The Spain national football team won its fourth European Championship by defeating England 2-1 in the final of UEFA Euro 2024 at the Olympiastadion Berlin.
This was the seventeenth edition of the Intercontinental UEFA European Championship, which was first held in 1960.
Held in France for the first time under the European Nations’ Cup banner, the inaugural elite pan-European football competition fielded 17 teams. The Soviet Union won the title by defeating Yugoslavia 2-1 in the final in Paris.
The UEFA Euro has been won by ten different countries. The most successful teams in the competition, held every four years, were Spain and Germany, who won three titles each.
While Germany was the European football champion in 1972, 1980, and 1996 (the first as West Germany), Spain won it in 1964, 2008, 2012, and 2024. Spain is also the biggest group to win the championship in two consecutive editions.
Spain’s victory in 2012 marks the most goals scored in a UEFA European Championship final. They won 4-0 against Italy.
In the meantime, Germany has featured in a document six Euro finals.
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Other European giants to have gained the title are Portugal, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union, Greece, and Czechoslovakia.
Even as the UEFA European Championship is normally hosted by way of one or international locations, the 2020 version turned into an exception, with matches spread across 11 European cities.
The European Football Association (UEFA) has taken this step to have a good time the 60th anniversary of the tournament. that is a once-in-a-lifetime possibility, as the subsequent version will again see the identical U.S.A. (Germany for Euro 2024) website hosting all the video games.
France changed into the most effective soccer crew to win the UEFA Championship name on the home ground in 1984.
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UEFA European Championship winners list
| Year | Winners | Runner-up |
| 2024 | Spain | England |
| 2020 | Italy | England |
| 2016 | Portugal | France |
| 2012 | Spain | Italy |
| 2008 | Spain | Germany |
| 2004 | Greece | Portugal |
| 2000 | France | Italy |
| 1996 | Germany | Czech Republic |
| 1992 | Denmark | Germany |
| 1988 | Netherlands | Soviet Union |
| 1984 | France | Spain |
| 1980 | West Germany | Belgium |
| 1976 | Czechoslovakia | West Germany |
| 1972 | West Germany | Soviet Union |
| 1968 | Italy | Yugoslavia |
| 1964 | Spain | Soviet Union |
| 1960 | Soviet Union | Yugoslavia |
