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Belgium vs Austria UEFA Euros Tournament Record
Belgium first successfully qualified for the UEFA European Championship finals in 1972 when they were hosts in the era when national teams still needed to get through on merit when hosting.
There, they lost their Semi-Final with West Germany before beating Hungary to finish the tournament in third place.
Eight years later, they topped a strong group that included Italy, Spain, and England before then, once again, losing to West Germany. The final in Rome ended 2-1, with Horst Hrubesch scoring both goals for the victors.
At Euro 1984, they failed to get out of their group and did not return to the finals until 2000, when they co-hosted the tournament with the Netherlands. Once again, they struggled and, even on home soil, failed to get to the knockout stages.
Another period of absence from the finals followed a run that finally ended at Euro 2016 when Marc Wilmots guided the Belgians back into the tournament and saw them get all the way to the Quarter-Finals, where they were surprisingly beaten by Wales, despite taking the lead early on.
Four years later and another strong campaign saw Belgium get to the final eight again; this time, Roberto Martinez’s side, who had won all ten of their qualifiers, were beaten by eventual winners Italy.
Austria failed to qualify for any of the first 12 UEFA European Championship finals tournaments, a run that only came to an end in 2008 because Das Team were co-hosting along with Switzerland.
They managed just one single point from their three group games and were duly knocked out. They returned to the competition in 2016 but once again performed poorly and were eliminated at the group stage phase.
Euro 2020 saw Austria win their first-ever game at the finals, beating both North Macedonia and Ukraine to qualify for the Round of 16, where they lost out to Italy 2-1 after extra time in Bucharest.
Belgium vs Austria Head-to-Head
Belgium and Austria have previously met on six occasions in the UEFA European Championships, with all those meetings coming in the qualifying stages.
Ahead of the 1980 finals, the two teams drew twice, and in qualifying for Euro 2012, the two played out a thrilling 4-4 draw in Brussels, which Belgium won 2-0 in Austria.
In the qualifying phase ahead of Euro 2024, Austria earned a draw in Belgium, but the Red Devils picked up a useful 3-2 win in Vienna, with Dodi Lukebakio scoring twice and Romelu Lukaku scoring a third.
