UEFA European Championship

UEFA Euro
Founded	1958
Region	Europe (UEFA)
Number of teams	55 (qualifiers) 24 (finals)
Tournament information
Current champions	Spain (4th title)
Most successful team(s)	Spain (4 titles)
Current
Website	Official website

The UEFA European Championship, less formally the European Championship and informally the Euros, is the primary association football tournament organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The competition is contested by UEFA members’ senior men's national teams, determining the continental champion of Europe. The competition has been held every four years since 1960, except for 2020, when it was postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, but kept the name Euro 2020. Scheduled to be in the even-numbered year between FIFA World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the European Nations' Cup, changing to the current name in 1968. The individual events are branded in the form of "UEFA Euro [year]".

Before entering the tournament, all teams other than the host nations (which qualify automatically) compete in a qualifying process. Until 2016 the championship winners could compete in the following FIFA Confederations Cup, but were not obliged to do so.

The sixteen European Championship tournaments have been won by ten national teams: Spain has won four titles, Germany has won three titles, Italy and France have won two titles, and the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Greece and Portugal have won one title each. To date, Spain is the only team in history to have won consecutive titles, doing so in 2008 and 2012. It is the second-most watched football tournament in the world after the FIFA World Cup. The Euro 2012 final was watched by a global audience of around 300 million.

The most recent championship, held in Germany in 2024, was won by Spain, who lifted a record fourth European title after beating England 2–1 in the final at Olympiastadion in Berlin.

Results

Year	Host	Winners	Runners-up
1960	France	Soviet Union (1st title)	Yugoslavia
1964	Spain	Spain (1st title)	Soviet Union
1968	Italy	Italy (1st title)	Yugoslavia
1972	Belgium	Germany (1st title)	Soviet Union
1976	Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia (1st title)	Germany
1980	Italy	Germany (2nd title)	Belgium
1984	France	France (1st title)	Spain
1988	Germany	Netherlands (1st title)	Soviet Union
1992	Sweden	Denmark (1st title)	Germany
1996	England	Germany (3rd title)	Czech Republic
2000	Netherlands & Belgium	France (2nd title)	Italy
2004	Portugal	Greece (1st title)	Portugal
2008	Austria & Switzerland	Spain (2nd title)	Germany
2012	Poland & Ukraine	Spain (3rd title)	Italy
2016	France	Portugal (1st title)	France
2020	Pan-European	Italy (2nd title)	England
2024	Germany	Spain (4th title)	England