Here we are! This evening, Friday 14 June, the curtain will finally rise Euro 2024the 17th edition of the European football championships. A continuously updated story, since 1960, the year in which the first, historic, edition of the Europeans borrowed from the Club Champions Cup. Many teams took turns inRoll of honor of the Europeans with some notable surprises.
Germany And Spain, with three victories each, they are the teams that have won the most titles. Follows theItalyreigning champion, with two European Championships under his belt, the same as the France. As mentioned, there is no shortage of surprises in the European Hall of Fame: Russia won the first; In the 1976 Panenka’s legendary ‘spoon’ penalty gave the title to Czechoslovakia; in 1992 and 2004 the surprise triumphs of Denmark and Greece. Now it’s time to Euro 2024: who will become European champion?
The Roll of Honor of the European Football Championships
- 2021: Italy (played in 2021 instead of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
- 2016: Portugal
- 2012: Spain
- 2008: Spain
- 2004: Greece
- 2000: France
- 1996: Germany
- 1992: Denmark
- 1988: Netherlands
- 1984: France
- 1980: West Germany
- 1976: Czechoslovakia
- 1972: West Germany
- 1968: Italy
- 1964: Spain
- 1960: Soviet Union
The national teams that have won the most European Championships
- Germany: 3 victories (1972, 1980, 1996)
- Spain: 3 victories (1964, 2008, 2012)
- Italy: 2 victories (1968, 2021)
- France: 2 victories (1984, 2000)
- Soviet Union: 1 victory (1960)
- Czechoslovakia: 1 win (1976)
- Netherlands: 1 win (1988)
- Denmark: 1 win (1992)
- Greece: 1 win (2004)
- Portugal: 1 win (2016)
Among the big ones, therefore, theItaly he won the last European 3 years ago; there Spain 12 years ago; there France 24 years ago; there Germany really 28 years ago.
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