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Italy have participated in eleven UEFA European Championships, and reached the final on four occasions.They became champions as hosts in 1968, the first European Championship they qualified for, and finished as runners-up in 2000 and 2012, before winning their second continental championship at Euro 2020.
Italy had qualified for the final by virtue of winning a coin toss following their goalless semi-final against the Soviet Union. The final ended 1–1, forcing a replay to be conducted two days later. This time Italy triumphed, winning 2–0 with first-half goals from Gigi Riva and Pietro Anastasi. [7]
The win on penalties secured Italy's second UEFA European Championship title, 53 years after their first title in 1968, the longest duration between European Championship titles. [110] They also became the fourth team to win multiple European Championship titles, equal with France's two titles and one short of the three each won by Spain and ...
On 10 October 2015, Italy qualified for Euro 2016, courtesy of a 3–1 win over Azerbaijan; [108] the result meant that Italy had gone 50 games unbeaten in European qualifiers. [109] On 4 April 2016, it was announced that Antonio Conte would step down as Italy coach after Euro 2016 to become head coach of Chelsea . [ 110 ]
Italy began the defence of their European Championship crown with a narrow 2-1 win against Albania in Dortmund.. Albania scored the fastest goal in Euros history after Nedim Bajrami collected ...
This is a list of the Italy national football team results from 2010 to the present day.During this period, Italy have achieved first place at UEFA Euro 2020, second place at UEFA Euro 2012 and the CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions, and third place at the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2020–21 UEFA Nations League and 2022–23 UEFA Nations League.
Spain defeated Italy 4–0 in the Final, thus becoming the first nation to defend a European Championship title, as well as the first European team to win three consecutive major tournaments. [63] In scoring the third goal of the final, Torres became the first player to score in two European Championship finals.
The identity of the four play-off teams were not known at the time of the draw and were identified as play-off winners A to D. [137] Should there have been groups that could not be finalised at the time of the final tournament draw, another draw would have been held after the play-offs on 1 April 2020, [1] but UEFA confirmed the additional draw ...