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UEFA Euro 2008 is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination failed. For older candidates, please check the archive.

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Date	Process	Result
June 10, 2007	Featured article candidate	Not promoted
September 25, 2007	Good article nominee	Not listed

A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on June 29, 2008.

Current status: Former featured article candidate

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Vandalism?[edit]

netherlands was the winner?!?! somebody to take care of this please! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.102.142.89 (talk) 01:28, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

3rd place[edit]

I think this is someone's joke or imagination. It didn't exist in Euro 2004. Either it should be added to Euro 2004, or removed here. Solar Apex (talk) 01:14, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

According to article 2.08 of UEFA's regulations for the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship (UEFA Euro 2008), both losing semi-finalist teams received 34 bronze medals each to be shared amongst themselves, and – as such – are deemed to have come in equal third place. – Pee Jay 01:49, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Europass ball[edit]

The article claims the ball was designed by Oliver Khan, Germany's former national team goalkeeper. It's safe to assume that he didn't design the ball (that's what Adidas are for), and this claim isn't cited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.42.200.31 (talk) 02:36, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pitch at St. Jakob-Park in Basel needed to be re-laid mid-tournament[edit]

I added the following because it wasn't mentioned and it is relevant as it was the first time that a UEFA Euro tournament pitch had to be relaid mid-tournament

Torrential rain during the match between Switzerland and Turkey on June 11th resulted in the pitch at St Jakob Park in Basel requiring to be re-laid. The new pitch was installed in advance of the quarter-final match between Portugal and Germany on June 19th.^[1]^[2]

Official names[edit]

See Talk:UEFA European Championship/Official names Piotr Bart (talk) 12:49, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

^ Rogers, Iain, (18 June 2008) Soccer-Euro-Newly-laid Basel pitch ready for use, UEFA says, Reuters Retrieved 19 June 2018.
^ UEFA to spend £157,000 to replace rain-ruined pitch in Basel ahead of Portugal's Euro 2008 quarter-final (18 June 2008) Daily Mail Retrieved 19 June 2018

[1] Rogers, Iain, (18 June 2008) Soccer-Euro-Newly-laid Basel pitch ready for use, UEFA says, Reuters Retrieved 19 June 2018.

[2] UEFA to spend £157,000 to replace rain-ruined pitch in Basel ahead of Portugal's Euro 2008 quarter-final (18 June 2008) Daily Mail Retrieved 19 June 2018

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