UEFA Euro 2008 Champions, matches, fact and achievements

UEFA Euro 2008 was the 13th UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial football tournament contested by the member nations of UEFA. It took place in Austria and Switzerland (both hosting the tournament for the first time) from 7 to 29 June 2008. The tournament was won by Spain, who defeated Germany 1–0 in the final. Spain became only the second nation to win all their group stage fixtures and then the European Championship itself, matching France’s achievement in 1984. Additionally, Spain was the first team since Germany in 1996 to win the tournament undefeated.

Champions: Spain (2nd title)
Runners-up: Germany
UEFA Player of the Tournament: Xavi
Golden Boot: David Villa

UEFA Euro 2008 Group Stage
Group A

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points
1. (Qualified)	Portugal	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
2. (Qualified)	Turkey	3	2	0	1	5	5	0	6
3	Czech Republic	3	1	0	2	4	6	−2	3
4	Switzerland (Host)	3	1	0	2	3	3	0	3

Head-to-head result: Portugal 2–0 Turkey, Switzerland 0–1 Czech Republic.
Group B

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points
1. (Qualified)	Croatia	3	3	0	0	4	1	+3	9
2. (Qualified)	Germany	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
3	Austria (Host)	3	0	1	2	1	3	−2	1
4	Poland	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

Note: Tied on head-to-head result (Austria 1–1 Poland). Overall goal difference was used as the tiebreaker.
Group C

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points
1. (Qualified)	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	9
2. (Qualified)	Italy	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
3	Romania	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2
4	France	3	0	1	2	1	6	−5	1

Group D

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Points
1. (Qualified)	Spain	3	3	0	0	8	3	+5	9
2. (Qualified)	Russia	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
3	Sweden	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	3
4	Greece	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

Knockout stage
The knockout stage of the tournament featured a different format from past tournaments. Teams in groups A and B were separated from those in groups C and D until the final, meaning that teams from the same group could only meet again in the semi-finals, not the final, if they advanced that far. Additionally, for the first time in a European Championship, only two venues were used for the seven matches in the knockout stage: St. Jakob-Park in Basel and Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, the two largest of the eight stadiums used for the tournament.
UEFA Euro 2008 Quarter finals

Date	Team A	Result	Team B	Stadium
19 June 2008	Portugal	2–3	Germany	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
20 June 2008	Croatia	1–1 (a.e.t.) 1–3 (penalties)	Turkey	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna
21 June 2008	Netherlands	1–3 (a.e.t.)	Russia	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
22 June 2008	Spain	0–0 (a.e.t.) 4–2 (penalties)	Italy	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

UEFA Euro 2008 Semi finals

Date	Team A	Result	Team B	Stadium
25 June 2008	Germany	3–2	Turkey	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
26 June 2008	Russia	0–3	Spain	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

UEFA Euro 2008 final match
29 June 2008 20:45, Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

Germany	0 – 1	Spain
		Fernando Torres 33′

UEFA Euro 2008 top goal scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	David Villa	Spain	4
2	Lukas Podolski	Germany	3
3	Roman Pavlyuchenko	Russia	3
4	Hakan Yakin	Switzerland	3
5	Semih Şentürk	Turkey	3

Most assist provider list

Rank	Player	Team	Assist
1	Wesley Sneijder	Netherlands	3
2	Cesc Fàbregas	Spain	3
3	Eren Derdiyok	Switzerland	2
4	Dirk Kuyt	Netherlands	2
5	Bastian Schweinsteiger	Germany	2

UEFA Euro 2008 Team of the Tournament

Goalkeeper	Defender	Midfielder	Forward
Gianluigi Buffon	Philipp Lahm	Luka Modrić	Andrey Arshavin
Edwin van der Sar	José Bosingwa	Michael Ballack	Roman Pavlyuchenko
Iker Casillas	Pepe	Lukas Podolski	Fernando Torres
	Yuri Zhirkov	Wesley Sneijder	David Villa
	Carlos Marchena	Konstantin Zyryanov
	Carles Puyol	Cesc Fàbregas
		Andrés Iniesta
		Marcos Senna
		Xavi
		Hamit Altıntop

Summary
Greece entered the tournament as the defending champions, having won UEFA Euro 2004. However, they had the worst finish in Euro 2008, losing all three of their group fixtures and earning the least prize money. Across 31 matches, the participating nations scored a total of 77 goals, matching the tally of the previous tournament.
Austria and Switzerland automatically qualified as hosts, while the remaining 14 teams secured their spots through a qualifying tournament held between August 2006 and November 2007. By winning the tournament, Spain earned the right to compete in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa.

UEFA Euro 2008 Venues

Stadium	Capacity	City
Ernst-Happel-Stadion	53,295	Vienna, Austria
St. Jakob-Park	42,500	Basel, Switzerland
Wörthersee Stadion	31,957	Klagenfurt, Austria
Stade de Suisse	31,907	Bern, Switzerland
Stadion Wals-Siezenheim	31,895	Salzburg, Austria
Tivoli-Neu	31,600	Innsbruck, Austria
Stade de Genève	31,228	Geneva, Switzerland
Letzigrund	30,930	Zürich, Switzerland