Turkey vs Georgia LIVE: Euro 2024 match marred by fan violence as heavy rain breaches stadium roof

Half an hour until kick-off now, so here’s a reminder of how you can watch tonight’s first game.

The fixture will kick off at 5pm BST on Tuesday 18 June at the BVB Stadion Dortmund.

Turkey vs Georgia will be shown live on BBC 1 and iPlayer, with coverage starting at 4.30pm. You can find a full list of which channel is showing each match here.

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Fans of Georgia and Turkey brawled inside the BVB Stadion Dortmund an hour before kick-off in the two countries’ opening Euro 2024 match.

Video footage circulated on social media showed groups of opposing supporters clash in one corner of the stadium, with punches thrown and missiles launched before police intervened to quell the violent scenes.

The fighting came amid torrential rain in Dortmund on Tuesday which caused the stadium’s roof to leak waterfalls of rain on to fans below.

Severe weather warnings are in place across the host nation, while the level of precipitation was too much for the BVB Stadium to handle.

The build-up to the match has been slightly barred by some clashes between the two sets of fans at the Westfalenstadion.

Earlier on, unusually high rainfall had caused leaks from the stadium roof.

This is Georgia’s first major international tournament, so of course two sides have never met in international competition, though they have faced off in three friendlies and two World Cup qualifiers between 2002 and 2012.

The first meeting came in August 2002, when Turkey won 3-0 in a friendly, before World Cup qualifiers in September 2004 (which ended 1-1) and March 2005, in which Turkey ran out 5-2 winners.

Georgia’s only win against Turkey came in February 2007, when they won 1-0 in another friendly.

The two sides have not met since 2012, when Turkey ran out 3-1 winners thanks in part to goals from ex-Bayern Munich midfielder Hamit Altintop and recently appointed Borussia Dortmund manager Nuri Sahin.

TURKEY XI: Gunok; Muldur, Bardakci, Akaydin, Kadioglu; Ayhan, Calhanoglu; Guler, Kokcu; Yildiz; Yilmaz.

GEORGIA XI: Mamardashvili; Kverkvelia, Kashia, Dvali; Kakabadze, Chakvetadze, Kochorashvili, Mekbavishvili, Tsitaishvili; Kvaratskhelia, Mikautadze.