Group E of UEFA Euro 2020 took place from 14 to 23 June 2021 in Saint Petersburg's Krestovsky Stadium and Seville's La Cartuja. [1] The group contained host nation Spain, Sweden, Poland and Slovakia.
The matches were originally scheduled to be played at Bilbao's San Mamés and Dublin's Aviva Stadium. However, due to a lack of guarantees regarding spectators caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, UEFA announced on 23 April 2021 that the matches scheduled in Bilbao were moved to Seville, and the group stage matches scheduled in Dublin were reallocated to Saint Petersburg. [2]
| Draw position | Team | Pot | Method of qualification  | Date of qualification  | Finals appearance  | Last appearance  | Previous best performance  |  Qualifying Rankings  November 2019 [nb 1]  |  FIFA Rankings  May 2021  | 
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| E1 | 1 | Group F winner | 15 October 2019 | 11th | 2016 | Winners (1964, 2008, 2012) | 5 | 6 | |
| E2 | 3 | Group F runner-up | 15 November 2019 | 7th | 2016 | Semi-finals (1992) | 17 | 18 | |
| E3 | 2 | Group G winner | 13 October 2019 | 4th | 2016 | Quarter-finals (2016) | 8 | 21 | |
| E4 | 4 | Play-off Path B winner | 12 November 2020 | 5th | 2016 | Winners (1976) | 22 | 36 | 
Notes
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | 
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| 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage | |
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 1 | 
In the round of 16, [3]
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Spain [8]   | Sweden [8]   | 
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Sweden [10]   | Slovakia [10]   | 
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Spain [12]   | Poland [12]   | 
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Slovakia [14]   | Spain [14]   | 
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Man of the Match: Assistant referees: [14]   | 
|  Sweden   | 3–2 | |
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Fair play points were to be used as a tiebreaker if the head-to-head and overall records of teams were tied (and if a penalty shoot-out was not applicable as a tiebreaker). These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows: [3]
Only one of the above deductions was applied to a player in a single match.
| Team | Match 1 | Match 2 | Match 3 | Points | |||||||||
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| 1 | 1 | 1 | −3 | ||||||||||
| 2 | 2 | −4 | |||||||||||
| 1 | 3 | 2 | −6 | ||||||||||
| 1 | 4 | 3 [a] | −10 | ||||||||||