European football championship
Commemorative stamp to celebrate the 14th European Football Championship
On the left side of the stamp, based on a design by the graphic artist
Attila Elekes, are pictogram-like depictions of typical moves in
football, and on the right side there is a football deco-rated with the
national colours of the organising countries with a map of Europe in the
background.
The 14th European Football Championship is being jointly organised
by Poland and Ukraine between 8 June and 1 July 2012. Four cities from
each of the two countries will host the matches with the opening match
held in Warsaw and the final to be held in Kiev. Ten countries applied
for the right to organise the matches which the approval committee of
UEFA narrowed down to three on 8 November 2005: Italy, Croatia-Hungary,
and Poland-Ukraine. The winners were announced in Cardiff on 18 April
2007. 51 countries participated in the qualifying rounds from
which 14 teams reached the European championship. The two organising
countries have joined the finalists, thus a total of 16 teams will
participate which are the following in alphabetical order: Croatia, the
Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland,
Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden and
Ukraine. UEFA designated 16 referees on 20 December 2011, of
which 12 may lead the matches for the European Championship, while the
remaining four will only play a part as fourth referees. Hungarian
international foot-ball referee Viktor Kassai belongs to the first
group, who in addition to numerous recognitions and titles was awarded
the title Referee of the Year in 2011. The EC emblem has
petals in the national colours of the two organising countries and a
football in bloom. Its slogan Creating History Together refers to the
common history of Poland and Ukraine. The official ball was given the
name Tango 12, a modern redesign of the original Tango ball which was
typical in the 1980s. The colours from the national flags of the
organising countries can be found on the ball. (Source:
hu.wikipedia.org)
Order code: 2012110010011 (stamp), 2012110060012 (FDC)
Date of issue: 8 June 2012.
Nominal value: HUF 270
Number of copies: 200,000
Perforated size of stamp: 45 x 26.67 mm (50 stamp/sheet)
Printed by Állami Nyomda
Designed by Attila Elekes
