for the group stages of the game, which are currently b...