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UEFA Euro 2012

The 14th final of European Football Championship is organised jointly by two countries: Poland and Ukraine. Anticipated, still informal term of the final, is the time from 9 June 2012 (the opening match in Warsaw) to 1 July 2012 (final meeting). If everything goes according to the plan, Euro 2012 will take place at eight stadiums: National Stadium in Warsaw, PGE Arena Gdańsk, Municipal Stadium in Poznań, Stadium in Maślice in Wrocław, Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Donbass Arena in Donetsk, Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv and brand new stadium in Lviv. Majority, 5 of 8 stadiums prepared for Euro 2012 will be completely new objects. The rest will undergo the thorough renovation.

PGE Arena Gdańsk

The project of  PGE Arena Gdansk is already known. Designed for 40 thousand spectators, the stadium in Letnica in Gdańsk resembles with shape the lump of amber. The project has been prepared by a well-known German architectural office, 'Rhode-Kellermann-Wawrowsky' from Duesseldorf, which cooperated in creation such football stadiums as the 'Arena auf Schalke' in Gelsenkirchen, and the 'AWD Arena' in Hanover.

PGE Arena Gdansk
Years of construction: 2008-2011
Construction cost: 521 794 000 PLN gross
Owner: Gdańsk city
Capacity: ME 2012: 41.582, other matches: 43.608
Dimensions of the pitch 105 m x 68 m
Surface: grass

Procedure for selection of the host

To choose the host of Euro 2012, UEFA established the official rules of procedure. On 1 February 2004 the organization has implemented a formal procedure for receiving applications and on 16 December 2004 sent to all of its members (52 national federations) the official invitation for tendering and participation in the competition proceedings. Initially, the willingness to organize the finals of Euro 2012 have expressed the 12 countries that submitted 9 nominations for the UEFA (6 single and 3 double):

Before the initial selection Scotland and Ireland has been excluded from the further proceedings because they did not keep the time limit for the submission of official offers (January 31, 2005). The rest of eight candidates had to make a documentation of the organizational capabilities required for the first phase. Azerbaijan, Russia and Romania had not provided the required documents in time and been therefore excluded from the group of bidders. So to the first phase - launched on 7 November 2005 - has been selected 5 candidates:

To the second and final stage the UEFA Executive Committee decided to select 3 candidates: Italian (11 votes); Croatia-Hungary (9 votes) and also the Polish-Ukrainian (7 votes). Greece (with 2 votes) and Turkey (with 6 votes) were eliminated. In connection with football corruption scandal in Italy, there were speculation that the candidature could be withdrawn, but Italians participated in the contest till the end.

Originally, it was planned to appoint the host of Euro 2012 on 8 December 2006 but for formal and organisational reasons the deadline was postponed by more than 4 months to 18 April 2007. On 17 April 2007 began the two-days congress (started with the final presentation of all three bidders), during which it had to come – by voting -  to choose the best candidate. At the selection day (18 April 2007) the voting committee was composed of 12 representatives, being regular members of executive committee UEFA:

Actual members of the UEFA were also Grigoriy Surkis and Franco Carraro. However, due to a real conflict of interest, they could not take an active part in the vote. Other members of the voter committee could cast one vote to one of three final candidates. The entire voting procedure was done in secret. In order to determine the winner, it was necessary to have the quorum (8 persons) and the choice made by an absolute majority. In the event that in the first round the winner would not be selected, the procedure provided for the jury a second round of voting - to choose one of the two top rated offers. In the case of a tie in the second round, the casting vote lay in the hands of UEFA President - Michel Platini, who would point the winner by revealing his choice.

By a vote of 8 to 4 to 0 won a joint bid of Poland and Ukraine, so the second round of voting was not necessary. Results of pre-selection and voting in the 1st and 2nd phase of the competition are shown in the table below:

Kandydatura	Selekcja wstępna	I faza selekcji	II faza selekcji
Poland /  Ukraine	+	7	8
Italy	+	11	4
Croatia / Hungry	+	9	0
Turkey	+	6	—
Greece	+	2	—
Azerbaijan	×	—	—
Romania	×	—	—
Russia	×	—	—

source: www.wikipedia.pl