• Euro 2012

Pictures from the World Cup Events back in June 2010

If you were very lucky to enjoy the atmosphere from the 2010 World Cup Finals just wait to see what we have in store for the 2012 Euro Championships !!!

Follow England all through the qualifications and hopefully to the finals, this is where all the madness begins again !!! More news coming very soon indeed !!

News Feature on the Euro 2010;

The draw for the Euro 2012 qualifying stages was held in Warsaw and the resulting groups left us with few possibilities of upsets.

England missed out on qualification last time around but have a relatively easy group to negotiate with the likes of Wales, Montenegro and Bulgaria standing in their way. Switzerland round up the group which will provide for an interesting but relatively straight-forward qualification.

Hosts Poland and Ukraine get a bye to the finals, while European champions Spain have the Czech Republic and Scotland in their group.

Fifty-one countries participated in the draw, forming 6 groups of 6 teams and 3 groups of 5 teams each. The groups will be contested according to a league system on a home-and-away basis, with games scheduled between September 2010 and October 2011.

The nine winners and the runner-up with the best record against the top five sides in their pool qualify directly for the final tournament, the last before the championship is expanded to 24 teams. The eight remaining runners-up go into play-off matches in November 2011 to decide the final four sides to join co-hosts Poland and Ukraine.

Euro 2012 Qualifying Groups

Group A: Germany, Turkey, Austria, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan

Group B: Russia, Slovakia, Republic of Ireland, Macedonia, Armenia, Andorra

Group C: Italy, Serbia, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, Estonia, Faroe Islands

Group D: France, Romania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Belarus, Albania, Luxembourg

Group E: Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Moldova, San Marino

Group F: Croatia, Greece, Israel, Latvia, Georgia, Malta

Group G: England, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Wales, Montenegro

Group H: Portugal, Denmark, Norway, Cyprus, Iceland

Group I: Spain, Czech Republic, Scotland, Lithuania, Liechtenstein

Euro 2012 Qualifying Fixtures

The football associations in a group have 30 days after the UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying draw in Warsaw on 7 February 2010 in which to agree on the order of their matches.

If the associations in question are unable to reach agreement the matches will take place according to a standard fixture list drawn up by the UEFA administration. This standard fixture list will take into consideration relevant factors for the match organisation, such as weather conditions.

The following 12 dates are reserved for group matches in qualifying:

a). 3/4 and 7 June 2011
b). 2/3 and 6 September 2011
c). 7/8 and 11 October 2011

The following dates are reserved for the play-off matches between the remaining eight runners-up:

d). 11/12 November 2011
e). 15 November 2011

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Friday 2nd Sept 2011 Bulgaria (a)

Tuesday 6th Sept 2011 Wales (h)

Friday 7th Oct 2011 Montenegro (a)