Euro 2008 - UEFA European Football Championship

Euro 2008 is the 13th edition of the UEFA European Football Championship. The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men’s national football teams governed by the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations), Held every four years since 1960. Union of European Football Associations is the administrative and controlling body for European football.

Euro 2008, which is being hosted by Austria and Switzerland, began on 7 June 2008 and ends on 29 June 2008.

Prize money
Group stage (per match):
Win: €1 million
Draw: €500,000
Quarter-finals: €2 million
Semi-finals: €3 million
Runner-up: €4.5 million
Winner: €7.5 million

If the winner of the tournament wins all three matches in the group stage, they will receive a total prize of €23 million.

Sixteen teams are participating in the tournament. The final of UEFA Euro 2008 is a football match due to be played on 29 June 2008 at the Ernst Happel Stadion in Vienna, Austria. Greece is the 2004 UEFA European Football Champion.

Poland and Ukraine were selected to host the 2012 European Football Championship.

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