Euro 2012 UK TV Schedule

The television schedule for Euro 2012 has been revealed, with ITV to broadcast two of England's group games, including the crunch opening clash against France on June 11.

ITV will also show England's potentially make-or-break final Group D game against Ukraine on June 19, with the BBC having the second group match, against Sweden on June 15.

The BBC look to have taken a gamble on England progressing to the knockout stages of next summer's championships, where they will have first pick of the quarter-finals as well as both semi-finals.

8 June: Poland v Greece (BBC) Russia v Czech Republic (ITV)

9 June: Netherlands v Denmark (BBC), Germany v Portugal (BBC)

10 June: Spain v Italy (ITV), Republic of Ireland v Croatia (ITV)

11 June: France v England (ITV), Ukraine v Sweden (BBC)

12 June: Greece v Czech Republic (ITV), Poland v Russia (ITV)

13 June: Denmark v Portugal (ITV), Netherlands v Germany (BBC)

14 June: Italy v Croatia (BBC), Spain v Republic of Ireland (ITV)

15 June: Ukraine v France (ITV), Sweden v England (BBC)

16 June: Greece v Russia (BBC), Poland v Czech Republic (BBC)

17 June: Portugal v Netherlands (ITV), Denmark v Germany (ITV)

18 June: Croatia v Spain (BBC), Italy v Republic of Ireland (BBC)

19 June: Sweden v France (ITV), England v Ukraine (ITV)

Euro 2012 Schedule

EURO 2012 Schedule Fixtures

The Euro 2012 schedule, commonly known as Euro 2012, was approved by UEFA at a meeting in Minsk, Belarus, on October 4, 2010.
All times are in UTC+2 (Central European Summer Time):

• Poland is in UTC+2.
• Ukraine is one hour ahead in UTC+3 (Eastern European Summer Time), so their local kick-off times are 19:00 and 21:45 instead.

See Full Euro 2012 schedule

Euro 2012 Referees

The UEFA Referees Committee, meeting in Nyon today, has appointed the 12 referees to handle the 31 matches at next year's UEFA EURO 2012 final tournament in Poland and Ukraine.

For the first time in the history of the UEFA European Championship, the referees will have added support thanks to a decision by football's lawmakers, the International Football Association Board (IFAB), to allow the continuation of the experiment in the use of additional assistant referees. The full referee teams will be announced in due course.

The UEFA EURO 2012 main referees are:
Cüneyt Çakır (TUR)
Jonas Eriksson (SWE)
Viktor Kassai (HUN)
Bjorn Kuipers (NED)
Stéphane Lannoy (FRA)
Pedro Proença (POR)
Nicola Rizzoli (ITA)
Damir Skomina (SVN)
Wolfgang Stark (GER)
Craig Thomson (SCO)
Carlos Velasco Carballo (ESP)
Howard Webb (ENG)

In addition, four fourth officials who will only act in this specific function have been appointed. The quartet are:
Marcin Borski (POL)
Tom Harald Hagen (NOR)
Pavel Královec (CZE)
Viktor Shvetsov (UKR)

The preparations of the referees for UEFA EURO 2012 will include various courses and training activities, including:

• 30 January to 2 February – UEFA's winter annual course during which the referees will receive technical instructions as well as physical training plans to follow until the final tournament.

• 30 April to 3 May – Referees' preparatory workshop in Warsaw. The referee quintets will train together in their team base camp. They will also undergo fitness tests and review the application of the technical instructions they have received.

• 4 June – The referee teams will arrive in Warsaw for the final tournament.

Euro 2012 Draw

The draw has now taken place for the Euro 2012 finals. The 16 finalists were drawn into four groups of four. For the draw the teams were split into four pots with one team from each pot going into each group. The pots were:

Pot 1: Spain, Netherlands, Poland and Ukraine

Pot 2: England, Germany, Italy and Russia

Pot 3: Croatia, Greece, Portugal and Sweden

Pot 4: Czech Republic, Denmark, France and Republic of Ireland

The draw was....

Group A (Warsaw, Wroclaw - Poland)

Poland
Greece
Russia
Czech Republic

Group B (Kharkiv, Lviv - Ukraine)

Netherlands
Denmark
Germany
Portugal

Group C (Poznan, Gdansk - Poland)

Spain
Italy
Republic of Ireland
Croatia

Group D (Kiev, Donetsk - Ukraine)

Ukraine
Sweden
France
England

The tournament will begin with Poland v Greece at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, on 8th June and will end on July 1st at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine.

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