When did the european championships start?
The UEFA European Championship is the main football competition of the men’s national football teams governed by the UEFA. Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the European Nations Cup, changing to the name European Football Championship in 1968. There is a UEFA Women’s Championship inaugurated in 1984 and from 1997 held every four years, as well as a Men’s Under-21 equivalent of the UEFA European Championship tournament, taking place every two years. European Championship Winners France 1960 Soviet Union 2-1 Yugoslavia Spain 1964 Spain 2-1 Soviet Union Italy 1968 Italy 1-1 Yugoslavia Replay – Italy 2-0 Yugoslavia Belgium 1972 W. Germany 3-0 Soviet Union Yugoslavia 1976 Czechoslovakia 2-2 W. Germany Czech. 5-4 on pens. Italy 1980 W.
