Euro 2008

On Thursday 12 December 2002, Austria and Switzerland were chosen by the UEFA Executive Committee to jointly host the final round of the UEFA European Football Championship in 2008.

Eight cities
The decision followed a process which began formally in the autumn of 2001, and which culminated in the seven candidates giving brief final presentations of their bids to the joint Executive Committee and UEFA's National Teams Committee. Four stadiums in each country formed the basis of the bid - Basel, Berne, Geneva and Zurich in Switzerland, and Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna in Austria.