FUNCHAL: UEFA opened a meeting Thursday to decide which Ukraine cities will host games at the 2012 European Championship.

A decision on the tournament venues and whether Kiev will stage the final is expected at the end of a two-day meeting of UEFA’s executive committee in Portugal’s Madeira Islands.

Ukraine is co-hosting Euro 2012 with neighbor Poland, and UEFA earlier this year confirmed four Polish cities as match hosts.

But Ukraine’s delays in building stadiums and public infrastructure raised fears its four proposed cities would not meet UEFA’s hosting standards.

The executive committee was to evaluate technical reports before deciding which Ukrainian venues were up to scratch.

UEFA president Michel Platini has stood by Ukraine since it was awarded co-hosting rights in April 2007, before the global financial crisis.

Last May, Platini approved the Polish cities of Warsaw, Gdansk, Poznan and Wroclaw as venues but only Kiev of the four proposed Ukrainian cities.

UEFA extended the deadline for Donetsk, Kharkiv and Lviv and withheld a promise that Kiev’s reconstructed Olympic Stadium would host the final.

Since then, Ukraine has completed the 41,000-seat Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv and the Donbass Arena in Donetsk.

The capital’s 77,000-capacity venue and the Lemberg Stadium in Lviv are still under construction.

The executive committee was also due to discuss European club finances and its betting fraud detection system.