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. Poland and Ukraine will be the host nations of the final tournament, scheduled for the summer of 2012, following the election of their joint-bid by UEFAs Executive Committee, on April 18, 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

The Polish-Ukrainian hosting

is seen as a way of shifting the focus towards regions and nations of eastern Europe, whose population demonstrates a strong feeling for football, but are less developed in terms of the quality of the local leagues and football infrastructure, when compared with western Europe. Apart from Chorzów, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk, the host cities are all popular tourist destinations however it is unclear if they have sufficient experience in accommodating large numbers of visitors for extended stays, and the existing transportation infrastructure within and between both countries is inadequate to allow a rapid flow of people between the venues. In order to improve this situation, the bid plans the expansion and modernization of roads and highways (e.g. Polands southwest–southeast A4 highway [1]). The obligatory improvement of the football infrastructure includes the building of the new Shakhtar Stadium in Donetsk, which fits the 5-star UEFA criteria, and the near-completed 31,000-seat Dnipro Stadium in Dnipropetrovsk.

Kiev NSK Olimpiyskyi 83,450 Ukraine 3 Group Matches, Quarter-Final and Final Donetsk Shakhtar Stadium 50,000 Shakhtar Donetsk 3 Group Matches, Quarter-Final and Semi-Final Lviv Ukraina Stadium 40,000 Karpaty Lviv 3 Group Matches Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro Stadium 34,000 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 3 Group Matches Odessa Chornomorets Stadium 34,362 Chornomorets Odessa reserve(***) Donetsk RSK Olimpiyskyi 34,000 Shakhtar Donetsk reserve(**) Kharkiv Metalist Stadium 42,000 Metalist Kharkiv reserve(**)(***) Euro 2012 is currently set to feature 16 national teams, as has been the format since 1996. Many European football associations were in favour of expanding the tournament to 24 teams due to the much-increased number of UEFA members in recent years (53 in April 2006 compared to 33 prior to the break up of the USSR[2] and of Yugoslavia). However, on April 17, 2007, UEFAs Executive Committee formally decided against an expansion in 2012.[3] Analysts suspect the decision may be reversed, since it was one of the electoral promises of both Platini and his rival, former UEFA president Lennart Johansson, and more than forty F.A.s backed the proposal.[4]

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