WARSAW, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Polish national football coach Franciszek Smuda announced Poland's provisional team for the European Football Championship (Euro 2012) on Wednesday.

Smuda revealed the 26-strong squad including seven reserves at a gala concert in Warsaw.

On the team are Arsenal FC goalkeepers Wojciech Szczesny and Lukasz Fabianski, Borussia Dortmund stars Lukasz Piszczek, Jakub Blaszczykowski and Robert Lewandowski. Among the surprise selections are Hannover 96 striker Artur Sobiech, Legia Warsaw forward Michal Kucharczyk and uncapped 19-year-old Rafal Wolski.

Smuda admitted he had most trouble picking the defenders and forwards. "I made by choice from players I'd been watching over the past 2.5 years. I know quite a few of them well after coaching them in their division teams," Smuda said.

He added that his main aim was to advance from the group, in which Poland is together with Russia, Greece and the Czech Republic.

"The favourite is Russia but we'll be playing at home and we'll do everything to progress to the quarterfinals," Smuda assured.

Euro 2012, to take place from June 8 to July 1, 2012, will be co-hosted by the two countries' eight cities. The matches will be played in Poland's Warsaw, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk and Ukraine's Kiev, Lvov, Kharkov and Donetsk.

Following is the provisional squad:

Goalkeepers: Lukasz Fabianski (Arsenal FC), Wojciech Szczesny ( Arsenal FC), Przemyslaw Tyton (PSV Eindhoven).

Defenders: Sebastian Boenisch (SV Werder Bremen), Kamil Glik ( Torino FC), Marcin Kaminski (KKS Lech Poznan), Tomasz Jodlowiec ( KSP Polonia Warsaw), Damien Perquis (FC Sochaux), Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund), Marcin Wasilewski (RSC Anderlecht), Jakub Wawrzyniak (Legia Warsaw), Grzegorz Wojtkowiak (KKS Lech Poznan).

Midfielders: Jakub Blaszczykowski (Borussia Dortmund), Dariusz Dudka (AJ Auxerre), Kamil Grosicki (Sivasspor), Adam Matuszczyk ( Fortuna Duesseldorf 1895), Adrian Mierzejewski (Trabzonspor AS), Rafal Murawski (KKS Lech Poznan), Ludovic Obraniak (Girondins Bordeaux), Eugen Polanski (FSV Mainz), Maciej Rybus (Terek Grozny), Rafal Wolski (Legia Warsaw).

Forwards: Pawe? Brozek (Celtic Glasgow), Michal Kucharczyk ( Legia Warsaw), Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund), Artur Sobiech (Hannover 96).

Reserves: Grzegorz Sandomierski (Jagiellonia Bialystok), Arkadiusz Glowacki (Trabzonspor), Marcin Komorowski (Terek Grozny), Ariel Borysiuk (FC Kaiserslautern), Michal Zyro (Legia Warsaw), Arkadiusz Piech (Ruch Chorzow), Ireneusz Jelen (OSC Lille).

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