High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The UEFA Euro 2012 Final was a football match that took place on 1 July 2012 at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, to determine the winner of UEFA Euro 2012.Spain, who defeated Germany 1–0 to win Euro 2008, successfully defended their title with a 4–0 win over Italy, becoming the first team to win two consecutive European Championships, and the first team to win three consecutive major tournaments – Euro 2008, the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012. It was the greatest margin of victory in the history of the European Championship finals, and the fourth time that teams who played each other in the group stage played each other again in the final (1988, 1996 and 2004).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying play-off ties were played over two legs, with the first legs on 11 November and the second legs on 15 November 2011. The four winners are found according to the standard rules for the knockout phase in European competitions, and the winners qualified for the Euro 2012 tournament. Qualifying play-offs was a second stage (round) of UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The knockout stage of UEFA Euro 2012 began with the quarter-finals on 21 June 2012, and was completed on 1 July 2012 with the final at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, won by Spain 4–0 against Italy. After the completion of the group stage on 19 June 2012, eight teams qualified for the quarter-finals (two from each group), which are to be played from 21 to 24 June 2012. Host nations Poland and Ukraine failed to qualify for the quarter-finals, making it only the third time in European Championship history that the host nation(s) failed to make it out of the group stage; at Euro 2000, co-host Belgium were eliminated at the group stage, and at Euro 2008, co-hosts Austria and Switzerland also failed...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! UEFA Euro 2012 — компьютерная игра, официальный симулятор Чемпионата Европы по футболу 2012. Впервые Electronic Arts выпускает «UEFA Euro» не отдельной игрой, а платным загружаемым дополнением для FIFA 12. Игра была выпущена 24 апреля 2012 года. Доступна на английском, французском, немецком, итальянском, испанском, голландском, русском и польском языках.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The qualifying competition for UEFA Euro 2012 was a series of parallel association football competitions held over 2010 and 2011 to decide the qualifiers for UEFA Euro 2012, held in Poland and Ukraine. The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 7 February 2010 in the Congress Hall of the Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, with matches set to take place between August 2010 and November 2011.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Group D of UEFA Euro 2012 began on 11 June 2012 and ended on 19 June 2012. The pool was made up of Ukraine, Sweden, France and England. The top two teams, England and France, progressed to the quarter-finals to play Italy and Spain respectively, while Ukraine and Sweden were eliminated from the tournament.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Group B of UEFA Euro 2012 began on 9 June 2012 and ended on 17 June 2012. The pool was made up of the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Portugal. Germany and Portugal progressed to the quarter-finals, while Denmark and the Netherlands were eliminated from the tournament.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Group A of UEFA Euro 2012 was played from 8 to 16 June 2012. The pool was made up of co-host Poland, Czech Republic, Greece and Russia. The top two finishing teams, Czech Republic and Greece, progressed to the quarter-finals, while Russia and Poland were eliminated from the tournament.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The bidding process for UEFA Euro 2012 ended on 18 April 2007 when a joint-bid from Poland and Ukraine was selected as the host.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Damien Anthony Duff (born 2 March 1979) is an Irish footballer who plays for Premier League team Fulham. He played international football for Ireland for 14 years and participated in the 2002 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2012 competition, during which he captained the team. He is a member of the FIFA Century Club, having making his 100th international appearance against Italy at UEFA Euro 2012.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2011–12 Czech Republic Football Cup was the nineteenth season of the annual football knock-out tournament of the Czech Republic. The draw for the whole competition was made on 8 July 2011. It began on 24 July 2011 with the Preliminary Round and was due conclude with the final on 16 May 2012, however due to the Czech Republic`s qualification for UEFA Euro 2012, the final was brought forward to 2 May 2012. The winners of the competition will qualify for the third qualifying round of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2011–12 Belgian Cup (also known as Cofidis Cup because of sponsoring purposes) is the 57th season of the main knockout football competition in Belgium. It commenced on 31 July 2011 with the first matches of Round 1 and concluded on 24 March 2012, which is exceptionally early, but was chosen to make sure all matches would be finished before the start of the UEFA Euro 2012 tournament. The winner of the competition qualifies for the play-off round of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.