The knockout stage of UEFA Euro 2020 began on 26 June 2021 with the round of 16 and ended on 11 July 2021 with the final at Wembley Stadium in London, England. [1]
Times listed are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2). If the venue is located in a different time zone, the local time is also given.
In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of 90 minutes of normal playing time, extra time was played (two periods of 15 minutes each), where each team was allowed to make a sixth substitution. [2] If still tied after extra time, the match was decided by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners. [3]
UEFA set out the following schedule for the round of 16: [3]
As with every tournament since UEFA Euro 1984, there was no third place play-off.
The specific match-ups involving the third-placed teams depended on which four third-placed teams qualified for the round of 16: [3]
| Third-placed teams qualify from groups | 1B vs | 1C vs | 1E vs | 1F vs | ||||||
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| A | B | C | D | 3A | 3D | 3B | 3C | |||
| A | B | C | E | 3A | 3E | 3B | 3C | |||
| A | B | C | F | 3A | 3F | 3B | 3C | |||
| A | B | D | E | 3D | 3E | 3A | 3B | |||
| A | B | D | F | 3D | 3F | 3A | 3B | |||
| A | B | E | F | 3E | 3F | 3B | 3A | |||
| A | C | D | E | 3E | 3D | 3C | 3A | |||
| A | C | D | F | 3F | 3D | 3C | 3A | |||
| A | C | E | F | 3E | 3F | 3C | 3A | |||
| A | D | E | F | 3E | 3F | 3D | 3A | |||
| B | C | D | E | 3E | 3D | 3B | 3C | |||
| B | C | D | F | 3F | 3D | 3C | 3B | |||
| B | C | E | F | 3F | 3E | 3C | 3B | |||
| B | D | E | F | 3F | 3E | 3D | 3B | |||
| C | D | E | F | 3F | 3E | 3D | 3C | |||
The top two placed teams from each of the six groups, along with the four best-placed third teams, qualified for the knockout stage. [3]
| Group | Winners | Runners-up | Third-placed teams (Best four qualify) |
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| A |  Italy |  Wales |  Switzerland |
| B |  Belgium |  Denmark | — |
| C |  Netherlands |  Austria |  Ukraine |
| D |  England |  Croatia |  Czech Republic |
| E |  Sweden |  Spain | — |
| F |  France |  Germany |  Portugal |
| Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
| 27 June 2021 – Seville | ||||||||||||||
| Belgium | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 2 July 2021 – Munich | ||||||||||||||
| Portugal | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Belgium | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 26 June 2021 – London | ||||||||||||||
| Italy | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Italy (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 6 July 2021 – London | ||||||||||||||
| Austria | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Italy (p) | 1 (4) | |||||||||||||
| 28 June 2021 – Bucharest | ||||||||||||||
| Spain | 1 (2) | |||||||||||||
| France | 3 (4) | |||||||||||||
| 2 July 2021 – Saint Petersburg | ||||||||||||||
| Switzerland (p) | 3 (5) | |||||||||||||
| Switzerland | 1 (1) | |||||||||||||
| 28 June 2021 – Copenhagen | ||||||||||||||
| Spain (p) | 1 (3) | |||||||||||||
| Croatia | 3 | |||||||||||||
| 11 July 2021 – London | ||||||||||||||
| Spain (a.e.t.) | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Italy (p) | 1 (3) | |||||||||||||
| 29 June 2021 – Glasgow | ||||||||||||||
| England | 1 (2) | |||||||||||||
| Sweden | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 3 July 2021 – Rome | ||||||||||||||
| Ukraine (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Ukraine | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 29 June 2021 – London | ||||||||||||||
| England | 4 | |||||||||||||
| England | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 7 July 2021 – London | ||||||||||||||
| Germany | 0 | |||||||||||||
| England (a.e.t.) | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 27 June 2021 – Budapest | ||||||||||||||
| Denmark | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Netherlands | 0 | |||||||||||||
| 3 July 2021 – Baku | ||||||||||||||
| Czech Republic | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Czech Republic | 1 | |||||||||||||
| 26 June 2021 – Amsterdam | ||||||||||||||
| Denmark | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Wales | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Denmark | 4 | |||||||||||||
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    Italy [8] |     Austria [8] |
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     Netherlands [10] |     Czech Republic [10] |
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     Belgium [12] |      Portugal [12] |
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Man of the Match: Assistant referees: [12] |
| Croatia | 3–5 (a.e.t.) | Spain |
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     Croatia [14] |      Spain [14] |
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| France | 3–3 (a.e.t.) | Switzerland |
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    France [16] |    Switzerland [16] |
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   England [18] |      Germany [18] |
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     Switzerland [22] | Spain [22] |
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Belgium [24] |     Italy [24] |
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| Czech Republic | 1–2 | Denmark |
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The UEFA European Championship is one of the major competitive international football tournaments, first played in 1960. The finals stage of the tournament takes place every four years, with a qualifying competition beforehand. The sixteenth tournament was held across Europe in 2021.
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