EURO 2008

The football event of a lifetime! On 7 June 2008, EURO 2008 begins with the opening European Football Championship match in Basel. It will be by far the largest sports event that has ever taken place in Austria and Switzerland. A spectacle of a special kind…

In 2008, football fans will be able to experience and learn about Austria and Switzerland, two neighbouring countries of vast interest that will co-host the Euro 08 final round.

Host countries and cities
There are eight cities - four in Austria and four in Switzerland - which are hosting EURO final-round matches.

Eight Euro 2008 venues
Euro 2008 may well be of a cross-border nature, but the tournament will be characterised by short distances.

Both countries are to host two groups of the final phase. All the group games will take place in stadia which are no more than a maximum of 300 kilometres (180 miles) away from the team's headquarters.

Basel (SUI):
St. Jakob-Park
Berne (SUI):
Stade de Suisse Wankdorf
Geneva (SUI):
Stade de Genève
Innsbruck (AUT):
Stadion Tivoli NEU
Klagenfurt (AUT): Wörthersee Stadion
Salzburg (AUT):
Stadion Salzburg Wals-Siezenheim
Vienna (AUT):
Ernst-Happel-Stadion
Zurich (SUI):
Letzigrund Stadion

How did it end?

Greece - European Football Champions 2004
Greece completed one of the biggest upsets in international football history by beating Portugal 1-0 in Lisbon to win Euro 2004 on 4th July 2004.
Striker Angelos Charisteas, the man with the golden boots, headed home the 57th-minute winner as the nation of the 'golden generation' suffered extreme pain as their team froze on the big stage.

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Practice for Euro 2008 Football. Play the Euro 2004 Volley Game click here to play.

The Euro 2004 final tournament, the 12th of its kind, broke all records: 7.9 billion TV viewers in total, and more than 150 million live viewers for each of the 31 matches. The final was seen by as many as 279 million viewers – an unbelievable increase of 157 per cent on corresponding figures for Euro 2000!

In terms of TV figures, UEFA European Football Championship is the world’s second major sports event, only topped by the FIFA World Cup. Here are a few figures by way of a comparison:

In England, 12.4 million viewers saw English athlete Kelly Holmes win the gold medal in the Olympic 1,500 metres in Athens, while the UEFA EURO 2004™ quarter-final between England and Portugal was watched by 21 million viewers.
In Germany, 13.2 million viewers watched the Olympic Games opening ceremony, and the UEFA EURO 2004™ final between Portugal and Greece was seen by an astonishing 24.7 million people.
TV records were also broken in Switzerland in 2004. The ten highest viewing figures were all recorded for UEFA European Football Championship matches.

Top world event
The UEFA European Football Championship has grown into a top world event: The TV images from Europe were watched by 446 million viewers in America, 986 million viewers in Africa and as many as 1.1 billion viewers in Asia.