Euro 2008 Football Tournament Schedule

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Euro 2008 is going to be organized jointly by Austria and Switzerland. The tournament kicks off from 7 June 2008 with 16 teams participating in it. Austria and Switzerland have won automatic berth in the tournament as host countries, while 14 other participants of the 16-team tournament have come through the qualifying round to the Euro 2008 final. The 16 participating teams have been divided into four groups of four teams at the group stage. All the four teams of each of the groups will play against each other in a round robin league system and at the end the group stage top two teams from each group advance to the quarter final of Euro 2008. From the quarter final, the tournament follows knock out system- meaning the losing side of each of the matches will be eliminated form the tournament, while the winners will progress to the next stage. Here, I am giving the grouping of Euro 2008 tournament:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Switzerland	Austria	Netherlands	Greece
Czech Republic	Croatia	Italy	Sweden
Portugal	Germany	Romania	Spain
Turkey	Poland	France	Russia

Greece is the defending champion of the tournament as they outplayed host Portugal in the final of Euro 2004 to clinch the first ever major title in football. However, there are a number of favorites in the tournaments including Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain etc. In fact, Greece is not considered as that much favorite this time, even though they are the defending champions. Now, let us see who the favorites from each of the groups are.

Group A

In this group, Portugal and Czech Republic are favorites to progress to the knock out stage. Portugal is the runner up of the previous tournaments, while Czech Republic was one of the semi finalists of Euro 2004. However, Switzerland will try their best to capitalize on home condition as they are considered as a good side. Turkey is best known for their 2002 world cup success as they finished third in the tournament, but they could not reach the final tournament of Euro 2004. So, this time they will try to make it up, projecting some excellent performance in Euro 2008.

Group B

It seems to be the easiest group in the tournament with two debutant teams: host Austria and Poland. Germany and Croatia are the favorites from this group. Germany is the three times champions in the tournaments, while Croatia is going to have only third appearance in the tournament. However, the recent form of Croatia is excellent as they came to the final of Euro 2008 winning the Group E, the group England failed to win one of the top two spots. However, it is noteworthy that Poland finished atop the Group A of qualifying round leaving Poland in the second spot of the group. Host Austria may not have any big hope, but using the home advantage, Austria might cause an accident in the group stage.

Group C

This is considered as the ‘Group of Death’ in the presence of three tournament favorites: world champion Italy, world cup runner up France and Netherlands. The other member of the group is Romania, who finished the qualifying round becoming the champion of Group G, forcing Netherlands to finish second in group G. So, it is hard to predict that who are going to advance to the next round. However, Italy, France and Netherlands are the favorites from Group C.

Group D

I think, this group will see a stiff competition among the four teams for winning the top two positions of the group. Defending Champion Greece is in this group, alongside Spain, Sweden and Russia. Spain and Greece seem to be favorite in the group, but I think, in form Russia and Sweden have the ability to make it to the next round. Russia finished second to Croatia in the qualifying round, leaving England in the third place of the group. Sweden is also a strong side in Europe. Sweden reached the quarter final of Euro 2004. So, Group D is another hard group.

There are eight venues in the tournament: four in Austria and four in Switzerland. Here, I am giving the name of the stadiums, and the cities where the stadiums are located:

Country	City	Stadium	Capacity
Austria	Vienna	Ernst Happel	53,008
	Salzburg	EM Stadion Wals-Siezenheim	30,000
	Klagenfurt	Wörthersee Stadion	32,000
	Innsbruck	Tivoli-Neu Stadion	30,000
Switzerland	Basel	St. Jakob-Park	42,500
	Berne	Stade de Suisse, Wankdorf	32,000
	Geneva	Stade de Genève	32,000
	Zurich	Letzigrund Stadion	30,000

Here, I am giving the schedule of Euro 2008 football tournament:

Stage		Date	Competing Teams	Venue
Group Stage	Grp. A	7 June 2008 Saturday	Switzerland vs Czech Republic	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
	Grp. A		Portugal vs Turkey	Stade de Genève, Geneva
	Grp. B	8 June 2008 Sunday	Austria vs Croatia	Ernst Happel, Vienna
	Grp. B		Germany vs Poland	Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt
	Grp. C	9 June 2008 Monday	Romania vs France	Letzigrund Stadion, Zürich
	Grp. C		Netherlands vs Italy	Stade de Suisse, Wankdorf, Berne
	Grp. D	10 June 2008 Tuesday	Spain vs Russia	Tivoli-Neu Stadion, Innsbruck
	Grp. D		Greece vs Sweden	EM Stadion Wals-Siezenheim, Salzburg
	Grp. A	11 June 2008 Wednesday	Czech Republic vs Portugal	Stade de Genève, Geneva
	Grp. A		Switzerland vs Turkey	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
	Grp. B	12 June 2008 Thursday	Croatia vs Germany	Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt
	Grp. B		Austria vs Poland	Ernst Happel, Vienna
	Grp. C	13 June 2008 Friday	Italy vs Romania	Letzigrund Stadion, Zürich
	Grp. C		Netherlands vs France	Stade de Suisse, Wankdorf, Berne
	Grp. D	14 June 2008 Saturday	Sweden vs Spain	Tivoli-Neu Stadion, Innsbruck
	Grp. D		Greece vs Russia	EM Stadion Wals-Siezenheim, Salzburg
	Grp. A	15 June 2008 Sunday	Switzerland vs Portugal	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
	Grp. A		Turkey vs Czech Republic	Stade de Genève, Geneva
	Grp. B	16 June 2008 Monday	Poland vs Croatia	Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt
	Grp. B		Austria vs Germany	Ernst Happel, Vienna
	Grp. C	17 June 2008 Tuesday	Netherlands vs Romania	Stade de Suisse, Wankdorf, Berne
	Grp. C		France vs Italy	Letzigrund Stadion, Zurich
	Grp. D	18 June 2008 Wednesday	Greece vs Spain	EM Stadion Wals-Siezenheim, Salzburg
	Grp. D		Russia vs Sweden	Tivoli-Neu Stadion, Innsbruck
Quarter Final	QF 1	19 June 2008 Thursday	Germany vs Portugal	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
	QF2	20 June 2008 Friday	Croatia vs Turkey	Ernst Happel, Vienna
	QF3	21 June 2008 Saturday	Netherlands vs Russia	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
	QF4	22 June 2008 Sunday	Italy vs Spain	Ernst Happel, Vienna
Semi Final	SF1	25 June 2008 Wednesday	Germany vs Turkey	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
	SF2	26 June 2008 Thursday	Russia vs Spain	Ernst Happel, Vienna
Final		29 June 2008 Sunday	Germany vs Spain	Ernst Happel, Vienna

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