As we’ve noted in our historical series, the European Championship (originally European Nations’ Cup) started out on a small-scale in the 1960s: just four teams played in the finals, allowing an exciting knock-out tournament as qualifiers.
Now Uefa is considering expanding the Championship finals to take in 24 teams, greater than the number of teams [...]
The European Championships were very different in the 1960s to today’s extravaganza, as we continue our historical look at past tournaments with Spain 1964.
In the second of our historical series looking at previous European Championships ahead of Euro 2008, we now turn to 1964. Last time, we looked at the first tournament held in France, won by the Soviet Union.
1964 European Nations’ Cup Qualifiers
Like four years earlier, the format was vastly different from the extravaganza put [...]
We hail the European Championships as a major tournament these days, but that hasn’t always been the case. In this series, we’ll look at each tournament held since it began in 1960, covering one roughly every two weeks until we get to Euro 2008 next June. As usual on Pitch Invasion, we’ll look at [...]
