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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.
On 28 May 2010, UEFA announced that UEFA Euro 2016 would be hosted by France. France beat bids of Turkey (7–6 in voting in the second voting round) and Italy, which had the fewest votes in the first voting round. [68] Euro 2016 was the first to have 24 teams in the finals. [69] This was the third time France have hosted the competition.
As with every tournament since UEFA Euro 1984, there was no third place play-off. UEFA set out the following schedule for the round of 16: [3] Match 1: Runners-up Group A vs Runners-up Group C; Match 2: Winners Group D vs 3rd Place Group B/E/F; Match 3: Winners Group B vs 3rd Place Group A/C/D; Match 4: Winners Group F vs Runners-up Group E
A UEFA Category Four stadium, the Stade de France is the sixth-largest stadium in Europe and was the largest venue of Euro 2016, with a maximum capacity for the tournament of 80,000. The final was the seventh match played in the stadium at Euro 2016, which included the tournament's opening game between France and Romania. [9]
With UEFA wanting the reverberations of the Euros to reach an international audience, ESPN decided to broadcast all matches live and online in 2008. After receiving good reaction from viewers, ESPN and UEFA continued to work by becoming official broadcasters of 2012, 2016 and 2020 tournament.
Just like in Belgium's previous Euro tournament in 2000, they lost 2–0 to Italy in the group phase. [6] In spite of winning with broad margins against the Republic of Ireland (3–0) [7] and Hungary (4–0) at UEFA Euro 2016, [8] [9] Belgium's second very talented generation disappointed with a quarter-final exit. As during the tournament's ...
The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying Group A was one of the nine groups to decide which teams would qualify for the UEFA Euro 2016 finals tournament. [1] Group A consisted of six teams: Netherlands , Czech Republic , Turkey , Latvia , Iceland , and Kazakhstan , [ 2 ] where they played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format .
Group C of UEFA Euro 2016 contained Germany, Ukraine, Poland and Northern Ireland. Germany was the only former European champion in this group, having won the championship three times (in 1972 and 1980 as West Germany and in 1996 as unified Germany). Matches were played from 12 to 21 June 2016.