After today’s Euro 2024 final in Berlin, either England or Spain will take home the championship.
While Luis de la Fuente’s superb Spanish team may enter the game as favourites, England’s remarkable comebacks on their way to the final have caused many in the game to believe a Three Lions win is written in the stars.
Regardless matter who wins, the winning team will join an impressive list of former European Championship champions that includes some of the game’s most legendary players and teams.
Let’s check at which team has the most Euro championships before of England’s match with fate later this evening.
Who won the last Euros?
Italy are the defending champions having beaten England in the final on penalties at Euro 2020, with the match itself finishing 1-1 after extra-time.
Who has won the Euros the most?
Spain and Germany are the two most successful countries in the history of the Euros, with three titles apiece.
Germany first claimed the top prize in European football in 1972, when they competed as West Germany, with two goals from the legendary Gerd Muller helping them to a 3-0 victory over the Soviet Union in Belgium.
A second title was added at Euro 80, with a brace from Horst Hrubesch seeing West Germany edge Belgium 2-1 in the final in Rome.
Germany won their first trophy as a unified country at Euro 96, famously knocking out England on penalties in the semi-finals before beating the Czech Republic at Wembley.
Spain’s first title arrived at Euro 64, with La Roja triumphing 2-1 over the Soviet Union on home soil.
Spain’s golden generation kick-started their period of international dominance with victory at Euro 2008, with Fernando Torres scoring the only goal of the final against Germany.
Having won the World Cup two years later, Spain made it a hat-trick of major titles by claiming a 4-0 win over Italy in the showpiece in Kyiv.
France have won the European Championships twice in their history, courtesy of victories at Euro 84 and Euro 2000.
Italy can boast being two-time winners of UEFA’s flagship tournament, with wins at Euro 68 and Euro 2020.
The first ever Euros were won by the Soviet Union in 1960, who scraped past Yugoslavia 2-1 in Paris in the only major honour the country won.
The Czech Republic (1976), Denmark (1992), Greece (2004), Netherlands (1988) and Portugal (2016) are the only other sides to have tasted success at the Euros.
List of Euro winners
- Germany – 3 (1972, 1980, 1996)
- Spain – 3 (1964, 2008, 2012)
- France – 2 (1984, 2000)
- Italy – 2 (1968, 2020)
- Soviet Union – 1 (1960)
- Czech Republic – 1 (1976)
- Portugal – 1 (2016)
- Denmark – 1 (1992)
- Greece – 1 (2004)
- Netherlands – 1 (1988)
Which teams have appeared in the most finals?
Germany have appeared in six finals altogether, with their defeats coming in 1976, 1992 and 2008.
Prior to this event, Spain had participated in four, losing just in 1984. Italy had also made it to the final four times.
With three losses in four finals, the Soviet Union ties Germany for the most final defeats.
While Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic, and Portugal advanced to two finals, France has competed in three.
Greece, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, England, and Greece have all competed in one European Championship final apiece; however, England is set to win their second championship on Sunday.