Football - European Championship

French Football administrator Henri Delaunay was the visionary who developed a tournament to decide the champion national team of Europe. Other continents had already taken this step, but the part of the world that was the driving force behind the formal organisation of the sport was slow to follow suit. Delaunay managed to persuade his European colleagues about the merits of the event, and trophy was named in his honour.

YEAR
WINNERS
RUNNERS-UP
1960
USSR
Yugoslavia
1964
SPAIN
USSR
1968
ITALY
Yugoslavia
1972
WEST GERMANY
USSR
1976
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
W Germany
1980
WEST GERMANY
Belgium
1984
FRANCE
Spain
1988
NETHERLANDS
USSR
1992
DENMARK
Germany
1996
GERMANY
Czech Rep
2000
FRANCE
Italy
2004
GREECE
Portugal
2008
SPAIN
Germany
2012 SPAIN Italy
2016 PORTUGAL France
2020* ITALY England

 *Staged in 2021 after original tournament postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic

Finals at:  
Paris 1960, 84 (Parc de P), 2016 (Stade de F)
Madrid 1964
Rome 1968, 80
Brussels 1972
Belgrade 1976
Munich 1988
Gothenburg   1992 
London 1996, 2020
Rotterdam 2000
Lisbon 2004 
Vienna 2008
Kiev 2012

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