By Andrew Warshaw
April 17 – The head of the union representing professional footballers has warned that the 2012 European Championships will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
By Duncan Mackay in Moscow
April 13 – Leaders of Istanbul 2020 claim that there is no threat of their campaign to host the Olympics and Paralympics being sabotaged by a bid from Turkey to stage football’s European Championships in that year instead.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 13 – The decision to grant the 2012 European Championships to Poland and Ukraine has once again been brought into sharp focus with UEFA President Michel Platini attacking the “bandits and crooks” who have made Ukrainian hotel costs prohibitive for the average fan.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 11 – Germany is considering bidding for the 2020 European Championships following the huge success of the 2006 World Cup (pictured left), according to the new German Football Federation (DFB) President Wolfgang Niersbach.
By David Gold
April 10 – UEFA has announced that it has awarded media rights in France for Euro 2012 and Euro 2016 to Al Jazeera’s beIN SPORT channel, TF1 and M6.
April 1 – Renowned Italian events and ceremonies producer Marco Balich (pictured) has been snapped up as the creative director in charge of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of this summer’s European Championships in Ukraine and Poland.
By Andrew Warshaw in Istanbul
March 24 – Turkish Olympic officials claim they are playing a tactical waiting game before deciding whether to proceed with a double bid for the 2020 Summer Games and the European football Championship finals the same year.
By Andrew Warshaw in Istanbul
March 22 – UEFA President Michel Platini (pictured) promised today to vote for Turkey if the country goes ahead with a bid for the 2020 European Championships – but not if Istanbul pursues its drive to stage the Olympics and Paralympics in the same year.
By Andrew Warshaw in Istanbul
March 22 – Europe’s leading clubs today gained a valuable concession in their battle with the game’s governing bodies when UEFA agreed to hand them massive payouts for players released for the European Championships in June.
By Andrew Warshaw in Istanbul
March 22 – The Turkish Government today gave the broadest public hint yet that the country would like to stage the European Championships in 2020.
By Andrew Warshaw in Istanbul
March 21 – UEFA announced here after a two-day Executive Committee meeting that the bidding process for the 2020 European Championships will begin next week when invitations are sent out to all 53 member nations who will then have until mid-May to declare their interest.
By David Gold
March 13 – UEFA has expressed its concern over the cost of hotels in Ukraine, the co-host with Poland for this summer’s European Championships.
By David Gold
March 8 – Georgia is planning to bid to host the European Championships in 2020 with neighbours Azerbaijan, their President, Mikheil Saakashvili, said on Wednesday.
By David Gold
March 7 – A village which Irish football fans hoped to set up during the European Championships this summer in Poznań will not be going ahead as planned.
By David Gold
March 6 – The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has agreed a bonus deal with the national team squad for this summer’s European Championships in Poland and Ukraine – the first major international tournament the Republic of Ireland will have competed at since the 2002 World Cup.