The Technical Commission of the Confederation of European Baseball is keeping busy this week, as they announced the approved schedule for the 2012 European Championship in Rotterdam, Utrecht and Haarlem, Netherlands on Friday. The tournament will be played from September 7 to 16, 2012.
No change to the format in comparison to the 2010 edition in Germany. After a preliminary round robin, the top three teams in each pool move up into the second round, which again will be played in a round-robin format. The top two teams will play in the championship game. Italy is the defending champion.
Pool A | Pool B |
Italy | Netherlands |
Greece | Germany |
Sweden | France |
Spain | Czech Republic |
Croatia | Belgium |
Russia | Great Britain |
Preliminary round | ||||||||
Date | # | Stadium | Time | Game | # | Stadium | Time | Game |
Friday | 1. | Haarlem | 14:00. | ESP-GRE | 2. | Utrecht | 14.00. | SWE-RUS |
7-sep-12. | 3. | Rotterdam | 14.00. | CZE-GER | 4. | Utrecht | 19:30. | FRA-GBR |
5. | Haarlem | 19:30. | CRO-ITA | 6. | Rotterdam | 19:30. | BEL-NED | |
Saturday | 7. | Haarlem | 14:00. | RUS-ESP | 8. | Utrecht | 14:00. | GER-BEL |
8-sep-12. | 9. | Rotterdam | 14:00. | GRE-CRO | 10. | Utrecht | 19:30. | GBR-CZE |
11. | Haarlem | 19:30. | ITA-SWE | 12. | Rotterdam | 19:00. | NED-FRA | |
Sunday | 13. | Utrecht | 14:00. | FRA-BEL | 14. | Rotterdam | 13:00. | NED-CZE |
9-sep-12. | 15. | Haarlem | 14:00. | SWE-CRO | 16. | Rotterdam | 19:30. | GER-GBR |
17. | Haarlem | 19:30. | ITA-ESP | 18. | Utrecht | 19:30. | GRE-RUS | |
Monday | 19. | Utrecht | 14:00. | CRO-RUS | 20. | Rotterdam | 14:00. | SWE-ESP |
10-sep-12. | 21. | Haarlem | 14:00. | FRA-CZE | 22. | Utrecht | 19:30. | BEL-GBR |
23. | Haarlem | 19:30. | ITA-GRE | 24. | Rotterdam | 19:30. | NED-GER | |
Tuesday | 25. | Rotterdam | 14:00. | GER-FRA | 26. | Utrecht | 14:00. | ESP-CRO |
11-sep-12. | 27. | Haarlem | 14:00. | GRE-SWE | 28. | Utrecht | 19:30. | CZE-BEL |
29. | Haarlem | 19:30. | RUS-ITA | 30. | Rotterdam | 19:30. | GBR-NED | |
Classification ranking 7th – 12th | ||||||||
Wednesday | 31. | Utrecht | 14:00. | 4A – 4B | * | |||
12-sep-12. | 32. | Haarlem | 14:00. | 5A – 5B | * | |||
33. | Rotterdam | 14:00. | 6A – 6B | * | ||||
2nd Round | ||||||||
Thursday | 34. | Haarlem | 14:00. | A2 – B3 | ||||
13-sep-12. | 35. | Haarlem | 19:30. | A1 – B2 | ||||
36. | Rotterdam | 19.30 | A3 – B1 | |||||
Friday | 37. | Rotterdam | 14:00. | B2 – A3 | ||||
14-sep-12. | 38. | Rotterdam | 19.30 | B1 – A2 | ||||
39. | Haarlem | 19.30 | B3 – A1 | |||||
Saturday | 40. | Haarlem | 14:00. | A3 – B3 | * | |||
15-sep-12. | 41. | Haarlem | 19:30. | A2 – B2 | * | |||
42. | Rotterdam | 19:00 | A1 – B1 | * | ||||
Final | ||||||||
Sunday | ||||||||
16-sep-12. | 43. | Rotterdam | 13:00. | #1 – #2 |
- *Home team to be decide by draw of lot
- If the Netherlands qualifies for the 2nd round their games will be played in Rotterdam at 19.30, except on Saturday 15th when the game starts at 19.00.
- If Italy qualifies for the 2nd round their games will be played in Haarlem at 19.30 except the game versus the Netherlands which will be played in Rotterdam.