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European Football Championship Mascot(s) Description Image Italy 1980: Pinocchio: Based on the character from the children's story of the same name, created by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio is a small wooden boy with a long nose in the colours of the Italy national flag and a white hat emblazoned with EUROPA 80. [1] [2] France 1984: Péno
Official logos for quadannual stagings of the UEFA European Championship, an international association football tournament contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of UEFA, the sport's European governing body. These files are used in the "image" parameter for {{Infobox international football competition}}.
Association football is the official name of the sport governed by the International Federation of Association football . It is known in some parts of the world as "soccer"; a derivative of the word "association". In others, it is known simply as "football". For more information on the sport, see association football.
Flag showing the Champions League, the Super Cup and the UEFA Cup logos at Monaco (2008).. UEFA competitions (French: compétitions de l'UEFA), referred improperly by the mass media as European football, are the set of tournaments organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), generally in professional and amateur association football and futsal.
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competition winners through the eight-week league phase to qualify for a double-legged knockout format, and a single leg final.
“At Euro 2020, UEFA (European Football Association) ordered all team captains to wear ‘OneLove’ bands. The band was used as a symbol of LGBTQ,” one post with more than 153,000 likes says.
Ajax's international trophies displayed in the club's museum. The Dutch club is one of five teams to have won UEFA's three main club competitions until 2021: European Cup/Champions League (4), Cup Winners' Cup (1) and UEFA Cup (1). The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) is the governing body for association football in Europe.
From 1980, eight teams competed. In 1996 the tournament expanded to 16 teams, since it was easier for European nations to qualify for the World Cup than their own continental championship; 14 of the 24 teams at the 1982, 1986 and 1990 World Cups had been European, whereas the European Championship finals still involved only eight teams.