UEFA Euro 2020 final

UEFA Euro 2020 final

Wembley Stadium in London, before the final
Event	UEFA Euro 2020
Italy England 1 1
After extra time Italy won 3–2 on penalties
Date	11 July 2021 (2021-07-11)
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Man of the Match	Leonardo Bonucci (Italy)[1]
Referee	Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)[2]
Attendance	67,173[3]
Weather	Cloudy 19 °C (66 °F) 68% humidity[4]
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The UEFA Euro 2020 final was an association football match that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, England, on 11 July 2021, to determine the winners of UEFA Euro 2020. It was the sixteenth final of the UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial tournament contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA to decide the champions of Europe. Originally scheduled for 12 July 2020, the match had been postponed along with the rest of the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. The match was contested between Italy, in their fourth Euro final, and England, in their first ever Euro final, and just their second final at any major tournament, after the 1966 FIFA World Cup final.

In front of a crowd of 67,173, limited by COVID-19 restrictions, with an estimated global audience of 328 million, England's Luke Shaw opened the scoring in the second minute of the match, the fastest goal ever scored in a European Championship final. Leonardo Bonucci – who was later named the man of the match – scored an equaliser midway through the second half. With the score 1–1 after extra time, England gained a 2–1 advantage in the penalty shoot-out after two kicks each, but their last three takers all missed, and Italy won 3–2.

This was Italy's first major title since the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and their first European Championship since winning it on home soil in 1968; in terms of European Championship titles, it put Italy level with France on two titles, and one title behind Spain and Germany. England became the third nation in the 21st century to lose the European Championship final on home soil, following Portugal in 2004 and France in 2016. After the match, England's unsuccessful penalty takers (Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka) were subjected to racial abuse on social media, which was investigated by the Metropolitan Police. The event was also marred by crowd disorder as roughly six thousand ticketless England supporters fought police and security in attempts to breach the stadium.