UEFA EURO Championships - Facts

1)Portugal (in 2004) was the only team to lose the final as hosts.

2)Greece was the only National Team to win the title without a local National Coach. In 2004, Greece won the tournament with German Coach Otto Rehhagel

3)Michel Platini(France) is the only player to score hat-tricks twice and the only player to score twice in the same tournament. Platini scored two hat-tricks in 2000 while Patrick Kluivert(Netherland) and SergioConceicao(Portugal) scored one each in 2000.
David Villa (Spain) became the 7th player to score a Euro hat-trick after -
(1) Patrick Kluivert (Netherlands)
(2)Sergio Conceicao (Portugal)
(3)Marco van Basten (Netherlands)
(4)Michel Platini (France)
(5)Klaus Allofs (Germany) and
(6) Dieter Müller (Germany).

4)Only  6 players have played in 4 different Euro tournaments.They are -
1)Lothar Matthuis (Germany):1980, 1984, 1988 and 2000
2)Peter Schmeichel (Denmark): 1988,1992, 1996 and 2000
3)Aron Winter (Netherlands): 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000
4)Alessandro Del Piero (Italy): 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008
5)Edwin Van Der Sar (Netherlands): 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008 and
6)Lilian Thuram (France): 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008

5)Germany has played the most number of matches in all UEFA Tournaments with 38 Matches, Netherlands is ranked second with 32 Matches and Spain is next with 30 Matches.

6)Iker Casillas(Spain GKand Captain) has more caps than any other player competing in the Euro 2012 tournament with 129.

7)Co-hosts Ukraine are the only Nation making their debut at the 2012 European Championship

8)Poland are the lowest ranked nation in the FIFA World Rankings (65th) to participate in Euro 2012