Krystian Zawadzki

Euro 2012 Economic Impact on Host Cities in Poland Krystian Zawadzki

The UEFA European Championship (Euro) is among the world's most important sporting events staged nowadays. Apart from tremendous excitement among football fans, such a major event has a number of other implications, above all of economic nature. This study, as one of the few concerned with the Polish circumstances, is intended to determine what significance should be attributed to stage the Euro 2012 in Polish host cities. Aware of the difficulty in finding an unequivocal answer, the Author focused on four isolated areas of impact, namely: sports infrastructure, other infrastructure, tourist traffic and the labour market.