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The UEFA European Football Championship, [1] less formally the European Championship and informally the Euros, [2] [3] is the primary association football tournament organised by the Union of European Football Associations ( UEFA ). The competition is contested by UEFA members' senior men's national teams, determining the continental champion ...
France and Italy have each won the competition twice, while six other teams, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Greece, and Portugal, have triumphed once. Yugoslavia, Belgium and England have qualified for the final without success.
UEFA competitions (French: compétitions de l'UEFA), referred improperly by the mass media as European football, are the set of tournaments organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), generally in professional and amateur association football and futsal.
This is a list of records and statistics of the UEFA European Championship . Ranking of teams by number of appearances. As of UEFA Euro 2024. Debut of national teams. A total of 36 different UEFA members have reached the finals, 35 of whom are debuting outright. Every final tournament has seen at least one entity appearing for the first time.
A total of 23 clubs have won the Champions League/European Cup. Real Madrid holds the record for the most victories, having won the competition 15 times, including the inaugural edition. They have also won the competition the most consecutive times, with five straight titles from 1956 to 1960.
In front of a crowd of 67,173, limited by COVID-19 restrictions, with an estimated global audience of 328 million, Italy won their second European Championship, beating first-time finalists England 3–2 in a penalty shoot-out following a 1–1 draw after extra time.
The sixteenth tournament was held across Europe in 2021 (postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic ). The England national football team first attempted to qualify for the finals of the tournament in 1964, having declined to enter in 1960.
The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2020 (stylised as UEFA EURO 2020) or simply Euro 2020, was the 16th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). [1]