The UEFA European Championship is one of the major competitive international football tournaments, first played in
1960, whose finals stage has been held every four years, with the sixteenth staging of the competition occurring in
2021 (postponed for a year due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in Europe).
The
Sweden national football team did not enter the competition until
1992, when it was the host nation of the tournament. After failing to qualify for
Euro 1996, Sweden then
qualified for six consecutive tournaments between the
2000 edition (played in Belgium and the Netherlands) and the
2020 edition (played across Europe), before missing out in
2024. The team's best performance has been reaching the semi-finals once — in 1992, losing to
Germany 2–3 to finish with a bronze medal, Sweden's highest achievement up to date in the European Championship.
^The match, originally scheduled for 21:45 local time, was delayed 15 minutes to prevent overlap with the other Group D match between Ukraine and France, which had been delayed due to rain.[6]