Czech national soccer team / European championships
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| European Championship record scorer: | Milan Baroš (5) |
| European Championship record players: | Petr Čech and Karel Poborský (14) |
| Rank: | 7 (Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic) |
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| 24 European Championship games 10 wins 3 draws 11 losses 30:33 goals |
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First European Championship game Czech Republic 0-2 Germany Manchester ( ENG ); June 9, 1996  |
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Biggest European Championship victory Czech Republic 3-0 Denmark Porto ( PRT ); June 27, 2004  |
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Biggest European Championship defeat Czech Republic 1: 4 Russia Breslau ( POL ); June 8, 2012  |
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| European Championship | |
| Participation in the finals | 6 ( first : 1996 ) |
| Best results | Runner-up ( 1996 ) |
| Best results in the countries where the UEFA European Football Championships are held | |
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| (As of June 21, 2016) | |
The article contains a detailed description of the Czech national football team at European championships and their qualifications. The Czech Republic has taken part in the European Championships five times so far and has always been able to qualify since the split of Czechoslovakia and as the only new team created after the upheavals in the Eastern Bloc . Players born in what is now the Czech Republic made up a significant proportion of the Czechoslovak team from 1960 to 1976 . The successes of the Czechoslovak team are now attributed to the Czech team by UEFA and with the combined results they are placed 7th in the ranking.
Overview
| year | Host country | Participation until ... | Last opponent | Result | Trainer | Comments and special features |
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| 1996 | England | final | Germany | 2nd place | Dušan Uhrin | Golden Goal defeat |
| 2000 | Netherlands and Belgium | Preliminary round | Netherlands , France , Denmark | - | Jozef Chovanec | After two defeats and one victory, eliminated as third in the group. |
| 2004 | Portugal | Semifinals | Greece | - | Karel Brückner | Defeat in extra time |
| 2008 | Austria and Switzerland | Preliminary round | Switzerland , Portugal , Turkey | - | Karel Brückner | Eliminated as third in the group after one win and two defeats. |
| 2012 | Poland and Ukraine | Quarter finals | Portugal | - | Michal Bílek | Group winners after an opening defeat against Russia and two subsequent wins, out in the quarter-finals against Portugal (0: 1) |
| 2016 | France | Preliminary round | Spain , Croatia , Turkey | - | Pavel Vrba | After defeats against Spain and Turkey and a draw against Croatia, they were eliminated from the bottom of the group |
| 2021 | Europe | Initially, the Czech Republic and Slovakia had expressed an interest in a two-way candidacy. After the decision was made to host the final in several European cities, the Czech Republic applied to host games with the New National Stadium in Prague, which was still to be built , but later withdrew. In the qualification the Czechs prevailed together with England against Kosovo, Bulgaria and Montenegro. In addition to Croatia and a playoff winner, England are also opponents in the finals. |
EM 1996
The first major football tournament in which the Czech national team took part was the 1996 European Championship in England. They have been trained by Dušan Uhrin since 1994 . The Czechs had qualified against the Netherlands as well as Norway , Belarus , Luxembourg and Malta , of which, like the Czechs, the Belarusians also took part in the qualification for the first time. The Czechs and the Dutch both won six games each. The Czechs only lost in Luxembourg, while the Dutch lost in the Czech Republic and Belarus. The Czechs were first in the group and qualified directly. The Dutch had to play as the second worst runners-up in the group against Ireland, the worst runners-up in the group, in a play-off for the last free place in Liverpool and won 2-0.
In England , the team met vice European champions Germany in the first group game and lost 2-0. In the second match against runner-up Italy , they won with 2: 1, said after the European Championship to Lazio changing Pavel Nedvěd already in the fifth minute EM-Tor scored the first for the Czech team. In the last group game against Russia , the Czechs also led 2-0 early on. In the second half, however, the already eliminated Russians were able to turn the game around and take the lead 3-2, which would also mean the Czechs were eliminated. In the final minute, Vladimír Šmicer , who was only substituted in the second half, equalized. The Czech Republic and Italy were tied on points, as Italy, after a victory against Russia and the defeat against the Czech Republic, against Germany, despite their superiority, only achieved a 0-0. The Czechs had the worse goal difference, but having won the game against Italy, they reached the quarter-finals as runners-up. There they met Portugal and won 1-0 in a game with 10 yellow cards, but lost Radoslav Látal with a yellow-red card .
In the semi-final against France, in which the Czechs had to forego four suspended players, both teams failed to score in 120 minutes. The first ten shooters on penalties , who all hit the goal, were better . Only the sixth Frenchman failed against the Czech goalkeeper Petr Kouba . As the sixth Czech shooter, captain Miroslav Kadlec made it into the final.
Here the Czechs again met group opponents Germany. After a goalless first half, Patrik Berger , who played in Germany, gave the Czechs the lead with a converted penalty. This lasted until the 73rd minute, then Oliver Bierhoff , who had just been substituted on, equalized. Since both teams then failed to score in regular time, there was extra time. In this Bierhoff scored then by golden goal , but after that for 12 years no EM game more gained the winning goal for the Germans, who thus become the first team were European champions for the third time by 2008. Since Germany, as European champions, decided not to take part in the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup , the Czechs represented Europe there and took third place, but failed to qualify for the 1998 World Cup.
EM 2000
In the qualification for the Euro 2000 , the Czechs went with Jozef Chovanec as coach. In a group with Scotland , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Lithuania and Estonia and the Faroe Islands , they won all ten games and finished first. Scotland failed as group runner-up in the playoff games to England.
At the EM they were drawn into a group of deaths with co-hosts Netherlands, world champions France and Denmark. In their first game against the Netherlands, they kept the 0-0 for 88 minutes, then the Dutch were awarded a penalty in the 89th minute, which Dutch captain Frank de Boer converted into the winning goal. The already substituted Radoslav Látal was sitting on the bench because of a complaint and received the red card . In the second group game against France they lost 2-1, so that the last game against Denmark, which had also lost twice before, was no longer relevant for the tournament. With two goals from Vladimír Šmicer , the Czechs said goodbye to the EM.
EM 2004
After failing to qualify for the 2002 World Cup , Karel Brückner took over as national coach. Group opponents in the qualification were once again the Netherlands, neighboring Austria , Moldova and Belarus. The Czechs only gave up one point in the 1-1 draw in the Netherlands, otherwise all games were won.
In the preliminary round in Portugal , the team met again against qualifying opponents Netherlands, as well as runner-up world champion Germany and EM newcomer Latvia . Against the Latvians they surprisingly fell behind in stoppage time in the first half. In the second half, however, they were able to turn the game around and win 2-1. In the second game against the Netherlands, they were 2-0 down after 19 minutes, but Jan Koller scored the next goal four minutes later and the Czechs were able to turn the game around again in the second half. This qualified them early for the quarter-finals and Brückner spared some regular players in the final group game against Germany and used eight players who had not been used before. Since the Germans had only drawn twice before, they needed a win to reach the quarter-finals and after the 1-0 lead in the 21st minute by Michael Ballack it looked like it. But just nine minutes later, Marek Heinz equalized and in the second half, substitute Milan Baroš was able to turn the game around again with his third goal. The Czech Republic had won three group games for the first time, Germany, however, was eliminated as third in the group, whereupon the German team boss Rudi Völler resigned.
In the quarter-finals, the Czechs met Denmark and this time they didn't have to turn the game around and won 3-0, with Baroš scoring two more goals. In the semifinals, they met the surprise team from Greece. Since captain Pavel Nedvěd sustained a knee injury in a tackle in the Greek penalty area in the first half and had to be replaced after 40 minutes, the Czech attacking game didn't get going, especially as the Greeks had perfected their defensive tactics more and more. Neither of them scored a goal in regular time, and the first half of extra time was initially goalless. In stoppage time, the Greek libero Traianos Dellas scored a goal and since the silver goal rule applied, the second half of extra time was not kicked off. Greece was then able to win the final against hosts Portugal and became sensational European champions. With five goals Milan Baroš was the top scorer of the tournament.
EM 2008
In qualifying for the European Championship in 2008, the Czech Republic was able to prevail as group winners ahead of the Germans who also qualified. Only the home game against Germany was lost, but the second leg in Germany against the already qualified Germans was won 3-0. Like France and the Netherlands, the Czech Republic conceded only five goals in 12 games. In addition to Germany, the Czechs met Ireland, which was third, 10 points behind, as well as Slovakia, Wales, Cyprus and San Marino, against which the Czechs achieved one of the three highest victories with 7-0.
At the final tournament, the Czechs were drawn into a group with co-hosts Switzerland . Other opponents were Portugal and Turkey . In the opening game, Switzerland could be defeated 1-0. A 1: 3 followed against Portugal. This meant that the Czechs and Turks tied on points before the last group game. The winner would advance to the quarter-finals, the loser eliminated. In a draw there would have been a penalty shoot-out for second place in the group. The Czech Republic led 2-0 up to the 75th minute, then the game tipped over. The Turks first scored the connecting goal, then equalized three minutes before the end of the game. When everything was counting on a penalty shoot-out, the Turks scored the winning goal. Then it got turbulent. First, the Turkish goalkeeper received a red card in stoppage time , then the Czech Tomáš Ujfaluši and Milan Baroš, who was sitting on the bench, received a yellow card . The European Championship was over for the Czech Republic. Karel Brückner then did not extend his expiring contract. Petr Rada followed him with little success . After a dramatic quarter-final against Croatia, the Turks made it to the semi-finals, where they lost to Germany with a last-minute goal.
EM 2012
Four years later, the Czech Republic could only qualify via the playoff games of the group runners-up. In the group stage, they came in second behind world and European champions Spain and ahead of Scotland , Lithuania and Liechtenstein . The Czechs, now coached by Michal Bílek , lost both games against Spain and, surprisingly, their first home game against Lithuania - the Lithuanians' only victory in qualification. With a 4-1 win in the last game in Lithuania, they were able to push the Scots out of second place.
In the preliminary round, the Czechs faced co-hosts Poland , Greece and Russia , against whom they lost 4-1 in the first game. Against Greece they managed a 2-1 win with two goals in the first six minutes, with Petr Jiráček scoring the third fastest goal in European Championship history after 2:14 minutes, and against Poland a 1-0 win in the last game. The Czechs were group winners despite their opening defeat, as Russia surprisingly lost to Greece in the parallel game. In the quarter-finals Portugal was once again the opponent and a goal by CR-7 was enough for the Iberians to advance. Bílek initially remained in office, but resigned as national coach in September 2013 due to the missed qualification for the 2014 World Cup.
EM 2016
In the qualification , the Czech Republic, which has been coached by Pavel Vrba since the beginning of 2014 , once again met the Netherlands , Turkey , Latvia , Iceland and for the first time Kazakhstan . After just eight games, the qualification for the final round was certain. The penultimate group game, the home game against Turkey, was lost, but with a win in the Netherlands, the group win was made perfect on the last match day. Since Slovakia qualified for the finals for the first time, both successor states of Czechoslovakia are taking part in a major tournament for the first time. Previously, only one of the two or neither succeeded in qualifying.
For the drawing of the final groups, the Czech Republic and Slovakia came into pot 3 and were drawn to the group with defending champions Spain, Croatia and Turkey. In the first game against the defending champion, the Czechs were well served with the 0-1. They were 2-0 down against Croatia until the 75th minute and then Milan Škoda , who had been substituted eight minutes earlier, scored the next goal. After Croatian spectators had interrupted the game due to riots in the stands in the final minutes, they took advantage of the confusion of the Croatian players and pushed for an equalization, which they got the chance to do with a hand penalty in stoppage time. Tomáš Necid , who was only substituted during the riots , was able to take advantage of this opportunity and bring the Czechs a happy balance. In the last group game against the Turks, who started with two defeats, they had to win in order to reach the knockout round, but lost 2-0. The Czechs were eliminated as the bottom of the group.
EM 2021
Initially, the Czech Republic and Slovakia had expressed an interest in a two-way candidacy. After the decision was made to host the final as a pan-European final, the Czech Republic applied to host games with the still-to-be-built New National Stadium in Prague , but later withdrew. In the qualification, the Czechs, who have been coached by Jaroslav Šilhavý since October 2018, faced England , Kosovo , Bulgaria and Montenegro . At the beginning of the qualification in England, the Czechs suffered the highest defeat in their international history with 0: 5. Czechoslovakia had never lost any higher. After home wins against Bulgaria (2: 1) and Montenegro (3: 0) they lost 1: 2 in Kosovo. They started the second half with a 3-0 win in Montenegro and then won the home game against England 2-1. With a 2-1 win against Kosovo on the penultimate match day, the early qualification succeeded, so that the final 0-1 defeat in Bulgaria could be overlooked.
At the draw on November 30, 2019, the Czechs were again drawn into a group with England. Other opponents are Croatia and a playoff winner.
Player with the most appearances in European championships
| Games | player | Year (games) |
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| 14th | Karel Poborský | 1996 (6), 2000 (3), 2004 (5) |
| Petr Čech | 2004 (4), 2008 (3), 2012 (4), 2016 (3) | |
| 11 | Jaroslav Plašil | 2004 (1), 2008 (3), 2012 (4), 2016 (3) |
| Vladimír Šmicer | 1996 (5), 2000 (3), 2004 (3) | |
| 10 | Milan Baroš | 2004 (5), 2008 (1), 2012 (4) |
| Jan Koller | 2000 (3), 2004 (4), 2008 (3) | |
| Tomáš Rosický | 2000 (2), 2004 (4), 2012 (2), 2016 (2) | |
| 9 | Pavel Nedvěd | 1996 (5), 2004 (4) |
| Jiří Němec | 1996 (6), 2000 (3) | |
| 8th | Radek Bejbl | 1996 (5), 2004 (3) |
| Tomáš Galásek | 2004 (5), 2008 (3) | |
| Marek Jankulovski | 2000 (1), 2004 (4), 2008 (3) |
As of June 21, 2016
Player with the most goals at European championships
| Gates | player | Year (goals) |
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| 5 | Milan Baroš | 2004 (5), 2008 (0), 2012 (0) |
| 4th | Vladimír Šmicer | 1996 (1), 2000 (2), 2004 (1) |
| 3 | Jan Koller | 2000 (0), 2004 (2), 2008 (1) |
| Zdeněk Nehoda * | 1976 (1), 1980 (2) | |
| 2 | 4 players | |
| 1 | 10 players |
Note: * For Czechoslovakia
As of June 21, 2016
Players banned from European championships
- In 1996 Miroslav Kadlec received a yellow card in the second group game and was suspended for the third group game. In this Pavel Nedvěd also received the second yellow card and was suspended for the quarterfinals. There Radoslav Látal received the yellow-red card and was therefore allowed to pause in the semifinals as well as Radek Bejbl , Pavel Kuka and Jan Suchopárek , who were suspended by the second yellow cards .
- In 2000, Radoslav Látal received a red card in the first group game while sitting on the bench and was suspended for the second group game. In the last group game, Karel Poborský received the second yellow card, but this had no effect as the Czech Republic was eliminated.
- In 2004 Tomáš Galásek received the second yellow card in the semi-finals, but this had no effect.
- In 2012 David Limberský received the second yellow card in the quarter-finals, but this had no effect.
- In 2016 Marek Suchý is suspended for at least the first group game of the final round due to the red card received in the last match of the qualification.
Share of players playing abroad in the EM squad
Legionnaires always made up the main contingent in the Czech squad until 1996. Recently, however, the proportion fell again. Most played in Germany.
| Year (games) | Number (countries) | Players (stakes) |
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| 1996 (6) | 7 (5 in Germany, 1 in England, 1 in Switzerland) |
Patrik Berger (6), Miroslav Kadlec (5), Pavel Kuka (5), Radoslav Látal (4), Jiří Němec (6); Pavel Srníček (0); Václav Němeček (4)
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| 2000 (3) | 12 (1 in Belgium, 3 in Germany, 3 in England, 2 in Italy, 1 in Austria, 1 in Portugal, 1 in Spain) |
Jan Koller (3); Pavel Kuka (2), Radoslav Látal (1), Jiří Němec (3); Patrik Berger (1), Vladimír Šmicer (3), Pavel Srníček (3); Pavel Nedvěd (3), Tomáš Řepka (3); Ladislav Maier (0); Karel Poborský (3); Radek Bejbl (3)
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| 2004 (5) | 18 (1 in Belgium, 5 in Germany, 2 in England, 3 in France, 3 in Italy, 2 in the Netherlands, 2 in Russia) |
David Rozehnal (3); Jan Koller (4), Vratislav Lokvenc (1), Tomáš Rosický (4), Roman Týce (1), Tomáš Ujfaluši (4); Milan Baroš (5), Vladimír Šmicer (3); Petr Čech (4), Jaroslav Plašil (1), Štěpán Vachoušek (1); Marek Jankulovski (4), Martin Jiránek (4), Pavel Nedvěd (4); Tomáš Galásek (5), Zdeněk Grygera (4); Antonín Kinský (0), Pavel Mareš (1)
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| 2008 (3) | 20 (3 in Belgium, 2 in Denmark, 6 in Germany, 3 in England, 4 in Italy, 1 in Russia, 1 in Spain) |
Jan Polák (3), Stanislav Vlček (3), Daniel Zítka (0); Zdeněk Pospěch (0), Libor Sionko (3); Jaromír Blažek (0), Martin Fenin (0), Tomáš Galásek (3), David Jarolím (3), Jan Koller (3), Rudolf Skácel (0); Milan Baroš (1), Petr Čech (3), Marek Matějovský (2); Zdeněk Grygera (3), Marek Jankulovski (3), David Rozehnal (3), Tomáš Ujfaluši (3); Radoslav Kováč (1); Jaroslav Plašil (3)
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| 2012 (4) | 15 (5 in Germany, 2 in England, 1 in France, 2 in Russia, 2 in Turkey, 2 in Ukraine, 1 in Cyprus) |
Jaroslav Drobný (0), Roman Hubník (1), Petr Jiráček (4), Michal Kadlec (4), Tomáš Pekhart (3); Petr Čech (4), Tomáš Rosický (2); Jaroslav Plašil (4); Tomáš Necid (0), Marek Suchý (0); Milan Baroš (4), Tomáš Sivok (4); Tomáš Hübschman (4), Jan Laštůvka (0); Jan Rezek (3)
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| 2016 (3) | 14 (3 in Germany, 4 in England, 1 in France, 2 in Switzerland, 4 in Turkey) | Vladimír Darida (3), Pavel Kadeřábek (3), Theodor Gebre Selassie ; Petr Čech (3), Daniel Pudil (1), Tomáš Rosický (2), Jiří Skalák (1); Jaroslav Plašil (3); Marek Suchý, Tomáš Vaclík; Michal Kadlec, Tomáš Necid (3), David Pavelka (2), Tomáš Sivok (3) |
As of June 21, 2016
Records
- Longest consecutive series of wins without penalties: 5 wins - Czech Republic (2000 to 2004), France (1984) and the Netherlands (1988 to 1992)
opponent
- First yellow-red card: Luigi Apolloni (Italy) on June 14, 1996 in the 29th minute of the group match between the Czech Republic and Italy
Games
Venues (green = positive balance, yellow = balanced balance, red = negative balance, number in brackets = number of games, if> 1) |
The Czech Republic played 24 European Championship games, ten of which were won and eleven were lost and three ended in a draw. Three games had to be extended, one of which was lost to golden goal and silver goal and one was won on penalties .
The Czech Republic played the opening game against the co-hosts once (2008) and played twice against other co-hosts in the preliminary round (2000 and 2012), four times against the eventual European champions and in 2016 for the first time against a defending champion. The most frequent opponents are Germany and Portugal, each of whom has been played three times so far.
- The highest victory in an EM tournament was achieved against the following countries.
- The Czech team suffered their biggest defeat in an EM tournament against several countries:
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Germany : Preliminary round 1996 0-2 (first game against Germany)
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France : Preliminary round 2000 1: 2 (only defeat against France) -
Greece : Semi-finals 2004 0-1 aet (only loss to Greece) -
Portugal : preliminary round 2012 1: 3 -
Russia : Preliminary round 2012 1: 4 (only defeat against Russia)
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Turkey : Preliminary round 2008 0: 2 (also a 0: 2 in qualifying for the EM 2016)
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| All EM games | |||||||||
| No. | date | opponent | Result | occasion | AH/* | venue | Remarks | ||
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| 1 | 06/09/1996 |
Germany
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0: 2 | Preliminary round | * | Manchester ( ENG ) | First international match against Germany | ||
| 2 | 06/14/1996 |
 Italy
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2: 1 | Preliminary round | * | Liverpool ( ENG ) | First international match against Italy | ||
| 3 | 06/19/1996 |
Russia
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3: 3 | Preliminary round | * | Liverpool ( ENG ) | First international match against Russia | ||
| 4th | 06/23/1996 |
Portugal
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1-0 | Quarter finals | * | Birmingham ( ENG ) | First international match against Portugal | ||
| 5 | 06/26/1996 |
France
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0: 0 a.d. | Semifinals | * | Manchester ( ENG ) | 6: 5 i. E. | ||
| 6th | 06/30/1996 |
Germany
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1: 2 a.d. | final | * | London ( ENG ) | |||
| 7th | 06/11/2000 |
 Netherlands
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0: 1 | Preliminary round | A. | Amsterdam ( NED ) | |||
| 8th | 06/16/2000 |
France
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1: 2 | Preliminary round | * | Bruges ( BEL ) | |||
| 9 | 06/21/2000 |
Denmark
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2-0 | Preliminary round | * | Liege ( BEL ) | |||
| 10 | 06/15/2004 |
 Latvia
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2: 1 | Preliminary round | * | Aveiro ( POR ) | First international match against Latvia | ||
| 11 | 06/19/2004 |
Netherlands
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3: 2 | Preliminary round | * | Aveiro ( POR ) | |||
| 12 | 06/23/2004 |
Germany
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2: 1 | Preliminary round | * | Lisbon ( POR ) | |||
| 13 | 06/27/2004 |
Denmark
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3-0 | Quarter finals | * | Postage ( POR ) | |||
| 14th | 07/01/2004 |
Greece
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0: 1 a.d. | Semifinals | * | Postage ( POR ) | |||
| 15th | 06/07/2008 |
 Switzerland
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1-0 | Preliminary round | A. | Basel ( SUI ) | |||
| 16 | 06/11/2008 |
Portugal
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1: 3 | Preliminary round | * | Geneva ( SUI ) | |||
| 17th | 06/15/2008 |
Turkey
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2: 3 | Preliminary round | * | Geneva ( SUI ) | Last game under Karel Brückner | ||
| 18th | 06/08/2012 |
Russia
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1: 4 | Preliminary round | * | Wroclaw ( POL ) | |||
| 19th | 06/12/2012 |
Greece
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2: 1 | Preliminary round | * | Wroclaw ( POL ) | |||
| 20th | 06/16/2012 |
 Poland
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1-0 | Preliminary round | A. | Wroclaw ( POL ) | |||
| 21st | 06/21/2012 |
Portugal
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0: 1 | Quarter finals | * | Warsaw ( POL ) | |||
| 22nd | 06/13/2016 |
 Spain (TV) |
0: 1 | Preliminary round | * | Toulouse ( FRA ) | |||
| 23 | 06/17/2016 |
 Croatia
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2: 2 | Preliminary round | * | Saint-Etienne ( FRA ) | |||
| 24 | 06/21/2016 |
Turkey
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0: 2 | Preliminary round | * | Lens ( FRA ) | Last game under Pavel Vrba | ||
| 06/14/2021 | Playoff winner way C | Preliminary round | * / A | Glasgow ( SCO ) | |||||
| 06/18/2021 |
Croatia
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Preliminary round | * | Glasgow ( SCO ) | |||||
| 06/22/2021 |
 England
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Preliminary round | A. | London ( ENG ) | |||||
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rankings of the Czech players in France (1960), Yugoslavia (1976) and Italy (1980) with Czechoslovakia
- ↑ dw.com: "Three countries for a European Football Championship"
- ↑ uefa.com: "Happy victory for the Netherlands"
- ↑ Brückner is no longer available
- ↑ dw.com: "Three countries for a European Football Championship"