MINSK, Oct. 4 (Reuters) - All eight proposed venues in Poland and Ukraine will host matches at Euro 2012 as planned, UEFA confirmed on Monday.
At a meeting of the European governing body’s executive committee in Minsk on Monday, Ukrainian capital Kyiv was confirmed as the venue of the final and will also host a quarterfinal and three group-stage matches.
Polish capital Warsaw and Donetsk in Ukraine will each host a semifinal as well as three group matches and a last-eight game. Gdansk will hold four matches, including a quarterfinal, and the remaining four cities — Wroclaw, Poznan, Kharkiv and Lviv — are scheduled to host three games.
Ukraine will host 16 of the tournament’s 31 matches, the first of which will be on June 8, 2012.
UEFA’s project director Martin Kallen had said in a visit to Warsaw in May this year that Poland could host the tournament alone if Ukraine’s stadiums were not ready in time but such drastic action has now been ruled out.
"We feel that Ukraine is fully capable of doing the work (staging the finals)," UEFA president Michel Platini told a news conference on Monday.
"Therefore the executive committee has decided to split the finals equally between the cities in Poland and Ukraine (four and four). We are not going to change anything (from the original plan)."
