UEFA Euro 2016 Champions, standings, matches and facts

UEFA Euro 2016 was the 15th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men’s football championship of Europe organized by UEFA. It was held in France from 10 June to 10 July 2016. Spain were the two-time defending champions, having won the 2008 and 2012 tournaments, but were eliminated in the round of 16 by Italy. Portugal won the tournament for the first time, following a 1–0 victory after extra time over the host team, France, in the final played at the Stade de France.

Champions:  Portugal (1st title)
Runners-up:  France
Top Goal Scorer:  Antoine Griezmann, 6 goal

UEFA Euro 2016 Awards

Player of the Tournament	Young Player of the Tournament	Golden Boot	Silver Boot	Bronze Boot	Goal of the Tournament
Antoine Griezmann	Renato Sanches	Antoine Griezmann	Cristiano Ronaldo	Olivier Giroud	Zoltán Gera (vs Portugal) Xherdan Shaqiri (vs Poland)

UEFA Euro 2016 Group Stage
Group A

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Point	Qualification
1	France (Host)	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7	Advance to knockout phase
2	Switzerland	3	1	2	0	2	1	+1	5	Advance to knockout phase
3	Albania	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3
4	Romania	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

Group B

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Point	Qualification
1	Wales	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6	Advance to knockout phase
2	England	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1	5	Advance to knockout phase
3	Slovakia	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4	Advance to knockout phase
4	Russia	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

Group C

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Point	Qualification
1	Germany	3	2	1	0	3	0	+3	7	Advance to knockout phase
2	Poland	3	2	1	0	2	0	+2	7	Advance to knockout phase
3	Northern Ireland	3	1	0	2	2	2	0	3	Advance to knockout phase
4	Ukraine	3	0	0	3	0	5	−5	0

Group D

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Point	Qualification
1	Croatia	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7	Advance to knockout phase
2	Spain	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6	Advance to knockout phase
3	Turkey	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
4	Czech Republic	3	0	1	2	2	5	−3	1

Group E

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Point	Qualification
1	Italy	3	2	0	1	3	1	+2	6	Advance to knockout phase
2	Belgium	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6	Advance to knockout phase
3	Ireland	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	4	Advance to knockout phase
4	Sweden	3	0	1	2	1	3	−2	1

Group F

Position	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	Point	Qualification
1	Hungary	3	1	2	0	6	4	+2	5	Advance to knockout phase
2	Iceland	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	5	Advance to knockout phase
3	Portugal	3	0	3	0	4	4	0	3	Advance to knockout phase
4	Austria	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, extra time and a penalty shoot-out were used to decide the winner if necessary.
As with every tournament since UEFA Euro 1984, there was no third place play-off.

UEFA Euro 2016 Round of 16 matches

Date	Team A	Result	Team B
25 June 2016	Switzerland	1–1 (a.e.t.) 4–5 (penalties)	Poland
25 June 2016	Wales	1–0	Northern Ireland
25 June 2016	Croatia	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Portugal
26 June 2016	France	2–1	Ireland
26 June 2016	Germany	3–0	Slovakia
26 June 2016	Hungary	0–4	Belgium
27 June 2016	Italy	2–0	Spain
27 June 2016	England	1–2	Iceland

UEFA Euro 2016 Quarter Final matches

Date	Team A	Result	Team B
30 June 2016	Poland	1–1 (a.e.t.) 3–5 (penalties)	Portugal
1 July 2016	Wales	3–1	Belgium
2 July 2016	Germany	1–1 (a.e.t.) 6–5 (penalties)	Italy
3 July 2016	France	5–2	Iceland

UEFA Euro 2016 Semi Final matches
6 July 2016 21:00, Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Décines-Charpieu

Portugal	2 – 0	Wales
Cristiano Ronaldo 50′ Nani 53′

7 July 2016 21:00, Stade Vélodrome, Marseille

Germany	0 – 2	France
		A. Griezmann 45+2′ (pen.), 72′

UEFA Euro 2016 Final match
10 July 2016 21:00, Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Portugal	1–0 (a.e.t.)	France
Eder Antonio 109′

UEFA Euro 2016 Top Goal Scorer List

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Antoine Griezmann	France	6
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	3
3	Olivier Giroud	France	3
4	Dimitri Payet	France	3
5	Alvaro Morata	Spain	3
6	Nani	Portugal	3
7	Gareth Bale	Wales	3

UEFA Euro 2016 Team of the Tournament
The UEFA Technical Team was given the objective of naming a team of eleven players during the tournament, a change from the 23-man squads in the past competitions. The group of analysts watched every game before making the decision following the final. Four players from the winning Portuguese squad were named in the tournament.

Position	Player	Team
Goalkeeper	Rui Patrício	Portugal
Defender	Jérôme Boateng	Germany
Defender	Joshua Kimmich	Germany
Defender	Raphaël Guerreiro	Portugal
Defender	Pepe	Portugal
Midfielder	Antoine Griezmann	France
Midfielder	Dimitri Payet	France
Midfielder	Germany Toni Kroos	Germany
Midfielder	Joe Allen	Wales
Midfielder	Aaron Ramsey	Wales
Forward	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal

Summary
For the first time, the European Championship final tournament was contested by 24 teams, having been expanded from the 16-team format used since 1996. Under the new format, the finalists contested a group stage consisting of six groups of four teams, followed by a knockout phase including three rounds and the final. Nineteen teams – the top two from each of the nine qualifying groups and the best third-placed team – joined France in the final tournament, who qualified automatically as host; a series of two-legged play-off ties between the remaining third-placed teams in November 2015 decided the last four finalist spots.
France was chosen as the host nation on 28 May 2010, after a bidding process in which they beat Italy and Turkey for the right to host the 2016 finals. The matches were played in ten stadiums in ten cities: Bordeaux, Lens, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Décines-Charpieu, Marseille, Nice, Paris, Saint-Denis, Saint-Étienne, and Toulouse. It was the third time that France hosted the finals, after the inaugural tournament in 1960 and the 1984 finals.
As the winners, Portugal earned the right to compete at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.