SK (Euros) Facts: The Big Match

Natalia Sollohub’s companion piece to her earlier EURO statistics page, this time ten facts drawn from the finals themselves. Germany needed a solitary strike to beat Sweden in the 2001 final, decided by a 98th-minute golden goal – and repeated the feat in the exact same minute two years later. The run of German finals dominates the early entries, and the later ones turn to the Netherlands’ home triumph in 2017 and to Hope Powell’s England side, beaten finalists in Finland in 2009 after Jill Scott’s extra-time winner in the semi-final. It is the kind of page that gives a preview issue its depth, setting the tournament arriving in England against every final that came before it, and it is cross-referenced by the quiz two pages later.