随着2020年欧洲杯本周末进入淘汰赛，官网带我们回顾一下，过去切尔西在欧洲国家足球锦标赛上的表现。

哇，老球迷普及下

蓝军球员直到1996年才出现在欧洲锦标赛上，这距离第一届欧洲杯已经过去了36年——不过应该注意的是，直到25年前那场著名的英格兰锦标赛，才扩大到16支球队。

到今年的欧洲杯之前，我们已经有44名球员参加欧洲杯，下面详细介绍给大家。

1996

请报上名来

切尔西第一次参加欧洲杯是在1996年。前蓝军中场特里·维纳布尔斯在为英格兰队出场时，并没有被当做是切尔西球员，这意味着我们只有一对苏格兰球员：克雷格·伯雷和约翰·斯宾塞。

这对组合，连同罗马尼亚的丹·彼得雷斯库和俄罗斯门将德米特里·哈林，都是我们在本届欧洲杯上仅有的球员，他们四个人都在小组赛中出场。不过，蓝军主帅古利特（Ruud Gullit）在96年欧洲杯上更让人瞩目，因为他在担任转播嘉宾期间创造了“性感足球”这个词！

2000

这是哪个远古大神，求车迷普及

比利时和荷兰是新千年第一届欧洲杯的东道主，这次我们有一名球员代表东道主，埃德·德戈伊（Ed de Goey）是荷兰队的替补门将，他刚刚创造了当时切尔西俱乐部一个赛季最多出场次数和最少失球记录。

彼得雷斯库第二次代表罗马尼亚出战，帮助他的国家队战胜了英格兰队。怀斯也得到了上场机会，尽管在小组赛就出局不怎么光彩。同样的命运也降临在托尔·弗洛（挪威）和耶斯·霍格（丹麦）身上。但有3名法国蓝军球员，在决赛中法国队戏剧性地战胜意大利队后，马塞尔·德塞利、迪迪埃·德尚和弗兰克·勒博夫拿到了冠军奖杯，这为他们带来了荣耀。

2004

这位是谁，我不认识啊

四年后，10名切尔西球员在葡萄牙参加了比赛。这次，除了一名球员外，其他所有人都进入了小组赛——俄罗斯的亚历克赛·斯梅尔廷是个例外。可是好运并没有延续多久，韦恩·布里奇、乔·科尔、弗兰克·兰帕德和约翰·特里（英格兰）、马塞尔·德塞利、威廉·加拉和克劳德·马克莱莱（法国）以及杰斯珀·格罗克亚（丹麦）都在四分之一决赛中失利。

2008

德国坦克

英格兰出人意料地缺席了在奥地利和瑞士举行的欧洲杯，但蓝军仍有很多人参加比赛。我们的法国代表队阿内尔卡、马克莱莱和马卢达死在了传统的“死亡之组”，而切赫和捷克也未能晋级四分之一决赛。

进入八强有博拉鲁兹（荷兰）和博辛瓦、卡瓦略和费雷拉。但蓝军球员坚持到决赛，要感谢巴拉克。哎，这位德国中场令人印象深刻（或者说这应该不令人印象深刻吗？）亚军奖牌的收割机…

2012

切尔西双英

又是一届共同举办的欧洲杯，东道主——这一次轮到了波兰和乌克兰。就在蓝军首次加冕欧冠冠军几个星期之后。出人意料的是，我们只有7人参加了这届欧洲杯。阿什利·科尔和约翰·特里在四分之一决赛的点球大战中为英格兰队出场，切赫和马卢达也在同一阶段出场。

劳尔·梅雷莱斯做得更好，他帮助葡萄牙进入了半决赛，但他们败给了西班牙球队，队中有胡安·马塔和费尔南多·托雷斯。托雷斯两个进球都是在决赛中西班牙击败意大利的比赛中打进的，托雷斯的进球为他赢得了金靴奖。

2016

叛徒门将

2016年法国欧洲杯，蓝军的人数进一步下降，只有6名参赛。这一次，切尔西队没有赢家，没有人能进入到四分之一决赛。

加里·卡希尔的英格兰在16强赛中意外负于冰岛，而塞萨尔·阿兹皮利库埃塔、塞斯克·法布雷加斯和佩德罗则是西班牙队中的一员，他们输给了由切尔西的安东尼奥·孔特执教的意大利队。库尔图瓦和阿扎尔更进一步，但只是成就了威尔士童话。

希望蓝军球员能在今年的比赛中有一个更好的结局…

原文：

CHELSEA'S HISTORY AT THE EUROS

With Euro 2020 moving into the knockout round this weekend, we take a look back at past Chelsea representation in Europe's showpiece national football tournament...

Remarkably, the Blues were not represented at a European Championship tournament until 1996, which is 36 years after the first edition was held – although it should be noted that the competition wasn’t expanded to 16 teams until that famous tournament in England a quarter of a century ago.

Prior to this year’s pan-European event, we’d had 44 participants over the years and detailed below is a little more about their involvement in the European showpiece...

1996

The first European Championship to see any Chelsea involvement was in 1996, when football ‘came home’. Former Blues midfielder Terry Venables didn’t go back to his old club when naming his England squad, however, which meant our home nations representation was limited to a pair of Scotland players: Craig Burley and John Spencer.

That duo, along with Romania’s Dan Petrescu and Russia keeper Dmitri Kharine, were our only players at the tournament – and all four of them exited at the group stage. Still, at least Blues boss Ruud Gullit made a bigger mark at Euro 96, when he coined the phrase ‘sexy football’ during his punditry duties!

2000

Belgium and the Netherlands were on hosting duty for the first tournament of the new Millennium, and this time we had one player representing the hosts, as Ed de Goey – fresh from setting then Chelsea club records for most appearances and clean sheets in a season – was back-up goalkeeper for the Oranje, who reached the semi-finals.

Petrescu was in action again for Romania, helping his country past an England squad for whom Wise did receive the nod this time, albeit in an ignominious group-stage exit. That fate also befell Tore Andre Flo (Norway) and Jes Hogh (Denmark), but there was glory for three Blues as Marcel Desailly, Didier Deschamps and Frank Leboeuf got their hands on the trophy following a dramatic win over Italy in the final.

2004

Ten Chelsea players were in action in Portugal four years later and, remarkably, all but one of them made it out of the group stage – Alexey Smertin of Russia was the exception. Then it all went horribly wrong. Wayne Bridge, Joe Cole, Frank Lampard and John Terry (England), Marcel Desailly, William Gallas and Claude Makelele (France) and Jesper Gronkjaer (Denmark) all lost out in the quarter-finals.

2008

England were surprisingly absent from the tournament in Austria and Switzerland, but there was still plenty of Blues in action. Our French contingent of Nicolas Anelka, Claude Makelele and Florent Malouda missed out from the traditional ‘Group of Death’, while Petr Cech and the Czech Republic also failed to progress to the quarter-finals.

The last eight proved to be the end for Khalid Boulahrouz (Netherlands) and the Portuguese trio of Jose Bosingwa, Ricardo Carvalho and Paulo Ferreira, but our involvement went all the way to the final thanks to Michael Ballack. Alas, the German midfielder’s impressive (or should that be unimpressive?) collection of runners-up medals was added to once again…

2012

Another Euros, another shared hosting role – this time it was the turn of Poland and Ukraine, just a few weeks after the Blues had been crowned champions of Europe for the first time. Surprisingly, only seven of our triumphant squad were present at the tournament. Ashley Cole and John Terry suffered quarter-final penalty heartache with England, and the same stage accounted for Cech and Malouda.

Raul Meireles went one better, as he helped Portugal reach the semi-finals, but they succumbed to a Spain side containing Juan Mata and Fernando Torres. Both scored in Spain’s dismantling of Italy in the final, with Torres’ goal clinching him the Golden Boot.

2016

The tally of Blues was down even further at France 2016, as only six men made it. This time, there was to be no winner from the Chelsea ranks – indeed, nobody made it beyond the quarter-finals of this new 24-team format.

Gary Cahill will prefer to forget England’s surprising last-16 defeat to Iceland, along with the rest of the nation, while Cesar Azpilicueta, Cesc Fabregas and Pedro were among the Spanish squad to relinquish their grip on the trophy when they lost at that stage to an Italy side managed by Chelsea-bound Antonio Conte.

Thibaut Courtois and Eden Hazard made it one step further, but then came a cropper as part of the Welsh fairytale story, as Hal Robson-Kanu scored the goal of his life to send them packing.

Let’s hope it’s a happier ending for the Blues taking part in this year’s tournament…