european football championship

The UEFA European Championship is the main national football competition of the UEFA nations. Held every four years since 1960, it was originally called the European Nations Cup, changing to the name European Football Championship in 1968. Until 1976 only four teams entered the final tournament. From 1980 eight teams competed and from 1996 sixteen teams played in the tournament. The competing teams are chosen by a series of qualifying games: in 1960 and 1964 through home and away play-offs; from 1968 through qualifying leagues and also play-off games. The host country/countries qualifies automatically. The Soviet Union won the inaugural competition; Germany triumphed three times, twice as West Germany. France is the only other team to win the tournament more than once.

Results

owspan=2 width=5%\|Year	rowspan=2 width=10%\|Host	width=1% rowspan=22 bgcolor=ffffff\|	colspan=3\|Final	width=1% rowspan=22 bgcolor=ffffff\|	colspan=3\|Third Place Match
idth=15%\|Champions	width=8%\|Score	width=15%\|Second Place	width=15%\|Third Place	width=8%\|Score	width=15%\|Fourth Place
a href="/encyclopedia/1960" title="1960">1960 Details	France	30px USSR	2 - 1 aet	30px Yugoslavia	30px Czechoslovakia	2 - 0	30px France
a href="/encyclopedia/1964" title="1964">1964 Details	Spain	30px Spain	2 - 1	30px USSR	30px Hungary	3 - 1 aet	30px Denmark
owspan=2\|1968 Details	rowspan=2\|Italy	30px Italy	1 - 1 aet	30px Yugoslavia	rowspan=2\|30px England	rowspan=2\|2 - 0	rowspan=2\|30px USSR
olspan=3\|Final replay: 2 - 0
a href="/encyclopedia/1972" title="1972">1972 Details	Belgium	30px West Germany	3 - 0	30px USSR	30px Belgium	2 - 1	30px Hungary
owspan=2\|1976 Details	rowspan=2\|Yugoslavia	30px Czechoslovakia	2 - 2 aet	30px West Germany	rowspan=2\|30px Netherlands	rowspan=2\|3 - 2 aet	rowspan=2\|30px Yugoslavia
olspan=3\|5 - 3 on penalty shootout
owspan=2\|1980 Details	rowspan=2\|Italy	rowspan=2\|30px West Germany	rowspan=2\|2 - 1	rowspan=2\|30px Belgium	30px Czechoslovakia	1 - 1	30px Italy
olspan=3\|9 - 8 on penalty shootout
olspan=10\|
gcolor=#C1D8FF\|Year	bgcolor=#C1D8FF\|Host	Champions	Score	Second Place	colspan=3\|Semifinalists
a href="/encyclopedia/1984" title="1984">1984 Details	France	30px France	2 - 0	30px Spain	30px Denmark	and	30px Portugal
a href="/encyclopedia/1988" title="1988">1988 Details	West Germany	30px Netherlands	2 - 0	30px USSR	30px West Germany	and	30px Italy
a href="/encyclopedia/1992" title="1992">1992 Details	Sweden	30px Denmark	2 - 0	30px Germany	30px Netherlands	and	30px Sweden
owspan=2\|1996 Details	rowspan=2\|England	30px Germany	2 - 1 asdet	30px Czech Republic	rowspan=2\|30px England	rowspan=2\|and	rowspan=2\|30px France
olspan=3\|Match decided on golden goal
owspan=2\|2000 Details	rowspan=2\|Belgium & Netherlands	30px France	2 - 1 asdet	30px Italy	rowspan=2\|30px Netherlands	rowspan=2\|and	rowspan=2\|30px Portugal
olspan=3\|Match decided on golden goal
a href="/encyclopedia/2004" title="2004">2004 Details	Portugal	30px Greece	1 - 0	30px Portugal	30px Czech Republic	and	30px Netherlands
a href="/encyclopedia/2008" title="2008">2008 Details	Austria & Switzerland					\|

Key:

aet - after extra time
asdet - after sudden death extra time

Total Wins

Germany 3 (1972, 1980, 1996)
France 2 (1984, 2000)
USSR 1 (1960)
Spain 1 (1964)
Italy 1 (1968)
Czechoslovakia 1 (1976)
Netherlands 1 (1988)
Denmark 1 (1992)
Greece 1 (2004)

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