List of UEFA European Championship penalty shoot-outs

This is a list of all penalty shoot-outs that have occurred in the final tournaments of the UEFA European Championship.

Complete list

 * Key
 * ✅ = scored penalty
 * ❌ = missed penalty
 * golden background = scored penalty which ended the shoot-out
 * red background = missed penalty which ended the shoot-out
 * grey background = first penalty in the shoot-out
 * horizontal line within a list of takers = beginning of the sudden death stage


 * Notes

Statistics

 * Key
 * † = shoot-out in the final
 * Bold = winners that year

Shoot-out records

 * Most shoot-outs in a tournament
 * 4 – 1996, 2020


 * Fewest shoot-outs in a tournament (since 1976)
 * 0 – 1988


 * Most played shoot-out
 * 2 – 🇪🇸 spain vs 🇮🇹 italy (2008, 2020)
 * 2 – 🇮🇹 italy vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england (2012, 2020†)


 * Most penalties taken in a shoot-out
 * 18 – vs 🇮🇹 italy (1980)
 * 18 – 🇩🇪 germany vs 🇮🇹 italy (2016)


 * Fewest penalties taken in a shoot-out
 * 6 – vs 🇸🇮 slovenia (2024)


 * Most penalties scored in a shoot-out
 * 17 – vs 🇮🇹 italy (1980)


 * Most consecutive scored in a shoot-out
 * 17 – vs 🇮🇹 italy (1980)


 * Fewest penalties scored in a shoot-out
 * 3 – vs 🇸🇮 slovenia (2024)


 * Most penalties missed in a shoot-out
 * 7 – 🇩🇪 germany vs 🇮🇹 italy (2016)


 * Most consecutive misses in a shoot-out
 * 3 – vs 🇪🇸 spain (2020)
 * 3 – 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england vs 🇮🇹 italy (2020†)

Team records

 * Most shoot-outs played
 * 7 – 🇮🇹 italy (1980, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020†x2)


 * Most shoot-outs played in a tournament
 * 2 – 🇫🇷 france (1996) 1/1
 * 2 – 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england (1996) 1/1
 * 2 – 🇵🇱 poland (2016) 1/1
 * 2 – (2020) 1/1
 * 2 – 🇪🇸 spain (2020) 1/1
 * 2 – 🇮🇹 italy (2020†) 2/0
 * 2 – (2024) 1/1


 * Most shoot-out wins
 * 4 – 🇪🇸 spain (1984, 2008, 2012, 2020)
 * 4 – 🇮🇹 italy (2000, 2012, 2020†×2)


 * Most shoot-out wins in a tournament
 * 2 – 🇮🇹 italy (2020†)


 * Most shoot-out losses
 * 4 – 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england (1996, 2004, 2012, 2020†)


 * Most consecutive shoot-out wins
 * 3 – 🇨🇿 czech republic (1976†1, 19801, 1996)
 * 3 – 🇪🇸 spain (2008, 2012, 2020)


 * Most consecutive shoot-out losses
 * 4 – 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england (1996, 2004, 2012, 2020†)


 * Most shoot-out wins without losses
 * 3 – 🇨🇿 czech republic (1976†1, 19801, 1996)


 * Most shoot-out losses without wins
 * 1 – 🇸🇪 sweden (2004)
 * 1 – (2008)
 * 1 – 🇸🇮 slovenia (2024)


 * Fewest penalties scored in a shoot-out
 * 0 – 🇸🇮 slovenia (2024)


 * Most penalties scored in a shoot-out
 * 9 – 🇨🇿 czech republic (19801)


 * Most penalties missed in a shoot-out
 * 4 – 🇮🇹 italy (2016)


 * Most knockout matches played without shoot-outs (since 1976)
 * 6 – 🇧🇪 belgium (1980, 2016×2, 2020×2, 2024)

Taker records

 * Most participations in shoot-outs
 * 4 – Cristiano Ronaldo (2004, 2016, 2024x2)
 * 4 – Fabian Schär (2016, 2020x2, 2024)


 * Most penalties scored in shoot-outs
 * 4 – Cristiano Ronaldo (2004, 2016, 2024x2)


 * Most penalties missed in shoot-outs
 * 2 – Manuel Akanji (2020, 2024)


 * Most penalties scored in one tournament
 * 2 – 🇫🇷 Zinedine Zidane (1996)
 * 2 – 🇫🇷 Youri Djorkaeff (1996)
 * 2 – 🇫🇷 Bixente Lizarazu (1996)
 * 2 – 🇫🇷 Vincent Guérin (1996)
 * 2 – 🇫🇷 Laurent Blanc (1996)
 * 2 – 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Alan Shearer (1996)
 * 2 – 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 David Platt (1996)
 * 2 – 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Stuart Pearce (1996)
 * 2 – 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Paul Gascoigne (1996)
 * 2 – 🇵🇱 Robert Lewandowski (2016)
 * 2 – 🇵🇱 Arkadiusz Milik (2016)
 * 2 – 🇵🇱 Kamil Glik (2016)
 * 2 – Mario Gavranović (2020)
 * 2 – 🇪🇸 Gerard Moreno (2020)
 * 2 – 🇮🇹 Leonardo Bonucci (2020)
 * 2 – 🇮🇹 Federico Bernardeschi (2020)
 * 2 – Cristiano Ronaldo (2024)
 * 2 – Bernardo Silva (2024)


 * Most deciding final penalties scored in shoot-outs
 * 2 – 🇪🇸 Cesc Fàbregas (2008, 2012)

Goalkeeper records

 * Most participations in shoot-outs
 * 4 – Yann Sommer (2016, 2020×2, 2024)


 * Most penalties faced in shoot-outs
 * 20 – Yann Sommer


 * Most penalties conceded in shoot-outs
 * 17 – Yann Sommer


 * Most penalties missed against (saves and off-target shots) in shoot-outs
 * 6 – 🇮🇹 Gianluigi Buffon


 * Most penalties saved in shoot-outs
 * 3 – 🇮🇹 Gianluigi Buffon (1 vs 🇪🇸 spain in 2008, 1 vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england in 2012 and 1 vs 🇩🇪 germany in 2016)
 * 3 – 🇪🇸 Iker Casillas (2 vs 🇮🇹 italy in 2008 and 1 vs  in 2012)
 * 3 – 🇪🇸 Unai Simón (2 vs  in 2020 and 1 vs 🇮🇹 italy in 2020)
 * 3 – 🇮🇹 Gianluigi Donnarumma (1 vs 🇪🇸 spain in 2020 and 2 vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england in 2020)
 * 3 – Diogo Costa (3 vs 🇸🇮 slovenia in 2024)
 * 3 – 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jordan Pickford (2 vs 🇮🇹 italy in 2020, 1 vs  in 2024)


 * Most penalties saved in single tournament and single shoot-out
 * 3 – Diogo Costa (vs 🇸🇮 slovenia in 2024)

By team


Championship year in bold


 * Notes
 * 1 Participated as
 * 2 Participated as
 * 3 Participated as

By year



 * Penalty shoot-outs were introduced to the UEFA European Championship in 1976.
 * Before 1976, there were 17 matches during the first four tournaments from 1960 to 1972: 16 scheduled matches ( four per tournament ) and 1 replay match. Only 2 of those matches were not decided within 120 minutes. The Euro 1968 semi-final between Italy and the Soviet Union was decided by coin toss. When the Euro 1968 final between Italy and Yugoslavia was level after 120 minutes, a replay was scheduled instead of a coin toss. Both the semi-final coin toss and the final replay were won by Italy, the hosts.
 * Since 2004, if only two teams finish the group stage with the same record (points as well as goals scored and conceded), and they drew against each other on the final matchday, a penalty shoot-out would be used to determine their final ranking. However, no such instance has yet occurred.

Highest and lowest numbers in bold.