• History
• Beginnings
• Regional tournaments for national teams existed
before the advent of a truly pan-European
competition. Starting in 1883, the British Home
Championship was an annual competition
contested between the United Kingdom's four
national teams, England, Scotland, Wales,
and Ireland. Until these national teams entered
the FIFA World Cup in 1950, it was the most
important international tournament these nations
competed in. Similarly, from 1927 until 1960,
the Central European International Cup was held six
times. It brought together the national teams
of Austria, Hungary, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Switzerla
nd, and Yugoslavia. The idea for a pan-European
football tournament was first proposed by
the French Football Federation's secretary-
general Henri Delaunay in 1927, but it was not until
1958 that the tournament was started, three years
after Delaunay's death.[12] In honour of Delaunay,
the trophy awarded to the champions is named
after him. The 1960 tournament, held in France,
had four teams competing in the finals out of 17
that entered the competition.
Henri Delaunay Trophy was remodelled to
make it larger, as the old trophy was
overshadowed by UEFA's other trophies such
as the new European Champion Clubs' Cup.
The new trophy, which is made of sterling
silver, now weighs 8 kilograms (18 lb) and is 60
centimetres (24 in) tall, being 2 kilograms
(4.4 lb) heavier and 18 centimetres (7.1 in)
longer than the old one. The marble plinth that
was serving as base was removed. The new
silver base of the trophy had to be enlarged to
make it stable. The names of the winning
countries that had appeared on the plaques
glued to the plinth are now engraved on the
back of the trophy,[82] under the word Coupe
Henri Delaunay and are written in English
rather than French its predecessor had. Since
2016, the juggling boy was returned on the
trophy's back.
Germany had a wide choice of stadiums that
satisfied UEFA's minimum capacity
requirement of 30,000 seats for European
Championship matches.[17]
Of the ten venues selected for Euro 2024, nine
were used for the 2006 FIFA World
Cup: Berlin, Dortmund, Munich, Cologne, Stutt
gart, Hamburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt,
and Gelsenkirchen. Düsseldorf, which was not
used in 2006 but had previously been used for
the 1974 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1988,
served as the tenth venue;
conversely, Hanover, Nuremberg and Kaisersla
utern, host cities in 2006 (in addition to 1974
and 1988 in Hanover's case), were not used for
this championship. Munich, the site of the first
game of UEFA Euro 2024, was also a host city
at the multi-national UEFA Euro
2020 tournament, hosting four matches (three
involving Germany) in front of a greatly
reduced number of spectators due to COVID-
19 restrictions.[20]
Berlin Munich Dortmund Stuttgart
Munich Football BVB Stadion
Stuttgart Arena
Olympiastadion Arena Dortmund
(MHPArena)
(Allianz Arena) (Signal Iduna Park)
Spain at the UEFA European
Championship
• Spain have participated in twelve European
Championships, from which they won four titles.
Spain became European champions as hosts in
1964, in 2008 in Austria and Switzerland,
in 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, and in 2024 in
Germany. They are currently the only team with
four titles, the only side to win two consecutive
editions and the only side to ever win all seven
matches in a single tournament (2024). They also
set a new record of 15 goals scored in a single
European Championship.
• NAME JOHAN DSOUZA
• CLASS 9A
• ROLL NO 19
