Euro History - All European Champions and Top Scorers since 1960

UEFA European Championship History

Since 1960, a new European football champion has been crowned every four years. This overview shows every champion, final result, top scorer and record of European Championship history, from the first finals in France through Euro 2024 in Germany.

Every European Championship in detail

All European Champions

Year	Host	Champion	Final	Runner-up
1960	France	Soviet Union	2:1 aet	Yugoslavia
1964	Spain	Spain	2:1	Soviet Union
1968	Italy	Italy	2:0 (replay, first final 1:1 aet)	Yugoslavia
1972	Belgium	Germany	3:0	Soviet Union
1976	Yugoslavia	Czechoslovakia	2:2 aet, 5:3 pens	Germany
1980	Italy	Germany	2:1	Belgium
1984	France	France	2:0	Spain
1988	Germany	Netherlands	2:0	Soviet Union
1992	Sweden	Denmark	2:0	Germany
1996	England	Germany	2:1 aet (golden goal)	Czech Republic
2000	Belgium & Netherlands	France	2:1 aet (golden goal)	Italy
2004	Portugal	Greece	1:0	Portugal
2008	Austria & Switzerland	Spain	1:0	Germany
2012	Poland & Ukraine	Spain	4:0	Italy
2016	France	Portugal	1:0 aet	France
2020	11 countries	Italy	1:1 aet, 3:2 pens	England
2024	Germany	Spain	2:1	England

Euro Titles by Nation

Country	Titles
Spain	4
Germany	3
Italy	2
France	2
Soviet Union	1
Czechoslovakia	1
Netherlands	1
Denmark	1
Greece	1
Portugal	1

All Euro Top Scorers

The top scorer of every European Championship since 1960 — Michel Platini still holds the record with 9 goals at a single tournament (1984).

Year	Player	Country	Goals
1960	Viktor Ponedelnik / Valentin Ivanov / Milan Galić / Dražan Jerković / François Heutte	Soviet Union Yugoslavia France	2
1964	Ferenc Bene / Dezső Novák / Chus Pereda	Hungary Spain	2
1968	Dragan Džajić	Yugoslavia	2
1972	Gerd Müller	Germany	4
1976	Dieter Müller	Germany	4
1980	Klaus Allofs	Germany	3
1984	Michel Platini	France	9
1988	Marco van Basten	Netherlands	5
1992	Henrik Larsen / Karl-Heinz Riedle / Dennis Bergkamp / Tomas Brolin	Denmark Germany Netherlands Sweden	3
1996	Alan Shearer	England	5
2000	Patrick Kluivert / Savo Milošević	Netherlands Yugoslavia	5
2004	Milan Baroš	Czech Republic	5
2008	David Villa	Spain	4
2012	Fernando Torres / Mario Gómez / Mario Balotelli / Cristiano Ronaldo / Alan Dzagoev / Mario Mandžukić	Spain Germany Italy Portugal Russia Croatia	3
2016	Antoine Griezmann	France	6
2020	Cristiano Ronaldo / Patrik Schick	Portugal Czech Republic	5
2024	Harry Kane / Jamal Musiala / Dani Olmo / Cody Gakpo / Georges Mikautadze / Ivan Schranz	England Germany Spain Netherlands Georgia Slovakia	3

All-Time Euro Top Scorers

The leading scorers across all European Championship finals (as of Euro 2024). Cristiano Ronaldo leads with 14 goals from six tournaments.

Player	Country	Goals
Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	14
Michel Platini	France	9
Antoine Griezmann	France	7
Harry Kane	England	7
Álvaro Morata	Spain	7
Alan Shearer	England	7

What comes next?

The next European Championship takes place from 9 June to 9 July 2028 in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Dates, stadiums and qualifying are on our Euro 2028 page.

› Euro 2028 overview

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