15th edition of the association football championship
UEFA Euro 2016
Championnat d'Europe de football 2016 (in French)
Le Rendez-Vous
Tournament details
Host country
France
Dates
10 June – 10 July
Teams
24
Venue(s)
10 (in 9 host cities)
Final positions
Champions
Portugal (1st title)
Runners-up
France
Tournament statistics
Matches played
51
Goals scored
108 (2.12 per match)
Attendance
2,427,303 (47,594 per match)
Top scorer(s)
Antoine Griezmann (6 goals)[1]
Best player(s)
Antoine Griezmann[2]
Best young player
Renato Sanches[3]
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International football competition
The 2016 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2016 (stylised as UEFA EURO 2016) or simply Euro 2016, was the 15th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organised by UEFA. It was held in France from 10 June to 10 July 2016.[4][5] Spain were the two-time defending champions, having won the 2008 and 2012 tournaments, but were eliminated in the round of 16 by Italy. Portugal won the tournament for the first time, following a 1–0 victory after extra time over the host team, France, in the final played at the Stade de France.
For the first time, the European Championship final tournament was contested by 24 teams, having been expanded from the 16-team format used since 1996.[6] Under the new format, the finalists contested a group stage consisting of six groups of four teams, followed by a knockout phase including three rounds and the final. Nineteen teams – the top two from each of the nine qualifying groups and the best third-placed team – joined France in the final tournament, who qualified automatically as host; a series of two-legged play-off ties between the remaining third-placed teams in November 2015 decided the last four finalist spots.
France was chosen as the host nation on 28 May 2010, after a bidding process in which they beat Italy and Turkey for the right to host the 2016 finals.[7][8] The matches were played in ten stadiums in ten cities: Bordeaux, Lens, Lille Métropole, Décines-Charpieu, Marseille, Nice, Paris, Saint-Denis, Saint-Étienne, and Toulouse. It was the third time that France hosted the finals, after the inaugural tournament in 1960 and the 1984 finals.
As the winners, Portugal earned the right to compete at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.[9]
^Cite error: The named reference golden-boot-winner was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Antoine Griezmann named Player of the Tournament". UEFA. 11 July 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
^"Renato Sanches named Young Player of the Tournament". UEFA. 10 July 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
^"UEFA EURO 2016: key dates and milestones". UEFA. 1 February 2013.
^"UEFA EURO 2016 steering group meets in Paris". UEFA. 23 October 2012.
^"UEFA approves 24-team Euro from 2016". UEFA. 27 September 2008. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
^Chaplin, Mark (12 December 2008). "2016 bidding process given green light". Nyon: UEFA. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
^"France beat Turkey and Italy to stage Euro 2016". BBC Sport. 28 May 2010. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
^FIFA.com. "FIFA Confederations Cup Russia 2017 – Teams – FIFA". FIFA. Archived from the original on 24 September 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
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Global Information
Portugal (1st title)
France