Spain’s 2-1 victory over England in Sunday’s final brought down the curtain on a memorable tournament in Germany.
Rodrigo was key to La Roja’s record fourth European success and was named Player of the Tournament for his exploits.
But the midfielder’s City team-mates also made a mark this summer, as detailed in the stats below…
Highest representation
One particularly proud statistic for Pep Guardiola will be the amount of City players who travelled to Germany to represent their respective nations this summer.
In total, 14 different members of the City squad were selected, spanning across seven nations – both records for a Club side at Euro 2024.
Our closest English rival was Arsenal with 11, while Inter boasted 13 and Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid 12.
We also had four of our stars feature in the final, the most of any club side, while nine members of the England and Spain squads were either current or former City players.
Spain: Rodrigo, Jesus Navas, Ferran Torres, Aymeric Laporte
England: Kyle Walker, John Stones, Phil Foden, Kieran Trippier, Cole Palmer
Flying Dutchman
Nathan Ake’s tournament ended at the semi-final stage, with the Netherlands losing 2-1 to England.
But the defender, an ever-present for the Dutch at Euro 2024, was key in their march to the last four both at the back and in offensive situations.
Indeed, no defender at the tournament was able to better his two assists, with only Germany’s Joshua Kimmich matching that tally.
Both of those assists came in the same fixture, as Ake set up Cody Gakpo and Wout Weghorst in a 2-1 win over Poland.
Impressive passes
Given City’s possession-based style, it comes as little surprise to learn that our players dominated both the attempted and completed passes metrics at Euro 2024.
John Stones attempted (556) and completed (526) more passes than any other player at the tournament, while his England team-mate Kyle Walker also ranked fourth and fifth in each of those metrics (492/448).
Rodrigo’s 411 completed passes saw him rank seventh, while Portugal’s Ruben Dias also finished 11th, despite playing just four times.
Dias’ 376 successful passes from 400 attempts averages out at a remarkable 94 per match, and a 94% success rate.
Distance covered
But for all of City’s style, our players also demonstrated their substance at Euro 2024, featuring heavily in both the distance covered and minutes played metrics.
Phil Foden ran an astonishing 79.5 kilometres across England’s seven matches, beaten only by his team-mate Declan Rice, while Walker (74.8) and Stones (71.7) ranked fourth and fifth respectively.
Rodrigo sat ninth with 68.5, despite missing both Spain’s final group fixture and the second half of the final.
In terms of minutes played, it’s a similar story with Walker and Stones sitting top of the pile alongside Rice and Jordan Pickford.
England’s quartet were their only ever-presents, featuring for a remarkable 690 minutes in total.
Ball recoveries
Manuel Akanji has cemented his reputation as one of the Premier League’s most reliable defenders since joining City at the beginning of the 2022/23 campaign, and he was vital in Switzerland’s route to the quarter-finals.
They would ultimately lose out in the last eight on penalties to England with the centre-half the one to miss his spot kick, but to focus on that would do a disservice to his overall influence at Euro 2024.
Indeed, Akanji ranked joint-fifth in ball recoveries across the entire tournament with 37.
Only England duo Rice and Marc Guehi, German defender Antonio Rudiger, France’s Jules Kounde and former City man Aymeric Laporte could equal or better that number.
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Croatian duo
Euro 2024 would ultimately prove a frustrating tournament for our Croatian stars, who were knocked out in the group stages.
However, Josko Gvardiol and Mateo Kovacic were certainly both positive lights in an otherwise frustrating summer for the World Cup semi-finalists.
Gvardiol covered more distance (32.9km) than any other Croatian at Euro 2024, while Kovacic’s six attempts on goal and three on target were also a best for his nation.
Possession
Portugal boasted the largest number of City players in their squad, with Ruben Dias, Bernardo Silva, Matheus Nunes and Joao Cancelo all turning out for the 2016 champions.
And while they were knocked out in the quarter-finals, they would finish the tournament with the highest possession stats of any side.
Across their five matches at Euro 2024, Portugal averaged an impressive 64.8% possession, over 5% higher than their nearest rivals, Germany.
Completed dribbles
Kevin De Bruyne and Jeremy Doku’s Belgium were knocked out at the Round of 16 stage when they were edged out by France.
However, both City stars still left their mark on the tournament, with De Bruyne making more passes breaking the opposition’s defensive line than any other midfielder in the group stages (11).
Five of those were to his club team-mate Doku, also the most at that stage of Euro 2024.
For Doku, his 34 completed dribbles was more than any other player at the tournament, despite him featuring just four times.
