UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the racist abuse of the players in Euro 2020 after losing in the final against Italy.

Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, and Bukayo Saka, the three black players who missed penalty kicks against Italy, received a barrage of criticism on social media.

"This England team deserves to be lauded as heroes, not racially abused on social media," Johnson wrote on Twitter. 

"Those responsible for this appalling abuse should be ashamed of themselves," he added.

England's Football Association (FA) earlier condemned the online racism aimed at some of their players.

"The FA strongly condemns all forms of discrimination and is appalled by the online racism that has been aimed at some of our England players on social media," it said.

"We could not be clearer that anyone behind such disgusting behavior is not welcome in following the team. We will do all we can to support the players affected while urging the toughest punishments possible for anyone responsible," FA added.

Meanwhile, Twitter said that it has removed 1,000 tweets and suspended some accounts due to racist abuse directed at England players.

"In the past 24 hours, through a combination of machine learning-based automation and human review, we have swiftly removed over 1000 Tweets and permanently suspended a number of accounts for violating our rules," a Twitter spokesperson said.