England 2 -1 Germany

If you want a job doing properly, give it to the women, right? After 56 long, arduous years featuring rivers of penalty shootouts, facemelting underachievements and horrifying pizza adverts, the nation that invented the game finally turned up with the goods. Not only that, records were smashed all over the shop; England recorded the biggest win at any EUROS match (beating Norway 8-0), only conceded two goals and scored 22 in total and members of their squad claimed the Golden Ball and Best Player awards (Beth Mead) and scored the goal of the tournament (Alessia Russo’s insane backheeled nutmeg v Sweden). The record attendance was broken twice and the 87,192 fans watching the final is the largest crowd for any EUROS match (men or women). It finally, definitively came home.