UEFA EURO 2012™ Qualifying Draw

Seeding pots for the draw based on UEFA national team rankings

The qualifying draw of the UEFA European Football Championship 2010-12 will take place at the
Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland on 07 February 2010 at 12:00 CET.

For seeding purposes, the fifty-one teams competing in the qualifying competition have been allocated
to six pots on the basis of their position in the UEFA national team rankings on completion of the
qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The reigning European champions Spain are seeded
in Pot 1 (see seeding pots enclosed).

The 51 teams will be drawn into nine groups: six groups of six teams and three groups of five teams.
The qualifying matches will be played in accordance with the international match calendar between
September 2010 and November 2011 on Fridays/Saturdays and Tuesdays.

The nine group winners and the best runners-up will qualify for the final tournament and join hosts
Poland and Ukraine. The eight remaining runners-up will contest home-and-away play-off matches on 11/12 and 15 November 2011 and the four winners of the play-off matches will also qualify for the final tournament. The final tournament is scheduled to be played between 08 June and 01 July 2012.

Media representatives and non-rights-holders can apply for accreditation and media bookings via the
following links for the media and broadcaster portals of F.A.M.E.:
Media: https://media.fame.uefa.com

Non-rights-holding radio stations and TV broadcasters: https://broadcasters.fame.uefa.com
All media representatives and/or their companies which do not possess a F.A.M.E. account need to
register in FAME, and once their registration is approved, they may apply for accreditation.

Individual media representatives can register on http://www.uefa.com/MIUFAMEregistration

Non-rights-holding broadcasters and radio stations are invited to contact UEFA Media Accreditation
Services via the fame_accreditations@uefa.ch email for details about the CFOU policy (person
responsible for entering and managing all accreditation requests for a company).

The deadline for accreditations is Friday 08 January 2010. Confirmation emails will be sent out as of
the beginning of January 2010.

Applications received after the deadline may not be considered. In case of cancellation due to
unforeseen circumstances, please immediately advise UEFA Media Accreditation Services by writing
to: fame_accreditations@uefa.ch. No-shows will be taken into consideration for future UEFA events.

UEFA Euro 2012

The 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2012, will be the 14th European Championship for national football teams sanctioned by UEFA.

Poland and Ukraine will be the host nations of the final tournament, scheduled for mid-2012, following the selection of their joint bid by UEFA's Executive Committee, on 18 April 2007, in Cardiff, Wales.

This bid defeated the other shortlisted bids from Italy and Croatia/Hungary, becoming the third successful joint-bid for the European Championship, after those of Belgium/Netherlands, for Euro 2000, and Austria/Switzerland for Euro 2008. This will be the last European Championship finals in which only 16 nations will participate, with Euro 2016 being the first European Championship finals with 24 competing nations.

UEFA European Football Championship

The UEFA European Football Championship is the main football competition of the men's national football teams governed by UEFA (the Union of European Football Associations). Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the UEFA European Nations Cup, changing to the current name in 1968. Specific championships are often referred to in the form "Euro 2008" or whichever year is appropriate.

Prior to entering the tournament all teams other than the host nations (which qualify automatically) compete in a qualifying process. The championship winners earn the opportunity to compete in the following FIFA Confederations Cup, but are not obliged to do so.

Euro 2008

The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2008, 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 winner of Euro 2008 will represent UEFA at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa, unless Italy wins the tournament, in which case the runner-up will be entered, as Italy is already entered as the winner of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.