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UEFA European Championship
The UEFA European Football Championship, less formally the European Championship and informally the Euro, is the primary association football tournament organised by the Union of European Football Associations ( UEFA). The competition is conte ...
is one of the major competitive international football tournaments, first played in 1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
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, whose finals stage has been held every four years, with the sixteenth staging of the competition occurring in 2021
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(postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe).
The Sweden national football team did not enter the competition until 1992 when it was the host nation of the tournament. However, Sweden has only qualified every time since the 2000 edition (played in Belgium and the Netherlands), having missed out the 1996 edition. The team's best performance has been reaching the semi-finals once — in 1992, losing to Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
2–3 to finish with a bronze medal, Sweden's highest achievement up to date in the European Championship.
Overall record
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:''**Gold background colour indicates that the tournament was won.''
:''***Red border colour indicates that the tournament was held on home soil.
Euro 1992
Group stage
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Semi-finalsEuro 2000
Group stage
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Group stage
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Quarter-finalsEuro 2008
Group stage
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Group stage
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Group stage
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Group stage
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Round of 16Goalscorers
Notes
References
{{UEFA Euro Countries Countries at the UEFA European Championship