European Championships - Euro 2008 Live On The Internet

The European Championships competition is actually widely regarded as the second biggest international football tournament in the world, only coming behind the World Cup in terms of importance. Euro 2008 has joint hosts, Austria and Switzerland and promises to be a great tournament with most of Europe's top football teams qualifying. Perhaps one noticeable exception is the absence of England (and any of the other British teams) but they can only have themselves to blame, the top teams in Europe will be playing at Euro 2008. The tournament starts as a group competition, 4 groups of 4 and the progresses to quarter finals, semi finals and then the final. Amongst the teams expected to do well this year include Portugal, Germany, France and Spain. Of course the Italians will put in a strong challenge as well. If one thing is true though it's that the European Championships is capable of being won by an underdog, much more so than the World Cup.

The 2008 European Championship finals kick-off on Saturday the 7th of June, with the final due to be played just over 3 weeks later on Sunday the 29th of June in Vienna. There is huge interest in European national football as many of the biggest players in the world will be playing in this tournament, Ronaldo, Torres and many of the Premierships other biggest stars will be here. As well as those that have already made it at domestic level there are also sure to be many players who use this stage to further their domestic careers. Being such a hugely popular competition the TV coverage will be extensive. In the UK both the BBC and ITV have rights to show games. Online, many of the channels available via streaming software will be showing the games so it shouldn't be hard at all to follow your favourite team. For a full list of what Euro Championship game is showing on what channel please check out the daily schedule link on the Schedules page. Details will be posted as and when they become available as the European Championships progress.

European Championships Groups

Group A - Czech Republic, Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey
Group B - Austria, Croatia, Germany, Poland
Group C - France, Italy, Netherlands, Romania
Group D - Greece, Russia, Spain, Sweden

European Championships Schedule

Saturday 7 June 2008
Switzerland - Czech Republic
Portugal - Turkey

Sunday 8 June 2008
Austria - Croatia
Germany - Poland

Monday 9 June 2008
Romania - France
Netherlands - Italy

Tuesday 10 June 2008
Spain - Russia
Greece - Sweden

Wednesday 11 June 2008
Czech Republic - Portugal
Switzerland - Turkey

Thursday 12 June 2008
Croatia - Germany
Austria - Poland

Friday 13 June 2008
Italy - Romania
Netherlands - France

Saturday 14 June 2008
Sweden - Spain
Greece - Russia

Sunday 15 June 2008
Switzerland - Portugal
Turkey - Czech Republic

Monday 16 June 2008
Poland - Croatia
Austria - Germany

Tuesday 17 June 2008
Netherlands - Romania
France - Italy

Wednesday 18 June 2008
Greece - Spain
Russia - Sweden

Thursday 19 June 2008
QF Winner Grp A - Runner-up Grp B

Friday 20 June 2008
QF Winner Grp B - Runner-up Grp A

Saturday 21 June 2008
QF Winner Grp C - Runner-up Grp D

Sunday 22 June 2008
QF Winner Grp D - Runner-up Grp C

Wednesday 25 June 2008
SF Winner 1 - Winner 2

Thursday 26 June 2008
SF Winner 3 - Winner 4

Sunday 29 June 2008
Final