Years.
Coach: Joachim Loew.
One of the strongest teams in European football. The Germans (from 1945 to 1990 - the German national team) won the world championship four times (1954, 1974, 1990 and 2014), became the strongest in Europe three times (1972, 1980, 1996) and won the same number of times silver medals European Championship - in 1976, 1992 and 2008. In the final tournaments, they won 23 matches out of 43. The German national team only once failed to break into the final stage European tournament, missing out on the 1968 European Championships.
Four times the German national team took the second place in the world championship (1966, 1982, 1986, 2002) and in four cases - the third (1934, 1970, 2006, 2010). In the history of the World Cup, no other team has played more matches (106) than Germany.
At the World Championships, the German national team has never been left out of the playoffs, while the European Championship ended three times for it in the group stage - in 1984 and 2004, the Germans finished third, and in 2000 they took the last place in their quartet.
Spain
European Champion 1964, 2008, 2012.
Coach: Vicente del Bosque.
The European Championship was first conquered by the Spaniards in 1964. With a score of 2:1 at the Madrid Santiago Bernabeu stadium, the USSR team was defeated. After that, and until 2008, the best result of the Spaniards was reaching the final of the 1984 European Championship. In 2008, Germany was defeated 1-0 in the final match. At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Spanish team became the first European team to win the World Cup on a foreign continent.
In the final of Euro 2012, the Spaniards defeated Italy 4-0 in Kyiv (Ukraine) and also became the first who managed to defend the title of European champions. They failed to defend the title of world champions in 2014.
France
European Champions 1984, 2000
Coach: Didier Deschamps.
Coach: Danny Blind.
At their debut European Championship in 1976, the Dutch won bronze, losing in the semi-finals to the Yugoslavs in extra time.
The finest hour of the "orange" was the 1988 European Championship in Germany. Having defeated the USSR national team in the final, the Dutch became European champions.
Since then, the Dutch team has been a regular participant in the final tournaments of the European Championship, in which they reached the semi-finals in 1992, 2000 and 2004. In 2008, the Dutch team lost in the quarter-finals to Russia after extra time, and did not qualify from the group stage at Euro 2012. In 2016, the Dutch team did not make it to the finals of the European Championship.
Coach: Aage Hareide.
The Danish national team has rich experience of participating in European championships. The Danes left the group on their debut final tournament in 1964, when they took fourth place, and in 1984 they reached the semi-finals again. Since then, the Danish national team has not played in only one continental championship - in 2008. The high point of the national team was the 1992 tournament. The triumph in Sweden was notable for the fact that the Danes entered the championship at the very last moment instead of Yugoslavia, which was removed. In the group stage, England and France were defeated, and in the semi-final on penalties, the defending champions, the Dutch. In the final of the championship, the Danes defeated the Germans with a score of 2:0.
In 2004, the Danish national team reached the quarter-finals, but conceded three goals early in the second half and recognized the superiority of the Czech Republic. The Danes did not make it to the 2008 European Championship, and they did not leave the group for Euro 2012, although they defeated the Netherlands in the first round.
Since then, the Danes have performed at the world championship three more times (1998, 2002, 2010), in France in 1998 they reached the quarterfinals.
Coach: Michael Skibbe.
For the first time, the Greek national team played at the European Championship in 1980 and scored only one point in three matches. The Greeks next played in the final tournament 24 years later. Under the direction of German coach Otto Rehhagel, the Greeks surpassed the wildest expectations and won the gold of Euro 2004. In the rank of champions at Euro 2008, the Greeks lost all three meetings group stage, and at Euro 2012 lost in the quarterfinals to the Germans.
In 2016, the Greek national team did not make it to the finals of the continental championship.
The Greeks made their way to the World Cup three times - in 1994, 2010 and 2014.
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(Eng. UEFA European Championship) - the main competition of national teams, held under the auspices of UEFA. The competition has been held every 4 years since 1960.
For the first time, the idea of holding a tournament for European national teams was put forward by the former Secretary General of the French Football Federation, Henri Delaunay, at one of the meetings of the International Football Federation (FIFA). But the idea did not find support due to the presence of problems in the organization of the world championships and the absence of a European regional federation.
The turning point in the history of the creation of the European Championship occurred on May 27, 1952. At a meeting in Zurich, the leaders of the football federations of France, Italy and Belgium discussed the creation of the European Football Union. A year later, in Paris, at a meeting of 20 representatives of football federations, a committee was formed to prepare the founding conference of the European Football Union, which took place on June 15, 1954 in Basel. It was attended by representatives of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, East Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Northern Ireland, USSR, Finland, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Sweden and Yugoslavia. At this council, a decision was made to create the European Union of Football Associations (UEFA). Ebbe Schwarz, chairman of the Danish Football Association, became the first president of UEFA.
At a meeting of the UEFA executive committee on March 27, 1957 in Cologne, a project called the "European Cup of Nations" was put forward. On June 6, 1958, the draw for the first round of the Cup took place in the Travelers' Club of the Forest Hotel in Stockholm.
In 2016, the European Championship, which will be played from June 10 to July 10, will be held in France for a record third time. Before that, only Belgium and Italy took the final stage of the European championship more than once. The fifteenth European Championship will be the first tournament in the final stage of which 24 teams will play. 53 teams will play in the qualifying stage. Matches of the final stage of Euro 2016 will be held at 10 stadiums: in Bordeaux, Lance, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris, Saint-Denis, Saint-Etienne and Toulouse.
Tournament Format
The qualifying round begins after the end of the World Championship and lasts two years until the final part of the European Championship. Groups are formed by drawing lots by the UEFA committee, using the seeding of the teams. Sowing is done on the basis of qualifying round to the World Championship and the previous European Championship.
53 teams will play in Euro 2016 qualification, which is a tournament record. They will be divided into groups of five or six teams that will play each other in a match home and away. The nine group winners, nine runners-up and the best third-place finisher will advance directly to the finals. Eight other third-place winners will decide the fate of the remaining four spots in the play-offs.
The participants of the final tournament will be divided into groups of four teams; 6 winners, 6 runners-up and 4 best teams, which became the third.
Cup
The main symbol of the European Championship is the Henri Delaunay Cup. The original Cup was created in 1960 by Arthu Bertrand and named after the former president of the French Football Federation, Henri Delaunay, who acted as the first general secretary of UEFA since the creation of the union. The goblet was a stylized silver amphora with a bas-relief depicting a young man playing ball.
For the European Championship 2008, a new cup was created. Pierre Delaunay, son of Henri Delaunay, was responsible for creating the new prize. The weight of the cup is eight kilograms, and its height is 60 centimeters. It is 18 centimeters taller and two kilograms heavier than the original.
The trophy is almost identical to the original Henri Delaunay Cup, but there are a number of differences. For example, the silver base has undergone changes, becoming larger in order to make the cup more stable. The names of the winners of the European Championships, which were previously inscribed on the plinth, are now on the back of the trophy. The original was made by Chobillon goldsmith and later bought by Jan Arthus-Bertrand in Paris, while the new goblet was made by Asprey London.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources
Years.
Coach: Joachim Loew.
One of the strongest teams in European football. The Germans (from 1945 to 1990 - the German national team) won the world championship four times (1954, 1974, 1990 and 2014), became the strongest in Europe three times (1972, 1980, 1996) and won European silver medals the same number of times - in 1976, 1992 and 2008. In the final tournaments, they won 23 matches out of 43. The German national team only once failed to break into the final stage of the European tournament, missing the 1968 European Championship.
Four times the German national team took the second place in the world championship (1966, 1982, 1986, 2002) and in four cases - the third (1934, 1970, 2006, 2010). In the history of the World Cup, no other team has played more matches (106) than Germany.
At the World Championships, the German national team has never been left out of the playoffs, while the European Championship ended three times for it in the group stage - in 1984 and 2004, the Germans finished third, and in 2000 they took the last place in their quartet.
Spain
European Champion 1964, 2008, 2012.
Coach: Vicente del Bosque.
The European Championship was first conquered by the Spaniards in 1964. With a score of 2:1 at the Madrid Santiago Bernabeu stadium, the USSR team was defeated. After that, and until 2008, the best result of the Spaniards was reaching the final of the 1984 European Championship. In 2008, Germany was defeated 1-0 in the final match. At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Spanish team became the first European team to win the World Cup on a foreign continent.
In the final of Euro 2012, the Spaniards defeated Italy 4-0 in Kyiv (Ukraine) and also became the first who managed to defend the title of European champions. They failed to defend the title of world champions in 2014.
France
European Champions 1984, 2000
Coach: Didier Deschamps.
Coach: Danny Blind.
At their debut European Championship in 1976, the Dutch won bronze, losing in the semi-finals to the Yugoslavs in extra time.
The finest hour of the "orange" was the 1988 European Championship in Germany. Having defeated the USSR national team in the final, the Dutch became European champions.
Since then, the Dutch team has been a regular participant in the final tournaments of the European Championship, in which they reached the semi-finals in 1992, 2000 and 2004. In 2008, the Dutch team lost in the quarter-finals to Russia after extra time, and did not qualify from the group stage at Euro 2012. In 2016, the Dutch team did not make it to the finals of the European Championship.
Coach: Aage Hareide.
The Danish national team has rich experience of participating in European championships. The Danes made it out of the group at their debut final tournament in 1964 when they finished fourth, and in 1984 again reached the semi-finals. Since then, the Danish national team has not played in only one continental championship - in 2008. The high point of the national team was the 1992 tournament. The triumph in Sweden was notable for the fact that the Danes entered the championship at the very last moment instead of Yugoslavia, which was removed. In the group stage, England and France were defeated, and in the semi-final on penalties, the defending champions, the Dutch. In the final of the championship, the Danes defeated the Germans with a score of 2:0.
In 2004, the Danish national team reached the quarter-finals, but conceded three goals early in the second half and recognized the superiority of the Czech Republic. The Danes did not make it to the 2008 European Championship, and they did not leave the group for Euro 2012, although they defeated the Netherlands in the first round.
Since then, the Danes have performed at the world championship three more times (1998, 2002, 2010), in France in 1998 they reached the quarterfinals.
Coach: Michael Skibbe.
For the first time, the Greek national team played at the European Championship in 1980 and scored only one point in three matches. The Greeks next played in the final tournament 24 years later. Under the guidance of German coach Otto Rehhagel, the Greeks surpassed their wildest expectations and won the gold of Euro 2004. In the rank of champions at Euro 2008, the Greeks lost all three meetings of the group stage, and at Euro 2012 they lost in the quarterfinals to the Germans.
In 2016, the Greek national team did not make it to the finals of the continental championship.
The Greeks made their way to the World Cup three times - in 1994, 2010 and 2014.
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European Football Championship(EURO, or simply European Championship) is the main competition of the national teams of European countries, held under the auspices of UEFA. The competition is held every 4 years, since 1960, takes place between the world championships. Initially, the tournament was called the "European Nations Cup", in 1968 the name was changed to the "European Football Championship".
What is interesting in the very first two finals was hosted by our then USSR national team. The first final was held in Paris between the USSR and Yugoslavia. The USSR national team celebrated the victory by scoring the winning goal in extra time. In 1964, the competition was spoiled by political activity: the Greek team refused to play with the Albanian team. Final part The tournament was held in Spain, where the Spanish team won its first championship, beating the USSR 2-1 in the final. Further, for our team, the situation was less successful.
Winners
1960 - USSR
1964 - Spain
1968 - Italy
1972 - Germany
1976 - Czechoslovakia
1980 - Germany
1984 - France
1988 - Netherlands
1992 - Denmark
1996 - Germany
2000 - France
2004 - Greece
2008 - Spain
As you can see, most often the champions were the Germans. Spaniards and France won the Cup twice.
European Championship 2012
April 18, 2007 UEFA decided to hold Euro 2012 in two countries: Ukraine and Poland. Croatia/Hungary and Italy were also contenders.
The 2012 European Football Championship will be the 14th championship. The tournament will start on June 8, 2012 and end on July 1, 2012. This will be the third tournament in the history of European national football championships, hosted by two countries. The first was the 2000 European Championship held in Belgium and the Netherlands, the second was the 2008 European Championship held in Austria and Switzerland.
EURO 2012 — last championship Europe, in the final round of which 16 teams will take part. Starting in 2016, this number will be increased to 24.
You can read more about the history of the championship and its winners on the pages of Wikipedia (source).
The FIFA World Cup is an international sports tournament, held under the auspices of FIFA, in which the best national teams of the planet compete. , and since then the competition has been held every 4 years (in 1942 and 1946 the tournament was not held due to the events of World War II).
Uruguay won the first World Cup, defeating final game at the "Estadio Centenario" (Centenario) the Argentina national team with a score of 4: 2. In total, 13 teams took part in the debut World Cup: 7 from South America, 4 from Europe and two from Northern and Central America. Since then, 20 more World Cups have taken place.
Table of all world football champions by year
| Year | Tournament host | Winner | Check | Runners-up |
| 1930 | Uruguay | Uruguay | 4-2 | Argentina |
| 1934 | Italy | Italy | 2-1 (extra time) | Czechoslovakia |
| 1938 | France | Italy | 4-2 | Hungary |
| 1950 | Brazil | Uruguay | 2-1 | Brazil |
| 1954 | Switzerland | West Germany | 3-2 | Hungary |
| 1958 | Sweden | Brazil | 5-2 | Sweden |
| 1962 | Chile | Brazil | 3-1 | Czechoslovakia |
| 1966 | England | England | 4-2 (extra time) | West Germany |
| 1970 | Mexico | Brazil | 4-1 | Italy |
| 1974 | West Germany | West Germany | 2-1 | Netherlands |
| 1978 | Argentina | Argentina | 3-1 (extra time) | Netherlands |
| 1982 | Spain | Italy | 3-1 | West Germany |
| 1986 | Mexico | Argentina | 3-2 | West Germany |
| 1990 | Italy | West Germany | 1-0 | Argentina |
| 1994 | USA | Brazil | 0-0 (3-2 penalty shootout) | Italy |
| 1998 | France | France | 3-0 | Brazil |
| 2002 | Japan and South Korea | Brazil | 2-0 | Germany |
| 2006 | Germany | Italy | 1-1 (5-3 penalty shootout) | France |
| 2010 | South Africa | Spain | 1-0 (extra time) | Netherlands |
| 2014 | Brazil | Germany | 1-0 (extra time) | Argentina |
| 2018 | Russia | France | 4:2 | Croatia |
In the entire history, only 8 teams have won the World Cup. The most titled country of the World Cup is Brazil, which won the world football championship 5 times (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002). The current world champion is the French team, which in the final match of the 2018 World Cup defeated the Croats with a score of 4: 2.
Below is a table of winners by country:
Note: Germany has been world champion three times as West Germany (1954, 1974 and 1990).
Some interesting facts about the World Cup
According to the current format, 32 national teams are participants in the final part of the World Cup. As mentioned above, 13 teams competed at the first World Cup. From 1934 to 1978 - 16. In 1982, the number of participants was increased to 24 teams.
The current current format consists of 32 teams. It was first presented at the 1998 World Cup in France. In 2026, 48 teams will take part in the final part of the World Cup.
Germany's Miroslav Klose is the top scorer in World Cup history. He has 16 goals scored. In second place is the Brazilian Ronaldo with 15 goals. Full list you can see the best goalscorers of the World Cup.
The record holder for the number of matches played at the World Cup is the midfielder of the German national team Lothar Matthäus (25 games). Behind Matthäus is his compatriot Miroslav Klose (24 games). Closes the top three of the best Italian national team legend Paulo Maldini (23 games).
