Does anyone know how the World Cup, the European Cup, was born?

It was held after the meeting of the World Football Association and the European Football Association.

Since its inception, the European Football Championship has gradually evolved into a large-scale sporting event with a worldwide reputation. But looking back 50 years ago, the Champions League faced many unimaginable difficulties in its initial stages.

In the last 50s, when the concept of the European Championship was just taking shape, national team competitions were already popular on other continents. There is a reason why the European Championship is long overdue, and because European football is famous in the world, people are afraid that the appearance of the European Championship will affect the authority of the World Cup.

When UEFA was founded in 1954, the concept of the European Championship was published in the famous French team newspaper, which mentioned that the tournament was played on midweek evenings on a home-and-away basis. It was Frenchman Henri Delaunay, former president of the French Football Federation and the first secretary general of UEFA who finally made the tournament a reality. As early as 1927, Delaunay and Austria's Hugo Messer submitted a plan to the World Football Federation to create the European Cup, which mentioned that the European Championship could coexist with the World Cup, and the time was two years different from the World Cup.

After taking office as UEFA president in 1954, Delaunay wrote that the door to the European Championship would be open to the football associations of all European countries. A three-member committee was tasked with testing the viability of the event. Delaunay insists that the tournament will not have many matches and will not adversely affect the World Cup, with all participating nations not always playing in the same groups and against the same opponents.

When Delaunay died in 1955, his son Pierre joined the French crowd in advocating for the European Championships. Later, Pierre Delaunay was appointed Secretary General of the European Football Championship Organising Committee, which gave him the opportunity to take direct control of the development of the nascent tournament and fulfill his father's last wishes. After all parties agreed, the European Championship was officially launched, and the new competition was named the Henri Delaunay Cup, in honour of Delaunay's outstanding contribution to European football.

The inaugural European Championship represented almost half of the total number of member countries, with 17 countries participating, one more than the lowest number of teams in the tournament, with Ireland eliminated from Czechoslovakia in the qualifying play-offs. The inaugural European Championship opened on 28 September 1958 at the Moscow** Stadium, with the Soviet Union beating Hungary 3-1 in the opening match, with Soviet player Anatoly Anatoly Iljan scoring the first goal in European Championship history four minutes later. The inaugural European Championship took place from 1958 to 1960 and lasted for a total of 22 months.

On June 15, 1954, UEFA was founded. In 1955, the European Club Champions Cup was held. In 1956, preparations began for the holding of competitions in which the national teams of European countries participated.

Two years later, the first European Nations Cup (UEFA Nations) qualification tournament began. The original purpose of the tournament was to fill the four-year gap between the two World Cups, so that European countries could have more opportunities to compete.

The UEFA Championship is divided into two stages: qualifiers and final weeks, except for the organizers of the current tournament, who can automatically enter the final week, other UEFA member teams must participate in the qualifiers and qualify in the qualifiers to enter the final week. At the beginning of the European Championships, there were only four teams in the final week. In 1980, the number of teams increased to eight, and the final week was moved from the knockout stage to the group stage.

In the 1996 European Championship final week it was increased to 16 teams and has remained so to this day.

From 1960 to 2008, a total of 13 European Championships were held, with Germany making history by winning three championships, and Spain and France winning the Gold Cup twice. In addition, the former Soviet Union, Italy, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Greece have also tasted the championship.

It began in Greece and was carried forward by Rome.

Delaunay Cup.

The Delaunay Cup is the name of the trophy of the European Cup (Europa Football Championship) and was named in honor of the Frenchman Henri Delaunay, the first secretary general of UEFA. In 1958, the first European Nations Cup (the predecessor of the European Cup) qualifying tournament began. The trophy was designed and made in 1960 by Arthur Bertrand of Paris.

It is engraved in French with the words "European Nations Cup Football Championship" and the words "Henri Delaunay Cup". In 2006, UEFA created a new European Championship trophy specifically for the European Football Championship. UEFA recast the Delaunay Cup because the previous trophy was damaged during the celebrations that followed France's Euro 2000 triumph.

European Football Championship, referred to as the European Championship!