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UEFA European Championship songs and anthems are songs and tunes adopted officially to be used as warm-ups to the event, to accompany the championships during the event and as a souvenir reminder of the events as well as for advertising campaigns leading for the European Championship, giving the singers exceptional universal world coverage and notoriety. [1]
The songs chosen are usually multilingual using English, the language of the official language of the organising country as well as other world languages, most notably Spanish. The official versions also results in cover versions in many other languages by the original artist or by local artists.
While usually most music used is UEFA Euro official theme songs, sometimes broadcasters tend to use other songs in some cases. Following is a list of when those cases happened.
Edition | Host Country | Broadcaster | Song Title | Languages/Instrumental | Peformers | Writing and Producing |
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2012 |
Poland Ukraine |
ESPN | Untitled or Unknown [3] [4] | Instrumental | ||
BBC | Escape | Instrumental | Craig Armstrong | Craig Armstrong | ||
ITV | Peter and the Wolf | Instrumental | Sergei Prokofiev | |||
2016 | France | ESPN | Untitled or Unknown [5] [6] | Instrumental | ||
BBC | La Foule | French | Izzy Bizu | Ben Foster | ||
ITV | La Mer | French | Charles Trenet | |||
2020 | Europe | ESPN | Untitled or Unknown [7] | Instrumental | ||
BBC | Force Majeure [8] | Instrumental | Gaspard Auge |
Gaspard Auge
Michael Declerck | ||
ITV | You Ain't The Problem | English | Michael Kiwanuka |
Brian Burton
Dean Josiah Cover Michael Kiwanuka | ||
2024 | Germany | Fox Sports | "FOX Sports FIFA World Cup Theme" [9] | Instrumental | Pete Calandra | Pete Calandra |
Championship | Host country | Music | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1992 | Sweden | ||
1996 | England | ||
2000 |
Netherlands Belgium |
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2004 | Portugal | ||
2008 |
Austria Switzerland |
" Seven Nation Army" | |
2012 |
Poland Ukraine |
" Heart of Courage" | |
2016 | France | " This One's for You (Orchestral Version)" | |
2020 | Europe | " We Are the People (Orchestral Version)" | |
2024 | Germany | (to be decided) | |
2028 |
United Kingdom Ireland |
(to be decided) | |
2032 |
Italy Turkey |
(to be decided) |