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The 2012 f European Football Championship, generally known to as Euro 2012, would be the 14th European Championship for national football teams organized by UEFA. The ultimate tournament is going to be located by Belgium and Ukraine between 8 June and 1 this summer 2012. It's the very first time that either nation has located the tournament. This bid was selected by UEFA's Executive Committee in 2007.

The ultimate tournament features 16 nations, the final European Championship to do this. Qualification was contested by 51 nations between August 2010 and November 2011 to become listed on the 2 host nations within the tournament. The champion from the tournament gains automatic admission to the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup located by South America.

The joint Belgium-Ukraine bid was selected with a election from the UEFA Executive Committee in a meeting in Cardiff on 18 April 2007. From the other shortlisted bids, Italy's candidature was "odds-against favorite" to win however, their bid was marred with a referee corruption scandal and issues with football-related crowd trouble  and Croatia-Hungary lost out as Belgium-Ukraine grew to become the 3rd effective joint bid for that European Championship, after individuals of Belgium-Netherlands (2000) and Austria-Europe (2008).

The UEFA European Football Championship may be the primary football competition from the men's national football teams controlled by UEFA. Held every 4 years since 1960, within the even-designated year between World Cup competitions, it had been initially known as the UEFA European Nations Cup, altering to the present title in 1968. Beginning using the 1996 tournament, specific titles are frequently known to within the form "Euro 2008" or whichever year is suitable. The tournament is frequently known to delicately because the Pounds.

Just before entering the tournament all teams apart from the host nations compete inside a being approved process. The championship those who win generate the chance to compete within the following FIFA Confederations Cup, but aren't obliged to do this.

The 13 European Championship competitions happen to be won by nine different national teams. Germany would be the most effective team within the good reputation for the tournament, winning three occasions in six final looks. France and The country would be the only other multiple-time those who win with two game titles each. The rest of the European Championship those who win happen to be Italia, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands, Denmark, A holiday in Greece and inaugural those who win Ussr, having a single title each.

The newest edition, co-located by Europe and Austria in 2008, was won by the country, who beat Germany 1-. The following European Championship is going to be co-located in Belgium and Ukraine from 8 June to at least one this summer 2012.

The host metropolitan areas Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw, Poznan, Kiev, Lviv are popular tourist locations, unlike Donetsk and Kharkiv. The bid package necessitates the expansion and modernization of streets and transport links.

The obligatory improvement from the football infrastructure includes your building of recent arenas: Six from the eight venues are completely new arenas presently being built prepared to open prior to the tournament the rest of the two have gone through major makeovers to enhance them. Three from the arenas will match the criteria of UEFA's greatest category arenas.

Inside a go back to the format used at Euro 1992, Euro 1996 and Euro 2008, each group depends about 2 arenas. Additionally towards the eight host metropolitan areas, Euro 2012 will even include other areas, known to Base Camps, as training centers for teams. In October 2010, announced the final list of 21 recommended accommodation centers in Poland: Gdansk, Gniewino, Gdynia, Jelenia Góra, Józefów, Kielce, Kolobrzeg, Kraków, Legionowo, Lubawa, Miedzychód, Opalenica, Ostróda, Pulawy, Slupsk, Tychy, Warka, Warsaw, Wieliczka, Wladyslawowo and Wroclaw. Finally, this year, national representations cooperated with UEFA to find the final base camps.