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Organization of the 2012 European Football Championship was initially contested for by five bids representing seven countries : Croatia/Hungary (joint bid), Greece, Italy, - Poland/Ukraine (joint bid), and Turkey. Image File history File links Current_sport. ... Children playing soccer. ...

On November 8, 2005, UEFA's Executive Committee whittled the candidates down to a short list of three: November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... UEFA logo The Union of European Football Associations, almost always referred to by the acronym UEFA (pronounced you-AY-fuh), is the administrative and controlling body for European football. ... A short list is a list of candidates for a job, prize, award, political position, etc. ...

• Italy (11 Committee member votes)
• Croatia/Hungary (9 votes)
• Poland/Ukraine (7 votes)

Turkey and Greece were eliminated with 6 and 2 votes respectively.

The second phase of the bidding process will involve the submission of even more detailed dossiers by May 31, 2006, followed by UEFA site visits to the short-listed countries in September. The host will be chosen in December 2006. UEFA logo The Union of European Football Associations, almost always referred to by the acronym UEFA (pronounced you-AY-fuh), is the administrative and controlling body for European football. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Italy has already hosted the European Football Championship finals in 1968 and 1980, and also hosted the World Cup in 1934 and 1990. None of the other short-list candidates has ever hosted the finals of a major football tournament independently or as part of a joint bid, though Croatia's capital, Zagreb, hosted one semifinal and the third-place match of Euro 1976 as part of Yugoslavia. The 1968 European Football Championship final tournament was held in Italy. ... The 1980 European Football Championship (Euro 80) final tournament was held in Italy. ... The FIFA World Cup Trophy, which has been awarded to the world champions since 1974. ... The 1934 Football World Cup was hosted by Mussolinis Italy. ... The 1990 Football World Cup was designated by FIFA in 1984 to be held in Italy, making it the second country to host the event twice. ... Zagreb at night, from Sljeme Zagreb cathedral St. ... The 1976 European Football Championship (Euro 76) final tournament was held in Yugoslavia. ... Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija in all south Slavic languages, in Serbian and Macedonian Cyrillic Југославија) is a term used for three separate but successive political entities that existed during most of the 20th century on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. ...

Hungary will hope for a successful bid as they failed in both the Euro 2004 and Euro 2008 bid.

The candidates

The following cities have been proposed:

• Italy: Rome, Milan, Bologna, Florence, Naples, Palermo, Turin, Genoa and, if tournament will be extended to 24 teams (very probable in fact), Bari, Cagliari, Udine and Verona: the same stadia pool of Italia 90.
• Croatia/Hungary: Zagreb(CRO), Split (CRO), Rijeka (CRO), Osijek (CRO), Budapest (HUN), Székesfehérvár (HUN), Győr (HUN), Debrecen (HUN)
• Poland/Ukraine: Chorzow (POL), Dnipropetrovsk (UKR), Donetsk (UKR), Gdansk (POL), Kyiv (UKR), Krakow (POL), Lviv (UKR), Poznan (POL), Warsaw (POL), Wroclaw (POL)

City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC (mythical), early 1st millennium BC (archaeological) Region Latium Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,553,873 almost 4,300,000 1. ... Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese: Milán) is the main city of northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed region in Italy. ... Bologna (pronounced , from Latin Bononia, BulÃ¥ggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Pianura Padana, between the Po River and the Apennines, exactly, between Reno River and Sàvena River. ... 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GyÅ‘r listen [â–¶]help (German: Raab, Slovak: Ráb) is the most important city of Northwest-Hungary, the capital of GyÅ‘r-Moson-Sopron county and lies on one of the important roads of Central Europe, halfway between Budapest and Vienna. ... Debrecen â–¶(?) (approximate pronunciation: deh-breh-tsen, DebreÅ£in in Romanian, Debrecín in Slovak, Debreczyn in Polish) is the second largest city in Hungary after Budapest. ... Motto: none Voivodship Silesian Municipal government Urząd Miasta Chorz w Mayor Marek Kopel Area 33,5 km Population  - city  - urban  - density 117 430 - 2856/km Founded City rights - - Latitude Longitude 50 18 N 57 E Area code +48 32 Car plates SH Twin towns - Municipal Website Chorz w (pronounce: [xoʒuf... Dnipropetrovsk (Ukrainian: ; Russian: ) is Ukraines third largest city with 1. ... 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External links

• UEFA official website
• Italian bid official website
• Polish-Ukrainian bid official website
• Hungarian-Croatian bid official website

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