EURO 2024 was rich in records of the Spanish national team.
As Idman.biz reports, IFFHS has prepared a report on the historical indicators of the Pyrenees and other aspects of the final match with England.
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Spain became the first national team in history to win 4 different Euro editions (also 1964, 2008, 2012).
They beat Germany’s record (3).
Spain are:
the first team to win 7 games at a single Euro tournament,
the 2nd team to win all games at a single Euro edition since expanding the format in 1980 (along with France in 1984, 5 wins in 5 games).
There are some precedents in other major tournaments:
Brazil in World Cup 1970 (6 wins in 6 games),
Brazil in World Cup 2002 (7 in 7)
Qatar in Asia Cup 2019 (7 in 7).
Spain won all their 13 competitive matches in the 2023-24 season (including 6 in the Euro qualifying phase).
Spain have done some unique things in Euro 2024.
They defeated 4 world champion teams (Italy, Germany, France and England) in the same tournament.
They became the first-ever European team to win its 4 consecutive major tournament finals (Euro 2008, 2012, 2024, World Cup 2010).
In the meantime, England have become the first nation to lose consecutive Euro finals (2020, 2024).
England stopped their unbeaten series in the Euros at 13 games (8 wins and 5 draws): just 1 from the record of competition (Spain, 14 games between 2008 and 2016).
But Gareth Southgate (on duty in all those 13 games) set the Euro record for a coach’s unbeaten run.
Southgate is the first-ever coach to lose 2 Euro finals.
England is the team to play most games at the Euros (45) without winning any edition; the next such team is Belgium (26 games).
All 8 England goals at Euro 2024 were generated on the right wing.
Luis de la Fuente became the first coach to win the Euro in 3 different age categories: also U19 (in 2015) and U21 (in 2019).
Unai Simón and Mikel Merino have been in each of these 3 squads.
England have never lost a match in Berlin before (4 wins and 2 draws in 6 games).
Berlin was one of the cities where they played most games without ever suffering defeat, after Helsinki (8), Amsterdam (7), and Sunderland (7).
Manchester City is the club with the most representation in the starting lineups for the 2024 Euro final (4 players, 1 from Spain and 3 from England).
Luke Shaw is the first player to make his only start in a Euro tournament in the final since Marco Delvecchio (Italy, 2000).
Shaw started his first competitive match in 147 days.
It was the first ever Euro final to see 2 different teenage starters: Lamine Yamal (17 years 1 day) and Kobbie Mainoo (19 years 86 days).
They are now 1st and 3rd in the ranking of youngest Euro final participants, with Renato Sanches (Portugal) between them (18 years 327 days in 2016).
Lamine Yamal is the 1st ever player to record a goal or assist in the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and final at a single Euro tournament.
Yamal is now the joint record holder on assists at a single Euro edition (4), along with:
Ljubinko Drulović (Yugoslavia, 2000),
Eden Hazard (Belgium, 2016),
Aaron Ramsey (Wales, 2016),
Steven Zuber (Switzerland, 2021).
Yamal became the youngest player to provide an assist in a Euro Cup final (17 years 1 days) and Jude Bellingham was the third youngest to do it (21 years 15 days).
Bernd Schuster (Germany) is the 2nd in this historical ranking (20 years 183 days, in 1980).
The Spanish team included both the oldest ever Euro champion (Jesús Navas, 38 years 236 days) and the youngest ever (Lamine Yamal).
Navas is the first-ever player to win 4 titles with Spain (also World Cup 2010, Euro 2012, Nations League 2023).
Nico Williams is the second-youngest player (22 years 2 days) in history to score in a Euro final, after Pietro Anastasi for Italy in 1968 (20 years 64 days).
Mikel Oyarzabal has scored Spain's third goal from a substitute player in a Euro final (after Fernando Torres and Juan Mata in 2012): no other team has scored so many such goals.
Alvaro Morata became the Spain player with the most appearances (17) in the Euro history, surpassing Iniesta, Cesc, and Alba (16 each).
Rodri, crowned as MVP of Euro 2024, has lifted 8 trophies since the start of 2023 for his club (Manchester City) and country (Spain), also:
Premier League (twice), FA Cup, Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, Club World Cup, Nations League.
He is the most successful player in the world over the last 2 seasons.
Seven English players became the first to lose 2 Euro finals: Pickford, Walker, Stones, Shaw, Rice, Saka and Kane.
Kane, with his 406 goals in top football, is yet to win any title.
François Letexier (France) became the youngest referee in the Euro final (35 years and 81 days). He surpassed Anders Frisk (Sweden): 37 years 135 days in 2000.
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