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UEFA European Championship video games

video game series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ863992 ↗
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The UEFA European Championship has its own video games licensed from European football's governing body, UEFA. Eight games have been released so far, with the first game released in 1992. Originally held by TecMagik, it was then held by Gremlin Interactive in 1996, EA Sports from 2000 until 2012. Konami had the rights for 2016 and 2020. EA Sports have again had the rights since 2024.

UEFA Euro 1992

The game developed and published by TecMagik was released for the Master System in 1992 to coincide with UEFA Euro 1992. The game includes both single-player and multiplayer game modes. Players can play in a friendly match or in the tournament mode.

UEFA Euro 1996

The game by Gremlin Interactive modified some parts in their Actua Soccer title, including the 16 teams present in the final stage with accurate rosters and stadiums, as well as Euro 96 mode, Exhibition Match, Practice Penalties, and Practice game.

It was sold for Windows, DOS, and the Sega Saturn. The Saturn version was released in Europe only in May 1996.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “UEFA European Championship video games” is video game series. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through UEFA, European and Championship, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1996, 2000, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, UEFA, European and Championship is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “UEFA European Championship video games” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.