UEFA Euro 2016

2016 UEFA Euro 2016

Championnat d'Europe de football 2016
Logo of UEFA Euro 2016
Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	10 June – 10 July 2016
Teams	24
Venue(s)	10 (in 10 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Portugal
Runner-up	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	49
Goals scored	105 (2.14 per match)
Attendance	2,287,357 (46,681 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Antoine Griezmann (4 goals)
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The 2016 UEFA European Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2016, will be the 15th European Championship for men's national football teams organised by UEFA. It will be held in France from 10 June to 10 July 2016.

For the first time, the European Championship final tournament will be contested by 24 teams, having been expanded from the 16-team format that had been used since 1996. Under this new format, the finalists will contest a group stage consisting of six groups of four teams, followed by a knockout stage including three rounds and the final. As hosts, France have automatically qualified for the final tournament, while the other 53 national teams will compete in a qualifying competition, running from September 2014 to November 2015, to secure the remaining 23 places. Among these teams are back-to-back defending champions Spain, and for the first time since their affiliation with UEFA, Gibraltar.

France was chosen as the host on 28 May 2010, after a bidding process in which they beat Italy and Turkey for the right to host the 2016 finals. The matches will be played in ten stadia in nine cities: Bordeaux, Lens, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris, St-Etienne and Toulouse. It will be the third time that France hosts the tournament, after the inaugural edition in 1960 and the 1984 finals. The French team have won the European Championship two times: in 1984 and 2000.

The winners will earn the right to participate in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup hosted by Russia.

Bid process

Main article: UEFA Euro 2016 bids

Four bids came before the deadline at 9 March 2009 which were France, Italy and Turkey as single bids each, plus Norway and Sweden as a joint bid. Norway and Sweden eventually withdrew their bid in December 2009.

The host was selected on 28 May 2010.

Voting results

Country	Round
	1st	2nd
France	43	7
Turkey	38	6
Italy	23	–
Total votes	104	13

Qualification

Main article: UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying

The qualifying draw took place at the Palais des Congres Acropolis in Nice, on 23 February 2014, with the first matches being played in September 2014.

A total of 53 teams competed for 23 places in the final tournament to join France, who have automatically qualified as hosts. Gibraltar competed in a European Championship qualifying for the first time since their affiliation to UEFA in 2013. The seeding pots were formed on the basis of the UEFA national team coefficients, with the Euro 2012 champions Spain and hosts France automatically top seeded.

The 53 national sides were drawn into eight groups of six teams and one group of five teams. The group winners, runners-up, and the best third-placed team (with the results against the sixth-placed team discarded) qualify directly to the final tournament. The remaining eight third-placed teams will contest two-legged play-offs to determine the last four qualifiers.

In March 2012, Gianni Infantino, the UEFA General Secretary at the time, stated that UEFA would review the qualification competition to ensure that it was not "boring". In September 2011, during UEFA's first ever full strategy meeting, Michel Platini proposed a qualification format involving two group stages, but the proposal was not accepted by the member associations. In May 2013, Platini confirmed a similar qualifying format would be again discussed during the September 2013 UEFA executive committee meeting in Dubrovnik.

Qualified teams

  Team qualified for finals

  Team failed to qualify

Thirteen of the sixteen teams (including hosts France) that qualified for Euro 2012 qualified again for the 2016 final tournament. Among them were England, who became only the sixth team to record a flawless qualifying campaign (10 wins in 10 matches), defending European champions Spain, and world champions Germany, who qualified for their 12th straight European Championship finals.

Romania, Turkey, Austria and Switzerland all returned after missing out in 2012, with the Austrians qualifying for just their second final Euro tournament, after having co-hosted Euro 2008. Returning to the final tournament after long absences were Belgium for the first time since co-hosting Euro 2000, and Hungary for the first time in 44 years, having last appeared at Euro 1972, and 30 years since appearing in a major tournament, their previous one being the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

Four teams secured their first-ever qualification to a UEFA European Championship final tournament: Albania, Iceland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. Northern Ireland and Wales had each previously competed in the FIFA World Cup, while Albania and Iceland had never participated in a major tournament in their history. Slovakia, meanwhile, are making their debut of the Euros as an independent country, having already qualified for 3 Euros and 8 World Cups as Czechoslovakia, while Albania and Iceland had never participated in a major tournament in their history. Similarly, both Austria and Ukraine completed successful qualification campaigns for the first time, having only previously qualified as hosts (of 2008 and 2012 respectively).

Scotland were the only team from the British Isles not to qualify for the finals, and 2004 champions Greece finished bottom in their group. Two other previous Euro champions, 1988 winners Netherlands and 1992 victors Denmark, both missed out on the finals, the Netherlands for the first time since Euro 1984 (also held in France), and missing out on their first major tournament since the 2002 FIFA World Cup as well as their failure to qualify being only 16 months after the team finished third in the 2014 FIFA World Cup and Denmark for the first time since Euro 2008, after losing in the play-off rounds to Sweden.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament
Albania	Group I runner-up	14 !11 October 2015	0 (debut)
Austria	Group G winner	05 !8 September 2015	1 (2008)
Belgium	Group B winner	11 !10 October 2015	4 (1972, 1980, 1984, 2000)
Croatia	Group H runner-up	19 !13 October 2015	4 (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Czech Republic	Group A winner	03 !6 September 2015	5B (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
England	Group E winner	02 !5 September 2015	8B (1968, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012)
France	Host	01 !28 May 2010	8 (1960, 1984, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Germany	Group D winner	15 !11 October 2015	11 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Hungary	Play-off winner	20 !15 November 2015	2 (1964, 1972)
Iceland	Group A runner-up	04 !6 September 2015	0 (debut)
Italy	Group H winner	10 !10 October 2015	8 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Northern Ireland	Group F winner	06 !8 October 2015	0 (debut)
Poland	Group D runner-up	16 !11 October 2015	2 (2008, 2012)
Portugal	Group I winner	07 !8 October 2015	6 (1984, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Republic of Ireland	Play-off winner	21 !16 November 2015	2 (1988, 2012)
Romania	Group F runner-up	13 !11 October 2015	4 (1984, 1996, 2000, 2008)
Russia	Group G runner-up	17 !12 October 2015	4 (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Slovakia	Group C runner-up	18 !12 October 2015	0 (debut)
Spain	Group C winner	08 !9 October 2015	9 (1964, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Sweden	Play-off winner	22 !17 November 2015	5 (1992, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Switzerland	Group E runner-up	09 !9 October 2015	3 (1996, 2004, 2008)
Turkey	Best third-placed team	19 !13 October 2015	3 (1996, 2000, 2008)
Ukraine	Play-off winner	22 !17 November 2015	1 (2012)
Wales	Group B runner-up	12 !10 October 2015	0 (debut)

Final draw

The draw for the finals took place at the Palais des Congrès de la Porte Maillot in Paris on 12 December 2015, 18:00 CET. The 24 qualified teams were drawn into six groups of four teams, with the hosts France being automatically placed in position A1. The remaining teams were seeded into four pots of five (Pot 1) or six teams (Pots 2, 3 and 4). As the title holders, Spain were seeded in Pot 1, while the other 22 teams were seeded according to the UEFA National team coefficients updated after the completion of the qualifying group stage (excluding the play-offs), which were released by UEFA on 14 October 2015.

Pot 1 Team Coeff Rank Spain 37,962 2 Germany 40,236 1 England 35,963 3 Portugal 35,138 4 Belgium 34,442 5

Pot 2 Team Coeff Rank Italy 34,345 6 Russia 31,345 9 Switzerland 31,254 10 Austria 30,932 11 Croatia 30,642 12 Ukraine 30,313 14

Pot 3 Team Coeff Rank Czech Republic 29,403 15 Sweden 29,028 16 Poland 28,306 17 Romania 28,038 18 Slovakia 27,171 19 Hungary 27,142 20

Pot 4 Team Coeff Rank Turkey 27,033 22 Republic of Ireland 26,902 23 Iceland 25,388 27 Wales 24,531 28 Albania 23,216 31 Northern Ireland 22,961 33

Venues

Initially, twelve stadia were presented for the French bid, chosen on 28 May 2010. These venues were to be whittled down to nine by the end of May 2011, but it was suggested in June 2011 that eleven venues might be used. The French Football Federation had to choose which nine stadia would actually be used. The choice for the first seven was undisputed – France's national stadium, the Stade de France, four newly constructed stadia in Lille, Lyon, Nice and Bordeaux, and those of the biggest cities, Paris and Marseille. The last two remaining places, after Strasbourg opted out for financial reasons following relegation, were chosen to be Lens and Nancy in the first round of voting, instead of Saint-Étienne and Toulouse, chosen as reserve stadia. In June 2011, the number of host venues was increased to eleven because of the new tournament format which sees 24 teams taking part, instead of just 16. The decision means that the reserve cities of Toulouse and St-Étienne joined the list of hosts. However, in December 2011, Nancy announced its withdrawal from the tournament, after the stadium's renovation fell through, so ten host cities will now be used. Nantes and Montpellier, stadia used for the 1998 World Cup, were also not chosen. The final list of the ten venues was confirmed by the UEFA Executive Committee on 25 January 2013.

Saint-Denis	Marseille	Lyon	Lille
Stade de France	Stade Vélodrome	Stade des Lumières	Stade Pierre-Mauroy
Capacity: 81,338	Capacity: 67,500 (upgraded)	Capacity: 58,215 (new stadium)	Capacity: 50,186
Paris	Bordeaux
Parc des Princes	Stade Bordeaux-Atlantique
Capacity: 47,000 (upgraded)	Capacity: 42,052 (new stadium)
Saint-Étienne	Nice	Lens	Toulouse
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard	Allianz Riviera	Stade Félix-Bollaert	Stadium Municipal
Capacity: 41,965 (upgraded)	Capacity: 35,624 (new stadium)	Capacity: 38,223 (upgraded)	Capacity: 33,300 (upgraded)

Venues

Ten stadiums were used for the competition. Initially, twelve stadiums were presented for the French bid, chosen on 28 May 2010. These venues were to be whittled down to nine by the end of May 2011, but it was suggested in June 2011 that eleven venues might be used. The French Football Federation had to choose which nine would actually be used.

The choice for the first seven was undisputed – the national Stade de France, four newly constructed ones in Lille Metropole (Villeneuve-d'Ascq), Décines-Charpieu (Lyon Metropolis), Nice and Bordeaux, and two stadiums in the two largest cities, Paris and Marseille. After Strasbourg opted out for financial reasons following relegation, two more venues were selected to be Lens and Nancy, leaving Saint-Étienne and Toulouse as reserve options.

In June 2011, the number of host venues was increased to eleven due to the new tournament format featuring 24 teams, instead of the previous 16. The decision meant that the reserve cities of Toulouse and Saint-Étienne joined the list of hosts. Then, in December 2011, Nancy announced its withdrawal from the tournament, after plans for the stadium's renovation were cancelled, finalising the list of host venues at ten.

Two other possible options, the Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes and the Stade de la Mosson in Montpellier (venues which were used for the 1998 World Cup) were not chosen. The final list was confirmed by the UEFA Executive Committee on 25 January 2013. Capacity figures are those for matches at UEFA Euro 2016 and are not necessarily the total capacity that the venues are capable of holding.

Saint-Denis	Marseille	Décines-Charpieu	Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Stade de France	Stade Vélodrome	Parc Olympique Lyonnais	Stade Pierre-Mauroy
Capacity: 81,338	Capacity: 67,394	Capacity: 59,286	Capacity: 50,186
Paris			Bordeaux
Parc des Princes			Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux
Capacity: 48,712			Capacity: 42,115
Saint-Étienne	Lens	Nice	Toulouse
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard	Stade Bollaert-Delelis	Stade de Nice	Stadium Municipal
Capacity: 41,965	Capacity: 38,223	Capacity: 35,624	Capacity: 33,150

Team base camps

Each team has a "team base camp" for its stay between the matches. The teams will train and reside in these locations throughout the tournament, travelling to games staged away from their bases. From an initial list of 66 bases, the 24 participating teams had to confirm their selection with UEFA by 31 January 2016.

The selected team base camps were announced on 2 March 2016:

Team	Base camp
Albania	Perros-Guirec
Austria	Mallemort
Belgium	Bordeaux/Le Pian-Médoc
Croatia	Deauville/Cœur Côte Fleurie
Czech Republic	Tours
England	Chantilly
France	Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines
Germany	Évian-les-Bains
Hungary	Tourrettes
Iceland	Annecy/Annecy-le-Vieux
Italy	Grammont/Montpellier
Northern Ireland	Saint-Georges-de-Reneins
Poland	La Baule-Escoublac
Portugal	Marcoussis
Republic of Ireland	Versailles
Romania	Orry-la-Ville
Russia	Croissy-sur-Seine
Slovakia	Vichy
Spain	Saint-Martin-de-Ré
Sweden	Saint-Nazaire/Pornichet
Switzerland	Montpellier/Juvignac
Turkey	Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer
Ukraine	Aix-en-Provence
Wales	Dinard

Draw ceremonies

The qualifying draw took place at the Palais des Congres Acropolis in Nice on 23 February 2014. The draw for the finals took place at the Palais des Congrès de la Porte Maillot in Paris on 11 December 2015.

Logo and slogan

The official logo was unveiled on 26 June 2013, during a ceremony at the Pavillon Cambon Capucines in Paris. Conceived by Portuguese agency Brandia Central, which also created the visual identity for the previous European Championship, the design is based on the theme "Celebrating the art of football". The logo depicts the Henri Delaunay trophy with the blue, white and red colours of the French flag, surrounded by a mixture of shapes and lines representing different artistic movements and football elements.

On 17 October 2013, UEFA announced the official slogan of the tournament: Le Rendez-Vous. Asked about its meaning, Jacques Lambert, chairman of the Euro 2016 organising committee, told that the slogan "is much more than a reminder of dates (...) and venues". He further explained that "UEFA is sending out an invitation to football fans throughout the world and to lovers of major events, an invitation to meet up and share the emotions of an elite-level tournament."

Broadcasting

The International Broadcast Centre (IBC) will be located at the Parc des Expositions at la Porte de Versailles in Paris.

Sponsorship

Global sponsors

• Carlsberg
• Coca-Cola
• Continental
• Kia
• McDonald's
• SOCAR

External links

• UEFA Euro 2016 – Information at Union of European Football Associations
• UEFA Euro 2016 – Bid Evaluation Report at Union of European Football Associations
• Official French bid website at French Football Federation

Finals format

To accommodate the expansion from a 16 team finals tournament to 24 teams, the format will be changed from that used in 2012 with the addition of two extra groups in the group stage, and an extra round in the knockout stages. The six groups (A to F) would still contain four teams each, with the top two from each group still going through to the knockout stage. In the new format however, the four best third-ranked sides would also progress, leaving 16 teams going into the new round of 16 knockout stage, ahead of the usual quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, and only 8 teams going out at the group stage.

This format generates a total of 51 games, compared with 31 games for the previous 16-team tournament, to be played over a period of 31 days. UEFA's general secretary Gianni Infantino previously described the format as "not ideal" due to the need for third place group stage winners, leading to a difficulty in preventing situations where teams might be able to know in advance what results they need to progress out of the group, lending to a lack of suspense for fans, or even the prospect of mutually beneficial collusion between teams.

Tie-breaking

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria will be applied:

1. Higher number of points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
2. Superior goal difference resulting from the matches played between the teams in question;
3. Higher number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
4. If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 apply;
5. Superior goal difference in all group matches;
6. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
7. If only two teams have the same number of points, and they are tied according to criteria 1–6 after having met in the last round of the group stage, their ranking is determined by a penalty shoot-out (this criteria is not used if more than two teams have the same number of points).
8. Fair play conduct (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card);
9. Position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system.

The four best third-placed teams are determined according to the following criteria:

1. Higher number of points obtained;
2. Superior goal difference;
3. Higher number of goals scored;
4. Fair play conduct;
5. Position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system.

Play-off round structure

In the round of 16, UEFA have arranged the match-ups to take place as follows:

• Match 1: Runner-up Group A v Runner-up Group C
• Match 2: Winner Group D v 3rd Place Group B/E/F
• Match 3: Winner Group B v 3rd Place Group A/C/D
• Match 4: Winner Group F v Runner-up Group E
• Match 5: Winner Group C v 3rd Place Group A/B/F
• Match 6: Winner Group E v Runner-up Group D
• Match 7: Winner Group A v 3rd Place Group C/D/E
• Match 8: Runner-up Group B v Runner-up Group F

The specific match-ups involving the third-placed teams depend on which four third-placed teams qualify for the round of 16:

Four best 3rd-placed teams	Winner Group A v	Winner Group B v	Winner Group C v	Winner Group D v
A B C D	3rd Place Group C	3rd Place Group D	3rd Place Group A	3rd Place Group B
A B C E	3rd Place Group C	3rd Place Group A	3rd Place Group B	3rd Place Group E
A B C F	3rd Place Group C	3rd Place Group A	3rd Place Group B	3rd Place Group F
A B D E	3rd Place Group D	3rd Place Group A	3rd Place Group B	3rd Place Group E
A B D F	3rd Place Group D	3rd Place Group A	3rd Place Group B	3rd Place Group F
A B E F	3rd Place Group E	3rd Place Group A	3rd Place Group B	3rd Place Group F
A C D E	3rd Place Group C	3rd Place Group D	3rd Place Group A	3rd Place Group E
A C D F	3rd Place Group C	3rd Place Group D	3rd Place Group A	3rd Place Group F
A C E F	3rd Place Group C	3rd Place Group A	3rd Place Group F	3rd Place Group E
A D E F	3rd Place Group D	3rd Place Group A	3rd Place Group F	3rd Place Group E
B C D E	3rd Place Group C	3rd Place Group D	3rd Place Group B	3rd Place Group E
B C D F	3rd Place Group C	3rd Place Group D	3rd Place Group B	3rd Place Group F
B C E F	3rd Place Group E	3rd Place Group C	3rd Place Group B	3rd Place Group F
B D E F	3rd Place Group E	3rd Place Group D	3rd Place Group B	3rd Place Group F
C D E F	3rd Place Group C	3rd Place Group D	3rd Place Group F	3rd Place Group E

The quarter-final match-ups are:

• Quarter-final 1: Winner Match 1 v Winner Match 2
• Quarter-final 2: Winner Match 3 v Winner Match 4
• Quarter-final 3: Winner Match 5 v Winner Match 6
• Quarter-final 4: Winner Match 7 v Winner Match 8

The semifinal match-ups are:

• Semi-final 1: Winner Quarter-final 1 v Winner Quarter-final 2
• Semi-final 2: Winner Quarter-final 3 v Winner Quarter-final 4

The final match-up is: Winner Semi-final 1 v Winner Semi-final 2. Same as every tournament since UEFA Euro 1984, there is no third-place match.

Squads

Main article: UEFA Euro 2016 squads

Each national team have to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers, at least ten days before the opening match of the tournament. If a player is injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he can be replaced by another player.

Match officials

On 15 December 2015, UEFA named eighteen referees for Euro 2016. The full referee teams were announced on 1 March 2016.

Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai was chosen to officiate the opener between France and Romania.

Country	Referee	Assistant referees	Additional assistant referees	Matches assigned
England	Martin Atkinson	Michael Mullarkey Stephen Child Gary Beswick (standby)	Michael Oliver Craig Pawson	Germany–Ukraine (Group C)
Germany	Felix Brych	Mark Borsch Stefan Lupp Marco Achmüller (standby)	Bastian Dankert Marco Fritz
Turkey	Cüneyt Çakır	Bahattin Duran Tarık Ongun Mustafa Emre Eyisoy (standby)	Hüseyin Göçek Barış Şimşek
England	Mark Clattenburg	Simon Beck Jake Collin Stuart Burt (standby)	Anthony Taylor Andre Marriner	Belgium–Italy (Group E) Portugal-France (Final)
Scotland	Willie Collum	Damien MacGraith Francis Connor Douglas Ross (standby)	Bobby Madden John Beaton
Sweden	Jonas Eriksson	Mathias Klasenius Daniel Wärnmark Mehmet Culum (standby)	Stefan Johannesson Markus Strömbergsson	Turkey–Croatia (Group D)
Romania	Ovidiu Hațegan	Octavian Şovre Sebastian Gheorghe Radu Ghinguleac (standby)	Alexandru Tudor Sebastian Colţescu	Poland–Northern Ireland (Group C)
Russia	Sergei Karasev	Anton Averyanov Tikhon Kalugin Nikolai Golubev	Sergey Lapochkin Sergey Ivanov
Hungary	Viktor Kassai	György Ring Vencel Tóth István Albert (standby)	Tamás Bognár Ádám Farkas	France–Romania (Group A)
Czech Republic	Pavel Královec	Roman Slyško Martin Wilczek Tomas Mokrusch (standby)	Peter Ardeleanu Michal Patak
Netherlands	Björn Kuipers	Sander van Roekel Erwin Zeinstra Mario Diks (standby)	Pol van Boekel Richard Liesveld
Poland	Szymon Marciniak	Paweł Sokolnicki Tomasz Listkiewicz Radosław Siejka (standby)	Paweł Raczkowski Tomasz Musiał	Spain–Czech Republic (Group D)
Serbia	Milorad Mažić	Milovan Ristić Dalibor Đurđević Nemanja Petrović (standby)	Danilo Grujić Nenad Đokić	Republic of Ireland–Sweden (Group E)
Norway	Svein Oddvar Moen	Kim Thomas Haglund Frank Andås Sven Erik Midthjell (standby)	Ken Henry Johnsen Svein-Erik Edvartsen	Wales–Slovakia (Group B)
Italy	Nicola Rizzoli	Elenito Di Liberatore Mauro Tonolini Gianluca Cariolato (standby)	Daniele Orsato Antonio Damato	England–Russia (Group B)
Slovenia	Damir Skomina	Jure Praprotnik Robert Vukan Bojan Ul (standby)	Matej Jug Slavko Vinčić
France	Clément Turpin	Frédéric Cano Nicolas Danos Cyril Gringore (standby)	Benoît Bastien Fredy Fautrel
Spain	Carlos Velasco Carballo	Roberto Alonso Fernández Juan Carlos Yuste Jiménez Raúl Cabañero Martínez (standby)	Jesús Gil Manzano Carlos del Cerro Grande	Albania–Switzerland (Group A)

Two match officials, who serve only as fourth officials, and two reserve assistant referees were also named:

Country Fourth official Belarus Aleksei Kulbakov Greece Anastasios Sidiropoulos

Country Reserve assistant referee Belarus Vitali Maliutsin Greece Damianos Efthymiadis

Group stage

UEFA announced the schedule of the tournament on 25 April 2014. All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Group winners, runners-up, and best four third-placed teams advance to the Round of 16.

Group A

Main article: UEFA Euro 2016 Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
France	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7	Advance to knockout phase
Switzerland	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5
Albania	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3
Romania	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

10 June 2016 21:00	France	2–1	Romania	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 75,113 Referee: Viktor Kassai
	Giroud  57' Payet  89'	Report	Stancu  65' (pen.)

11 June 2016 15:00	Albania	0–1	Switzerland	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens Attendance: 33,805 Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo
		Report	Schär  5'

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15 June 2016 18:00	Romania	1–1	Switzerland	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 43,576 Referee: Sergei Karasev
	Stancu  18' (pen.)	Report	Mehmedi  57'

15 June 2016 21:00	France	2–0	Albania	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Referee: Willie Collum
	Griezmann  90' Payet  90+6'	Report

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19 June 2016 21:00	Romania	0–1	Albania	Stade des Lumières, Lyon Attendance: 49,752 Referee: Pavel Královec
		Report	Sadiku  43'

19 June 2016 21:00	Switzerland	0–0	France	Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Attendance: 45,616 Referee: Damir Skomina
		Report

Group B

Main article: UEFA Euro 2016 Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Wales	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6	Advance to knockout phase
England	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5
Slovakia	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Russia	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

11 June 2016 18:00	Wales	2–1	Slovakia	Stade Bordeaux-Atlantique, Bordeaux Attendance: 37,831 Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen
	Bale  10' Robson-Kanu  81'	Report	Duda  61'

11 June 2016 21:00	England	1–1	Russia	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 62,343 Referee: Nicola Rizzoli
	Dier  73'	Report	Berezutski  90+2'

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15 June 2016 15:00	Russia	1–2	Slovakia	Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Attendance: 38,989 Referee: Damir Skomina
	Glushakov  80'	Report	Weiss  32' Hamšík  45'

16 June 2016 15:00	England	2–1	Wales	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens Attendance: 34,033 Referee: Felix Brych
	Vardy  56' Sturridge  90+2'	Report	Bale  42'

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20 June 2016 21:00	Russia	0–3	Wales	Stadium Municipal, Toulouse Attendance: 28,840 Referee: Jonas Eriksson
		Report	Ramsey  11' Taylor  20' Bale  67'

20 June 2016 21:00	Slovakia	0–0	England	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Attendance: 39,051 Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo
		Report

Group C

Main article: UEFA Euro 2016 Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Germany	3	2	1	0	3	0	+3	7	Advance to knockout phase
Poland	3	2	1	0	2	0	+2	7
Northern Ireland	3	1	0	2	2	2	0	3
Ukraine	3	0	0	3	0	5	−5	0

12 June 2016 18:00	Poland	1–0	Northern Ireland	Allianz Riviera, Nice Attendance: 33,742 Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan
	Milik  51'	Report

12 June 2016 21:00	Germany	2–0	Ukraine	Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille Attendance: 43,035 Referee: Martin Atkinson
	Mustafi  19' Schweinsteiger  90+2'	Report

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16 June 2016 (2016-06-16) 18:00	Ukraine	0–2	Northern Ireland	Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon Attendance: 51,043 Referee: Pavel Královec
		Report	McAuley  49' McGinn  90+6'

16 June 2016 21:00	Germany	0–0	Poland	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 73,648 Referee: Björn Kuipers
		Report

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21 June 2016 18:00	Ukraine	0–1	Poland	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 58,874 Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen
		Report	Błaszczykowski  54'

21 June 2016 18:00	Northern Ireland	0–1	Germany	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 44,125 Referee: Clément Turpin
		Report	Gómez  30'

Group D

Main article: UEFA Euro 2016 Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Croatia	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7	Advance to knockout phase
Spain	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6
Turkey	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
Czech Republic	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

12 June 2016 15:00	Turkey	0–1	Croatia	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 43,842 Referee: Jonas Eriksson
		Report	Modrić  41'

13 June 2016 15:00	Spain	1–0	Czech Republic	Stadium Municipal, Toulouse Attendance: 29,400 Referee: Szymon Marciniak
	Piqué  87'	Report

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17 June 2016 18:00	Czech Republic	2–2	Croatia	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Attendance: 38,376 Referee: Mark Clattenburg
	Škoda  76' Necid  89' (pen.)	Report	Perišić  37' Rakitić  59'

17 June 2016 (2016-06-17) 21:00	Spain	3–0	Turkey	Allianz Riviera, Nice Attendance: 33,409 Referee: Milorad Mažić (Serbia)
	Morata  34', 48' Nolito  37'	Report

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21 June 2016 21:00	Czech Republic	0–2	Turkey	Stade Félix-Bollaert, Lens Attendance: 32,836 Referee: Willie Collum
		Report	Yılmaz  10' Tufan  65'

21 June 2016 21:00	Croatia	2–1	Spain	Stade Bordeaux-Atlantique, Bordeaux Attendance: 37,245 Referee: Björn Kuipers
	N. Kalinić  45' Perišić  87'	Report	Morata  7'

Group E

Main article: UEFA Euro 2016 Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Italy	3	2	0	1	3	1	+2	6	Advance to knockout phase
Belgium	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
Republic Ireland	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	4
Sweden	3	0	1	2	1	3	−2	1

13 June 2016 18:00	Republic Ireland	1–1	Sweden	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 73,419 Referee: Milorad Mažić
	Hoolahan  48'	Report	Clark  71' (o.g.)

13 June 2016 21:00	Belgium	0–2	Italy	Stade des Lumières, Lyon Attendance: 55,408 Referee: Mark Clattenburg
		Report	Giaccherini  32' Pellè  90+3'

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17 June 2016 15:00	Italy	1–0	Sweden	Stadium Municipal, Toulouse Attendance: 29,600 Referee: Viktor Kassai
	Éder	Report

18 June 2016 (2016-06-18) 15:00	Belgium	3–0	Republic of Ireland	Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Attendance: 39,493 Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)
	R. Lukaku  48', 70' Witsel  61'	Report

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22 June 2016 (2016-06-22) 21:00	Italy	0–1	Republic of Ireland	Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Villeneuve-d'Ascq Attendance: 44,268 Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan
		Report	Brady  85'

22 June 2016 (2016-06-22) 21:00	Sweden	0–1	Belgium	Allianz Riviera, Nice Attendance: 34,011 Referee: Felix Brych
		Report	Nainggolan  84'

Group F

Main article: UEFA Euro 2016 Group F

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Hungary	3	1	2	0	6	4	+2	5	Advance to knockout phase
Iceland	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	5
Portugal	3	0	3	0	4	4	0	3
Austria	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

14 June 2016 18:00	Austria	0–2	Hungary	Stade Bordeaux-Atlantique, Bordeaux Attendance: 34,424 Referee: Clément Turpin
	Dragovic	Report	Szalai  62' Stieber  87'

14 June 2016 21:00	Portugal	1–1	Iceland	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Attendance: 38,742 Referee: Cüneyt Çakır
	Nani  31'	Report	B. Bjarnason  50'

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18 June 2016 18:00	Iceland	1–1	Hungary	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 60,842 Referee: Sergei Karasev
	G. Sigurðsson  40' (pen.)	Report	Sævarsson  88' (o.g.)

18 June 2016 21:00	Portugal	0–0	Austria	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 44,291 Referee: Nicola Rizzoli
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22 June 2016 (2016-06-22) 18:00	Iceland	2–1	Austria	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 68,714 Referee: Szymon Marciniak
	Böðvarsson  18' Traustason  90+4'	Report	Schöpf  60'

22 June 2016 (2016-06-22) 18:00	Hungary	3–3	Portugal	Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon Attendance: 55,514 Referee: Martin Atkinson
	Gera  19' Dzsudzsák  47', 55'	Report	Nani  42' Ronaldo  50', 62'

Ranking of third-placed teams

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
Slovakia	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4	Advance to knockout phase
Republic Ireland	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	4
Portugal	3	0	3	0	4	4	0	3
Northern Ireland	3	1	0	2	2	2	0	3
Turkey	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
Albania	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3

Knockout phase

Main article: UEFA Euro 2016 knockout phase

In the knockout stage, extra time and a penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary. All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Bracket

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

25 June – Saint-Étienne

Switzerland

1 (4)

30 June – Marseille

Poland (p)

1 (5)

Poland

1 (3)

25 June – Lens

Portugal (p)

1 (5)

Croatia

0

6 July – Lyon

Portugal (a.e.t.)

1

Portugal

2

25 June – Paris

Wales

0

Wales

1

1 July – Villeneuve-d'Ascq

Northern Ireland

0

Wales

3

26 June – Toulouse

Belgium

1

Hungary

0

10 July – Saint-Denis

Belgium

4

Portugal (a.e.t.)

1

26 June – Villeneuve-d'Ascq

France

0

Germany

3

2 July – Bordeaux

Slovakia

0

Germany (p)

1 (6)

27 June – Saint-Denis

Italy

1 (5)

Italy

2

7 July – Marseille

Spain

0

Germany

0

26 June – Lyon

France

2

France

2

3 July – Saint-Denis

Republic of Ireland

1

France

5

27 June – Nice

Iceland

2

England

1

Iceland

2

Round of 16

25 June 2016 (2016-06-25) 15:00	Switzerland	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Poland	Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne Attendance: 38,842 Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)
	Shaqiri  82'	Report	Błaszczykowski  39'
		Penalties
	Lichtsteiner Xhaka Shaqiri Schär Rodríguez	4–5	Lewandowski Milik Glik Błaszczykowski Krychowiak

25 June 2016 (2016-06-25) 18:00	Wales	1–0	Northern Ireland	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 44,342 Referee: Martin Atkinson
	McAuley  75' (o.g.)	Report

25 June 2016 (2016-06-25) 21:00	Croatia	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Portugal	Stade Bollaert-Delelis, Lens Attendance: 33,523 Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo
		Report	Quaresma  117'

26 June 2016 (2016-06-26) 15:00	France	2–1	Republic of Ireland	Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon Attendance: 56,279 Referee: Nicola Rizzoli
	Griezmann  58', 61'	Report	Brady  2' (pen.)

26 June 2016 (2016-06-26) 18:00	Germany	3–0	Slovakia	Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Villeneuve-d'Ascq Attendance: 44,312 Referee: Szymon Marciniak
	Boateng  8' Gómez  43' Draxler  63'	Report

26 June 2016 (2016-06-26) 21:00	Hungary	0–4	Belgium	Stadium Municipal, Toulouse Attendance: 28,921 Referee: Milorad Mažić
		Report	Alderweireld  10' Batshuayi  78' Hazard  80' Carrasco  90+1'

27 June 2016 (2016-06-27) 18:00	Italy	2–0	Spain	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 76,165 Referee: Cüneyt Çakır
	Chiellini  33' Pellè  90+1'	Report

27 June 2016 (2016-06-27) 21:00	England	1–2	Iceland	Allianz Riviera, Nice Attendance: 33,901 Referee: Damir Skomina
	Rooney  4' (pen.)	Report	R. Sigurðsson  6' Sigþórsson  18'

Quarter-finals

30 June 2016 (2016-06-30) 21:00	Poland	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Portugal	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 62,940 Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)
	Lewandowski  2'	Report	Sanches  33'
		Penalties
	Lewandowski Milik Glik Błaszczykowski	3–5	Ronaldo Sanches Moutinho Nani Quaresma

1 July 2016 (2016-07-01) 21:00	Wales	3–1	Belgium	Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Villeneuve-d'Ascq Attendance: 45,936 Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)
	A. Williams  31' Robson-Kanu  55' Vokes  86'	Report	Nainggolan  13'

2 July 2016 (2016-07-02) 21:00	Germany	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Italy	Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Attendance: 38,764 Referee: Viktor Kassai (Hungary)
	Özil  65'	Report	Bonucci  78' (pen.)
		Penalties
	Kroos Müller Özil Draxler Schweinsteiger Hummels Kimmich Boateng Hector	6–5	Insigne Zaza Barzagli Pellè Bonucci Giaccherini Parolo De Sciglio Darmian

3 July 2016 (2016-07-03) 21:00	France	5–2	Iceland	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 76,833 Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)
	Giroud  12', 59' Pogba  20' Payet  43' Griezmann  45'	Report	Sigþórsson  56' B. Bjarnason  84'

Semi-finals

6 July 2016 (2016-07-06) 21:00	Portugal	2–0	Wales	Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon Attendance: 55,679 Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)
	Ronaldo  50' Nani  53'	Report

7 July 2016 21:00	Germany	0–2	France	Stade Vélodrome, Marseille Attendance: 64,078 Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy)
		Report	Griezmann  45+2' (pen.), 72'

Final

Main article: UEFA Euro 2016 Final

10 July 2016 21:00	Portugal	1–0 (a.e.t.)	France	Stade de France, Saint-Denis Attendance: 75,868 Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)
	Éder  109'	Report

Statistics

Main article: UEFA Euro 2016 statistics

Goalscorers

Note: Players marked in bold are still active in the competition.

6 goals

• Antoine Griezmann

3 goals

• Olivier Giroud
• Dimitri Payet
• Cristiano Ronaldo
• Nani
• Álvaro Morata
• Gareth Bale

2 goals

• Romelu Lukaku
• Radja Nainggolan
• Ivan Perišić
• Mario Gómez
• Balázs Dzsudzsák
• Birkir Bjarnason
• Kolbeinn Sigþórsson
• Graziano Pellè
• Jakub Błaszczykowski
• Robbie Brady
• Bogdan Stancu
• Hal Robson-Kanu

1 goal

• Armando Sadiku
• Alessandro Schöpf
• Toby Alderweireld
• Michy Batshuayi
• Yannick Ferreira Carrasco
• Eden Hazard
• Axel Witsel
• Nikola Kalinić
• Luka Modrić
• Ivan Rakitić
• Tomáš Necid
• Milan Škoda
• Eric Dier
• Wayne Rooney
• Daniel Sturridge
• Jamie Vardy
• Paul Pogba
• Jérôme Boateng
• Julian Draxler
• Shkodran Mustafi
• Mesut Özil
• Bastian Schweinsteiger
• Zoltán Gera
• Zoltán Stieber
• Ádám Szalai
• Jón Daði Böðvarsson
• Gylfi Sigurðsson
• Ragnar Sigurðsson
• Arnór Ingvi Traustason
• Leonardo Bonucci
• Giorgio Chiellini
• Éder
• Emanuele Giaccherini
• Gareth McAuley
• Niall McGinn
• Robert Lewandowski
• Arkadiusz Milik
• Ricardo Quaresma
• Renato Sanches
• Wes Hoolahan
• Vasili Berezutski
• Denis Glushakov
• Ondrej Duda
• Marek Hamšík
• Vladimír Weiss
• Nolito
• Gerard Piqué
• Admir Mehmedi
• Fabian Schär
• Xherdan Shaqiri
• Ozan Tufan
• Burak Yılmaz
• Aaron Ramsey
• Neil Taylor
• Sam Vokes
• Ashley Williams

1 own goal

• Birkir Már Sævarsson (playing against Hungary)
• Gareth McAuley (playing against Wales)
• Ciaran Clark (playing against Sweden)

Source: UEFA

Prize money

A total of €301 million will be distributed to the 24 teams contesting in the tournament, a growth from the €196 million payment in the preceding event. Each team will be rewarded €8 million, with further rewards depending on their performances. The champions of the competition will be rewarded an overall winnings of €8 million – the biggest prize attainable is €27 million (for winning all group bouts and the final). Full list:

• Prize for participating: €8 million

Extra payment based on teams performances:

• Champions: €8 million
• Runner-up: €5 million
• Reaching the semi-finals: €4 million
• Reaching the quarter-finals: €2.5 million
• Reaching the round of 16: €1.5 million
• Winning a group match: €1 million
• Drawing a group match: €500,000

Discipline

A player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:

• Receiving a red card (red card suspensions may be extended for serious offences)
• Receiving two yellow cards in two different matches; yellow cards expire after the completion of the quarter-finals (yellow card suspensions are not carried forward to any other future international matches)

The following suspensions will be served during the tournament:

Player	Offence(s)	Suspension(s)
Duje Čop	in qualifying vs Bulgaria (10 October 2015)	Group D vs Turkey (matchday 1; 12 June 2016)
Marek Suchý	in qualifying vs Netherlands (13 October 2015)	Group D vs Spain (matchday 1; 13 June 2016)
Lorik Cana	in Group A vs Switzerland (matchday 1; 11 June 2016)	Group A vs France (matchday 2; 15 June 2016)

Marketing

Logo and slogan

The official logo was unveiled on 26 June 2013, during a ceremony at the Pavillon Cambon Capucines in Paris. Conceived by Portuguese agency Brandia Central, which also created the visual identity for the previous European Championship, the design is based on the theme "Celebrating the art of football". The logo depicts the Henri Delaunay trophy with the blue, white and red colours of the French flag, surrounded by a mixture of shapes and lines representing different artistic movements and football elements.

On 17 October 2013, UEFA announced the official slogan of the tournament: Le Rendez-Vous. Asked about its meaning, Jacques Lambert, chairman of the Euro 2016 organising committee, told that the slogan "is much more than a reminder of dates (...) and venues". He further explained that "UEFA is sending out an invitation to football fans throughout the world and to lovers of major events, an invitation to meet up and share the emotions of an elite-level tournament."

Video game

The UEFA Euro 2016 video game will be released by Konami as a free DLC on "Pro Evolution Soccer 2016".

Mascot

The official mascot of the tournament, a half child and half superhero, was unveiled on 18 November 2014. The name of the mascot, "Super Victor", was chosen by the public over two other options, "Driblou" and "Goalix".

Sponsorship

Global sponsors	National sponsors
Adidas Carlsberg Coca-Cola Continental Hisense Hyundai McDonald's Orange Turkish Airlines	Abritel–HomeAway Crédit Agricole Française des Jeux La Poste PROMAN SNCF

Match ball

The official match ball, Beau Jeu, was unveiled on 12 November 2015 by former France player Zinedine Zidane.

External links

• UEFA Euro 2016 – Information at Union of European Football Associations
• UEFA Euro 2016 – Bid Evaluation Report at Union of European Football Associations
• Official French bid website at French Football Federation