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Euro 2012 Thread

Madferret

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UEFA EURO 2012

The finals lineup for UEFA EURO 2012 has been confirmed after the play-offs concluded on Tuesday.

Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Ireland and Portugal all completed aggregate victories to book their tickets for Poland and Ukraine. They join the ten teams that reached next summer's tournament from the qualifying group stage, and the two co-hosts.

The 16 teams that will compete for the Henri Delaunay Cup are:
Poland (co-hosts)
Ukraine (co-hosts)
Spain (holders)
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Netherlands
Portugal
Republic of Ireland
Russia
Sweden

UEFA will confirm the seedings for the finals draw on Wednesday. The draw takes place in Kyiv on 2 December. The tournament runs between 6 June and 1 July 2012.
 
EURO finals draw seedings unveiled

UEFA has announced the seedings for the UEFA EURO 2012 finals draw at the Palace of Arts in Kyiv, Ukraine at 18.00CET (19.00 local time) on Friday 2 December.

The 16 teams will been drawn into four groups of four teams each (Groups A to D).  Four seeding pots will be created, with the host associations Poland and Ukraine being top seeds. Poland will be automatically placed in Group A as A1, Ukraine in Group D as D1.

The reigning champions Spain will be placed in Pot 1, together with the Netherlands, the team with the highest national team coefficient, as established at the conclusion of the play-off matches.

The other 12 qualifiers have been allocated to the remaining three pots according to their respective coefficients.

Pot 1: Spain, Netherlands
Pot 2: Germany, Italy, England, Russia
Pot 3: Croatia, Greece, Portugal, Sweden
Pot 4: Denmark, France, Czech Republic, Republic of Ireland

Full coefficient list

The draw will start with Pot 1 in order to fill position one in Groups B and C. The draw will continue with Pot 4, from which a team will be allocated to each group consecutively, from Group A to Group D. This procedure will then be repeated for Pot 3 and finally for Pot 2.

The position of each team within its group (2, 3 or 4) will also be determined during the draw.

UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino will conduct the draw, and the ceremony will be hosted by Olga Freimut and Piotr Sobczynski ? two renowned TV presenters in the UEFA EURO 2012 host countries. The show will include three entertainment acts: the P. Virsky Ukrainian National Folk Dance Ensemble, Ukrainian singer Jamala and a surprise international artist.

Furthermore, and supporting the motto 'Creating History Together', UEFA has invited legendary players from all previous editions of the tournament to participate in the show. In addition, the official match ball of UEFA EURO 2012 will be unveiled during the ceremony.

The draw will be shown live by more than 70 broadcast partners, covering more than 150 territories around the world.
 
UEFA EURO 2012 Event Calendar

15/11/2011 Qualifying play-offs
02/12/2011  Final draw in Kyiv
29/02/2012  100 days to kick-off
08/06/2012 EURO kicks off in Warsaw
01/07/2012 EURO final in Kyiv

    UEFA European Football Championship

    2008 Spain
    2004 Greece
    2000 France
    1996 Germany
    1992 Denmark
    1988 Netherlands
    1984 France
    1980 Germany
    1976 Czechoslovakia
    1972 Germany
    1968 Italy
    1964 Spain
    1960 USSR

 
I'm anxious to see how Holland draws - I think we could handle being in a 'group of death'. I really want Spain in our group....hup hup
 
It always strikes me as a bit of a scam when there are two host countries and they both get automatic bids.
 
Saint Nik said:
It always strikes me as a bit of a scam when there are two host countries and they both get automatic bids.
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Neither were very prepared from an infrastructure point of view when they were awarded the tournament in 2007...compared to the bid of say Italy yeah it's a bit sketch. But that's world football unfortunately.
 
Alright, this show is pretty quickly becoming one of the weirdest things I've ever seen.
 
It is nice to see that televising / turning something that could be done in 3 minutes into a 1 hour attack of the senses is a global epidemic though - huge sigh of relief there.
 
Well, it's nice to see that Athletes being ridiculously boring is a truth that knows no borders.
 
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