UEFA Euro 2012 statistics tournament's thirty one matches, an average of 3.97 yellow cards per match UEFA Euro 2012 statistics These are the statistics for the UEFA Euro 2012, which took place in Poland and Ukraine. <section begin=Goalscorers /><section end=Goalscorers /> Sanctions against foul play at Euro 2012 were in the first instance the responsibility of the referee, but when if he deemed it necessary to give a caution, or dismiss a player, UEFA kept a record and may have enforced a suspension. UEFA's disciplinary committee had the ability to penalize players for offenses unpunished by the referee. A player receiving a red card
UEFA Euro 2012 former players who had each been part of European Championship winning teams: Horst Hrubesch, Marco van Basten, Peter Schmeichel and Zinedine Zidane. Teams were drawn consecutively into Group A to D. First, the Pot 1 teams were assigned to the first positions of their groups, while next the positions of all other teams were drawn separately from Pot 4 to 2 (for the purposes of determining the match schedules in each group). The draw resulted in the following groups: Eight cities were selected by UEFA as host venues. In a return to the format used at Euro 1992, Euro 1996