Euro 2012 football tournament

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Euro 2012 football tournament

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Date Match Time (IST)

June 8 Poland vs Greece 2130
June 9 Russia vs Czech Republic 0015
June 9 Holland vs Denmark 2130
June 10 Germany vs Portugal 0015
June 10 Spain vs Italy 2130
June 11 Ireland vs Croatia 0015
June 11 France vs England 2130
June 12 Ukraine vs Sweden 0015
June 12 Greece vs Czech Republic 2130
June 13 Poland vs Russia 0015
June 13 Denmark vs Portugal 2130
June 14 Holland vs Germany 0015
June 14 Italy vs Croatia 2130
June 15 Spain vs Ireland 0015
June 15 Ukraine vs France 2130
June 16 Sweden vs England 0015
June 17 Greece vs Russia 0015
June 17 Czech Republic vs Poland 0015
June 18 Portugal vs Holland 0015
June 18 Denmark vs Germany 0015
June 19 Croatia vs Spain 0015
June 19 Italy vs Ireland 0015
June 20 England vs Ukraine 0015
June 20 Sweden vs France 0015
June 22 Winner Group A vs 2nd Place Group B 0015
June 23 Winner Group B vs 2nd Place Group A 0015
June 24 Winner Group C vs 2nd Place Group D 0015
June 25 Winner Group D vs 2nd Place Group C 0015
June 28 First semi-final 0015
June 29 Second semi-final 0015
July 2 FINAL 0015

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The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2012, will be the 14th European Championship for national football teams organised by UEFA. The final tournament is being hosted by Poland and Ukraine between 8 June and 1 July 2012. It is the first time that either nation has hosted the tournament. This bid was chosen by UEFA's Executive Committee in 2007.

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The final tournament features 16 nations, the last European Championship to do so (from Euro 2016 onward, there will be 24 finalists). Qualification was contested by 51 nations between August 2010 and November 2011 to join the two host nations in the tournament. The winner of the tournament gains automatic entry to the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup hosted by Brazil.

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Eight cities have been selected by UEFA as host venues. In a return to the format used at Euro 1992, Euro 1996 and Euro 2008, each of the four groups will be based around two stadiums each.

The host cities Warsaw, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Poznań, Kiev, Lviv are all popular tourist destinations, unlike Donetsk and Kharkiv (the latter having replaced Dnipropetrovsk as a host city in 2009).

The obligatory improvement of the football infrastructure includes the building of new stadiums: six of the eight venues are brand new stadiums currently being constructed ready to open in advance of the tournament; the remaining two (in Poznań and Kharkiv) have undergone major renovations to improve them. Three of the stadiums will fulfill the criteria of UEFA's highest category stadiums.

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