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. This bid was chosen by UEFA's Executive Committee in 2007.

This will be the last European Championship finals tournament to contain 16 nations; 24 will compete from Euro 2016 onward. 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 will earn the right to compete for the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup hosted by Brazil.

So, as it happened, here is the complete group



Fixtures

UEFA

Let's discuss on each team their chance at forthcoming EURO2012

For those who likes to keep the scoreline, here's your complete file

Scorecard

This post has been edited by halu_cf: Apr 4 2012, 12:16 AM

Spain...

As expected hehe
I do hope Germany again to challenge them. They also have young talents.

PLAYOFF

The runners-up from eight of the nine groups will contest a two-legged play-off. The four winning teams will qualify for the finals.
The draw for the play-offs will be made on Thursday October 13.
The first leg will be played on November 11 and 12 and the second leg on November 15.

Croatia
Portugal
Czech Republic
Turkey
Ireland
Bosnia
Montenegro
Estonia

portugal vs bosnia maybe.. hehe

This post has been edited by repasi: Oct 13 2011, 11:18 AM

Thanks. I added ur reply to 1st post. Hope u don't mind

Seeing two potential teams next year, Spain & Netherlands to run riot. If giants like Germany, Italy could play well and compete , they could go far.

England could be well on course for a 2nd round, can't see them going further than 2nd stage.

im hoping to see Bosnia team playing in Euro 2012. If not for the bias refereeing they could've won in France & finish top of the group.

Also minnows like Montenegro got some big names on their team like Mirko Vucinic, Stevan Jovetic, Simon Vukcevic & Stefan Savic to name a few..

Both Montenegro & Bosnia replacing Czech Rep @ Croatia in the tournament sounds like new breeze of air to me..

hope england can do something this time

Estonia & Montenegro are the surprise team in play-off, managed to qualify ahead the like of Swiss & Serbia. I think Montenegro can go through to finals.

btw all 8 teams will be seeded based on their world rankings right?
if dat the case the pot shud looks like this

Pot A - Portugal, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro.
Pot B - Turkey, Rep of Ireland, Czech Rep, Estonia.

Nope.

Play-off draw
Pot 1 (seeded teams)
Croatia (coefficient 32.723)
Portugal (31.202)
Republic of Ireland (28.203)
Czech Republic (27.982)

Pot 2 (unseeded teams)
Turkey (27.601)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (27.199)
Montenegro (21.876)
Estonia (20.355)

Based on their coefficient

erm..if like dat then we'll have
probably Croatia-Estonia, Portugal-Bosnia(rematch from WC play-off), Czech Rep-Turkey, Ireland-Montenegro

GERMANY!!

i hope england crash on group stage...

The Three lions!!!!

on unrelated news,England will have friendlies with Japan and Spain for their preparation for Euro,

cheer lads! be the 12th man!

draw result:

source

Play-off draw
Turkey v Croatia
Estonia v Republic of Ireland
Czech Republic v Montenegro
Bosnia and Herzegovina v Portugal

First legs: 11/12 November
Second legs: 15 November

just wondering, all the unseeded teams will be the host for the 1st leg except montenegro (they will play against czech republic in prague for the first leg). anyone know why?

no

they might perform as the bad temper kid is not playing

Few possibilities:
1. He's not even selected in 23-man squad. Good news for Utd, he can be fresh for next season .
2. He's selected but England crash in group stage, due to no firepower upfront. People blame him for this incident .
3. Selected and England through to 2nd round, he can get ready and still fresh to lead .

the point 2 if really happen will show how poor england is ... totally 1 man show

anyway if england to go to next round, fabio sure will retain his main strikers unless the goals are coming from midfielders

means rooney only can come on as substitute

i hope england don't become like last time, whether shearer good or bad form also can play

What will Capello do? Recalled Crouch, Defoe, Heskey? Or rely on youngters like Welbeck, Wickham? Or even Bent, Agbonlahor who still not tested on bigger tournament.
Whatever it is, I'm sure Rooney is their best attacker by far. But he seems fail to deliver in tournament apart from EURO2004 I think.