In total, 31 matches will be played in the final part of the 2012 European Football Championship - 15 in Poland and 16 in Ukraine. At this stage of the tournament, 16 teams are divided into four groups, two of which will host the group stage games in Poland. Then each country will play two quarterfinals and one semifinal match. The final will take place on July 1 in Kiev.
The opening match of the final stage of Euro 2012 will be held on June 8 at 20:00 Moscow time at the "National Stadium" in Warsaw. More than 58 thousand spectators will be able to personally attend the game of two rivals of the Russian team in Group A - the national teams of Poland and Greece.
Our team will play their first game on the same day in Wroclaw at the Meiski stadium. At 22:45, she will meet with the Czech national team, which many respected experts in the football world consider one of the two favorites of our group.
In a day, Poland will host two games of the teams of group C. First, the battle of the giants will begin in Gdansk - the Spanish team, the reigning European champion, will play with the Italian national team. Three hours later, the Irish and Croatian national teams will determine the winner in Gdansk.
The second round of the group stage will begin on June 12 in Wroclaw - two teams from Group A - Greece and the Czech Republic - will play there. The Russian team will visit the Polish capital that day to try to defeat the host team of this part of the tournament.
On June 14 at 8 pm, the national teams of Italy and Croatia will play at the stadium in Poznan, which can accommodate more than 41 thousand spectators. In three hours, the other two teams in Group C will play in Gdansk at the PGE Arena, with a capacity of only 600 less spectators.
Our team will start the final round of the group stage - on June 16 in Warsaw it will play with the Greek national team, the winner of the European Championship before last. The teams of the Czech Republic and Poland in Wroclaw on this day will play the final game of Group A.
If the Russian team becomes the first in its group, it will be able to play the third match in a row without leaving Warsaw. On June 21, there will be a quarterfinal match between the winner of Group A and the second team of Group B.
If our team after the group stage is on the second line of the table, a day later it will have to take part in another quarterfinal match - in Gdansk the second team, Group A, must meet with the winner of Group B.
The last game of the final tournament of the European Championship in Poland will take place on June 28 - in the capital, the winner of the Gdansk quarterfinals will meet in the semifinal match with the winner of the game between the first team of group C and the second team of group D.
