tourney name	UEFA Euro 2012
other titles	Mistrzostwa Europy w piłce nożnej 2012 ''''Чемпіонат Європи по футболу 2012 ''''
size	200px
country	Poland
country2	Ukraine
dates	8 June – 1 July
num teams	16
venues	8
cities	8
prevseason	2008
nextseason	2016 }}

The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2012, will be the 14th European Championship for national football teams organised by UEFA. The final tournament will be hosted by Poland and Ukraine between 8 June and 1 July 2012. It is the first time that either nation has hosted the tournament. This bid was chosen by UEFA's Executive Committee in 2007.

The final tournament features 16 nations, the last European Championship to do so (from Euro 2016 onward, there will be 24 finalists). 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 gains automatic entry to the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup hosted by Brazil.

Host selection[link]

The joint Poland–Ukraine bid was chosen by a vote of the UEFA Executive Committee at a meeting in Cardiff on 18 April 2007, defeating both Italy and a Croatia–Hungary bid. Poland–Ukraine became the third successful joint bid for the European Championship, after those of Belgium–Netherlands (2000) and Austria–Switzerland (2008). Italy had been considered favourites to win the hosting but incidents of fan violence and a match fixing scandal were widely cited as factors behind their failure.

Venues[link]

Eight cities have been selected by UEFA as host venues. In a return to the format used at Euro 1992, Euro 1996 and Euro 2008, each of the four groups will be based around two stadiums each.

The host cities Warsaw, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Poznań, Kiev, Lviv are all popular tourist destinations, unlike Donetsk and Kharkiv (the latter having replaced Dnipropetrovsk as a host city in 2009).

The obligatory improvement of the football infrastructure includes the building of new stadiums: six of the eight venues are brand new stadiums currently being constructed ready to open in advance of the tournament; the remaining two (in Poznań and Kharkiv) have undergone major renovations to improve them. Three of the stadiums will fulfill the criteria of UEFA's highest category stadiums.

Stadiums[link]

Warsaw	Gdańsk	Wrocław	Poznań

|- | Kiev | Donetsk | Kharkiv | Lviv |- | Olympic StadiumCapacity: 60,000 | Donbass ArenaCapacity: 50,000 | Metalist StadiumCapacity: 35,000 | Arena LvivCapacity: 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 |- | | | | |} Note: Capacity figures are those for matches at UEFA Euro 2012 and are not necessarily the total capacity that the stadium is capable of holding.

Team bases[link]

The "Team Base Camps" are the accommodation and training bases for the teams. From an initial list of 38 potential locations (21 in Poland, 17 in Ukraine), the national associations chose their locations in 2011. 13 will stay in Poland and 3 in Ukraine, in the following towns:

– Warka – Wrocław – Kołobrzeg – Kraków – Donetsk – Gdańsk – Jachranka – Kraków – Kraków – Warsaw – Opalenica – Sopot – Warsaw – Gniewino – Koncha-Zaspa – Kiev

These bases will be the initial destination for all teams upon arrival in the Poland/Ukraine. The teams will then both train and reside in these locations throughout the tournament, traveling to games staged away from their bases.

Qualification[link]

The draw for the UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying competition took place in Warsaw on 7 February 2010. 51 teams entered to compete for the 14 remaining places in the finals, alongside co-hosts Poland and Ukraine. These teams were divided into nine groups, with the draw using the new UEFA national team coefficient for the first time in order to determine the seedings.

The qualifying process began in August 2010 and concluded in November 2011. At the conclusion of the qualifying group stage in October 2011, the nine group winners qualified automatically, with the second placed team with the best ranking also doing so. The remaining eight teams who finished second in their respective groups contested two-legged play-offs, with the winner of each tie qualifying for the finals.

Participating teams[link]

The finals will feature sixteen national teams, as has been the format since 1996. Some European football associations were in favour of expanding the tournament to 24 teams, although the number of UEFA members had hardly increased since the last tournament extension in 1996 (53 in April 2006 compared to 48 for Euro 1996). In April 2007, UEFA's Executive Committee formally decided against an expansion for 2012. Twelve of the sixteen finalists participated at the previous tournament in 2008, with England and Denmark returning having last participated in 2004. The Republic of Ireland return after an absence of 24 years to make their second appearance at a European finals. One of the co-hosts, Ukraine, make their debut as an independent nation, having previously won the inaugural competition in 1960 as part of the Soviet Union.

Euro 2008 winners Spain have qualified to defend their title. They will compete to win an unprecedented third consecutive major tournament, having won both UEFA Euro 2008 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

The sixteen finalists who will participate in the final tournament are: (co-hosts) (defending champions) (co-hosts)

Final draw[link]

The draw for the final tournament took place on 2 December 2011 at the Ukraine Palace of Arts in Kiev, Ukraine. The hour-long ceremony was hosted by Olga Freimut and Piotr Sobczyński, television presenters from the two host countries.

As was the case for the 2004 and 2008 finals, the sixteen finalists were divided into four seeding pots, using the UEFA national team coefficient ranking. As co-hosts, Poland and Ukraine were automatically placed in Pot 1, along with Spain, as the defending champions.

In the draw procedure, each of the four groups had one team drawn from each pot. It also determined which place in the group teams drawn from Pots 2–4 would take (i.e. A2, A3 or A4) to create the match schedule. For logistical reasons, Poland were assigned in advance to A1, and Ukraine to D1. The balls were drawn by four former players who have each been part of European Championship winning teams: Horst Hrubesch, Marco van Basten, Peter Schmeichel and Zinedine Zidane.

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Match officials[link]

UEFA named the twelve referees and four fourth officials for UEFA Euro 2012 on 20 December 2011. Each team is made up of five match officials from the same country: one main referee, two additional assistant referees who are also FIFA referees, and two FIFA assistant referees. In addition, a third assistant referee from each country has also been named, and he will remain on standby until the start of the tournament to take the place of a colleague if required. Continuing the trials carried out in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, the two additional assistant referees will be used on the goal line for the first time in the history of the UEFA European Championship with approval from the International Football Association Board.

! Country	! Referee	! Assistant referees	! Additional assistant referees
	Howard Webb	Michael MullarkeyPeter KirkupStephen Child (standby)	Martin AtkinsonMark Clattenburg
	Stéphane Lannoy	Eric DansaultFrédéric CanoMichael Annonier (standby)	Fredy FautrelRuddy Buquet
	Wolfgang Stark	Jan-Hendrik SalverMike PickelMark Borsch (standby)	Florian MeyerDeniz Aytekin
	Viktor Kassai	Gábor ErősGyörgy RingRóbert Kispál (standby)	István VadTamás Bognár
	Nicola Rizzoli	Renato FaveraniAndrea StefaniLuca Maggiani (standby)	Gianluca RocchiPaolo Tagliavento
	Björn Kuipers	Sander van RoekelErwin ZeinstraNorbertus Simons (standby)	Pol van BoekelRichard Liesveld
	Pedro Proença	Bertino MirandaRicardo SantosTiago Trigo (standby)	Jorge SousaDuarte Gomes
		Alasdair RossDerek RoseGraham Chambers (standby)	William CollumEuan Norris
	Damir Skomina	Primoz ArharMarko StancinMatej Žunič (standby)	Matej JugSlavko Vinčič
	Carlos Velasco Carballo	Roberto Alonso FernándezJuan Carlos Yuste JiménezJesús Calvo Guadamuro (standby)	David Fernández BorbalánCarlos Clos Gómez
		Stefan WittbergMathias KlaseniusFredrik Nilsson (standby)	Markus StrömbergssonStefan Johannesson
	Cüneyt Çakır	Bahattin DuranTarık OngunMustafa Emre Eyisoy (standby)	Hüseyin GöçekBülent Yıldırım

Four match officials which will only serve as fourth officials and four reserve assistant referees were also named.

! Country	! Fourth official
	Pavel Královec
	Tom Harald Hagen
	Marcin Borski
	Viktor Shvetsov

! Country	! Reserve assistant referee
	Damien MacGraith
	Marcin Borkowski
	Roman Slysko
	Oleksandr Voytyuk

Squads[link]

Each nation had to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom have to be goalkeepers, by 28 May 2012.

Group stage[link]

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) in Poland and Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3) in Ukraine.

;Tie-breaking criteria If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings: # Higher number of points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question; # Superior goal difference resulting from the matches played between the teams in question (if more than two teams finish equal on points); # Higher number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question (if more than two teams finish equal on points); # If, after having applied criteria 1) to 3), two teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1) to 3) are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the two teams in question to determine the final rankings of the two teams. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5) to 9) apply in the order given; # superior goal difference in all group matches; # higher number of goals scored in all group matches; # position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system # fair play conduct of the teams (final tournament); # drawing of lots

Note: As all teams have different UEFA national team coefficient, the last two tie-breakers (i.e. fair play conduct and drawing of lots) will never be applied in this tournament.

!Key to colours in group tables

Top two teams progress to the quarter-finals

Bottom two teams are eliminated from the tournament

Group A[link]

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Group B[link]

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Group C[link]

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{|width=100% cellspacing=1 !width=25%| !width=10%| ! |- |10 June 2012 |- style=font-size:90% |align=right|||align=center|Match 5|| |- style=font-size:90% |align=right|||align=center|Match 6|| |- |14 June 2012 |- style=font-size:90% |align=right|||align=center|Match 13|| |- style=font-size:90% |align=right|||align=center|Match 14|| |- |18 June 2012 |- style=font-size:90% |align=right|||align=center|Match 21|| |- style=font-size:90% |align=right|||align=center|Match 22|| |}

Group D[link]

{|width=100% cellspacing=1 !width=25%| !width=10%| ! |- |11 June 2012 |- style=font-size:90% |align=right|||align=center|Match 7|| |- style=font-size:90% |align=right|||align=center|Match 8|| |- |15 June 2012 |- style=font-size:90% |align=right|||align=center|Match 15|| |- style=font-size:90% |align=right|||align=center|Match 16|| |- |19 June 2012 |- style=font-size:90% |align=right|||align=center|Match 23|| |- style=font-size:90% |align=right|||align=center|Match 24|| |}

Knockout phase[link]

Quarter-finals[link]

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Semi-finals[link]

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Final[link]

Broadcasting[link]

TVP will be broadcasting all matches from Poland, while the NTU and TRK will be broadcasting matches in Ukraine.

In January 2012, it was announced that TP (Polish Telecom) and Orange had successfully completed the first phase of tests of the technology infrastructure and services to be provided during the competition to bring connectivity to over twenty locations in Poland (host cities, stadiums, hotels for UEFA representatives) and between Poland and Ukraine.

According to UEFA requirements, TP will ensure approximately 2х70 Gbit/sec data communication speed from Polish stadiums and 2х140 Gbit/sec between Poland and Ukraine. This is required due to the fact that the matches are planned to be broadcast in HD quality. The multilateral production will utilise 31 cameras to cover the action on and around the pitch at every match, with additional cameras following activities around the game, such as team arrivals at the stadiums, interviews, and media conferences.

The official Euro 2012 broadcasting centre will be located at the Expo XXI International Centre in Warsaw.

Miscellaneous[link]

Logo and slogan[link]

The competition slogan, Creating History Together (, / ''Tvorymo istoriyu razom''), was announced along with the logo. The slogan reflects the fact that Poland and Ukraine were united in the past as one country and now represent ambitions of two eastern nations to perform the best tournament in the history of European Championship.

The official logo for the tournament was unveiled at a special event at Mykhailivska Square, Kiev, on 14 December 2009. It takes its visual identity from Wycinanki or Vytynanky, traditional form of paper cutting practised in rural areas of Poland and Ukraine. The art form symbolises the nature of the rural areas of both countries. As part of the event, landmark buildings in the eight host cities were illuminated with the tournament logo.

Match ball[link]

The official match ball for UEFA Euro 2012 is the Adidas Tango 12, which is designed to be easier to dribble and control than the reportedly unpredictable Adidas Jabulani used at the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Mascots[link]

Slavek and Slavko are the official mascots of the UEFA Euro 2012. They are twins and represent Polish and Ukrainian footballers in national colours. The mascots were announced in December 2010. Similarly as in 2008 names Slavek and Slavko were chosen in the web voting, over "Siemko and Strimko" and "Klemek and Ladko". It should be noted, however, that the name of the "Polish" mascot, Slavek, is not Polish. The letter "v" does not exist in the Polish alphabet and is used on a daily basis only in a very limited set of loan words. More importantly, the Polish equivalent of the Ukrainian Slavko would be Sławek, which contains the letter "ł", pronounced quite differently from "l" (in a way its proper pronounciation resembles that of the letter "w" in the word "walk"). UEFA, however, refused to incorporate non-English letters in the mascots' names. They were designed by Warner Bros.

Ticketing[link]

Tickets were sold directly by UEFA via its website, or are to be distributed by the football associations of the 16 finalists. Applications had to be made during March 2011 for the 1.4 million tickets available for the 31 tournament matches. Over 12 million applications were received, which represented a 17% increase on the 2008 finals, and an all-time record for the UEFA European Championship. Owing to this over-subscription for the matches, lotteries were carried out to allocate tickets.

Prices varied from €30 (£25) (for a seat behind the goals at a group match) to €600 (£513) (for a seat in the main stand at the final). In addition to individual match tickets, fans could buy packages to see either all matches played by one team, or all matches at one specific venue.

In May 2012, UEFA will start sending tickets to fans which bought tickets also immediately UEFA will start selling additional tickets on ticketing website.

Trophy[link]

The Henri Delaunay Trophy began a journey through the host cities seven weeks before the start of the tournament. A hundred days before the first match a hot air balloon in the shape of the trophy was flown in Nyon, Switzerland and will visit 14 cities throughout the host countries, reminding spectators of the impending tournament. On 20 April 2012 the trophy tour started and visited Warsaw, Wrocław, Gdańsk, Poznań, Kraków, Katowice and Łódź cities. After the Polish cities, the trophy visited seven Ukrainian cities: Kiev, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Odesa.

Merchandising[link]

UEFA signed a worldwide licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to help promote the tournament. Warner Bros. agreed to license the following to the third parties: Accessories, Apparel, Automotive accessories, Baby personal care and accessories, Bags, Computer accessories, Drinking vessels, Footwear, General souvenirs, Home textiles, Houseware products and accessories, Jewellery, Publications, Sports accessories, Stationery and writing instruments, Toys and games.

Music[link]

The official Euro 2012 song is "Endless Summer" by the German singer Oceana. In addition, UEFA has retained the melody that was composed by Rollo Armstrong of Faithless on its behalf for the 2008 tournament.

The official Polish song for the tournament is "Koko Euro Spoko" by the folk band Jarzębina. The Republic of Ireland has also produced an official song: "The Rocky Road to Poland" recorded by a collaboration of Irish performers has already reached number 1 in Ireland. In Spain, the broadcasting company Mediaset España commissioned the song "No hay 2 sin 3", performed by David Bisbal and Cali & El Dandee and produced by RedOne.

Infrastructure[link]

In preparation for the tournament, the transport system in Poland and Ukraine has been extensively modified to cope with the large influx of football fans. 1.4 million tickets have been sold for the games, and over 20,000 people are forecast to cross the Poland-Ukraine border each day during the tournament.

UEFA required both host nations to renovate their infrastructure – motorways, train stations and airport terminals – surrounding the host cities.

The cost of these infrastructure projects is considerable. In Poland the total cost of key works is forecast to exceed €18 billion. The President of Ukraine confirmed that his country had spent almost €3.3 billion on infrastructure.

Holocaust Memorial[link]

Delegations including the German, the Italian, the Dutch and the English, will visit the Auschwitz concentration camp, before the start of the tournament, to pay tribute to the murdered Poles and Jews. The camp is the most well-known of a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by and in the Third Reich during the Second World War.

Concerns and controversies[link]

After Poland and Ukraine were chosen by a vote of the UEFA Executive Committee as host countries for Euro 2012, several issues arose, mostly on the Ukrainian side. Preparation work proceeded more speedily in Poland than in Ukraine and, following a visit in April 2009, Platini announced that all was on track and he saw no major problems. UEFA confirmed the appointment of the Polish cities of Warsaw, Poznań, Wrocław and Gdańsk. At the same meeting, an appeal for the delayed decision on the Ukrainian venues was granted to Lviv, Donetsk and Kharkiv in order to meet specific conditions regarding infrastructure, with a warning that only Kiev and the best prepared city of the other candidates would otherwise be used if issues were not resolved by the end of November.

Claimed problems in preparation[link]

In January 2008, UEFA president Michel Platini warned the organisers of the need to avoid "critical slippages" in their preparations, prompting Scotland to volunteer as an alternative host twice. However, by June 2008, UEFA stated they were "not discussing any plan B in terms of new countries" hosting.

Ukraine reported several problems which threatened their ability to co-host, including delays in the renovation of Kiev’s Olympic Stadium, and difficulties funding infrastructure work after the economic crisis struck. After an inspection in April 2009, Platini re-affirmed that Ukraine would remain co-host, hinting that most matches could go to Poland. Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, stated that his country would be capable of the task, but was committed to the original plans, as was the PZPN.

In September 2009, Platini announced that "Ukraine has made sudden progress in their efforts to stage the tournament," and it was soon confirmed that their four cities (Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kiev and Lviv) would host matches. Kiev was also confirmed to host the Final.

An interview Platini gave to the German FA in May 2010, suggesting that Germany and Hungary could replace Ukraine unless improvements were made, cast new doubt on their readiness. However, by August, Platini revisited that and stated "You can consider that the ultimatum no longer exists," and that he was optimistic about preparations in both countries and saw no major obstacles. After a UEFA delegation visited Ukraine in September 2011, he stated the country was "virtually ready for Euro 2012".

Suspension of PZPN[link]

In September 2008 Polish government suspended the Polish Football Association (PZPN) over corruption issues and assigned an administrator to fight against corruption in football. UEFA swiftly issued a letter warning that it risked losing the right to co-host. The decision of Drzewiecki, Polish Minster for Sport, remained unchanged.

Boycott calls[link]

Following Yulia Tymoshenko's hunger strike which started on 20 April 2012 and her mistreatment in a Ukrainian prison, there have been growing calls to boycott the Euro 2012 in Ukraine. The European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, the Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding and Androulla Vassiliou the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth have announced they will boycott the tournament in Ukraine. The Austrian Chancellor, Werner Faymann, announced in May that Austrian government officials would not attend the tournament as a "political signal". Belgium's government officials have announced they will boycott games held in Ukraine, with Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders calling on Ukraine's government to respect all of Tymoshenko's rights. Germany has announced that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit would depend on Tymoshenko's release, and she has urged her ministers to do the same. Germany's Interior and sports minister Hans-Peter Friedrich will boycott the Germany v Netherlands match in Kharkiv. The manager of Bayern Munich has called on the president of UEFA to condemn Ukraine's authoritarian regime, and the manager of Borussia Dortmund has stated that he will boycott the event. However, German sports officials have said that such boycotts are ineffective and the event should go ahead. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has criticised calls for a boycott saying that they are inappropriate, but added that Ukraine's reputation will "suffer dramatically" without a solution. Poland's opposition party is in favour of boycotting matches in Ukraine to change decision about Yulia Tymoshenko.

Ukraine has compared the threats of boycott by European powers as a return to Cold War tactics. In a statement UEFA says it has "alerted the Ukrainian delegation about the concerns raised by the political situation in Ukraine among European politicians and media", but that "UEFA has no position and will not take any regarding the political situation in Ukraine, and will not interfere with internal government matters." Meanwhile the heads of state of Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Slovenia reportedly turned down an invitation to attend a summit of central and eastern leaders that Ukraine was due to hold. The European Union asserted that all its commissioners would boycott the events in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin reacted in saying that the boycott call was wrong and offered to give Tymoshenko medical treatment in his country, this was rejected. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry added that the threat of boycott could "hurt mutual understanding" and that they "view as destructive attempts to politicise sporting events, which since ancient times have played a paramount role in improving understanding and agreement between nations. An attack on this big dream undermines the chances of...all the former Socialist Bloc members to prove that their economic, human and scientific potential can turn them from the debtors of Europe to its engine of growth."

Racism, antisemitism and hooliganism[link]

On 28 May 2012, BBC current affairs programme ''Panorama'' examined the issues of racism, antisemitism and football hooliganism which it stated were prevalent among Polish and Ukrainian supporters. The programme, titled ''Euro 2012: Stadiums of Hate'', included recent footage of supporters chanting various antisemitic slogans and displays of white power symbols and banners. The documentary recorded widespread Nazi salutes, ''Sieg Heil'' chants, antisemitism and monkey noise taunts of black players. FC Metalist Kharkiv supporters were seen violently assaulting a group of Asian students at the Metalist Oblast Sports Complex, one of the stadiums hosting matches in Ukraine.

Various governments including France, Denmark and the United Kingdom have warned fans about the risk of racial violence. Anti-discrimination training is being provided for 80,000 police officers and match stewards in Ukraine, where the police attitude towards hate crimes has been previously criticised by the US State Department, who said: "The police and government's slow response to hate crimes is a continuing concern. Although senior government officials have publicly deplored these hate crimes, street-level law enforcement officials are either unwilling or unable to deter hate crimes effectively or protect racial minorities adequately."

The documentary was criticised as unfair by the Euro 2012 organisers. Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman Oleh Voloshyn responded that the allegations were an "invented and mythical problem",and that "Nazi symbols can be seen at ... any match in England". Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated: "Nobody who comes to Poland will be in any danger because of his race. This is not our custom, as is not pointing out similar incidents in other countries." Serhiy Pohotov, the head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's Public Safety Department, said: "We have a sufficient number of police officers to properly respond to all reports. The information voiced [about possible racially-motivated provocations and disturbances] is being checked. Currently we have no such data that mass disturbances or provocations are being planned against dark-skinned people."

Stan Collymore responded to the program on twitter, asking "Will BBC be showing London riot videos pre Olympics? Highlighting racist Twitter abuse to black Britons? Showing "Paki/BNP" on estate walls?". Aviram Baruchyan, an Israeli player who plays as a midfielder for Polonia Warsaw was interviewed and told the program that he had never been harassed due to his ethnicity. His statement was cut from the show, as were the statistics provided by Polish police which showed that the number of racist incidence at matches has fallen over the last decade. Polish sports journalist Rafał Stec suggested filming a similar documentary about racism in British football, which would highlight the alleged racist comments made in 2011 and 2012 by top British footballers, as well as Arsenal fans' chants about Auschwitz directed at Tottenham Hotspurs fans and players.

Animal cruelty[link]

Ukraine has come under criticism from animal welfare organisations for killing stray cats and dogs in order to prepare for Euro 2012. On 13 November 2011 the Ukrainian Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources announced they would immediately stop and prohibit the killing of stray dogs. Mykola Zlochevsky, minister of the environment, said that amendments would be made to the Ukrainian legislation regarding the treatment of stray animals. The minister also agreed a programme of construction for new animal shelters, the first to be completed by June 2012, and the introduction of new legislation making it "compulsory for city mayors to enforce such new regulations or run the risk of facing prosecution." People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claimed in December that dogs were still being killed in preparation for the tournament.

Terrorism[link]

On 27 April 2012, four bombs went off in Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine (which is not a host city). At least 29 people were injured in what was described as a terrorist attack. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said that there would be an "adequate" response. Hryhoriy Surkis, the head of the Ukrainian Football Federation, said that he "think[s] the people who committed this brutal crime...are also accomplices to an attack on the image of our country ahead of the Euro-2012." UEFA responded to the incident saying that it as confident of having a "smooth and festive tournament," however, should the political situation become more unstable, UEFA is reported to be open to the idea of the postponing the event to 2013. Following serious security concerns, Angel Maria Villar, the Spanish Football Federation president, has reportedly offered to stage Euro 2012 in Spain.

Protests[link]

The FEMEN group has protested against a feared surge in prostitution and what they argue are Ukrainian government moves to legalise prostitution during the championships. Activists staged several topless protests, some on the Euro 2012 trophy while it was on public display. The group asked UEFA and the Ukrainian government to create a social program devoted to the problem of sex tourism and prostitution in Ukraine; to inform football fans that prostitution is illegal in Ukraine; and to take additional steps to fight against prostitution and sex tourism.

Hotels overcharging[link]

In April 2012, while on an inspection trip to the host city of Lviv, UEFA president Michel Platini labelled hoteliers as "bandits and crooks" for raising hotel prices in Ukraine for Euro 2012. President Yanukovych ordered his government to prevent hoteliers from charging inflated prices. Some hoteliers had increased prices eighty-fold, causing Prime Minister Mykola Azarov to warn that state control of hotel tariffs might be introduced. Later that month, Markian Lubkivsky, head of the Euro 2012 organizing committee in Ukraine, said hotel and hostel prices were no longer "critically" inflated.

Toxic jerseys [link]

In June 2012, the BEUC, Europe's consumer watchdog, issued a warning about chemicals found in football jerseys produced by Adidas, Nike, and Puma. The BEUC expressed the most concern about Polish jerseys, saying they should be banned because they were found to contain organotin, which is toxic to the nervous system. Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Russian, French, and Italian jerseys were found to contain lead, Portuguese and Dutch jerseys contained nickel, and Spanish and Italian shirts also contained nonylphenol.

References[link]

External links[link]

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playername	Ian Wright
fullname	Ian Edward Wright
dateofbirth	November 03, 1963
cityofbirth	Woolwich, London
countryofbirth	England
height
position	Striker
currentclub	Milton Keynes Dons(First-Team Coach)
years1	1985–1991
years2	1991–1998
years3	1998–1999
years4	1999
years5	1999–2000
years6	2000
clubs1	Crystal Palace
clubs2	Arsenal
clubs3	West Ham United
clubs4	→ Nottingham Forest (loan)
clubs5	Celtic
clubs6	Burnley
caps1	225
goals1	90
caps2	221
goals2	128
caps3	22
goals3	9
caps4	10
goals4	5
caps5	8
goals5	3
caps6	15
goals6	4
totalcaps	501
totalgoals	239
nationalyears1	1989–1992
nationalyears2	1991–1998
nationalteam1	England B
nationalteam2	England
nationalcaps1	3
nationalgoals1	0
nationalcaps2	33
nationalgoals2	9 }}

Ian Edward Wright, MBE is a former English professional footballer turned television and radio personality and currently part-time first-team coach of Milton Keynes Dons

Wright enjoyed success with London clubs Crystal Palace and Arsenal, spending six years with the former and seven years with the latter. With Arsenal he has lifted the Premier League title and both major domestic trophies, and the European Cup Winners Cup. He played 581 league games, scoring 387 goals for seven clubs in Scotland and England and earned 33 caps for the English national team.

He also played in the Premier League for West Ham United and Nottingham Forest, the Scottish Premier League for Celtic and the Football League for Burnley.

After retiring from the game he has been active in the media, usually in football related TV and radio shows. His son, Bradley and stepson, Shaun are both professional footballers.

Early life[link]

Wright came to professional football relatively late. Despite having had trials at Southend United and Brighton during his teens, he was unable to attract sufficient interest to win a professional contract offer. Reverting to playing for amateur and non-league teams, he was left disillusioned about his chances of a career as a professional footballer.

He spent two weeks in Chelmsford Prison for driving without tax or insurance.

Club career[link]

Crystal Palace[link]

A Crystal Palace talent scout, Peter Prentice, happened to see Wright playing for Dulwich Hamlet and invited him to have a trial at Selhurst Park. Having impressed then-manager Steve Coppell, he signed professional terms for Crystal Palace in August 1985, just three months short of his 22nd birthday.

He quickly made his mark in his first season, scoring nine goals to finish as Palace's second-highest scorer. When Mark Bright arrived on the Palace scene the following year the duo soon established a successful striking partnership and it was largely their goals which took the club to top flight via the playoffs in 1989. Wright was particularly instrumental that season, scoring 24 goals in the Second Division and a grand total of 33 in all competitions.

Wright was called up for England B duty in December 1989 but a twice-cracked shin bone reduced his initial impact in the First Division. However, after recovering from the injury he made a dramatic appearance as a 'super-sub', in the 1990 FA Cup Final against Manchester United. He equalised for Palace a few minutes after coming onto the field forcing extra time, then putting them ahead in extra time. The eventual score was 3–3, but Palace lost the replay 1–0.

The next season he gained full international honours, and reached a hundred goals for Crystal Palace. He scored twice as Palace beat Everton to win the Zenith Data Systems Cup at Wembley. Wright became renowned for his deadly striking ability, as shown when he scored a hat-trick in just eighteen minutes in Palace's penultimate game of the 1990–91 season away to Wimbledon.

Wright scored 117 goals in 253 starts and 24 substitute appearances over six seasons for The Eagles in all competitions, making him the club's record post-war goalscorer and third on the all-time list. In 2005, he was voted into their Centenary XI and was named as their "Player of The Century".

Arsenal[link]

Wright signed for Arsenal in September 1991 for £2.5 million, which was at the time a club record fee. He scored on his debut against Leicester City in a League Cup tie, and then scored a hat-trick on his League debut against Southampton. He won the Golden Boot in his first season by scoring 29 league goals, five of which were for Palace, and 31 in all competitions. He scored a hat-trick in the final game of the season against Southampton; his third goal being the last ever scored in the old First Division. As of 2007, only Wright and Teddy Sheringham (1992–93 season) have won the top-flight goalscoring award having scored for two different clubs during the season in question.

Wright went on to be the club's top scorer for six seasons in a row. He played a major part in the club's success during the 1990s, winning an FA Cup and League Cup double in 1993; he scored in both the FA Cup Final and the replay against Sheffield Wednesday. Wright also helped Arsenal reach the 1994 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final, although Wright was suspended for the final in which Arsenal beat Parma 1–0. That season they finished fourth in the Premier League.

Wright scored in every round but the final of Arsenal's 1995 Cup Winners' Cup campaign, and was a strong goalscorer in the Premier League, but it was a difficult time for Arsenal following the dismissal of manager George Graham over illegal payments, and under caretaker Stewart Houston they could only manage a 12th place finish in the league.

The arrival of Bruce Rioch heralded a bleaker time; the two did not get on and eventually Wright handed in a transfer request (which he later retracted). The arrival of Dennis Bergkamp, however, heralded a brief but fruitful striking partnership, and in their first season as a partnership they helped Arsenal finish fifth in the league and qualify for the UEFA Cup. They also reached the Coca-Cola Cup semi-finals, where they went out on away goals to eventual winners Aston Villa.

By the time Arsène Wenger had arrived at Arsenal in September 1996, Wright was nearly 33. Despite his age, he continued to score regularly (being the second highest Premier League scorer in 1996–97 with 23 goals), and on 13 September 1997 he broke Cliff Bastin's Arsenal goalscoring record with a hat-trick against Bolton Wanderers (a record since surpassed by Thierry Henry in October 2005). A couple of months later he suffered a bad hamstring injury which ruled him out of the club's run-in to a League and Cup Double; Wright was named as a substitute in the cup final against Newcastle United but did not play.

Wright scored a total of 185 goals for Arsenal in 279 starts and 9 substitute appearances. His final goal at Highbury came on 4 October 1997 against Barnsley and was his 300th career goal for both Crystal Palace and Arsenal. He scored his final goal for Arsenal on 6 January 1998 in a League Cup quarter-final victory against West Ham United at the Boleyn Ground. In his absence, Arsenal were eliminated from the League Cup in the semi-final by Chelsea, ending their hopes of a unique domestic treble.

On 15 July 2008, he finished 4th in 50 Greatest Gunners listed on the Arsenal website.

Later career[link]

In July 1998, Wright moved to West Ham United for £500,000. He spent fifteen months as a West Ham player without reaching the same form he had at Arsenal. During his spell there he made the headlines for all the wrong reasons when he vandalised the referee's dressing room at Upton Park after being sent off during a match against Leeds United. He had subsequent short spells at Nottingham Forest, Celtic, and Burnley (whom he helped to promotion to Division One) before retiring in 2000. He finished his club career with 313 goals in all competitions.

International career[link]

Wright was handed his England debut by manager Graham Taylor in February 1991. He started in the 2–0 victory against Cameroon at Wembley and helped England reach the finals of Euro 1992 in Sweden. Despite the fact that his international career spanned eight years, 87 matches and three different full-time managers, he only started 17 times and was a used substitute in 16 matches. In each of the seven seasons that followed the 1990 World Cup, Wright never scored fewer than 23 goals a season for his club. He scored 25 goals for Crystal Palace during the 1990-91 campaign before going on to break the 30 club-goal barrier five times in the following six seasons. Despite Wright's goalscoring feats, the most number of games he started for England consecutively was three—something he only did twice.

Taylor, who became England manager after the 1990 World Cup in Italy and remained in charge for 38 matches, only handed Wright nine starts and seven substitute appearances. He opted instead to use a whole host of less prolific strikers, including Nigel Clough of Nottingham Forest, Paul Stewart of Tottenham Hotspur, David Hirst of Sheffield Wednesday and Brian Deane of Sheffield United. Wright did not make it into the squad for Euro 1992 at the expense of Clough, Gary Lineker of Tottenham Hotspur, Alan Shearer of Southampton and Arsenal team mates Alan Smith and Paul Merson. This was particularly surprising as Wright had been the highest top division goalscorer in England that season.

Five of Wright's nine international goals were scored under Taylor's management. These included a vital late equaliser in a 1–1 away draw against Poland in May 1993 and four goals in the 7–1 away win against San Marino in Bologna, Italy, in November 1993, the final match of Taylor's reign as manager. Both matches were qualifiers for the 1994 World Cup in the USA, for which England failed to qualify for the first time since 1978.

Terry Venables replaced Taylor as manager after the unsuccessful 1994 World Cup qualifying campaign but Wright's appearances in the side became even more limited. Despite featuring in four of the first five matches under Venables, albeit three times as a substitute, Wright never played under his management again. Ultimately, it cost Wright a place in the squad for Euro 1996, where England reached the semi-finals as the host nation. Venables vacated his position as England manager after the tournament and was replaced by Glenn Hoddle.

After being absent from international football for 21 consecutive matches, Wright was recalled to the England team by Hoddle in November 1996 when he came off the bench in a 2–0 1998 World Cup qualifying victory in Georgia. It had been over two years since Wright had made his previous England appearance in October 1994.

Four of Wright's nine international goals were scored under Hoddle's management, including the winner in a 2–1 friendly win against South Africa at Old Trafford in May 1997, and the opener a month later in a 2–0 victory over Italy in the Tournoi de France. England won the four-team tournament, staged as a warm-up event to the 1998 World Cup in France, which also included world champions Brazil as well as the hosts.

Wright went on to help England qualify for the 1998 World Cup by scoring two goals in the 4–0 qualifying campaign victory against Moldova at Wembley in September 1997, before producing arguably his best performance for his country in the vital 0–0 draw in Italy, a month later, which secured his country's passage through to the finals. He missed out on the finals, however, with a recurrence of the hamstring injury which had ruled him out for much of Arsenal's double-winning campaign.

Following the 1998 World Cup, Wright went on to play a further two times for England as a West Ham player. He came on as a substitute in the Euro 2000 qualifier in Luxembourg, a match England won 3–0 in October 1998. He made his final international appearance, a month later, in a friendly against the Czech Republic at Wembley. England won the match 2–0 and it also turned out to be Hoddle's final game as manager.

Wright started six matches and was used as a substitute on six occasions under Hoddle, who was manager for 28 matches. He made his first appearance under Hoddle aged 33 and his final appearance under him aged 35. England went on to qualify for Euro 2000 in Belgium and the Netherlands, by which time, Wright was approaching his 37th birthday and retired from club football shortly after the tournament. Only Mick Channon played more times for England without being selected for a World Cup or European Championships squad. However during Channon's England career, which spanned the years 1972-1977, England failed to qualify for either of these tournaments, while during Wright's they qualified for two European Championships and one World Cup.

Director of Football[link]

In March 2007, Wright was appointed Director of Football Strategy of Isthmian League team, Ashford Town, and him taking his place on the Board of Directors, following his purchase of a stake in the club.

Coaching career[link]

On 18th May 2012, it was confirmed that Ian Wright would become a part-time first team coach at Milton Keynes Dons.

Broadcasting career[link]

Television[link]

Wright began his television career as a guest host on Top of the Pops. He was later signed up by ITV to present his own chat show, ''Friday Night's All Wright'', where he interviewed such showbiz greats as Elton John, Mariah Carey and Will Smith which ran for two seasons.

Since then, he has gone on to present programmes such as ''Friends Like These'', ''I'd Do Anything'', ''The National Lottery Wright Ticket'' and ''What Kids Really Think''. He took over from David Seaman in Autumn 2004 as a team captain on BBC game show ''They Think It's All Over'', which ran until 2006.

Wright has also starred in ''Men & Motors'' show ''Wright Across America'', where he fulfils a life long dream to travel coast to coast across America on a ''Harley-Davidson'' motorbike. The show is famous for Wright's rocky relationship with co-host and legendary custom bike builder ''Nicky Bootz''.

He also starred in ''Ian Wright's Excellent Adventure'' in which he travels to Greenland with a friend, 'Mrs C' (Novello Noades, wife of former Crystal Palace chairman Ron Noades), to scale the highest mountain in the Arctic, Gunnbjørn.

Wright appeared as a "celebrity hijacker" in the television series ''Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack''.

On 12 March 2008, Wright was confirmed as one of the presenters of the new series of the popular game show ''Gladiators''.

Wright was a presenter on Channel 5's early evening magazine programme ''Live from Studio Five'', from its launch in September 2009, to August 2010. He originally co-presented the show alongside, former model Melinda Messenger, and runner-up of the ''The Apprentice'', Kate Walsh.

It was announced on 29 January 2010, that Wright’s co-presenter Melinda Messenger was leaving ''Live from Studio Five'' to focus on other projects. After making her final appearance on 26 February 2010, Messenger revealed that she had left the show following a disagreement with Wright. She described their relationship as "intolerable".

Wright continued to present the show, alongside Walsh, and new presenter Jayne Middlemiss. At the beginning of the 12 August 2010 edition of ''Live from Studio Five'', Walsh and Middlemiss announced that Wright would not be presenting the show that evening. At the end of the programme, they revealed that he had left the show, and would not be returning.

It was later revealed that Wright had been sacked from ''Live from Studio Five'', after falling out with the show's bosses, over Channel 5's summer talent show ''Don't Stop Believing''. It was reported that Wright refused to promote the show, on the early evening programme, as he was not a fan of it. Wright was also reported to be unhappy with other changes at the programme, such as its daily airtime being cut from 60 minutes to just 30 minutes.

During a radio interview with ''Absolute Radio'', the day after he was axed, Wright stated that, "It's just been arguments for the last couple of weeks." Wright's contract was due to end in September 2010, but show bosses decided not to renew it. Wright, who was reported to have not found out about his termination from the show, until just hours before he was due to arrive at the studios on Thursday 12 August, made his final appearance on Wednesday 11 August's addition of ''Live from Studio Five''. The show was axed in February 2011.

Wright presented ''Football Behind Bars'', a reality TV series aired on Sky1 about his program to socialize young men incarcerated at Portland Young Offenders Institution in Dorset by organizing them in a football academy. The program was an experiment with the prison authority with an eye to expanding it to other prisons if it was successful. The series ran 6 episodes, aired weekly from 7 September to 12 October 2009.

Wright featured on an episode of BBC's 'Top Gear' in 2005, posting a 1.47.8 on the celebrity power lap times.

Radio[link]

Wright formerly co-hosted the drivetime slot (4-7 pm) Monday to Thursday on Talksport, with Adrian Durham. In 2010 Wright joined ''Absolute Radio Rock 'N' Roll Football'' for post match analysis and hosts this on their new Digital and MW radio station Absolute Extra.

Punditry[link]

Since his retirement from football, Wright appeared as a pundit on BBC Sport's ''International Match of the Day'' and has been a pundit for the 2002 and 2006 World Cups and Euro 2004.

On 17 April 2008, Wright quit his job on ''Match Of The Day'' and criticised the programme for using him as a "comedy jester", saying "Fans want people who are dressed like them. They've got no one to relate to on TV and that's why I've said to them I don't want to do the England games any more."

Commercials[link]

Wright has appeared in television commercials for the chicken sauce, Chicken Tonight, Nescafe and Ladbrokes along with Chris Kamara, Ally McCoist and former Arsenal team mate Lee Dixon.

He also appears in an advertisement for the Nintendo Wii console where he is playing ''Mario Strikers Charged'' and ''Wii Sports'' with his son Shaun.

Writing[link]

While he was still a professional footballer at Arsenal, Wright published his autobiography, ''Mr Wright''. It was first published in hardback in 1996 by Collins Willow when Wright was still a professional player at Arsenal. It was then published in paperback in 1997, which included an all new updated chapter.

In 1993, Wright wrote and released a single called "Do The Right Thing". The song was co-written and produced by Chris Lowe (of Pet Shop Boys) and reached #43 in the UK Singles Chart.

Wright is also a columnist for tabloid newspaper ''The Sun''.

Personal life[link]

Wright's adopted son Shaun Wright-Phillips currently plays for QPR and England. Shaun's half-brother Bradley Wright-Phillips, who is Ian's biological son, plays for Charlton. Ian's cousin Jermaine Wright currently plays for Lewes FC, having been released by Blackpool, while Ian's other son, Brett Wright, had a trial with Reading in September 2005 and played for their reserve team. His youngest son, Stacey, is a keen rugby player and attends Whitgift School in Croydon.

Wright is also the patron of the African-Caribbean Leukaemia Trust. He has supported Millwall F.C. since he was a boy.

Awards[link]

Shortly after his retirement from playing in 2000, Wright was awarded the MBE for his services to football.

Career statistics[link]

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Honours[link]

Club[link]

;Crystal Palace

Second Division (1): 1989

Full Members Cup (1): 1991

;Arsenal

FA Premier League (1): 1997–98

FA Cup (2): 1993, 1998

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1994

League Cup (1): 1993

;West Ham United

UEFA Intertoto Cup (1): 1999

International[link]

;England

Tournoi de France (1): 1997

England Challenge Cup (1): 1991

Individual[link]

First Division Golden Boot (1): 1991-92

First Division Goal of the Season (1): 1989–90

Crystal Palace Player of the Year (1): 1989

PFA Second Division Team of the Year (1): 1988–89

PFA Premier League Team of the Year (2): 1992-93, 1996-97

Premier League Player of the Month (1): November 1996

English Football Hall of Fame: 2005

Crystal Palace Centenary XI: 2005

References[link]

External links[link]

Ian Wright Player Statistics Soccerbase

Number 8 - Ian Wright ArseWEB

Football Hall of Fame - Ian Wright National Football Museum

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