Euro 2012 Football Betting

The European Football Championship is a major football tournament played every four years between sixteen international sides from around Europe and is on a par with the World Cup in terms of the prestige associated with winning the tournament and the level of interest and excitement generated by football fans from around Europe.

European Championship Odds

Euro 2012 will be the 14th European Championships since the tournament was first played in 1960 and all the countries taking part will be hoping to add their name to the list of previous European Championship winners. The competition kicks off on the 7th June, with a total of 31 Euro 2008 fixtures being played across eight venues in the host countries of Austria and Switzerland with the final being played in Vienna on the 29th June.

This site provides a comprehensive guide to just about everything you could wish to know about the Euro 2008 Championship, from in depth coverage of all sixteen teams, a guide to all eight venues and cities hosting all 31 Euro 2008 matches, the latest Euro 2008 betting as well as exclusive Euro 2008 free bet offers.

Tournament Format

The sixteen teams playing in the European Championship are split in to a total of four groups, with four teams in each group (A – D). There are a total of six games played in each group, with each team playing three games, against the other three teams in the group. The teams who finish first and second in each group progress to the quarter finals of the championships, from which stage, the tournament adopts a knockout format.

The quarter final matches and the games from therein are determined by the finishing position of each team from the group stage.

• Quarter Final 1 is played between the winner of Group A and runner-up of Group B
• Quarter Final 2 is played between the winner of Group B and runner-up of Group A
• Quarter Final 3 is played between the winner of Group C and runner-up of Group D
• Quarter Final 4 is played between the winner of Group D and runner-up of Group C
• Semi Final 1 is played between the winners of Quarter Finals 1 and 2
• Semi Final 2 is played between the winners of Quarter Finals 3 and 4
• The Final is played between the two semi final winners

Online Football Betting

If your looking to place a bet on any of the European Championship matches it is well worth comparing all bookmakers free football bets. Our site only contains a small number of bookmakers but sites such as Betting Directory contains hundreds of pounds of online betting offers.