Tuesday, March 22, 2016

History of competition

The UEFA Euro Championship is a football competitions between the Men's senior National Teams of European countries. This competition started in 1960 and from that on, it is held every 4 years in a different host country (or countries).

The first tournament was held in France and it was won by Soviet Union in the final in Paris. Through the times the tournament structure has suffered several changes in order to increase the number of participants, which started only with 4 teams in the first years, and currently has 24 national teams competing with each other.

Year
Host Country
Winner
1960
France
Soviet Union
1964
Spain
Spain
1968
Italy
Italy
1972
Belgium
West Germany
1976
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
1980
Italy
West Germany
1984
France
France
1988
West Germany
Netherlands
1992
Sweden
Denmark
1996
England
Germany
2000
Belgium & Netherlands
France
2004
Portugal
Greece
2008
Austria & Switzerland
Spain
2012
Poland & Ukraine
Spain
2016
France
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The winner team receives the UEFA European cup which is also called Henri Delaunay Trophy named in honor to Henri Delaunay who was a former French football player that became a referee and one of the first people to dream about and European Football Tournament, proposed it for the first time in 1927.


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