tourney name | UEFA Euro 96 |
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other titles | England '96 |
size | 160px |
country | England |
dates | 8 June – 30 June |
num teams | 16 |
venues | 8 |
cities | 8 |
champion | Germany |
count | 3 |
second | Czech Republic |
matches | 31 |
goals | 64 |
attendance | 1276137 |
top scorer | Alan Shearer (5 goals) |
player | Matthias Sammer |
prevseason | 1992 |
nextseason | 2000 }} |
Since the Taylor Report, England now boasted enough all-seater stadia of sufficient capacity to hold an expanded tournament. Although not all the games were sold out, the tournament had the highest aggregate attendance in championship history (1,276,000) and the highest average per game of 41,158 for the revised 16 team format with 31 games. Only Germany had had a higher average attendance in championship history with an average of 56,656 in 1988 but only staged 15 games in an 8 team championship.
Fifteen teams had to go through a qualifying round to reach the final stage. England qualified automatically as hosts of the event. This was the first European Championship to introduce the current format of 16 countries competing in the final tournament. UEFA had made the decision to expand the tournament as in the late 1980s and early 1990s it was far easier for European nations to qualify for the World Cup than their own continental championship; 14 of the 24 teams at the 1982, 1986 and 1990 World Cups had been European, whereas the European Championship finals still involved only eight teams. The number of UEFA members wishing to participate had also drastically increased after the recent break up of the Soviet Union and of Yugoslavia, from 33 teams in 1988 to 48 teams in 1996.
The qualifying round was played throughout 1994 and 1995. There were eight qualifying groups of six teams each, with the exception of group 3, which only had five. The matches were played in a home-and-away basis.
The winner and the runner-up of each group qualified automatically, with the exception of the two worst runners-up. These two teams had to play an additional playoff between them (single match in neutral ground), to determine the 16th team to join all others in the final tournament. This was between Republic of Ireland and the Netherlands at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool which the Dutch won 2–0.
Red and yellow cards leading to suspensions in qualifying also applied to the final tournament and were not wiped off a players record, which resulted in Jürgen Klinsmann missing the first game in England due to two yellow cards in the qualifiers, with the second one in the final qualifier against Bulgaria. This was seen as unfair, as England had it easy by simply playing international friendlies against anybody they wanted to with the cards they got in these matches making no difference to the finals tournament.
The following teams participated in the final tournament: (first appearance) (first appearance) (first appearance)* [holders] (hosts) (first appearance)** (first appearance) (first appearance)
* Since the break-up of Czechoslovakia. ** Since the break-up of the USSR.
! London | ! Manchester | ! Liverpool | ! Birmingham |
Old Trafford | Anfield | Villa Park | |
Capacity: 76,567 | Capacity:55,000 | Capacity: 42,730 | Capacity: 40,310 |
!Leeds | ! Sheffield | ||
Elland Road | |||
Planned capacity: 40,204 | Capacity: 39,859 | ||
Newcastle upon Tyne>Newcastle | ! Nottingham | ||
St James' Park | City Ground | ||
Capacity: 36,649 | Capacity: 30,539 | ||
All of the stadium capacities were correct at the time of the tournament.
Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 | ||||||||||||||||
* (hosts) | * (defending champions) | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * | * |
Groups C and D saw some surprising results as the Czech Republic and Croatia, whose national teams had only come into existence within the past several years, qualified for the knockout stages. The Czechs lost to Germany, the eventual group winners, in their opener but then defeated Italy and drew with Russia. Italy’s defeat meant they had to beat Germany in their final game to progress but the World Cup finalists could only manage a 0–0 draw and were eliminated. In Group D, Croatia qualified for the quarter-finals with wins over Turkey (1–0) and Denmark (3–0). The loss to the Croats ultimately sent the Danes, the surprise champions of 1992, home earlier than expected. Turkey became the first team since the introduction of a Group Stage to be eliminated without gaining a point or scoring a goal.
The other three quarter-finalist were Portugal (whose "Golden Generation" was competing at its first major tournament), Spain, and a France team featuring a young Zinedine Zidane.
The first semi-final, featuring France and the Czech Republic, resulted in yet another 0–0 draw and penalties were required again. Reynald Pedros was the lone player to miss in the shootout as the Czech Republic won 6–5. The other semi-final was a repeat of the 1990 World Cup semi-final between Germany and England. Alan Shearer headed in after 3 minutes to give his side the lead but Stefan Kuntz evened the score less than 15 minutes later and the score remained 1–1 after 90 minutes. In extra-time, Paul Gascoigne came very close to scoring a Golden Goal but missed a cross from Shearer by mere inches, Darren Anderton hit the post and Kuntz had a goal disallowed for pushing. Neither team was able to find a second goal and another knockout game in this competition required penalties. Both sides scored their first five kicks but in the sixth round, Gareth Southgate had his penalty saved, allowing Andreas Möller to score the winning goal.
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
align="left" | 3 | 2| | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 7 | |
align="left" | 3 | 1| | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 4 | |
align="left" | 3 | 1| | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 | |
align="left" | 3 | 0| | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | −3 | 1 |
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
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Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
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align="left" | 3 | 2| | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 6 | |
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3 goals Hristo Stoichkov Jürgen Klinsmann Davor Šuker Brian Laudrup
2 goals Oliver Bierhoff Matthias Sammer Teddy Sheringham Pierluigi Casiraghi
!Goalkeepers | !Defenders | !Midfielders | !Forwards | |||||||||||||||||||
David Seaman | Andreas Köpke | Radoslav Látal | Laurent Blanc | Marcel Desailly | Matthias Sammer | Paolo Maldini | Didier Deschamps | Steve McManaman | Paul Gascoigne | Rui Costa | Karel Poborský | Dieter Eilts | Alan Shearer | Hristo Stoichkov | Davor Šuker | Youri Djorkaeff | Pavel Kuka | Jurgen Klinsmann |
UEFA Tournament Golden Boot Award Alan Shearer
UEFA Player of the Tournament Matthias Sammer
1996 European Football Championship European Football Championship European Football Championship, 1996 European Football Championship, 1996 European Football Championship, 1996 European Football Championship, 1996 1996
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