The European Championship has seen some incredible teams play in the tournament since it began in 1960. Here, Nick Miller looks at the Top Ten...
Aside from shock winners Denmark and Greece, perhaps the best surprise story in recent European Championship tournaments was the Czech Republic in 1996. A team that featured a slew of talent that would later be distributed around Europe, from Vladmir Smicer to Patrick Berger, Pavel Nedved to Karel Poborsky, the Czechs scraped through a tough group, knocking out Italy and Russia, before beating Portugal 1-0 in the quarterfinal, then France on penalties in the semi.