Past Winners of UEFA European Championships

UEFA European Championship is a european national team competition started back in 1960 and takes place every 4 years under the banner of UEFA. It was known as “European Nations’ Cup” at the start but after a few competitions it became widely known as UEFA Euro. We will be taking a look at past winners of UEFA Euro since 1960 to 2021.

UEFA Euro Short History:

Since 1960, 15 editions of European national team competition have taken place with Spain and Germany leading with 3 titles each. France has won the competition twice while Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Czech Republic, Greece and Soviet Union have won the competition once each making it 9 different winners so far. Only Spain has won the competition back to back in 2008 and 2012.

YEAR	WINNERS	RESULT	RUNNER-UP	HOST NATION
1960	Soviet Union	1-0 (Extra-Time)	Yugoslavia	France
1964	Spain	2-1	Soviet Union	Spain
1968	Italy	1-1 aet / 2-0 replay	Yugoslavia	Italy
1972	West Germany	3-0	Soviet Union	Belgium
1976	Czechoslovakia	2-2 (Extra-Time) - 5-3 (Penalties)	West Germany	Yugoslavia
1980	West Germany	2-1	Belgium	Italy
1984	France	2-0	Spain	France
1988	Netherlands	2-0	Soviet Union	West Germany
1992	Denmark	2-0	Germany	Sweden
1996	Germany	2-1 (Golden-Goal)	Czech Republic	England
2000	France	2-1 (Golden-Goal)	Italy	Belgium & Netherlands
2004	Greece	1-0	Portugal	Portugal
2008	Spain	1-0	Germany	Austria & Switzerland
2012	Spain	4-0	Italy	Poland & Ukraine
2016	Portugal	1-0 (Extra-Time)	France	France
2021

Which Country has won the UEFA Euro Trophy most number of times ?

Germany and Spain are the most successful teams in competition’s history winning three times each.

Team who won UEFA Euro back to back ?

Only Spain has won the competition back to back in 2008 and 2012.

How many winners of UEFA Euro since 1960 ?

9 different winners of the competition. Germany and Spain won it three times each while France is the only other country to have won the competition more than once.