The final tournament features sixteen 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.[2]
The joint Poland–Ukraine bid was chosen by a vote of the UEFA Executive Committee at a meeting in Cardiff on 18 April 2007.[1] Of the other shortlisted bids, Italy's candidature was "odds-against favourite"[3] to win; however, their bid was marred by a referee corruption scandal and problems with football-related crowd trouble [4] and Croatia–Hungary lost out as Poland-Ukraine became the third successful joint bid for the European Championship, after those of Belgium–Netherlands (2000) and Austria–Switzerland (2008).
he 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).[5] The bid package requires the expansion and modernisation of roads and transport links.[6]
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.[7][8] Three of the stadiums will fulfill the criteria of UEFA's highest category stadiums.
In a return to the format used at Euro 1992, Euro 1996 and Euro 2008, each group will be based around two stadiums. In addition to the eight host cities, Euro 2012 will also include other places, referred to Base Camps, as training centres for teams. In October 2010, announced the final list of 21 recommended accommodation centers in Poland: Gdańsk, Gniewino, Gdynia, Jelenia Góra, Józefów, Kielce, Kołobrzeg, Kraków, Legionowo, Lubawa, Międzychód, Opalenica, Ostróda, Puławy, Słupsk, Tychy, Warka, Warsaw, Wieliczka, Władysławowo and Wrocław. Finally, in 2011, national representations cooperated with UEFA to choose the final base camps. 13 will stay in Poland and 3 in Ukraine in the following towns:[9]
Croatia - Warka
Czech Republic - Wrocław
Denmark - Kołobrzeg
England - Kraków
France - Donetsk
Greece - Jachranka
Italy - Kraków
Germany - Gdańsk
Netherlands - Kraków
Poland - Warsaw
Portugal - Opalenica
Republic of Ireland - Sopot
Russia - Warsaw
Spain - Gniewino
Sweden - Koncha-Zaspa
Ukraine - Kiev
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