Tickets!

Individual Match Tickets (IMT)
Individual Match Tickets are tickets for specific matches. These tickets are available for all 31 matches in the various price categories.
Individual Match Tickets will be available in three price categories for UEFA EURO 2012. The following principles apply for the definition of categories in the stadiums:

Category 1: main and opposite stand Category 2: corners and behind the goals on the upper tier Category 3: behind the goals on the lower tier
	The application of such principles will depend on the geography of each particular stadium.

At every match there will be a number of spaces available for people who require wheelchair access and seats for those who are visually or hearing impaired. People using wheelchairs will have a space reserved for them and a seat for an accompanying person. Visually impaired persons can enjoy the match through headsets and live commentary provided by an audio descriptive commentator. Seats will also be reserved for those accompanying visually and hearing impaired persons. Tickets for persons accompanying disabled ticket holders are complimentary. All tickets for disabled supporters are sold at category 3 prices regardless of their location in the stadium.

		Category 1	Category 2	Category 3
	Opening Match	250 €	140 €	45 €
	Group Matches	120 €	70 €	30 €
	Quarter Final	150 €	80 €	40 €
	Semi Final	270 €	150 €	45 €
	Final	600 €	330 €	50 €

Follow My Team (FMT)
Follow My Team is a specific product that allows fans to attend only the matches of their favourite team. FMT tickets will be offered exclusively in price category 2. You can only apply for Follow My Team tickets for the national team of your country of residence or the country of which you are a citizen.
Two different types of Follow My Team tickets are available:

• Follow My Team Group (3 matches) (all group matches of your selected team).
• Follow My Team Tournament (3 to 6 matches, depending on the success of your selected team).

Follow My Team Tournament tickets allow you to see all the matches of your selected team up to and including the final. The FMT Tournament package ends on your selected team’s elimination from the competition. You will subsequently be reimbursed for unused tickets as you are only required to pay for the matches your team plays.

		Group	Tournament
	All Teams	210 €	770 €
	Opening Match Premium	70 €	70 €

Venue Series (VS)
Venue Series tickets allow you to see all matches taking place in one stadium. This ticket is the perfect opportunity for host city residents to see all matches at their home venue.

• Venue Series Group: 3 matches (all group matches at the selected venue)
• Venue Series Knockout*: 2 matches (all knockout stage matches at the selected venue)

* These tickets are only available for Warsaw, Kyiv and Donetsk, the venues that will hold two knockout matches. If you want to see knockout matches at other venues, please apply for Individual Match Tickets

		Group	Knock Out
	Gdansk	210 €	-
	Poznan	210 €	-
	Warsaw	280 €	230 €
	Wroclaw	210 €	-
	Donetsk	210 €	230 €
	Kharkiv	210 €	-
	Kyiv	210 €	410 €
	Lviv	210 €	-

Calls for FANS! It is your chance to show yourself!

With just over a year to go to UEFA EURO 2012, football supporters and fan groups in Poland and Ukraine are being invited to stage and promote events and activities in the two host countries as part of the Football Supporters Europe (FSE) network's Fans' Action 2011 programme.
Under the Fans' Action 2011 umbrella, FSE will offer financial support to outstanding transnational fan initiatives and projects promoting a positive football-supporting culture, including values such as international goodwill and fair play. The grants will cover activities organised by fans between May and December 2011 in Poland and/or Ukraine.
A major feature of FSE's wider work is the UEFA-backed Fans' Embassies Go East project. FSE – an independent union of European supporters and fan-related groups, initiatives and organisations addressing the interests of fans throughout the continent – is receiving financial backing from UEFA for activities both in the run-up to, and during UEFA EURO 2012, with strenuous efforts being put into the development of fan embassy services for fans travelling abroad to matches.
The particular focus for this year's Fans' Action programme, meanwhile, is joint activities involving supporters in Poland and Ukraine and/or supporters' events and actions taking place in Poland or Ukraine with partners from fan groups in other countries. Interested parties are being invited to tell FSE about planned activities in and around football stadiums and to complete and send the application form (available below) to FSE by 13 March at the latest.
FSE will choose the most interesting and challenging supporters' projects and initiatives, and can be contacted for assistance in planning and implementing such schemes.
The action is open to all Polish and Ukrainian fans, supporters, ultras, fan clubs, fan projects or fan initiatives that agree with the core principles of FSE. The activities have to be held in Poland and/or Ukraine. This can be a single event in or around stadiums or a series of actions in different cities in both countries. Activities have to be scheduled between 1 May and 31 December.

Fashion Week director becomes Friend of EURO

Volodymyr Nechyporuk, director of Ukrainian Fashion Week, has become the 19th Friend of UEFA EURO 2012 in Ukraine.
He said: "Fashion is not only clothes and accessories. Technology and innovation can also be in fashion. I think football will be the most popular trend over the next few years." Ukrainian tournament director Markiyan Lubkivskiy, meanwhile, was looking forward to the 28th Ukrainian Fashion Week, explaining that it helps promote the UEFA EURO 2012 co-host nation as "a modern European country keeping pace with the world".

In a nutshell

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Search safe and be on the green part of the Planet

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Every time you search with Ecosia 80% of the revenue generated gets sent to WWF's Tumucumaque project in the Amazon. Ecosia also compensates all the carbon associated with each search made.

For a quick and easy way to help the planet, Ecosia offers everyone with an internet connection the chance to help their one and only planet!

More on Ecosia

• The search engine Ecosia is powered by Bing and Yahoo
• It has an international partnership with WWF
• WWF receives 80% percent of the site’s total monthly revenue, in support of its work in the Amazon. 
• In 2010m €123,000 was raised for WWF - simply through people searching the web as they do everyday.  
• Ecosia specifically supports the world’s largest tropical forest reserve, the Tumucumaque Conservation Landscape in northern Brazil. 
• One of the most bio-diverse regions in the world, Tumucumaque is home to a number of endangered species, including the jaguar.
• It is part of the Guiana Shield, which contains 1/4 of the world’s untouched tropical rainforests, as well as the last major unpolluted water reserves in the Neotropics, supplying 1/5 of the Earth’s water. 
• Ecosia GmbH is a social business based in Germany
• 80% of its revenue goes to the world’s rainforests. The remaining 20% of revenue is reinvested in the further growth and development of the business. 
• The carbon associated with each search made via Ecosia is offset to balance out the impact of that search.
• To this end, Ecosia collaborates with PURE - a UK based carbon offset charity, which invests money in Gold Standard projects for the creation of renewable energy sources.
• Ecosia also runs on verified green power sources.

 Can you save the planet?

Yes, you can!

 

Tickets for EURO 2012 matches will cost 30-600 Euros

Tickets for matches of the 2012 football championship will cost from 30 to 600 Euros. This was announced by the tournament director in Ukraine, Markiyan Lubkivskyi, at a seminar on the sale of tickets for the championship held on Tuesday in Kyiv, a correspondent of the Information Centre Ukraine-2012 reports.
According to M. Lubkivskyi, a total of 1.4 million tickets will be printed for the matches, of which 75% will be sold openly. The seminar on tickets for matches of the tournament was jointly organized by UEFA and the LOC. At the event details of the sale were provided, and the procedure for booking tickets on uefa.com was explained, as was the mechanism of payment and receipt.

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Some of the ways to visit Ukraine

Hello!

Sorry for not writing for such a long time!As far as you know the life brings a lot of things, which absorb not only us but the whole world around.

I want to share some interesting and affordable ideas/facts/options about visiting Ukraine:

1) Volunteering - a really nice way to explore Ukraine as a normal citizen and to stay socially engaged.

There are some sites to have a look at:
Alternative-V 

The link below is the volunteer job for the Euro 2012 ( if you need any support with application documents, please let me know):
http://www.v4sport.eu/news/showNews/1137 
Here is an email: VolunteersUKR@euro2012.com
It is better to write directly to this email with a request. Please note! Official recruiting of volunteers for the EURO 2012 will begin in summer 2011.

2) Friends visiting/couchsurfing

http://www.couchsurfing.org/mapsurf.html
There are plenty of people in Ukraine, who would be glad to have you as a guest. Ukrainians are open and friendly, that is a great peculiarity of the human character.
My friends, I would be happy to assist you in finding an apartment to live :)

3) Tourist packages

Ukrainian travel agencies offer a lot of attractions and flexible offers to feel comfortable during your stay in Ukraine.

The list of Ukrainian-based companies could be sent to you by email request.

Please don't hesitate to contact me at ukreuro2012@gmail.com  

I wish a great day and a lot of precious moments!

Yours,
Inna 

This is a video, which has been asked to be posted to my blog :) You are welocme!

Switch on Ukraine for you and your friends!

Facilitates on the Poland-Ukraine border?

During the event Euro 2010 organized by Poland and Ukraine, there will be two separate lanes for the guests – said Ihor Tymofiejew, the deputy head of the State Customs Service of Ukraine.
He also mentioned that the lanes with the symbols of the “Euro 2012″ would be on the Poland-Ukraine frontier crossings: Krakowiec-Korczowa, Szeginie-Medic, Rawa Ruska-Hrebenne and Jagodzin-Dorohusk.
Guests of the tournament can also expect the improvement of infrastructure and the overall throughput of the Ukrainian borders.
Before Euro 2012 Ukraine is going to modernize up to 20 frontier crossings. Apart from the points on the Polish border, the crossings with Hungary, Russia, Belarus, Slovakia and Moldova will be modernized, as well.
Ukrainian customs and border services expect that after the ongoing modernization of the border crossing in Jagodzin, which leads to the Polish Dorohusk, its thourghput will increase by 50 percent.

What does Shevchenko think about Euro 2012 in Ukraine?

Dynamo Kiev star Andriy Shevchenko has expressed his satisfaction with the progress Ukraine has so far made with the preparations for Euro 2012.
"Preparations are going very well. Ukraine has made notable progress over the past five or six months. We are taking it very seriously," Shevchenko was quoted as saying on the official UEFA website.

"It is very important for Ukraine, not only in terms of football development but also for the development of the country and its people. I am confident we will be well prepared; it is a matter of national pride.

"Ukraine is on the rise at club and international levels. I see many positive changes taking place and Ukrainian clubs are competing at the highest level. The fact that Shakhtar Donetsk have qualified for the knockout stage of the Champions League is a real achievement.

"We are a young team, working hard preparing for the finals. I am confident the youngsters will perform with dignity at EURO 2012. It's a matter of pride and honour for all of us."

Have an easy Friday! :)