UEFA Euro 2012

The **UEFA Euro 2012** was the 14th UEFA European Football Championship tournament. Its formal name was _2012 UEFA European Football Championship_. It was held in 8 June to 1 July. All the European football teams could compete. In general the contet of match was more higher than FIFA World Cup. The defending champion was Spain. The tournament was hosted in Poland and Ukraine. 16 teams were qualified for the final group stage. The winner of competition qualifies for the FIFA Confederations Cup.

## Qualification

51 teams wanted to join the Euro 2012, so UEFA organized the teams into 9 groups. Qualification began on August 2010 and ended on November 2011. The following teams qualified:

## Venues

There were 8 stadiums in 8 host cities. The host cities were Warsaw, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Poznań, Kyiv, Lviv, Donetsk and Kharkiv. The Euro 2012 allowed new stadiums to be built. Six of the eight stadiums are either completely new, or greatly improved. Below is a table that will show what stadiums are being used, and in which cities.

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|Warsaw|Gdańsk|Wrocław|Poznań|
|**National Stadium** Capacity: **58,500**|**PGE Arena** Capacity: **43,600**|**Municipal Stadium** Capacity: **42,800**|**Municipal Stadium** Capacity: **43,300**|
|3 matches in Group A (including opening match), 1 quarter-final and 1 semi-final|3 matches in Group C and 1 quarter-final|3 matches in Group A|3 matches in Group C|
|}||||
|Kyiv|Donetsk|Kharkiv|Lviv|
|**Olympic Stadium** Capacity: **60,000**|**Donbas Arena** Capacity: **50,000**|**Metalist Stadium** Capacity: **35,000**|**Arena Lviv** Capacity: **30,000**|
|3 matches in Group D, 1 quarter-final and the final|3 matches in Group D, 1 quarter-final and 1 semi-final|3 matches in Group B|3 matches in Group B|

### Group A

|width="165"|Team|width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left||3|2|0|1|4|5|-1|**6**|||||||||
|align=left||3|1|1|1|3|3|0|**4**|||||||||
|align=left||3|1|1|1|5|3|+2|**4**|||||||||
|align=left||3|0|2|1|2|3|-1|**2**|||||||||

_Greece were placed above Russia based on their head-to-head record (1-0)._

_The Czech Republic became the first team to win a European Championship group with a negative goal difference_

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|8 June 2012|||||
|****|**1–1**|****|||
|****|**4–1**|****|||
|12 June 2012|||||
|****|**1–2**|****|||
|****|**1–1**|****|||
|16 June 2012|||||
|****|**1–0**|****|||
|****|**1–0**|****|||

### Group B

|width=175|Team|width=20 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=20 abbr="Won"|W|width=20 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=20 abbr="Lost"|L|width=20 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=20 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=20 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=20 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Germany|3|3|0|0|5|2|+3|**9**|||||||||
|align=left|Portugal|3|2|0|1|5|4|+1|**6**|||||||||
|align=left|Denmark|3|1|0|2|4|5|–1|**3**|||||||||
|align=left|Netherlands|3|0|0|3|2|5|–3|**0**|||||||||

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|9 June 2012|||||
|****|**0 – 1**|****|||
|****|**1 – 0**|****|||
|13 June 2012|||||
|****|**2 – 3**|****|||
|****|**1 – 2**|****|||
|17 June 2012|||||
|****|**2 – 1**|****|||
|****|**1 – 2**|****|||

### Group C

|width=175|Team|width=20 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=20 abbr="Won"|W|width=20 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=20 abbr="Lost"|L|width=20 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=20 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=20 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=20 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left||3|2|1|0|6|1|+5|**7**|||||||||
|align=left||3|1|2|0|4|2|+2|**5**|||||||||
|align=left||3|1|1|1|4|3|+1|**4**|||||||||
|align=left||3|0|0|3|1|9|–8|**0**|||||||||

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|10 June 2012|||||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||
|****|**1 – 3**|****|||
|14 June 2012|||||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||
|****|**4 – 0**|****|||
|18 June 2012|||||
|****|**0 – 1**|****|||
|****|**2 – 0**|****|||

### Group D

|width=175|Team|width=20 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=20 abbr="Won"|W|width=20 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=20 abbr="Lost"|L|width=20 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=20 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=20 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=20 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left||3|2|1|0|5|3|+2|**7**|||||||||
|align=left||3|1|1|1|3|3|0|**4**|||||||||
|align=left||3|1|0|2|2|4|–2|**3**|||||||||
|align=left|Sweden|3|1|0|2|5|5|0|**3**|||||||||

_Ukraine was placed on top of Sweden, because of their previous match against each other (2 – 1)_

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|11 June 2012|||||
|****|**1 – 1**|****|||
|****|**2 – 1**|****|||
|15 June 2012|||||
|****|**0 – 2**|****|||
|****|**2 – 3**|****|||
|19 June 2012|||||
|****|**1 – 0**|****|||
|****|**2 – 0**|****|||

### Goalscorers

- 3 goals

- Mario Mandžukić
- Mario Gómez

- Mario Balotelli
- Cristiano Ronaldo

- Alan Dzagoev
- Fernando Torres

- 2 goals

- Petr Jiráček
- Václav Pilař
- Nicklas Bendtner
- Michael Krohn-Dehli

- Dimitris Salpingidis
- Xabi Alonso
- Cesc Fàbregas

- David Silva
- Zlatan Ibrahimović
- Andriy Shevchenko

- 1 goal

- Nikica Jelavić
- Andy Carroll
- Joleon Lescott
- Wayne Rooney
- Theo Walcott
- Danny Welbeck
- Yohan Cabaye
- Jérémy Ménez
- Samir Nasri
- Lars Bender
- Sami Khedira
- Miroslav Klose
- Philipp Lahm

- Mesut Özil
- Lukas Podolski
- Marco Reus
- Theofanis Gekas
- Giorgos Karagounis
- Georgios Samaras
- Sean St Ledger
- Antonio Cassano
- Antonio Di Natale
- Andrea Pirlo
- Rafael van der Vaart
- Robin van Persie

- Jakub Błaszczykowski
- Robert Lewandowski
- Pepe
- Hélder Postiga
- Silvestre Varela
- Roman Pavlyuchenko
- Roman Shirokov
- Jordi Alba
- Juan Mata
- Jesús Navas
- Sebastian Larsson
- Olof Mellberg

- 1 own goal

- Glen Johnson (playing against Sweden)

### Final rankings

|width=30 abbr="Position"|Pos|width=210|Team|width=30 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=30 abbr="Won"|W|width=30 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=30 abbr="Lost"|L|width=30 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=30 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=30 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=30 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|align=left||6|4|2|0|12|1|+11|**14**||||||||||
|2|align=left||6|2|3|1|6|7|–1|**9**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in the Semi-finals**|||||||||||||||||||
|3|align=left||5|4|0|1|10|6|+4|**12**||||||||||
|4|align=left||5|3|1|1|6|4|+2|**10**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in the Quarter-finals**|||||||||||||||||||
|5|align=left||4|2|2|0|5|3|+2|**8**||||||||||
|6|align=left||4|2|0|2|4|6|–2|**6**||||||||||
|7|align=left||4|1|1|2|5|7|–2|**4**||||||||||
|8|align=left||4|1|1|2|3|5|–2|**4**||||||||||
|colspan=10 bgcolor=f2f2f2|**Eliminated in the Group stage**|||||||||||||||||||
|9|align=left||3|1|1|1|5|3|+2|**4**||||||||||
|10|align=left||3|1|1|1|4|3|+1|**4**||||||||||
|11|align=left||3|1|0|2|5|5|0|**3**||||||||||
|12|align=left||3|1|0|2|4|5|–1|**3**||||||||||
|13|align=left||3|1|0|2|2|4|–2|**3**||||||||||
|14|align=left||3|0|2|1|2|3|–1|**2**||||||||||
|15|align=left||3|0|0|3|2|5|–3|**0**||||||||||
|16|align=left|Republic of Ireland|3|0|0|3|1|9|–8|**0**||||||||||
<small><li>Rankings are based on performance, not team skill. Also, these rankings are unofficial and are **not based on head-to-head record**.</li></small>

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: UEFA Euro 2012
- **other titles**: Mistrzostwa Europy w piłce nożnej 2012 **'
Чемпіонат Європи з футболу 2012 **'
- **country**: Poland
- **country2**: Ukraine
- **dates**: 8 June – 1 July
- **num teams**: 16
- **venues**: 8
- **cities**: 8
- **champion**: Spain
- **count**: 3
- **second**: Italy
- **matches**: 31
- **goals**: 76
- **top scorer**: Fernando Torres (3 goals)
- **player**: Andrés Iniesta
- **attendance**: 1440846
- **prevseason**: UEFA Euro 2008, 2008
- **nextseason**: UEFA Euro 2016, 2016