The UEFA European Championship first took place in 1960, when 17 nations competed to qualify for the finals in which four teams would fight it out for the Henri Delaunay trophy, with the inaugural winners being the Soviet Union.
Euro 2020, which was delayed and held in 2021, saw more than three times that number of competing countries and a finals tournament that included 24 of the best nations in Europe looking to win the tournament, with Italy going on to do so at Wembley Stadium.
As the tournament has grown, so has the interest from supporters looking to follow their national teams into battle. Trying to get tickets for the finals themselves is a battle all of its own.
UEFA runs a lottery-style ballot in the first instance, doing so prior to the tournament draw, meaning fans are applying for tickets without knowing which two teams will be competing, which goes some way to show just how fanatical these supporters are.
The second release occurs just after the draw and sees millions of entries, with most failing to come out with tickets. A far easier way to make sure you get to see England in action at the finals is via SeatPick.
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England vs Norway UEFA Euros Tournament Record
As of 2023, England have competed in ten UEFA European Championship finals, and while they have had periods of poor form, on the whole, they’ve been relatively consistent.
They finished third in 1968 but then failed to qualify for the group phase in 1980, 1988, and 1992, three tournaments that really were part of a poor period for the Three Lions and were very poor stages for each of the managers involved, with Ron Greenwood, Sir Bobby Robson, and Graham Taylor suffering at the hands of the media.
Terry Venables fared better at Euro 96 with his high-quality squad performing well at the tournament, played out on home soil. They started with a dull draw with Switzerland but then snapped into life to see off both Scotland and the Netherlands to finish top of their group.
Next up were Spain, with a rare penalty shoot-out win sending England to the Quarter-Finals to face Germany.
Alan Shearer, who would go on to finish as the tournament’s top-scorer, netted after just three minutes to give England fans hope, but Stefan Kuntz scored barely ten minutes later.
The game ebbed and flowed before inevitably going to the dreaded penalty shoot-out, and after ten successful efforts, Gareth Southgate saw his effort saved, and Andreas Moller then slotted home his penalty to send Germany into the final.
2004 and 2012 were relatively successful, both tournaments seeing England into the last eight before falling to Portugal and Italy, respectively, both down to penalties. 2016 was another new low, with the defeat to Iceland in the Round of 16 being one of the biggest shocks in the history of the tournament.
Euro 2020 saw England and national team coach Gareth Southgate bounce back. Wins over Croatia and the Czech Republic, which sandwiched a draw with Scotland, saw them through Group D without conceding a goal.
Knockout wins over Germany, Ukraine, and Denmark set up a UEFA European Championship Final against Italy, with Luke Shaw putting England ahead after just three minutes to once again give England fans high hopes of a first title.
Leonardo Bonucci equalized on 67 minutes, and even though Andrea Belotti and Jorginho both missed penalties in the shoot-out, Italy would still capture the crown due to the fact that Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka had also failed to convert their penalties.
Norway failed to qualify for any of the first ten editions of the UEFA European Championship but finally did so in 2000 and started that campaign with an impressive win over Spain, with Tottenham forward Steffan Iversen scoring the winner.
However, Løvene failed to qualify from their group after losing to Yugoslavia and drawing with Slovenia. Since then, they have not managed to overcome the qualification hurdle again.
England vs Norway Head-to-Head
England and Norway have never previously played a UEFA European Championship match against each other, with their four previous competitive meetings all having been FIFA World Cup qualification games.
The most recent of these came in 1992 and 1993. A David Platt goal put England ahead against Norway before Kjetil Rekdal secured a draw at Wembley Stadium late on. In the return match, Oyvind Leonhardsen and Lars Bohinen scored in a famous home win in Oslo, which made sure Graham Taylor’s England side would not be at the 1994 World Cup finals.
