Introduction

This was the second Euro Cup to be contested and it was played after Confederations Cup I. There were a total of 40 teams who took part in the competition; all of the UEFA sides who had participated in Euro Cup I returned except for Georgia, who became the second nation to move from UEFA to AFC. As a result of this, Macedonia took part in their first ever competition to maintain a 40-team tournament.

Teams Entered: 40
Champion: Norway (1st)
Top Scorer: Nevland (5)

Qualification

Procedure

8 groups of 5 - top 2 per group qualify to the main tournament. Seeding was based on each nation's performance in the previous World Cups and Euro Cup. All four teams who reached the semifinals of the previous tournament were given a top seed, teams who reached the quarterfinals were guaranteed at least Pot B, and teams who qualified were guaranteed at least Pot C. This ended up elevating five teams into higher positions than they would have been otherwise: Spain, Lithuania, and Ireland (Pot A), Wales (Pot B), and Bulgaria (Pot C).

Most groups wound up with two teams who had played in the first Euro Cup and three teams who did not. Group E and Group G ended up only having one team that had qualified, with Spain and Lithuania respectively. Meanwhile, Group H was the only group to feature three teams that had previously qualified, with France, Wales, and Bulgaria. This meant at least one of those teams would not be able to qualify again for a second time.

Pot A: Spain, Netherlands, Lithuania, Ireland, Norway, France, England, Romania
Pot B: Wales, Italy, Turkey, Portugal, Sweden, Germany, Russia, Czech Republic
Pot C: Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Austria
Pot D: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Switzerland, Ukraine, Scotland, Poland, Slovenia, Iceland, Slovakia
Pot E: Latvia, Albania, Belarus, Estonia, Montenegro, Northern Ireland, Serbia, Macedonia

Group A

Romania - 16 pts +5 GD 15 GF 10 GA
Turkey - 16 pts +5 GD 14 GF 9 GA
Poland - 11 pts +0 GD 11 GF 11 GA
Austria - 10 pts -1 GD 10 GF 11 GA
Montenegro - 1 pts -9 GD 6 GF 15 GA

Turkey 3 - 2 Romania [Nihat x2, Tuncay Sanli; Ghioane, Mutu]
Montenegro 1 - 3 Poland [Jovetic; Murawski, Roger Guerreiro, Lewandowski]
BYE: Austria

Romania 2 - 1 Montenegro [Mutu x2; Vucinic]
Poland 1 - 1 Austria [Roger Guerreiro; Arnautovic]
BYE: Turkey

Montenegro 1 - 2 Turkey [Vucinic; Nihat, Emre]
Austria 1 - 1 Romania [Arnautovic; Mutu]
BYE: Poland

Turkey 1 - 1 Austria [Hakan Balta; Garics]
Romania 3 - 1 Poland [Marcia x2, Apostol; Lewandowski]
BYE: Montenegro

Poland 2 - 2 Turkey [Murawski, Braszczykowski; Nihat, Semih]
Austria 1 - 0 Montenegro [Scharner]
BYE: Romania

Montenegro 1 - 2 Romania [Vucinic; Mutu x2]
Austria 2 - 2 Turkey [Arnautovic, IVanschitz; Semih, Nihat]
BYE: Poland

Romania 3 - 0 Austria [Mutu x2, Ghioane]
Turkey 1 - 0 Poland [Nihat]
BYE: Montenegro

Poland 2 - 1 Montenegro [M. Lewandowski, Lewandowski; Jovetic]
Romania 1 - 3 Turkey [Codrea; Tuncay Sanli, Nihat, Semih]
BYE: Austria

Austria 1 - 2 Poland [Janko; Krzynowek, Lewandowski]
Turkey 0 - 0 Montenegro
BYE: Romania

Poland 0 - 1 Romania [Tanase]
Montenegro 1 - 3 Austria [Vukcevic; Arnautovic x2, Garics]
BYE: Turkey

Group B

Italy - 22 pts +13 GD 20 GF 7 GA
Netherlands - 16 pts +6 GD 15 GF 9 GA
Scotland - 9 pts -5 GD 10 GF 15 GA
Greece - 8 pts -1 GD 12 GF 13 GA
Estonia - 1 pts -13 GD 2 GF 15 GA

Netherlands 2 - 0 Scotland [Robben, Van Persie]
Italy 3 - 2 Greece [Toni x2, Grosso; Gekas, Karagounis]
BYE: Estonia

Scotland 2 - 2 Italy [C. Fletcher x2; Gattuso, Pirlo]
Greece 1 - 0 Estonia [Charisteas]
BYE: Netherlands

Italy 3 - 2 Netherlands [Di Natale, Toni x2; Kuyt x2]
Estonia 0 - 1 Scotland [Boyd]
BYE: Greece

Netherlands 2 - 0 Estonia [Van Persie, De Jong]
Scotland 0 - 3 Greece [Charisteas x3]
BYE: Italy

Greece 1 - 3 Netherlands [Charisteas; Van Persie, Robben, Huntelaar]
Estonia 0 - 2 Italy [Di Natale, Toni]
BYE: Scotland

Italy 4 - 1 Scotland [Toni, Di Natale x3; B. Ferguson]
Estonia 0 - 2 Netherlands [Robben, Van Bommel]
BYE: Greece

Scotland 3 - 1 Estonia [Boyd, Fletcher x2; Lindpere]
Netherlands 3 - 2 Greece [Huntelaar, Van Persie, Van Bronckhorst; Karagounis, Charisteas]
BYE: Italy

Greece 0 - 1 Italy [Toni]
Scotland 1 - 1 Netherlands [Boyd; Van Persie]
BYE: Estonia

Estonia 1 - 1 Greece [Oper; Charisteas]
Netherlands 0 - 2 Italy [Grosso, Camoranesi]
BYE: Scotland

Greece 2 - 2 Scotland [Karagounis x2; Miller, Boyd]
Italy 3 - 0 Estonia [De Rossi, Toni, Di Natale]
BYE: Netherlands

Group C

Norway - 22 pts +14 GD 18 GF 4 GA
Germany - 17 pts +8 GD 13 GF 5 GA
Finland - 9 pts -7 GD 6 GF 13 GA
Bosnia-Herzegovina - 6 pts -5 GD 6 GF 11 GA
Northern Ireland - 4 pts -10 GD 5 GF 15 GA

Finland 2 - 1 Bosnia-Herzegovina [Forsell, Litmanen; Dzeko]
Norway 4 - 0 Northern Ireland [Maik Taylor OG, Iversen, Skjelbred x2]
BYE: Germany

Bosnia-Herzegovina 0 - 2 Norway [Nevland, Carew]
Northern Ireland 1 - 1 Germany [Healy; Klose]
BYE: Finland

Norway 4 - 1 Finland [Iversen x2, Skjelbred x2; Vayrynen]
Germany 2 - 1 Bosnia-Herzegovina [Hitzlsperger x2; Dzeko]
BYE: Northern Ireland

Finland 0 - 2 Germany [Klose, Schweinsteiger]
Bosnia-Herzegovina 2 - 1 Northern Ireland [Dzeko, Muslimovic; Healy]
BYE: Norway

Northern Ireland 0 - 1 Finland [Johansson]
Germany 1 - 2 Norway [Klose; Nevland, Carew]
BYE: Bosnia-Herzegovina

Norway 2 - 0 Bosnia-Herzegovina [Carew, M. G. Pedersen]
Germany 3 - 0 Finland [Podolski x2, Hitzlsperger]
BYE: Northern Ireland

Bosnia-Herzegovina 0 - 1 Germany [Klose]
Finland 1 - 2 Northern Ireland [Litmanen; Duff, McCann]
BYE: Norway

Northern Ireland 1 - 2 Norway [McGinn; Carew x2]
Bosnia-Herzegovina 0 - 1 Finland [Roman Eremenko]
BYE: Germany

Germany 2 - 0 Northern Ireland [Lahm, Borowski]
Finland 0 - 1 Norway [Nevland]
BYE: Bosnia-Herzegovina

Northern Ireland 0 - 2 Bosnia-Herzegovina [Muslimovic x2]
Norway 1 - 1 Germany [Braaten; Podolski]
BYE: Finland

Group D

Portugal - 22 pts +16 GD 24 GF 8 GA
Croatia - 17 pts +8 GD 16 GF 8 GA
Ireland - 11 pts -1 GD 12 GF 13 GA
Slovakia - 4 pts -12 GD 9 GF 21 GA
Belarus - 2 pts -11 GD 9 GF 20 GA

Croatia 2 - 2 Portugal [Rakitic, Olic; C. Ronaldo x2]
Slovakia 1 - 3 Ireland [Jendrisek; Robbie Keane, Kilbane, Kevin Doyle]
BYE: Belarus

Portugal 4 - 0 Slovakia [H. Almeida, Paulo Ferreira, C. Ronaldo, Danny]
Ireland 1 - 0 Belarus [Robbie Keane]
BYE: Croatia

Slovakia 2 - 3 Croatia [Kozak, Vittek; Olic x2, Rakitic]
Belarus 0 - 3 Portugal [Pepe x3]
BYE: Ireland

Croatia 3 - 0 Belarus [Modric, Pranjic, Simunic]
Portugal 3 - 1 Ireland [H. Almeida, Danny, C. Ronaldo; Kevin Doyle]
BYE: Slovakia

Ireland 1 - 1 Croatia [Kevin Doyle; Eduardo]
Belarus 2 - 3 Slovakia [Molosh, Martynovic; Vittek x2, Hamsik]
BYE: Portugal

Slovakia 0 - 3 Portugal [H. Almeida, Ruben Amorim, Pepe]
Belarus 1 - 2 Croatia [Sivakov; Eduardo, Olic]
BYE: Ireland

Portugal 4 - 2 Belarus [C. Ronaldo, H. Almeida, R. Carvalho, Ruben Amorim; Trubila, Kornilenko]
Croatia 2 - 0 Ireland [Corluka, Olic]
BYE: Slovakia

Ireland 2 - 1 Slovakia [O' Shea, Robbie Keane; Hamsik]
Portugal 2 - 1 Croatia [R. Meireles, H. Almeida; Srna]
BYE: Belarus

Belarus 2 - 2 Ireland [Trubila, Martynovich; Robbie Keane x2]
Croatia 2 - 0 Slovakia [Olic x2]
BYE: Portugal

Ireland 2 - 3 Portugal [Carsley, Hunt; C. Ronaldo, Danny x2]
Slovakia 2 - 2 Belarus [Hamsik, Vittek; Molosh, Sivakov]
BYE: Croatia

Group E

Spain - 24 pts +20 GD 25 GF 5 GA
Belgium - 15 pts +8 GD 15 GF 7 GA
Russia - 15 pts +2 GD 14 GF 12 GA
Latvia - 4 pts -14 GD 4 GF 18 GA
Iceland - 1 pts -16 GD 5 GF 21 GA

Russia 3 - 0 Latvia [Pavlyuchenko x2, Anyukov]
Iceland 0 - 4 Belgium [Lukaku, Fellaini, Dembele, Hoefkens]
BYE: Spain

Latvia 1 - 1 Iceland [Fertovs; A. Vidarsson]
Belgium 1 - 2 Spain [Defour; Torres, Sergio Ramos]
BYE: Russia

Iceland 0 - 2 Russia [Semak, Zhirkov]
Spain 3 - 0 Latvia [Villa x2, Sergio Ramos]
BYE: Belgium

Russia 1 - 4 Spain [Pavlyuchenko; Silva, Torres, Villa, Marcos Senna]
Latvia 0 - 2 Belgium [Mudingayi, Dembele]
BYE: Iceland

Belgium 1 - 0 Russia [Lukaku]
Spain 2 - 1 Iceland [Silva x2; Helguson]
BYE: Latvia

Iceland 1 - 2 Latvia [Gudjohnsen; Rudnev, Verpakovskis]
Spain 4 - 1 Russia [Torres, Capdevila, Sergio Ramos x2; Arshavin]
BYE: Belgium

Latvia 0 - 4 Spain [Torres x2, Villa, Xavi]
Russia 2 - 1 Belgium [Zhirkov, Arshavin; Lukaku]
BYE: Iceland

Belgium 2 - 0 Iceland [Fellaini x2]
Latvia 0 - 1 Russia [Arshavin]
BYE: Spain

Spain 2 - 1 Belgium [Villa, Capdevila; Lukaku]
Russia 4 - 2 Iceland [Pavlyuchenko, Arshavin x2, Zhirkov; J. Gudjonsson, Gudjohnsen]
BYE: Latvia

Belgium 3 - 1 Latvia [Dembele, Vanden Borre, Fellaini; Fertovs]
Iceland 0 - 4 Spain [Xavi, Iniesta x2, Torres]
BYE: Russia

Group F

England - 22 pts +19 GD 22 GF 3 GA
Sweden - 19 pts +6 GD 16 GF 10 GA
Switzerland - 7 pts -4 GD 9 GF 13 GA
Hungary - 7 pts -8 GD 6 GF 14 GA
Albania - 3 pts -13 GD 6 GF 19 GA

Switzerland 1 - 2 Sweden [Grichting; Larsson, Kallstrom]
England 2 - 0 Hungary [Gerrard, Barry]
BYE: Albania

Sweden 1 - 1 England [Wilhelmsson; Owen]
Hungary 2 - 0 Albania [Huszti, Torghelle]
BYE: Switzerland

England 2 - 1 Switzerland [Rooney, Gerrard; Frei]
Albania 2 - 3 Sweden [Lila, Lala; Larsson, Wilhelmsson, Ibrahimovic]
BYE: Hungary

Switzerland 2 - 1 Albania [Lichtsteiner, N'kufo; Tare]
Sweden 2 - 1 Hungary [D. Andersson, Kallstrom; Dardai]
BYE: England

Hungary 0 - 2 Switzerland [Magnin, Frei]
Albania 1 - 4 England [Bogdani; Owen, Lampard, Walcott, Gerrard]
BYE: Sweden

England 2 - 0 Sweden [Owen, Ashley Cole]
Albania 1 - 0 Switzerland [Hyka]
BYE: Hungary

Sweden 2 - 1 Albania [Ibrahimovic, Kallstrom; Bogdani]
Switzerland 1 - 1 Hungary [Inler; Bodor]
BYE: England

Hungary 0 - 4 England [Owen, Rooney, Gerrard, Ashley Cole]
Sweden 3 - 2 Switzerland [Ibrahimovic, Wilhelmsson x2; Inler, N'kufo]
BYE: Albania

Albania 0 - 2 Hungary [Torghelle, Hajnal]
Switzerland 0 - 3 England [Rooney, Lampard, Owen]
BYE: Sweden

Hungary 0 - 3 Sweden [Ibrahimovic x2, Wilhelmsson]
England 4 - 0 Albania [Owen x2, Gerrard, Rooney]
BYE: Switzerland

Group G

Czech Republic - 17 pts +10 GD 14 GF 4 GA
Denmark - 17 pts +3 GD 9 GF 6 GA
Ukraine - 13 pts +2 GD 12 GF 10 GA
Macedonia - 8 pts -4 GD 8 GF 12 GA
Lithuania - 1 pts -11 GD 4 GF 15 GA

Macedonia 0 - 2 Czech Republic [Sionko, Grygera]
Denmark 1 - 0 Lithuania [Rommedahl]
BYE: Ukraine

Czech Republic 0 - 1 Denmark [M. Jakobsen]
Lithuania 1 - 2 Ukraine [Sernas; Tymoshchuk, Milevskiy]
BYE: Macedonia

Denmark 0 - 0 Macedonia
Ukraine 0 - 3 Czech Republic [Plasil, Grygera, Fenin]
BYE: Lithuania

Macedonia 1 - 2 Ukraine [Ivanovski; Milevskiy, Shevchenko]
Czech Republic 2 - 0 Lithuania [Baros, Fenin]
BYE: Denmark

Lithuania 1 - 3 Macedonia [R. Zutautas; Trickovski, Taveski, Ivanovski]
Ukraine 1 - 2 Denmark [Milevskiy; Larsen x2]
BYE: Czech Republic

Denmark 0 - 3 Czech Republic [Fenin, Plasil, Sionko]
Ukraine 2 - 0 Macedonia [Milevskiy x2]
BYE: Lithuania

Czech Republic 1 - 1 Ukraine [Fenin; Milevskiy]
Macedonia 2 - 1 Lithuania [Trickovski x2; Zvirgzdauskas]
BYE: Denmark

Lithuania 1 - 1 Denmark [Danilevicius; D. Jensen]
Czech Republic 2 - 2 Macedonia [Grygera, D. Jarolim; Ademi, Ivanovski]
BYE: Ukraine

Ukraine 3 - 0 Lithuania [Shevchenko x2, Milevskiy]
Macedonia 0 - 2 Denmark [D. Jensen, Kahlenberg]
BYE: Czech Republic

Lithuania 0 - 1 Czech Republic [Plasil]
Denmark 2 - 1 Ukraine [D. Jensen, Poulsen; Shevchenko]
BYE: Macedonia

Group H

France - 20 pts +11 GD 17 GF 6 GA
Bulgaria - 10 pts -1 GD 12 GF 13 GA
Wales - 9 pts -4 GD 9 GF 13 GA
Serbia - 8 pts -5 GD 10 GF 15 GA
Slovenia - 7 pts -1 GD 11 GF 12 GA

France 2 - 1 Serbia [Gourcuff x2; Nenad Kovacevic]
Bulgaria 3 - 0 Wales [M. Petrov, Bojinov x2]
BYE: Slovenia

Serbia 2 - 1 Bulgaria [Bisevac, Dejan Stankovic; M. Petrov]
Wales 2 - 1 Slovenia [Chad Evans, Bellamy; Dedic]
BYE: France

Bulgaria 1 - 3 France [Bojinov; Benzema, Gourcuff x2]
Slovenia 1 - 1 Serbia [Novakovic; Zigic]
BYE: Wales

France 2 - 2 Slovenia [Benzema, Abidal; Kolen, Dedic]
Serbia 1 - 4 Wales [Pantelic; Bellamy x2, Chad Evans x2]
BYE: Bulgaria

Wales 0 - 3 France [Benzema, Malouda, Abidal]
Slovenia 0 - 2 Bulgaria [Berbatov, Telkiiski]
BYE: Serbia

Bulgaria 1 - 3 Serbia [Berbatov; Nenad Kovacevic, Dejan Stankovic, Bisevac]
Slovenia 2 - 2 France [Kolen, Dedic; Gourcuff, Toulalan]
BYE: Wales

Serbia 1 - 4 Slovenia [Obradovic; Dedic, Novakovic, Kolen x2]
France 2 - 0 Wales [Gourcuff, Benzema]
BYE: Bulgaria

Wales 2 - 2 Bulgaria [C. Fletcher x2; Berbatov, M. Petrov]
Serbia 0 - 1 France [Lassana Diarra]
BYE: Slovenia

Slovenia 0 - 0 Wales
France 2 - 0 Bulgaria [Benzema, Ribery]
BYE: Serbia

Wales 1 - 1 Serbia [Chad Evans; Obradovic]
Bulgaria 2 - 1 Slovenia [Bojinov, Berbatov; Kirm]
BYE: France

Qualified Teams

Turkey
Romania
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Germany
Portugal
Croatia*
Spain
Belgium*
England
Sweden
Czech Republic*
Denmark*
France
Bulgaria

*First time qualifying

Euro Cup

Seeding

Seeding was based on qualification performance. All group winners were put into pots A and B, all runners up into pots C and D, based on points earned and then goal difference.

Pot A: Spain, England, Portugal, Norway
Pot B: Italy, France, Czech Republic, Romania
Pot C: Sweden, Croatia, Germany, Denmark
Pot D: Netherlands, Turkey, Belgium, Bulgaria

Group Stage

Group A

Italy - 9 pts +5 GD 8 GF 3 GA
Norway - 6 pts +3 GD 9 GF 6 GA
Sweden - 3 pts -4 GD 5 GF 9 GA
Turkey - 0 pts -4 GD 6 GF 10 GA

Turkey 2 - 4 Sweden [Nihat, Hakan Balta; Ibrahimovic, Larsson x2, Wilhelmsson]
Norway 1 - 3 Italy [B. H. Riise; Gilardino, Di Natale, E. Johnsen OG]

Turkey 3 - 4 Norway [Sabri Sarioglu, Nihat x2; J. King, Winsnes x2, Skjelbred]
Sweden 1 - 3 Italy [Ibrahimovic; Di Natale, Gattuso, Camoranesi]

Italy 2 - 1 Turkey [De Rossi, Toni; Semih]
Norway 4 - 0 Sweden [Nevland x2, Carew, Braaten]

Group B

England - 9 pts +11 GD 12 GF 1 GA
Germany - 6 pts +4 GD 7 GF 3 GA
Romania - 3 pts -4 GD 5 GF 9 GA
Bulgaria - 0 pts -11 GD 1 GF 12 GA

England 2 - 1 Germany [Owen, Barry; Hitzlsperger]
Bulgaria 1 - 4 Romania [M. Petrov; Mutu, Codrea, Chivu, Marica]

England 4 - 0 Bulgaria [Lampard, Owen x2, Rooney]
Germany 2 - 1 Romania [Podolski, Klose; Mutu]

Romania 0 - 6 England [Rooney x3, Lampard x2, Owen]
Bulgaria 0 - 4 Germany [Klose, Podolski x2, Borowski]

Group C

Netherlands - 7 pts +4 GD 6 GF 2 GA
Spain - 7 pts +3 GD 5 GF 2 GA
Czech Republic - 3 pts -2 GD 2 GF 4 GA
Croatia - 0 pts -5 GD 3 GF 8 GA

Spain 1 - 1 Netherlands [Sergio Ramos; Huntelaar]
Croatia 1 - 2 Czech Republic [Olic; Fenin x2]

Spain 2 - 1 Croatia [Villa, Xavi; Eduardo]
Netherlands 1 - 0 Czech Republic [De Jong]

Czech Republic 0 - 2 Spain [Villa, Iniesta]
Croatia 1 - 4 Netherlands [Modric; Robben x2, Van Bommel, Van Persie]

Group D

Portugal - 9 pts +3 GD 4 GF 1 GA
France - 4 pts +1 GD 6 GF 5 GA
Belgium - 4 pts +1 GD 4 GF 3 GA
Denmark - 0 pts -5 GD 1 GF 6 GA

Portugal 1 - 0 Denmark [H. Almeida]
Belgium 2 - 2 France [Swerts, Fellaini; Gourcuff, Lassana Diarra]

Portugal 1 - 0 Belgium [H. Almeida]
Denmark 1 - 3 France [Larsen; Abidal, Benzema, Gallas]

France 1 - 2 Portugal [Lassana Diarra; Pepe, R. Meireles]
Belgium 2 - 0 Denmark [Lukaku x2]

Knockout Round

Quarterfinals

Italy 2 - 1 Germany [Toni x2; Podolski]
Netherlands 2 - 1 France [Huntelaar, Van Bommel; Gourcuff]
England 0 - 4 Norway [Skjelbred, Nevland, Carew, J. King]
Portugal 0 - 3 Spain [Silva, Sergio Ramos, Marcos Senna]