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Euro Championship 2012

Euro Championship 2012, European Football Championship 2012 or Euro 2012 is 
going to be 14th European Championship sanctioned by UEFA for national football 
teams. Ukraine and Poland are co-hosts for the final tournament of this 
championship which will be played from June 8, 2012 to July 1, 2012. Both of 
these co-hosts are first time nations to host such a big tournament. The 
Executive Committee of UEFA selected their joint bid in a meeting held in 2007, 
according to [http://www.european-championship.com Euro 2012]. This meeting was 
held in Cardiff which approved the joint Ukraine-Poland bid through a voting 
process on 18 April 2007. The other short-listed bids were from Croatia-Hungry 
(joint bid) and Italy.
 
There'll be sixteen nations in the final tournament, the last tournament in 
which 16 teams have been selected as finalists because there'll be 24 teams in 
every final tournament from Euro 2016 and onward. Overall 51 nations contested 
to qualify for the Euro Championship 2012 between August and November 2010. The 
draw of the qualifying competition for the UEFA Euro 2012 took place in 
February 2010 in Warsaw. Two out of sixteen nations were Ukraine and Poland, 
and only 14 teams were to select from overall 51 teams as the finalists.
 
UEFA divided these 51 teams into 9 groups. The qualifying process of Euro 
Championship 2012 started in August 2010, continued around one and year two 
months, and concluded in November 2011. The winners of each group got confirmed 
place as finalist. The top-rank team in the list of second placed teams also 
got an automatic entry into the list of finalist teams. The winners of the rest 
eight second-placed teams are also included as finalists in the final 
tournament of Euro 2012, 
[http://www.european-championship.com/category/European-Championship-News/ Euro 
2012 news] said.  Apart from the Kharkiv and Donetsk, all other venues of Euro 
Championship 2012 are popular tourist destinations. All times of the final 
games in Poland are UTC+2 (Central European Summer Time) and in Ukraine are 
UTC+3 (Eastern European Summer Time). Twelve referees have been named by UEFA 
for this championship.
 

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