French President Nicolas Sarkozy attended the meeting. He pointed out at the scene that French football has a long history and the experience of hosting the World Cup twice is very rare. Moreover, France has hosted the European Cup twice, once at 1960. Although there were only four teams at that time, it must be mentioned that 1984 European Cup was held at home in France, and finally France beat Spain 2-0 to win the championship.
Voting process
At 09:30, the final announcement of the host country began, and the three bidding countries, Turkey, Italy and France, submitted their final reports to the UEFA Executive Committee in turn (the order of submitting reports was determined by the previous lottery). After the process of submitting the report is completed, the UEFA Executive Committee will carefully consider it and start voting from 1 1:45.
According to the voting rules of UEFA European Football Championship 20 14- 16, UEFA President michel platini (France), UEFA First Vice President Ozick (Turkey) and UEFA Executive Committee member Giancarlo Abbett (Italy) are not allowed to participate in this discussion and voting process. Other members of the Executive Committee (65,438+02) held secret discussions and voted under the auspices of Ingrid Thompson, the second vice chairman. The voting rules are as follows: the first round of voting adopts the scoring system, with 5 points for the first place, 2 points for the second place, 0/point for the third place and elimination for the last place. If the second and third place have an equal number of votes, an extra vote will be held. If there is another tie, Thompson, who presided over the meeting, will have two votes. The second round of voting adopts the electoral system, and the two winners of the first round of voting are directly elected.
After voting, Platini announced the final result at 13:00, and France became the host country of the 20 16 European Cup.