Euro 2008 - Austria/Switzerland
2/6/2008 · Kategori: sport
The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, will take place in Austria and Switzerland, from 7 June to 29 June 2008. It is the second successful joint bid in the competition's history, following the UEFA Euro 2000 hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands. The 2012 competition in Poland and Ukraine is scheduled to become the third jointly-hosted tournament.
A total of 16 teams will participate in the tournament. Austria and Switzerland automatically qualified as hosts; the remaining 14 teams have been determined through qualifying matches which started in August 2006. Austria and Poland will be making their first appearance in the tournament.
The two countries jointly bid to host the games, and faced major competition from Turkey-Greece, Russia, Scotland-Ireland, Croatia-Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary and a 4-way Nordic bid from Norway-Sweden-Denmark-Finland. Austria had already bid with another country before, which was Hungary for Euro 2004. They had eventually lost to Portugal.
Turkey-Greece, Austria/Switzerland and Hungary were recommended before the final vote. Turkey and Greece were rejected and let Hungary and Austria-Switzerland battle for the win.
Switzerland will play all of its group-stage matches at Basel, and Austria will play all of its group-stage matches at Vienna.
TURKEY
CZECH REP.
PORTUGAL
SWITZERLAND
GROUP B
AUSTRIA
POLAND
GERMANY
CROATIA
GROUP C
FRANCE
HOLLAND
ITALY
ROMANIA
GROUP D
SWEDEN
GREECE
SPAIN
RUSSIA
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