UEFA Euro 2008

The **2008 UEFA European Football Championship** (or the **Euro 2008**) was the 13th UEFA European Championships. It was hosted by Austria and Switzerland during June 7 and June 29, 2008. The winners were Spain, defeating Germany 1-0. Spain was also the first team since Germany in 1996, to win undefeated.

Greece, the UEFA Euro 2004 champions, recorded the worst finish in the UEFA Euro 2008. They got the least amount of money, and no points for the Group Stage.

## Qualifying groups

- Teams highlighted in green qualified for the finals.

### Group A

|width=175|Team|width=20 abbr="Played"||width=20 abbr="Won"||width=20 abbr="Drawn"||width=20 abbr="Lost"||width=20 abbr="Goals for"||width=20 abbr="Goals against"||width=20 abbr="Goal difference"||width=20 abbr="Points"||
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|align="left"||14|11|0|3|32|10|+22|**33**|||||||||
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|align="left"||14|6|3|5|17|13|+4|**21**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|3|8|3|7|4|+3|**17**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|3|3|8|7|18|−11|**12**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|2|4|8|8|15|−7|**10**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|0|0|14|0|50|−50|**0**|||||||||

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### Group B

|width=175|Team|width=20 abbr="Played"||width=20 abbr="Won"||width=20 abbr="Drawn"||width=20 abbr="Lost"||width=20 abbr="Goals for"||width=20 abbr="Goals against"||width=20 abbr="Goal difference"||width=20 abbr="Points"||
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|align="left"||14|9|4|1|20|9|+11|**31**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|8|4|2|25|5|+20|**28**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|8|2|4|21|12|+9|**26**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|5|4|5|18|16|+2|**19**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|5|3|6|11|13|−2|**18**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|0|14|0|0|0|0|**14**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|2|4|8|14|18|−4|**10**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|0|3|11|4|40|−36|**3**|||||||||

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### Group C

|width=175|Team|width=20 abbr="Played"||width=20 abbr="Won"||width=20 abbr="Drawn"||width=20 abbr="Lost"||width=20 abbr="Goals for"||width=20 abbr="Goals against"||width=20 abbr="Goal difference"||width=20 abbr="Points"||
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|align="left"||14|8|5|1|27|11|+16|**29**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|7|4|3|27|11|+16|**25**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|7|3|4|20|17|+3|**24**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|6|3|5|21|17|+4|**21**|||||||||
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|align="left"||14|4|2|8|11|22|−11|**14**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|1|4|9|10|31|−21|**7**|||||||||

|width=70||width=20||width=20||width=20||width=20||width=20|MNC|width=20||width=20||width=20||
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### Group E

|width=175|Team|width=20 abbr="Played"||width=20 abbr="Won"||width=20 abbr="Drawn"||width=20 abbr="Lost"||width=20 abbr="Goals for"||width=20 abbr="Goals against"||width=20 abbr="Goal difference"||width=20 abbr="Points"||
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|align="left"||14|9|4|1|27|11|+16|**31**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|9|3|2|23|8|+15|**30**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|5|5|4|20|12|+8|**20**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|4|6|4|10|11|−1|**18**|||||||||
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|align="left"||14|0|7|7|2|13|−11|**7**|||||||||
|align="left"||14|1|4|9|4|26|−22|**7**|||||||||

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### Group G

|width=175|Team|width=20 abbr="Played"||width=20 abbr="Won"||width=20 abbr="Drawn"||width=20 abbr="Lost"||width=20 abbr="Goals for"||width=20 abbr="Goals against"||width=20 abbr="Goal difference"||width=20 abbr="Points"||
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|align="left"||12|9|2|1|26|7|+19|**29**|||||||||
|align="left"||12|8|2|2|37|5|+32|**26**|||||||||
|align="left"||12|7|4|1|18|17|+11|**25**|||||||||
|align="left"||12|4|1|7|17|23|−6|**13**|||||||||
|align="left"||12|2|5|5|12|18|−6|**11**|||||||||
|align="left"||12|3|2|7|9|16|−7|**11**|||||||||
|align="left"||12|1|0|11|2|45|−43|**3**|||||||||

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|align="right"|****|0-0|1-0|0-2|2-0|0-1|1-2|—||||||||

## Qualified Teams

The teams that qualified were:

- Austria
- Switzerland
- Poland
- Portugal
- Italy
- France
- Greece
- Turkey
- Czech Republic
- Germany
- Croatia
- Russia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Romania
- Netherlands

## Final rankings

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|
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|1|align=left||6|5|1|0|12|3|+9|**16**||||||||||
|2|align=left||6|4|0|2|10|7|+3|**12**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in the Semi-finals**|||||||||||||||||||
|3|align=left||5|3|0|2|7|8|–1|**9**||||||||||
|4|align=left||5|2|1|2|8|9|–1|**7**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in the Quarter-finals**|||||||||||||||||||
|5|align=left||4|3|1|0|5|2|+3|**10**||||||||||
|6|align=left||4|3|0|1|10|4|+6|**9**||||||||||
|7|align=left||4|2|0|2|7|6|+1|**6**||||||||||
|8|align=left||4|1|2|1|3|4|–1|**5**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in the Group stage**|||||||||||||||||||
|9|align=left||3|1|0|2|3|3|0|**3**||||||||||
|10|align=left||3|1|0|2|3|4|–1|**3**||||||||||
|11|align=left||3|1|0|2|4|6|–2|**3**||||||||||
|12|align=left||3|0|2|1|1|3|–2|**2**||||||||||
|13|align=left||3|0|1|2|1|3|–2|**1**||||||||||
|14|align=left||3|0|1|2|1|4|–3|**1**||||||||||
|15|align=left||3|0|1|2|1|6|–5|**1**||||||||||
|16|align=left||3|0|0|3|1|5|–4|**0**||||||||||
<small><li>Rankings are based on performance, not team skill. Also, these rankings are unofficial and are **not based on head-to-head record**.</li></small>

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: UEFA Euro 2008
- **caption**: Official logo of UEFA Euro 2008
- **country**: Austria
- **country2**: Switzerland
- **dates**: 7 June – 29 June
- **num teams**: 16
- **venues**: 8
- **cities**: 8
- **champion**: Spain
- **count**: 2
- **second**: Germany
- **matches**: 31
- **goals**: 77
- **attendance**: 1140902
- **top scorer**: David Villa (4 goals)
- **player**: Xavi
- **prevseason**: UEFA Euro 2004, 2004
- **nextseason**: UEFA Euro 2012, 2012