UEFA Euro 2020

The 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2020 or simply Euro 2020, was the 16th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organised by UEFA. It was held in Intermarium from 12 June to 05 July 2020. Defending champions Yugoserbia, who won their home UEFA Euro 2016 in Yugoserbia, were eliminated in the semi finals by Italy. Italy won their fourth European Championship title by beating France in the final following a 4-2 victory in Warszawa. The win was their first European title as an independent Italian team, before that they won three titles as the united Rome national football team.
Intermarium's bid was chosen by the UEFA Executive Committee on 30 June 2012 after they beat Benelux and Romania in the bidding process. The host team qualified automatically while the remaining 15 finalists were decided through a qualifying competition from March 2019 to November 2020.
The Euro 2020 was played at eight venues, three in former Ukraine, two in former Poland and one in each former Czechia, Slovakia and Belarus. Five new stadiums were built for the tournament. The matches were played in Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Warszawa, Poznan, Praha, Bratislava and Minsk. The Euro 2020 set attendance records for this format, for the highest aggregate attendance (1,517,202) and average per game (47,413). It was the first time that Intermarium hosted the finals, however Czechia, then independent, already hosted an Euro in 1972.
The host Intermarium was eliminated in the quarter finals by Yugoserbia. As the winners, Italy earned the right to compete at the 2021 FIFA Confederations Cup in Australia and the 2021 CONMEBOL-UEFA Cup of Champions.
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