UEFA European Championship

UEFA Euro trophy

The UEFA European Football Championship, commonly known as the UEFA European Championship and as the Euros, is the main association football competition played by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). It has been held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between FIFA World Cup tournaments. It was first called the European Nations' Cup. It changed to the current name in 1968.

Past UEFA European Championship results[change | change source]

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1960	France	Soviet Union	2-1	Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia	2 – 0	France
1964	Spain	Spain	2 – 1	Soviet Union	Hungary	3 – 1 aet	Denmark
1968	Italy	Italy	1 – 1 aet 2 – 0 replay	Yugoslavia	England	2 – 0	Soviet Union
1972	Belgium	West Germany	3 – 0	Soviet Union	Belgium	2 – 1	Hungary
1976	Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia	2 – 2 aet (5 – 3) ps	West Germany	Netherlands	3 – 2 aet	Yugoslavia
1980	Italy	West Germany	2 – 1	Belgium	Czechoslovakia	1 – 1 (9 – 8) ps	Italy

Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Semifinalists (No 3rd place match since 1980)
1984	France	France	2 – 0	Spain	Denmark	and	Portugal
1988	West Germany	Netherlands	2 – 0	Soviet Union	West Germany	and	Italy
1992	Sweden	Denmark	2 – 0	Germany	Netherlands	and	Sweden
1996	England	Germany	2 – 1 asdet	Czech Republic	England	and	France
2000	Belgium & Netherlands	France	2 – 1 asdet	Italy	Netherlands	and	Portugal
2004	Portugal	Greece	1 – 0	Portugal	Czech Republic	and	Netherlands
2008	Austria & Switzerland	Spain	1 – 0	Germany	Russia	and	Turkey
2012	Poland & Ukraine	Spain	4 – 0	Italy	Germany	and	Portugal
2016	France	Portugal	1 – 0 aet	France	Wales	and	Germany
2020	Europe					and

Wins by team[change | change source]

Team	Winners	Runners-up	Semi-finalists	Top 2	Top 4
Germany	3 (1972, 1980, 1996)	3 (1976, 1992, 2008)	3 (1988, 2012, 2016)	6	9
Spain	3 (1964, 2008, 2012)	1 (1984)	—	4	4
France	2 (1984, 2000)	1 (2016)	2 (1960, 1996)	3	5
Soviet Union/ Russia	1 (1960)	3 (1964, 1972, 1988)	2 (1968, 2008)	4	6
Italy	1 (1968)	2 (2000, 2012)	2 (1980, 1988)	3	5
Portugal	1 (2016)	1 (2004)	3 (1984, 2000, 2012)	2	5
Czechoslovakia/ Czech Republic	1 (1976)	1 (1996)	3 (1960, 1980, 2004)	2	5
Netherlands	1 (1988)	—	4 (1976, 1992, 2000, 2004)	1	5
Denmark	1 (1992)	—	2 (1964, 1984)	1	3
Greece	1 (2004)	—	—	1	1
Yugoslavia	—	2 (1960, 1968)	1 (1976)	2	3
Belgium	—	1 (1980)	1 (1972)	1	2
England	—	—	2 (1968, 1996)	0	2
Hungary	—	—	2 (1964, 1972)	0	2
Wales	—	—	1 (2016)	0	1
Turkey	—	—	1 (2008)	0	1
Sweden	—	—	1 (1992)	0	1