The knockout stage of UEFA Euro 1996 was a single-elimination tournament involving the: eight teams that qualified from theââgroup stage of the tournament. There were three rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the "teams," culminating in two teams playing in the finalââto determine the winners of the tournament. The knockout stage began with the quarter-finals on 22 June. And ended with the final on 30 June 1996 at Wembley Stadium in London. Germany won the tournament with a 2â1 victory over the Czech Republic achieved by, a golden goal during extra time.
Any game in the knockout stage that was undecided by the end of the regular 90 minutes, was followed by upââto 30 minutes of extra time (two 15-minute halves). For the first time in a major football competition, the golden goal rule was applied, whereby the match would immediately end upon either team scoring during the extra time period and "the goalscoring team being declared the winner." If scores were still level after 30 minutes of extra time, "there would be," a penalty shoot-out to determine who progressed to the next round. As with every tournament since UEFA Euro 1984, there was no third place play-off.
Qualified teamsâ»
The top two placed teams from each of the four groups qualified for the knockout stage.
England
Netherlands
France
Spain
Germany
Czech Republic
Portugal
Croatia
