Euro 2008

The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2008, will take place in Austria and Switzerland from 7 June to 29 June 2008.

A total of 16 teams will participate in the tournament. Austria and Switzerland automatically qualified as hosts; the remaining 14 teams have been determined through qualifying matches which started in August 2006.

Austria
Croatia
Czech Republic
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey

Austria and Poland will be making their first appearance in the tournament. The winner of Euro 2008 will represent UEFA at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa, unless Italy wins the tournament, in which case the runner-up will be entered, as Italy is already entered as the winner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

The new trophy can be viewed at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:New_Henri_Delaunay_Trophy.jpg

UEFA announced that total of €184 million has been offered to the 16 teams competing in this tournament, increasing from €129 million in the previous tournament. The distributions as below:
Participating fee: €7.5 million
Extra payment based on teams performances:
Group stage (per match):
Win: €1 million
Draw: €500,000
Quarter-finals: €2 million
Semi-finals: €3 million
Runner-up: €4.5 million
Winner: €7.5 million
If the winner of the tournament wins all three matches in the group stage, they will receive a total prize of €23 million

All the matches can be seen on ESPN from 7th of June 2008.