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For UEFA Euro 2016, the 24 participating national teams had to submit squads of 23 players – of which three had to be goalkeepers – by 31 May 2016, 10 days prior to the opening match of the tournament. In the event that a player on the submitted squad list suffered an injury or illness prior to his team's first match of the tournament, that ...
UEFA announced the tournament schedule on 25 April 2014, [59] [60] which was confirmed on 12 December 2015, after the final draw. [61] Group winners, runners-up, and the best four third-placed teams advanced to the Round of 16. All times are local, CEST . France beat Romania 2–1 in the 1st match of EURO 2016.
Wales first entered the European Championship in 1964, when it was still known as the European Nations' Cup, having declined to participate in the 1960 tournament.Three of the 29 teams that entered – Austria, Luxembourg and the Soviet Union – received byes to the round of 16, while the other 26 teams competed in the two-legged preliminary round for the other 13 places.
Wales qualified for Euro 2016 in France, their first European Championship tournament, and were drawn into Group B with Slovakia, Russia and England. On their Euro debut, on 11 June against Slovakia at the Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux , Gareth Bale scored direct from a free-kick to give Wales a 1–0 lead, and Hal Robson-Kanu scored the winner in ...
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The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group B was one of the nine groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 2016 finals tournament. [1] Group B consisted of six teams: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Israel, Wales, Cyprus, and Andorra, [2] where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.
Group B of UEFA Euro 2016 contained England, Russia, Wales and Slovakia. Within this group, only Russia was a former European champion, having won as the Soviet Union in 1960. This was Wales' and Slovakia's (as an independent nation) first appearance at the European Championship. Matches were played from 11 to 20 June 2016.
11 June – Wales begin their UEFA Euro 2016 campaign with a 2–1 win over Slovakia. [55] 6 July – Wales are beaten in the semi-finals of Euro 2016 by Portugal. [56] The tournament is Wales' most successful campaign, in which two players, Joe Allen and Aaron Ramsey are named in UEFA's team of the tournament. [57]