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Group A of UEFA Euro 2012 was played from 8 to 16 June 2012. The pool was made up of co-host Poland, Czech Republic, Greece and Russia. The top two finishing teams, Czech Republic and Greece, progressed to the quarter-finals, while Russia and Poland were eliminated from the tournament.^[1]

Teams

Draw position	Team	Pot	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance	UEFA Rankings November 2011^{[nb 1]}	FIFA Rankings June 2012
A1	Poland	1	Co-host	18 April 2007	2nd	2008	Group stage (2008)	28	62
A2	Greece	3	Group F winner	11 October 2011	4th	2008	Winners (2004)	8	15
A3	Russia^{[nb 2]}	2	Group B winner	11 October 2011	10th	2008	Winners (1960)	6	13
A4	Czech Republic^{[nb 3]}	4	Play-off winner	15 November 2011	8th	2008	Winners (1976)	13	27

Notes

^ The UEFA rankings of November 2011 were used for seeding for the final draw.
^ From 1960 to 1988, Russia competed as the Soviet Union, and in 1992 as CIS.
^ From 1960 to 1980, the Czech Republic competed as Czechoslovakia.

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Czech Republic	3	2	0	1	4	5	−1	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Greece	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4^[a]	Advance to knockout stage
3	Russia	3	1	1	1	5	3	+2	4^[a]
4	Poland (H)	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head result: Greece 1–0 Russia.

In the quarter-finals,

The winner of Group A, Czech Republic, advanced to play the runner-up of Group B, Portugal.
The runner-up of Group A, Greece, advanced to play the winner of Group B, Germany.

Matches

Poland vs Greece

8 June 2012

18:00

Poland	1–1	Greece
Lewandowski 17'	Report	Salpingidis 51'

National Stadium, Warsaw

Attendance: 56,070^[2]

Referee: Carlos Velasco Carballo (Spain)

Poland^[3]

Greece^[3]


GK	1	Wojciech Szczęsny	68'
RB	20	Łukasz Piszczek
CB	13	Marcin Wasilewski
CB	15	Damien Perquis
LB	2	Sebastian Boenisch
CM	11	Rafał Murawski
CM	7	Eugen Polanski
RW	16	Jakub Błaszczykowski (c)
AM	10	Ludovic Obraniak
LW	8	Maciej Rybus		70'
CF	9	Robert Lewandowski
Substitutions:
GK	22	Przemysław Tytoń		70'
Manager:
Franciszek Smuda


GK	1	Kostas Chalkias
RB	15	Vasilis Torosidis
CB	19	Sokratis Papastathopoulos	35' 44'
CB	8	Avraam Papadopoulos		37'
LB	20	José Holebas	45+2'
RM	2	Ioannis Maniatis
CM	21	Kostas Katsouranis
LM	10	Giorgos Karagounis (c)	54'
RF	18	Sotiris Ninis		46'
CF	17	Theofanis Gekas		68'
LF	7	Georgios Samaras
Substitutions:
DF	5	Kyriakos Papadopoulos		37'
FW	14	Dimitris Salpingidis		46'
MF	22	Kostas Fortounis		68'
Manager:
Fernando Santos

Man of the Match:
Robert Lewandowski (Poland)^[2]

Assistant referees:^[4]
Roberto Alonso Fernández (Spain)
Juan Carlos Yuste Jiménez (Spain)
Fourth official:
Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)
Additional assistant referees:
David Fernández Borbalán (Spain)
Carlos Clos Gómez (Spain)
Reserve assistant referee:
Renato Faverani (Italy)

Russia vs Czech Republic

8 June 2012

20:45

Russia	4–1	Czech Republic
Dzagoev 15', 79' Shirokov 24' Pavlyuchenko 82'	Report	Pilař 52'

Stadion Miejski, Wrocław

Attendance: 40,803^[5]

Referee: Howard Webb (England)

Russia^[6]

Czech Republic^[6]


GK	16	Vyacheslav Malafeev
RB	2	Aleksandr Anyukov
CB	12	Aleksei Berezutski
CB	4	Sergei Ignashevich
LB	5	Yuri Zhirkov
RM	6	Roman Shirokov
CM	7	Igor Denisov
LM	8	Konstantin Zyryanov
RF	17	Alan Dzagoev	84'
CF	11	Aleksandr Kerzhakov	73'
LF	10	Andrei Arshavin (c)
Substitutions:
FW	14	Roman Pavlyuchenko	73'
FW	18	Aleksandr Kokorin	84'
Manager:
Dick Advocaat


GK	1	Petr Čech
RB	2	Theodor Gebre Selassie
CB	5	Roman Hubník
CB	6	Tomáš Sivok
LB	3	Michal Kadlec
CM	13	Jaroslav Plašil
CM	19	Petr Jiráček	76'
RW	14	Václav Pilař
AM	10	Tomáš Rosický (c)
LW	9	Jan Rezek	46'
CF	15	Milan Baroš	85'
Substitutions:
MF	17	Tomáš Hübschman	46'
MF	11	Milan Petržela	76'
FW	21	David Lafata	85'
Manager:
Michal Bílek

Man of the Match:
Alan Dzagoev (Russia)^[5]

Assistant referees:^[7]
Michael Mullarkey (England)
Peter Kirkup (England)
Fourth official:
Jorge Sousa (Portugal)
Additional assistant referees:
Martin Atkinson (England)
Mark Clattenburg (England)
Reserve assistant referee:
Bertino Miranda (Portugal)

Greece vs Czech Republic

12 June 2012

18:00

Greece	1–2	Czech Republic
Gekas 53'	Report	Jiráček 3' Pilař 6'

Stadion Miejski, Wrocław

Attendance: 41,105^[8]

Referee: Stéphane Lannoy (France)

Greece^[9]

Czech Republic^[9]


GK	1	Kostas Chalkias		23'
RB	15	Vasilis Torosidis	34'
CB	5	Kyriakos Papadopoulos	56'
CB	21	Kostas Katsouranis
LB	20	José Holebas
RM	16	Georgios Fotakis		46'
CM	2	Ioannis Maniatis
LM	10	Giorgos Karagounis (c)
RF	14	Dimitris Salpingidis	57'
CF	7	Georgios Samaras
LF	22	Kostas Fortounis		71'
Substitutions:
GK	13	Michalis Sifakis		23'
FW	17	Theofanis Gekas		46'
FW	11	Kostas Mitroglou		71'
Manager:
Fernando Santos


GK	1	Petr Čech
RB	2	Theodor Gebre Selassie
CB	6	Tomáš Sivok
CB	3	Michal Kadlec
LB	8	David Limberský
CM	17	Tomáš Hübschman
CM	13	Jaroslav Plašil
RW	19	Petr Jiráček	36'
AM	10	Tomáš Rosický (c)	27'	46'
LW	14	Václav Pilař
CF	15	Milan Baroš		64'
Substitutions:
MF	18	Daniel Kolář	65'	46'	90'
FW	20	Tomáš Pekhart		64'
DF	12	František Rajtoral			90'
Manager:
Michal Bílek

Man of the Match:
Václav Pilař (Czech Republic)^[8]

Assistant referees:^[10]
Frédéric Cano (France)
Michaël Annonier (France)
Fourth official:
Matej Jug (Slovenia)
Additional assistant referees:
Fredy Fautrel (France)
Ruddy Buquet (France)
Reserve assistant referee:
Primož Arhar (Slovenia)

Poland vs Russia

12 June 2012

20:45

Poland	1–1	Russia
Błaszczykowski 57'	Report	Dzagoev 37'

National Stadium, Warsaw

Attendance: 55,920^[11]

Referee: Wolfgang Stark (Germany)

Poland^[12]

Russia^[12]


GK	22	Przemysław Tytoń
RB	20	Łukasz Piszczek
CB	13	Marcin Wasilewski
CB	15	Damien Perquis
LB	2	Sebastian Boenisch
CM	5	Dariusz Dudka		73'
CM	7	Eugen Polanski	79'	85'
RW	16	Jakub Błaszczykowski (c)
AM	11	Rafał Murawski
LW	10	Ludovic Obraniak		90+3'
CF	9	Robert Lewandowski	60'
Substitutions:
MF	18	Adrian Mierzejewski		73'
MF	6	Adam Matuszczyk		85'
FW	23	Paweł Brożek		90+3'
Manager:
Franciszek Smuda


GK	16	Vyacheslav Malafeev
RB	2	Aleksandr Anyukov
CB	12	Aleksei Berezutski
CB	4	Sergei Ignashevich
LB	5	Yuri Zhirkov
RM	6	Roman Shirokov
CM	7	Igor Denisov	60'
LM	8	Konstantin Zyryanov
RF	17	Alan Dzagoev	75'	79'
CF	11	Aleksandr Kerzhakov		70'
LF	10	Andrei Arshavin (c)
Substitutions:
FW	14	Roman Pavlyuchenko		70'
MF	9	Marat Izmailov		79'
Manager:
Dick Advocaat

Man of the Match:
Jakub Błaszczykowski (Poland)^[11]

Assistant referees:^[13]
Jan-Hendrik Salver (Germany)
Mike Pickel (Germany)
Fourth official:
István Vad (Hungary)
Additional assistant referees:
Florian Meyer (Germany)
Deniz Aytekin (Germany)
Reserve assistant referee:
Gábor Erős (Hungary)

Czech Republic vs Poland

16 June 2012

20:45

Czech Republic	1–0	Poland
Jiráček 72'	Report

Stadion Miejski, Wrocław

Attendance: 41,480^[14]

Referee: Craig Thomson (Scotland)

Czech Republic^[15]

Poland^[15]


GK	1	Petr Čech (c)
RB	2	Theodor Gebre Selassie
CB	6	Tomáš Sivok
CB	3	Michal Kadlec
LB	8	David Limberský	12'
CM	17	Tomáš Hübschman
CM	13	Jaroslav Plašil	87'
RW	19	Petr Jiráček		84'
AM	18	Daniel Kolář
LW	14	Václav Pilař		88'
CF	15	Milan Baroš		90+1'
Substitutions:
DF	12	František Rajtoral		84'
FW	9	Jan Rezek		88'
FW	20	Tomáš Pekhart	90+4'	90+1'
Manager:
Michal Bílek


GK	22	Przemysław Tytoń
RB	20	Łukasz Piszczek
CB	13	Marcin Wasilewski	61'
CB	15	Damien Perquis	90'
LB	2	Sebastian Boenisch
CM	5	Dariusz Dudka
CM	7	Eugen Polanski	48'	56'
RW	16	Jakub Błaszczykowski (c)	87'
AM	11	Rafał Murawski	22'	73'
LW	10	Ludovic Obraniak		73'
CF	9	Robert Lewandowski
Substitutions:
MF	21	Kamil Grosicki		56'
FW	23	Paweł Brożek		73'
MF	18	Adrian Mierzejewski		73'
Manager:
Franciszek Smuda

Man of the Match:
Petr Jiráček (Czech Republic)^[14]

Assistant referees:^[16]
Alasdair Ross (Scotland)
Derek Rose (Scotland)
Fourth official:
Fredy Fautrel (France)
Additional assistant referees:
William Collum (Scotland)
Euan Norris (Scotland)
Reserve assistant referee:
Frédéric Cano (France)

Greece vs Russia

16 June 2012

20:45

Greece	1–0	Russia
Karagounis 45+2'	Report

National Stadium, Warsaw

Attendance: 55,614^[17]

Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)

Greece^[18]

Russia^[18]


GK	13	Michalis Sifakis
RB	15	Vasilis Torosidis
CB	19	Sokratis Papastathopoulos
CB	5	Kyriakos Papadopoulos
LB	3	Georgios Tzavelas
CM	21	Kostas Katsouranis
CM	2	Ioannis Maniatis
RW	14	Dimitris Salpingidis		83'
AM	10	Giorgos Karagounis (c)	61'	67'
LW	7	Georgios Samaras
CF	17	Theofanis Gekas		64'
Substitutions:
MF	20	José Holebas	90+4'	64'
MF	6	Grigoris Makos		67'
MF	18	Sotiris Ninis		83'
Manager:
Fernando Santos


GK	16	Vyacheslav Malafeev
RB	2	Aleksandr Anyukov	61'	81'
CB	12	Aleksei Berezutski
CB	4	Sergei Ignashevich
LB	5	Yuri Zhirkov	69'
RM	6	Roman Shirokov
CM	7	Igor Denisov
LM	22	Denis Glushakov		72'
RF	17	Alan Dzagoev	70'
CF	11	Aleksandr Kerzhakov		46'
LF	10	Andrei Arshavin (c)
Substitutions:
FW	14	Roman Pavlyuchenko		46'
FW	20	Pavel Pogrebnyak	90+3'	72'
MF	9	Marat Izmailov		81'
Manager:
Dick Advocaat

Man of the Match:
Giorgos Karagounis (Greece)^[17]

Assistant referees:^[19]
Stefan Wittberg (Sweden)
Mathias Klasenius (Sweden)
Fourth official:
Hüseyin Göçek (Turkey)
Additional assistant referees:
Markus Strömbergsson (Sweden)
Stefan Johannesson (Sweden)
Reserve assistant referee:
Bahattin Duran (Turkey)

References

^ Mandeep Sanghera (16 June 2012). "Greece 1–0 Russia". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Full-time report Poland-Greece" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 8 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Tactical Line-up – Group A – Poland-Greece" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 8 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
^ "Match Press Kit – Group A – Poland v Greece" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 14 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 11, 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Full-time report Russia-Czech Republic" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 8 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Tactical Line-up – Group A – Russia-Czech Republic" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 8 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
^ "Match Press Kit – Group A – Russia v Czech Republic" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 14 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 11, 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Full-time report Greece-Czech Republic" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 12 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Tactical Line-up – Group A – Greece-Czech Republic" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 12 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
^ "Match Press Kit – Group A – Greece v Czech Republic" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 14 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 16, 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Full-time report Poland-Russia" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 12 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Tactical Line-up – Group A – Poland-Russia" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 12 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
^ "Match Press Kit – Group A – Poland v Russia" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 10 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 16, 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Full-time report Czech Republic-Poland" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 16 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Tactical Line-up – Group A – Czech Republic-Poland" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 16 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
^ "Match Press Kit – Group A – Czech Republic v Poland" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 14 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 10, 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Full-time report Greece-Russia" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 16 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Tactical Line-up – Group A – Greece-Russia" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 16 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
^ "Match Press Kit – Group A – Czech Republic v Poland" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 14 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 9, 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2021.

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[2] The UEFA rankings of November 2011 were used for seeding for the final draw.

[3] From 1960 to 1988, Russia competed as the Soviet Union, and in 1992 as CIS.

[4] From 1960 to 1980, the Czech Republic competed as Czechoslovakia.

[table_hth_GRE0.012445332953914-5] Head-to-head result: Greece 1–0 Russia.

[1] Mandeep Sanghera (16 June 2012). "Greece 1–0 Russia". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 June 2012.

[pol-gre_report-6] "Full-time report Poland-Greece" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 8 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2012.

[pol-gre_line-ups-7] "Tactical Line-up – Group A – Poland-Greece" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 8 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2012.

[8] "Match Press Kit – Group A – Poland v Greece" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 14 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 11, 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2021.

[rus-cze_report-9] "Full-time report Russia-Czech Republic" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 8 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2012.

[rus-cze_line-ups-10] "Tactical Line-up – Group A – Russia-Czech Republic" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 8 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2012.

[11] "Match Press Kit – Group A – Russia v Czech Republic" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 14 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 11, 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2021.

[gre-cze_report-12] "Full-time report Greece-Czech Republic" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 12 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.

[gre-cze_line-ups-13] "Tactical Line-up – Group A – Greece-Czech Republic" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 12 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2012.

[14] "Match Press Kit – Group A – Greece v Czech Republic" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 14 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 16, 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2021.

[pol-rus_report-15] "Full-time report Poland-Russia" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 12 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.

[pol-rus_line-ups-16] "Tactical Line-up – Group A – Poland-Russia" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 12 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 12 June 2012.

[17] "Match Press Kit – Group A – Poland v Russia" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 10 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 16, 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2021.

[cze-pol_report-18] "Full-time report Czech Republic-Poland" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 16 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2012.

[cze-pol_line-ups-19] "Tactical Line-up – Group A – Czech Republic-Poland" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 16 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2012.

[20] "Match Press Kit – Group A – Czech Republic v Poland" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 14 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 10, 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2021.

[gre-rus_report-21] "Full-time report Greece-Russia" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 16 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 5, 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2012.

[gre-rus_line-ups-22] "Tactical Line-up – Group A – Greece-Russia" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 16 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2014. Retrieved 16 June 2012.

[23] "Match Press Kit – Group A – Czech Republic v Poland" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 14 June 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 9, 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2021.

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