During the European Soccer Championship group stage, each team met their group opponents once, with three points for a win and one for a draw. The top two teams progressed to the quarter-finals, the knockout phase of the competition, with the winners advancing to the semi-finals and then the final.
Tie breakers
If teams finish level on points, then the winner of the match between the sides in question will finish highest, or should they have drawn, goal difference, followed by goals scored, a fair play ranking and finally either a penalty shoot-out or drawing of lots.
Winners of the championship:
| 1960 | Soviet Union |
| 1964 | Spain |
| 1968 | Italy |
| 1972 | Germany |
| 1976 | Czechoslovakia |
| 1980 | Germany |
| 1984 | France |
| 1988 | The Netherlands |
| 1992 | Denmark |
| 1996 | Germany |
| 2000 | France |
| 2004 | Greece |
| 2008 | Spain |
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