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TheUEFA European Championship is the primary nationalassociation football tournament in Europe.[1] The seventeen completed tournaments have been won by ten national teams:Spain has won four titles,Germany has won three,France andItaly have each won two titles, and theSoviet Union,Czechoslovakia, theNetherlands,Denmark,Greece andPortugal have each won one title.[2] The role of themanager is to select the squad for the European Championship and develop the tactics of the team. Pressure is attached to the role due to the significance of winning the competition and the lack of day-to-day contact with players during the regular club season aside from international breaks.[3]
Gavriil Kachalin led the Soviet Union to victory in theinaugural tournament in 1960.[4] No manager has won the title on more than one occasion at the men's Championship, and all winning managers of the men's Championship have won it with their native countries, with the exception of German coachOtto Rehhagel leading Greece to victory in2004.[5] Two managers have both won and lost a European Championship final:Helmut Schön (winner in1972 and runner-up in1976, both with West Germany) andBerti Vogts (winner in1996 and runner-up in1992, both with Germany).[5][6] Vogts is also the only person to win the European Championship as both a player and a manager, having previously lifted the trophy while playing for West Germany in 1972.[6] Schön andVicente del Bosque are the only managers to have won the European Championship and World Cup; Schön managed Germany to the1974 World Cup after winning the European Championship in 1972 and del Bosque led Spain to victory in the2010 World Cup before winning the European Championship in2012.[5][7]
José Villalonga is the youngest manager to win the trophy, he was 44 years and 192 days old when he led Spain to victory in1964.[5][8] The oldest manager to win the European Championship isLuis Aragonés, who was 69 years and 336 days old when Spain won in2008.[5]Joachim Löw andLars Lagerbäck jointly hold the record for managing at the most European Championships, with both leading teams at four different tournaments; Löw additionally holds the records for most matches managed (21) and most matches won (12) in the competition, all coming between the2008 and2020 tournaments.[5]
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| Nationality | Manager(s) | Number of wins |
|---|---|---|
 Germany[n 1] | 4 | 4 |
 Spain | 4 | 4 |
 France | 2 | 2 |
 Italy | 2 | 2 |
 Russia[n 2] | 1 | 1 |
 Slovakia[n 3] | 1 | 1 |
 Netherlands | 1 | 1 |
 Denmark | 1 | 1 |
 Portugal | 1 | 1 |
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