16 teams made their way to the final of the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, the strength of which is assessed differently by football experts. In numerical terms, this estimate can be found from the bets on the victory of a particular team, which bookmakers accept with a certain coefficient. Bookmakers calculate it based on the mass of football and near-football factors, the main of which is the expectations of fans, supported by their monetary contributions to the results of Euro 2012.
According to bookmakers, the most likely winner of the fourteenth European Championship is the Spanish national team. This team won the previous European tournament four years ago, the next year - the Confederation Cup, and then the World Championship. In recent years, the team of this country has been showing the best game in its history, as evidenced by the numbers. Spain occupies the first line in the current FIFA rankings, its captain Iker Casillas is the country's record holder for games for the national team, striker David Villa has scored the largest number of goals in the history of the national team, and the strength of the national championship can only be compared with that of Britain. All this is reflected in the lowest rates for the victory of the “red fury” - for example, the English bookmaker William Hill accepts bets on the Spanish championship with a ratio of 3, 5: 1.
The chances of winning the tournament for the German national team are somewhat less appreciated - William Hill set the odds for such an outcome 4, 33: 1. Now the "German car" occupies the third line in the FIFA rankings, and its post-war assets are three titles of world champions and two gold medals of European championships. Although all this was in the last century, experts and football fans appreciate the current strength of the national team very highly.
According to bookmakers' forecasts, the third contender for the European championship will start the final part of Euro 2012 in the same group as the German national team - the Dutch national team. Her chances are estimated at 7: 1. Group B can be generally considered a "death group", since in addition to these two teams, the Portuguese national team also got into it, which bookmakers put on the seventh line of the list of contenders for victory in the championship (17: 1).
The national teams of Russia and Ukraine, bookmakers placed after Portugal - the eighth and ninth place among the likely winners of Euro 2012. The ratio of Russia - 21: 1, Ukraine - 34: 1.
Theoretically, the greatest profit can be obtained by betting on the victory of the national teams of Ireland or the Czech Republic - the win will be 67 times the stake.
