A friendly pitting Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland against France could be shifted to the capital Warsaw because of stadium delays in the Baltic port of Gdansk, the Polish football association (PZPN) said yesterday.

Poland’s June 9 meeting with Les Bleus was meant to mark the inauguration of Gdansk’s PGE Arena, one of four Polish venues for the European Championships.

“Right now, the stadium in Gdansk looks like a building site,” PZPN spokeswoman Agnieszka Olejkowska said.

“We’re waiting for the police’s view on how to organise this match, which we’ll probably get on Monday,” Olejkowska told the Polish news agency PAP.

“I won’t hide the fact that we’re concerned about this, just like the French side,” she said.

“The match will be taking place, but the big question is the location. If it can’t be played in Gdansk, it hasn’t been ruled out that it will be shifted to Warsaw,”

Poland are already due to meet Argentina in a friendly in the capital on June 5.

Infrastructure concerns have surfaced repeatedly since 2007, when European football’s governing body UEFA picked Poland and Ukraine to host the 16-nation tournament.

Euro 2012 is seen as a crucial showcase for the region, marking the first edition of the competition behind the former Iron Curtain.

A delay in Gdansk would mean red faces in Poland, notably because government and PZPN officials insisted as recently as two weeks ago that everything was on track.