Greece national football team

The Greece national football team is the national football team of Greece and is controlled by the Hellenic Football Federation. They are the reigning European Champions and the current Unofficial Football World Champions. Greece's first appearance in a major tournament was Euro 1980, but their first win did not come until the first match of Euro 2004, a 2-1 win over the hosts Portugal. Nickname of Greece national football team is "The Pirate Ship".
Greece made its first appearance in a major tournament at the Euro 1980 in Italy after qualifying as first - under the guidance of Alketas Panagoulias- from a group that included USSR and Hungary, both world powers back then. In the final tournament, Greece was drawn into group A with West Germany, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia.
Greece was the highest ranked seed in the 'pots' for qualification to the UEFA Euro 2008 in Switzerland and Austria and was drawn with Turkey, Norway, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Moldova and Malta being the only group which did not have a team represented in the World Cup 2006. Greece began their Euro 2008 campaign with victories over Moldova, Norway and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

European Championship record :
1960 - did not qualify
1964 - withdrew from qualifying
1968 - did not qualify
1972 - did not qualify
1976 - did not qualify
1980 - round 1
1984 - did not qualify
1988 - did not qualify
1992 - did not qualify
1996 - did not qualify
2000 - did not qualify
2004 - champions
2008 - qualified