The UEFA Referees Committee met Wednesday, December 21, in Nyon and appointed the 12 referees to handle the 31 matches of next year's UEFA EURO 2012 final tournament in Poland and Ukraine.

For the first time in the history of the UEFA European Championship, the referees will have added support thanks to a decision by football's lawmakers, the International Football Association Board (IFAB), to allow the continuation of the experiment in the use of additional assistant referees. The full referee teams will be announced in January 2012.

Çakιr Cüneyt (Turkey), Eriksson Jonas (Sweden), Kassai Viktor (Hungary), Kuipers Bjorn (Netherlands), Lannoy Stéphane (France), Pedro Proença (Portugal), Rizzoli Nicola (Italy), Skomina Damir (Slovenia), Stark Wolfgang (Germany), Thomson Craig (Scotland), Velasco Carballo Carlos (Spain), Webb Howard (England) will watch the matches of European Championship.

In addition, four fourth officials will be delegated to support the main referees: Borski Marcin (Poland), Hagen Tom Harald (Norway), Královec Pavel (Czech Republic) and Shvetsov Viktor (Ukraine), UEFA official website reported.