The Eurocup is definitely the main soccer tournament in the men's nationwide soccer clubs controlled by UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations).

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France and Spain are definitely the just other multiple-time champions with a couple of titles each. The rest of the Euro Cup those who win have already been Italy, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands, Denmark, Greece and first winners Soviet Union, using a single title each and every.

One of the most current version, co-hosted by Switzerland and Austria in 2008, had been won by Spain, who defeat Germany 1-0. The next European Championship will be co-hosted in Poland and Ukraine from Eight June to 1 July 2012.

The concept to get a pan-European football tournament was first recommended by the France Soccer Federation's Henri Delaunay in 1927, but it was not till 1958 that the tournament was began - 3 years following Delaunay's death. In honor of Delaunay, the trophy honored for the champions is named following him. The 1960 tournament, held in France, had four teams contending in the finals, away from Seventeen that entered the competition. It had been acquired through the Ussr, beating Yugoslavia 2-1 inside a stressed final in Paris. Spain withdrew from the quarter-final game against the USSR because of political protests. With the Seventeen clubs that joined the qualifying tournament, significant absentees were England, West Germany and Italy.

Spain used the following competition in 1964, which observed an increase in entries to the qualification tournament, with 29 entering; Greece withdrew following becoming drawn versus Albania, with whom they had been nonetheless at war. The hosts beat the title owners, the Ussr, 2-1 in the Santiago Bernabéu Arena in Madrid.

16 clubs advance for the final tournament; for that 2008 tournament, they were the champions and runners up with the seven qualifying groups and shared hosts Austria and Switzerland. These 16 teams are divided similarly into 4 categories, A, B, C and D, every single composed of four clubs. The categories are drawn up through the UEFA administration, once more employing seeding. The seeded clubs getting the host countries, the reigning winners, subject to qualification, and those together with the finest points per game coefficients over the qualifying phase of the competition as well as the earlier Planet Cup qualifying. Other final contestants will likely be allotted to by signifies of a draw, using coefficients like a basis.

The 4 groups are once again competed within a league structure, where a team plays its opposing team once each. The identical points technique is used (3 points to get a win, one particular point for a draw, no points to get a defeat). A schedule to the group games will likely be drawn up, but the last two matches within a group should start up simultaneously.

The winner and runner-up of each group advances for the quarter-finals, exactly where a ko program is utilized (the two teams play each other when, the victorious one advances), this is utilized in all subsequent rounds at the same time. The winner in the quarter-finals matches progress to the semi-finals, where the winners play in the final. If in any of the knockout rounds, the results are nevertheless similar after normal playing time, extra time and penalties are employed to separate both competitors. This event, in contrast to the FIFA Planet Cup doesn't possess a 3rd place play-off.