The following tournament, held in Poland and Ukraine, became the third jointly hosted tournament. The Austria–Switzerland bid became the second successful joint bid in the competition's history, following the UEFA Euro 2000 hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands. The final vote by the UEFA executive committee was: Īustria–Switzerland, Hungary, Greece–Turkey and the Nordic bid were recommended, in that order, before the final vote by UEFA's National Teams Committee. Austria and Hungary had previously bid together to host Euro 2004, losing out to Portugal, while Sweden had hosted Euro 1992. As European champions, Spain earned the right to compete in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa.Īustria and Switzerland jointly bid to host the games, and facing competition from six other bids: Bosnia and Herzegovina– Croatia, Greece– Turkey, a 4-way Nordic bid (from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), Hungary, Russia and Scotland– Republic of Ireland. Throughout 31 matches, the participating nations totalled 77 goals, the same as the previous tournament.Īustria and Switzerland automatically qualified as hosts the remaining 14 teams were determined through a qualifying tournament, played between August 2006 and November 2007. They recorded the worst finish in Euro 2008, losing their three group fixtures and collecting the least prize money. Greece were the defending champions going into the tournament, having won UEFA Euro 2004. Spain were also the first team since Germany in 1996 to win the tournament undefeated. Spain were only the second nation to win all their group stage fixtures and then the European Championship itself, matching France's achievement from 1984. The tournament was won by Spain, who defeated Germany 1–0 in the final. It took place in Austria and Switzerland (both hosting the tournament for the first time) from 7 to 29 June 2008. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2008 or simply Euro 2008, was the 13th UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial football tournament contested by the member nations of UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations). Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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