Euro 2016 opening ceremony: Paris' Stade de France holds party ahead of European Championship before the hosts face Romania

• France face Romania in the first game of their host European Championship tournament in Paris on Friday evening
• The country's national football stadium, the Stade de France, held an opening ceremony party beforehand
• The setting for the showpiece which spanned the pitch was a French garden with a carousel as its centrepiece
• Colourful, costumed dancers performed a high-energy can-can dance, before DJ David Guetta, 48, emerged 
• Guetta brought out Zara Larsson to perform their joint track 'This One's For You' - the official song of the Euros 

 

The 2016 UEFA European Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2016 or simply Euro 2016, is the 15th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe organized by UEFA. It is currently being held in France from 10 June to 10 July 2016. Spain are the two-time defending champions, having won the 2008 and 2012 editions.

 

 

For the first time, the European Championship final tournament will be contested by 24 teams, having been expanded from the 16-team format used since 1996. Under this new format, the finalists will contest a group stage consisting of six groups of four teams, followed by a knockout stage including three rounds and the final. Nineteen teams – the top two from each of the nine qualifying groups and the best third-placed team – joined France, who qualified automatically as hosts; a series of two-legged play-off ties between the remaining third-placed teams in November 2015 decided the last four spots at the final tournament.

 

 

France was chosen as the host nation on 28 May 2010, after a bidding process in which they beat Italy and Turkey for the right to host the 2016 finals. The matches will be played in ten stadia in ten cities: Bordeaux, Lens, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris, Saint-Denis, Saint-Étienne, and Toulouse. It will be the third time that France hosts the tournament, after the inaugural tournament in 1960 and the 1984 finals. The French team have won the European Championship twice: in 1984 and 2000.

 

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Portugal vs Iceland Highlights
Date: 14 June 2016
Stadium: Stade Geoffroy-Guichard (Saint-Ètienne)

Euro 2016 Mascot Super Victor 

Ireland vs. Sweden  Highlights
Date: 13 June 2016
Stadium: Stade de France, Saint-Denis

 Belgium vs Italy   Highlights

Date: 13 June 2016
Stadium: Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon

Belgium vs Ireland Highlights
Date : 18 June 2016
Stadium : Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, (Bordeaux)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portugal vs Austria Highlights 
Date: 18 June 2016
Stadium: Parc des Princes (Paris)
 
 
 
Iceland vs Hungary Highlights 
Date: 18 June 2016
Stadium: Stade Vélodrome, (Marseille)

 

 

Uefa Euro 2016 Hungary vs Portugal

 Hungary vs Portugal Highlights 

Date: 22 June 2016
Stadium: Parc Olympique Lyonnais (Décines-Charpieu)

Iceland vs Austria Highlights 
Date: 22 June 2016
Stadium: Stade de France, Saint-Denis

 

UEFA Euro 2016 Round of 16 France vs Ireland  Highlights
Date: 26 June 2016
Stadium: Stade de Lyon - Lyon 

 

UEFA Euro 2016 Round of 16 Germany vs Slovakia  Highlights
Date: 26 June 2016
Stadium: Stade Pierre Mauroy - Lille Métropole

 

UEFA Euro 2016 Round of 16 Belgium vs Hungary  Highlights
Date: 27 June 2016
Stadium: Stadium de Toulouse - Toulouse

UEFA Euro 2016 Round of quarter-final   Wales vs Belgium Highlights 
Date: 01 July 2016
Stadium: Stade Pierre-Mauroy (Lille)

 

UEFA Euro 2016 Round of quarter-final   Germany vs Italy Highlights
Date: 2 July 2016
Stadium: Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, (Bordeaux)

 

The face of Euro 2016

Wales The Road to the Euro (2016)  Semi - Finals

It's been one of the biggest sporting moments Welsh sports fans have ever seen - Wales getting to the semi-finals of the European Championships. Relive how they got to this historic moment with all the goals and action that has inspired a nation.

 

Wales euro 2016 squad

UEFA Euro 2016 Round of Semi-Finals  Germany vs France  Highlights
Date: 7 July 2016
Stadium: Stade Vélodrome (Marseille)

 

UEFA Euro 2016 Stadium