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Euro 2012
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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 sanctioned by UEFA. The final tournament will be hosted by Poland and Ukraine between 8 June and 1 July 2012.
The joint Poland/Ukraine bid was chosen by UEFA's Executive Committee on 18 April 2007, in Cardiff, Wales. This bid defeated the other shortlisted bids from Italy and Croatia/Hungary, becoming the third successful joint bid for the European Championship, after those of Belgium/Netherlands, for Euro 2000, and Austria/Switzerland for Euro 2008.
This will be the last European Championship finals in which only 16 nations will participate, with Euro 2016 being the first European Championship finals with 24 competing nations. Qualification for the final tournament will be staged between September 2010 and November 2011.
Logo
The official logo for the championship was presented to the world on 14 December 2009. It takes its visual identity from Wycinanki, the traditional art of paper cutting practised in Poland and rural areas of Ukraine. The logo has a flower that represents both the host nations and a ball in the center symbolising the emotion and passion of the competition. The stem shows the structural aspect of the competition, which is UEFA and European football. In the center of each flower and the ball, is a figure of a person that has its arms up representing joy and the excitement of the competition. Nature has also inspired other features of the logo, with woodland green, sun yellow, aqua blue, sky blue and blackberry purple being the crucial tones of the palette of colors to figure in the official tournament branding.
Slogan
Along with the presentation of the logo, came the slogan of the competition. The slogan that was chosen for UEFA Euro 2012 is: Creating History Together.
The venue for the UEFA European Championship finals in Poland and Ukraine is a first for Central and Eastern Europe. The competition will have a place in the history books. Everyone involved in Euro 2012 such as organizers, host countries, host cities, players, and fans contribute in creating another exciting chapter of European football.
31 matches will be played during Euro 2012, with Ukraine hosting 16 matches and Poland 15. The breakdown of hosting duties is as follows:
Warsaw: 3 group matches including the opening match, quarter-final, and semi-final (5 matches in total)
Gdańsk: 3 group matches and a quarter-final
Wrocław: 3 group matches
Poznań: 3 group matches
Kiev: 3 group matches, quarter-final, semi-final, and final (6 matches in total)
Lviv: 3 group matches
Kharkiv: 3 group matches
Donetsk: 3 group matches and a quarter-final
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