ESPN Inc. Presents UEFA European Football Championship 2016

ESPN networks will combine to televise more than 230 live hours of the UEFA European Football Championship 2016 beginning Friday, June 10, through Sunday, July 10, in 10 cities across France.

ESPN will carry 40 matches including the opening and title matches. ESPN2 will show 11 matches. ESPN Deportes, the company's Spanish-language sports network, will show 45 live matches and six tape-delayed on dates with concurrent matches. All matches will be streamed live in English and Spanish on WatchESPN.

ESPN3 Surround delivers exclusive content tied to live events on ESPN linear networks, offering a companion experience in real-time that will complement the big game on television. For UEFA EURO 2016, ESPN3 Surround will carry four different UEFA EURO 2016 streams for each match - the Spider Cam feed, the Spider Cam triple-box feed, the Tactical Cam feed, and the Tactical Cam triple-box feed - offering fans alternate camera angles, experiences and stories around the game. (ESPN and ESPN DEPORTES commentator assignments will be announced at a later date.) Programming highlights:

ESPN match telecasts for the UEFA European Football Championship will include pregame, halftime and postgame studio segments.

ESPN/ESPN2: Every ESPN and ESPN2 match will feature a 30-minute pregame, halftime and a postgame shows. ESPN's flagship news and information program SPORTSCENTER will air in-between morning matches throughout the Tournament.

ESPN Deportes: The Spanish-language home of the UEFA European Football Championship 2016 in the United States will provide the most-comprehensive coverage every match day beginning with a 30-minute pre-game edition of Fuera de Juego, a halftime show, in-between match programming, and a two-hour TV exclusive presentation of Jorge Ramos y Su Banda immediately following the last match of the day.

UEFA EURO 2016 - Groups (Team FIFA Ranking #):

GROUP A	GROUP B	GROUP C
Albania #36	England #9	Germany #4
France #24	Russia #23	Northern Ireland #28
Romania #16	Slovakia #25	Poland #34
Switzerland #12	Wales #17	Ukraine #27
GROUP D	GROUP E	GROUP F
Croatia #18	Belgium #1	Austria #10
Czech Republic #26	Italy #15	Hungary #19
Spain #3	Republic of Ireland #29	Iceland #38
Turkey #20	Sweden #35	Portugal #7

ABOUT UEFA EURO 2016: With all 24 national teams in the championship ranked among the top 40 teams in the FIFA World Rankings, the UEFA European Football Championship is arguably the most prestigious and competitive international soccer tournament in the world. The first championship was in 1960, hosted by France.

Of the 24 participating teams, 23 earned spots in the month-long quadrennial tournament through a two-year qualification process among 53 UEFA member nations while the host nation - France - received an automatic berth.

The last three FIFA World Cup champions - France (2006), Spain (2010) and Germany (2014) - join other 21 Union of European Football Associations' (UEFA) national teams to vie to become the footballing champions of Europe. Two-time defending champion Spain seeks to be the first country to win four European titles, after BECOMING the first to repeat in 2008 and 2012.

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