European Championship titles by country (through 2024)
Ten nations have won the 17 European Championships played from 1960 to 2024, Spain leading on four after Berlin 2024, ahead of Germany on three. UEFA publishes two different titles-by-country tables that do not agree: the roll of honour keeps the historical nations (Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia) and is frozen at 2020, while the all-time rankings reallocate their titles to successor states.
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Under the historical names UEFA uses in its roll of honour, the winners of the 17 European Championships to date are Spain four (1964, 2008, 2012, 2024), Germany three (1972, 1980 and 1996, the first two as West Germany), France two (1984, 2000), Italy two (1968, 2020), and one each for the Soviet Union (1960), Czechoslovakia (1976), the Netherlands (1988), Denmark (1992), Greece (2004) and Portugal (2016) - ten different champions.
UEFA's roll of honour page was last updated in July 2021 and therefore stops at the 2020 edition, where it lists Germany and Spain level on three titles. Spain's 2-1 win over England in Berlin in 2024, recorded in UEFA's own final report, is what makes them outright leaders on four.
UEFA's all-time rankings page, updated the day after the 2024 final, carries a second titles column that does not match the roll of honour, because it reallocates the historical nations: all Soviet Union matches and the 1960 title are awarded to Russia, all West Germany matches to Germany, all Yugoslavia and Serbia & Montenegro matches to Serbia, and all Czechoslovakia matches are allocated to both Czechia and Slovakia - so the single 1976 title appears once under each, and that column sums to 18 titles across 17 editions.
In that all-time table, calculated with UEFA's coefficient procedure of two points for a win and one for a draw, Germany lead on 74 points from 14 participations, ahead of Spain on 71 from 12 and Italy on 63 from 11; Spain's 2024 title moved them past Italy into second. England are the highest-ranked nation never to have won the trophy, seventh on 52 points from 11 participations.
A separate breakdown on the same UEFA page keeps the historical entities apart, and shows why the merged rows look odd: Czechoslovakia have three participations and one title, Czechia eight participations and none of their own, Slovakia three and none.