Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has had a candidate to host 36th UEFA Congress on March 2012.

When, TFF had sent its bid dossier to UEFA on January, it was stated that UEFA Congress will be held in İstanbul Congress Center, İstanbul, Turkey with the participation of senior representatives from UEFA's 53 member national associations. The dossier also consists the invitation letter from Mahmut Özgener, TFF President and is emphasized with that İstanbul has selected as 2012 European Sports Capital.

Participants of UEFA Congress discuss the following issues on the agenda:

- Highlighting the past year's activities within European football's governing body
- Reporting of UEFA's standing committees on their respective committee's work.
- Approval the reports of the UEFA president/Executive Committee and the UEFA administration, as well as UEFA's financial accounts for the past year, and the strategic financial outlook the budget for the coming seasons.

The host of 2012 UEFA Congress will be announced by UEFA Executive Committee's press conference on 21 March Saturday 2011 at 13.00 with Turkish local time.

Turkey has hosted the UEFA Congress only once before which was in 1978.