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

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Champions	Score	Second Place		Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1960 Details	France		USSR	2 - 1 aet	Yugoslavia		Czechoslovakia	2 - 0	France
1964 Details	Spain		Spain	2 - 1	USSR		Hungary	3 - 1 aet	Denmark
1968 Details	Italy		Italy	1 - 1 aet	Yugoslavia		England	2 - 0	USSR
			Final replay: 2 - 0
1972 Details	Belgium		West Germany	3 - 0	USSR		Belgium	2 - 1	Hungary
1976 Details	Yugoslavia		Czechoslovakia	2 - 2 aet	West Germany		Netherlands	3 - 2 aet	Yugoslavia
			5 - 3 on penalty shootout
1980 Details	Italy		West Germany	2 - 1	Belgium		Czechoslovakia	1 - 1	Italy
							9 - 8 on penalty shootout
Year	Host	Champions	Score	Second Place	Semifinalists
1984 Details	France	France	2 - 0	Spain	Denmark	and	Portugal
1988 Details	West Germany	Netherlands	2 - 0	USSR	West Germany	and	Italy
1992 Details	Sweden	Denmark	2 - 0	Germany	Netherlands	and	Sweden
1996 Details	England	Germany	2 - 1 asdet	Czech Republic	England	and	France
		Match decided on golden goal
2000 Details	Belgium & Netherlands	France	2 - 1 asdet	Italy	Netherlands	and	Portugal
		Match decided on golden goal
2004 Details	Portugal	Greece	1 - 0	Portugal	Czech Republic	and	Netherlands
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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European Football Championship

France 1960 | Spain 1964 | Italy 1968 | Belgium 1972 | Yugoslavia 1976

Italy 1980 | France 1984 | West Germany 1988 | Sweden 1992

England 1996 | Belgium/Netherlands 2000 | Portugal 2004 | Austria/Switzerland 2008

International Football

FIFA - World Cup - Women's World Cup - World Rankings - Player of the Year Asia: AFC - Asian Cup | Africa: CAF - African Nations Cup South America: CONMEBOL - Copa Am�rica | North America: CONCACAF - Gold Cup Oceania: OFC - OFC Nations Cup | Europe: UEFA - European Championship