UEFA Euro 2020 final

UEFA Euro 2020 final
	Wembley Stadium in London, before the final
Event	UEFA Euro 2020
	After extra time; Italy won 3–2 on penalties
Date	11 July 2021
Venue	Wembley Stadium, London
Man of the Match	Leonardo Bonucci (Italy)
Referee	Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)
Attendance	67,173
Weather	Cloudy; 19 °C (66 °F); 68% humidity
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The UEFA Euro 2020 final was an association football match between Italy and England that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, England, on 11 July 2021 to determine the winner of UEFA Euro 2020. It was the 16th final of the UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial tournament contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA to decide the champions of Europe. Originally scheduled for 12 July 2020, the match had been postponed along with the rest of the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.

In front of a crowd of 67,173, limited by COVID-19 restrictions, with an estimated global audience of 328 million, Italy won their second European Championship, beating first-time finalists England 3–2 in a penalty shoot-out following a 1–1 draw after extra time. England's Luke Shaw opened the scoring in the second minute of the match, the fastest goal ever scored in a European Championship final, only for Leonardo Bonucci – who was later named the man of the match – to equalise midway through the second half. England had a 2–1 advantage in the shoot-out after two kicks each, only for their last three takers to miss; Italy came back to win 3–2.

It was Italy's first major title since the 2006 FIFA World Cup and their first European Championship since winning it on home soil in 1968; in terms of European Championship titles, it put Italy level with France on two titles, and one title behind Spain and Germany. England became the third nation in the 21st century to lose the European Championship final on home soil after Portugal in 2004 and France in 2016. It was England's first Euro final ever, and only its second final at any major tournament, after the 1966 FIFA World Cup. After the match, England's unsuccessful penalty takers (Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka) were subjected to racial abuse on social media which was investigated by the Metropolitan Police. The event was also marred by crowd disorder, incidents of violence as roughly 6,000 ticketless England supporters fought police and security in attempts to breach the stadium, and later COVID-19 exposure.

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