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ESPN Euro 2008 Schedule Announced

May 9th, 2008 | By: chris | 40 Comments »

This will be the first year the European Championships are broadcast live in the United States, on that miniature network called ESPN (or something), which is a fairly newsworthy happening for a country trying to further immerse itself in the beautiful game.

Most of the games will be on ESPN2, with a few more thrown at ESPN and ESPN Classic (most of the games will be on ESPNDeportes as well). The mack daddy, ABC, will get the final, along with a random quarterfinal game. Strange setup from the network, but who’s to argue with the world’s leader in sport? Not I.

And make sure to use your Euro 2008 wallchart when the time comes.

The schedule, for your viewing and bookmarking pleasure, is after the jump.

(All times EST.)

Group play
Saturday 6/07
11:50 a.m.- Switzerland vs. Czech Republic A (ESPN Classic)
2:30 p.m.- Portugal vs. Turkey A (ESPN Classic)

Sunday 6/08
11:50 a.m.- Austria vs. Croatia B (ESPN2)
2:30 p.m.- Germany vs. Poland B (ESPN2)

Monday 6/09
11:50 a.m.- Romania vs. France C (ESPN2)
2:30 p.m.- Netherlands vs. Italy C (ESPN2)

Tuesday 6/10
11:50 a.m.- Spain vs. Russia D (ESPN2)
2:30 p.m.- Greece vs. Sweden D (ESPN2)

Wednesday 6/11
11:50 a.m.- Czech Republic vs. Portugal A (ESPN2)
2:30 p.m.- Switzerland vs. Turkey A (ESPN2)

Thursday 6/12
11:50 a.m.- Croatia vs. Germany B (ESPN2)
2:30 p.m.- Austria vs. Poland B (ESPN2)

Friday 6/13
11:50 a.m.- Italy vs. Romania C (ESPN2)
2:30 p.m.- Netherlands vs. France C (ESPN2)

Saturday 6/14
11:50 a.m.- Sweden vs. Spain D (ESPN2)
2:30 p.m.- Greece vs. Russia D (ESPN2)

Sunday 6/15
2:30 p.m.- Switzerland vs. Portugal A (~~ESPN2~~ ESPN Classic, ESPN Deportes)
2:30 p.m.- Turkey vs. Czech Republic A (ESPN2, ESPN HD)

Monday 6/16
2:30 p.m.- Poland vs. Croatia B (ESPN Classic)
2:30 p.m.- Austria vs. Germany B (ESPN)

Tuesday 6/17
2:30 p.m.- Netherlands vs. Romania C (ESPN Classic)
2:30 p.m.- France vs. Italy C (ESPN)

Wednesday 6/18
2:30 p.m.- Greece vs. Spain D (ESPN)
2:30 p.m.- Russia vs. Sweden D (ESPN2)

Quarterfinals
Thursday 6/19 2:30 p.m. - Portugal 2-3 Germany (ESPN) [Preview] [LiveBlog]
Friday 6/20 2:30 p.m. - Croatia 1-1(1-3) Turkey (ESPN) [Preview] [LiveBlog]
Saturday 6/21 2:30 p.m. - Netherlands v. Russia (ABC) [Preview] [LiveBlog]
Sunday 6/22 2:55 p.m. - Spain v. Italy (ESPN) [Preview] [LiveBlog]

Semifinals
Wednesday 6/25 2:30 p.m. - Germany vs Turkey (ESPN) [Preview] [LiveBlog]
Thursday 6/26 2:30 p.m. - Russia vs Spain (ESPN2) [Preview] [LiveBlog]

Final
Sunday 6/29 2:30 p.m. (2:45 p.m. kickoff)
Germany vs Spain (ABC) [Preview] [LiveBlog]

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By clay | June 9th, 2008 at 9:42 am

what do u consider a man sport then… there is plenty of contact in soccer and we dont use pads like the pussy american football players

Posted from United States

By ryan | June 9th, 2008 at 10:12 am

hes being sarcastic, judging by his name he’s obviously a barcelona fan

Posted from United States

By VIVA PORTUGAL | June 9th, 2008 at 11:26 am

portugal is the best team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VIVA PORTUGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

….Yankees Suck

By Romlah | June 9th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Yes.. this is REAL FOOTBALL!!

Posted from United States

By soccerchicaa | June 9th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

wtf soccer is definately the best (hence the most played) sport in the world…the reason people in america may not like soccer is becasue it is a low scoring sport and they have short attention spans…..in other words, THEY. ARE. STUPID.
and baseball is rlly a buisnessy sport. i mean, it’s sole purpose is advertisement since half the plyers are prctically obese. basketball requires no tactic, when compared to soccer, and football…..pretty much sucks.

Posted from United States

By Eliane | June 9th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

Go Hollanddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd.
I Love Orange…
We did it:)

By MikeyS. | June 9th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

VIVA PORTUGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cristiano Ronaldo Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted from United States

By Michelle Milan | June 9th, 2008 at 7:09 pm

Cristiano Ronaldo is a hot babe!!!!

By JasonK. | June 10th, 2008 at 6:55 am

ESPN needs to stay away from the soccer business. What’s with clipping off parts of the game, or just downright not showing the replay of the Italy vs. netherlands match last night? Go away ESPN and let Telemundo or that other Spanish network galavision get a piece of this, they know how to broadcast soccer…you suck!!

By narayan poudel | June 13th, 2008 at 6:23 am

this time the luck is in favour of spain,spain spain spain spain

Posted from Nepal

By hamzz71 | June 13th, 2008 at 2:03 pm

no! d luck is in d favour of the oranges menz D netherlandz

By parry riposte | June 14th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

what’s going on with espn?! they’re showing portugal-switzerland, but not turkey-czech republic? one of them is a game with no importance whatsoever, the other determines the second team to emerge from the group. hellooooo espn, where’s your common sense?!

Posted from United States

By TPD | June 15th, 2008 at 5:52 am

Sunday 6/15
2:30 p.m.- Switzerland vs. Portugal A (ESPN2)
2:30 p.m.- Turkey vs. Czech Republic A (ESPN2)
Is this a mistake? same day, same channel at the same time?

Posted from United States

By Laurie | June 15th, 2008 at 10:31 am

Yes, this is a mistake. It’s showing up on a lot of other websites as well, so I’m guessing it originally came from ESPN.

Correction is that Portugal-Switzerland will be on ESPN Classic, Turkey-Czech Republic on ESPN2. I’ll go in and fix it now.

Posted from United States

By DP | June 18th, 2008 at 10:26 am

HAHHAAAA! Seth I just put Please god let spain win the game on sunday into google and this page came up..Thats great. Now I hope god is listening and gives Spain a much needed victory for all the bad calls- Korea and the italian elbow o the nose, hell even for having that as@hole Franco- it has suffered over the years. So we could finally forget about S(occer)pain. I need a drink.

Posted from United States

By furious | June 19th, 2008 at 12:05 am

So as i sat all comfortable and saw that ESPN2 was going to show the Spain Greece match… i turn it on, and instead i watch the shitty Russian vs Sweden!!! what the hell!!!! i missed the god damn spain match cuz ESPN2 advertised it was going to show it and instead they switch it!! is anyone else pissed off!?

By Okong'o | June 20th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

Santa Claus, please, I will not need a Christmas gift this year is the final is between The Netherlands and Turkey!

Posted from United States

By acgulenay | June 20th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

That is what I say Final is between Turks and Netherland,and I think Netherland will take it

By tim | June 21st, 2008 at 10:47 am

Lick ma balls, soccer rocks.

Posted from United States

By holla | June 21st, 2008 at 8:11 pm

I am so happy that ESPN and ABC have agreed to air the games. This is such an improvement for the game or soccer and I look forward to watching every game in the US
PS
Go Deutschland

Posted from United States

By nepaliketi | June 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 am

FORZA AZZURRI!

Posted from United States

By DeutscheFußballFan | June 22nd, 2008 at 11:01 am

With all my heart for Germany !!!

By KatieLFC83 | June 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 am

I am glad that Germany is still in it. And I’m also glad Spain won. These next games are going to be very exciting to watch. I’m very glad ESPN and ABC are broadcasting them live to those (few) of us here in the US that appreciate the great game of football (soccer)!

By moni | June 23rd, 2008 at 11:07 am

deutschland all the way!!!

Posted from United States

By reza to barcalounger | | June 23rd, 2008 at 3:31 pm

Hey youuuuuuuuu!!!! u seem really dumb.u dont have any sense while football(Euro or World cup) is like a blast in the world.and what u want to prove? that u r a real man and every body else who watch football is a gay? come on.Maybe u r talking about women”s football. any way never talk about football in this way. u make fun of ur self.

Posted from India