The draw for UEFA EURO 2024 qualifying takes place at the Festhalle exhibition centre in Frankfurt, Germany on Sunday (11am) with Rob Page's Cymru in Pot 2 as they look to qualify for a third successive EURO finals. Show
While the immediate focus turns to the FIFA World Cup in Qatar next month, the next qualifying campaign takes place between March and November 2023 with 23 of the 53 nations involved in Sunday's draw looking to join hosts Germany. Cymru made history at EURO 2016 as Chris Coleman's side reached the semi-finals and again reached the knock-out stages under Page at EURO 2020. There will be ten qualifying groups comprising of seven groups of five teams and three groups of six teams. As the Netherlands, Croatia, Spain and Italy will also compete in the finals of the UEFA Nations League next summer, they will be allocated into the groups of five teams. The ten group winners and ten runners-up will automatically qualify for the finals with the remaining three places decided by the play-offs that will take place in March 2024. The 53 nations involved in the qualifying draw have been seeded based on the overall rankings of the latest UEFA Nations League tournament following the completion of the group stages. Russia are not included in the competition as they remain under suspension while the Czech Republic are now referred to as Czechia. The draw will be made by former EURO finalists Jürgen Klinsmann, Karl-Heinz Riedle, Gianluca Zambrotta and Demetrio Albertini. Here are the seven pots to which the 53 competing nations have been allocated: UEFA Nations League pot Netherlands, Croatia, Spain and Italy. Pot 1 Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Switzerland and Poland. Pot 2 France, Austria, Czechia, England, Cymru, Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Scotland and Finland. Pot 3 Ukraine, Iceland, Norway, Slovenia, Republic of Ireland, Albania, Montenegro, Romania, Sweden and Armenia. Pot 4 Georgia, Greece, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Faroe Islands and North Macedonia, Pot 5 Slovakia, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Belarus, Lithuania, Gibraltar, Estonia, Latvia, Moldova and Malta. Pot 6 Andorra, San Marino and Liechtenstein. EURO facts
Oct 9, 2022
The draw for the qualifying phase of Euro 2024 took place on Sunday, Oct. 9 at the Markthalle in Frankfurt, Germany. Here's everything you need to know. - Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS, more (U.S.) What are the qualifying groups for Euro 2024?The draw consisted of seven groups of five countries, and three groups with six teams. UEFA Nations League A winners Croatia, Netherlands, Italy and Spain were drawn in the smaller groups, and they are among 12 teams guaranteed a playoff place through their performances in the Nations League if they do not qualify for Euro 2024 automatically. Group A: Spain, Scotland, Norway, Georgia, Cyprus Group B: Netherlands, France, Republic of Ireland, Greece, Gibraltar Group C: Italy, England, Ukraine, North Macedonia, Malta Group D: Croatia, Wales, Armenia, Turkey, Latvia Group E: Poland, Czech, Albania, Faroe Islands, Moldova Group F: Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Estonia Group G: Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Lithuania Group H: Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, Kazakhstan, Northern Ireland. Group I: Switzerland, Israel, Romania, Kosovo, Belarus, Andorra Group J: Portugal, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iceland, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Liechtenstein How many countries will qualify for Euro 2024?There will be 24 teams at Euro 2024. Hosts Germany will be joined by the winners and the runners-up from each of the 10 groups. The final three places will be decided by playoffs. How will the Euro 2024 playoffs work?The playoffs will be created using the final positions in the UEFA Nations League group stage. There will three playoff paths, one each for UEFA Nations Leagues A, B and C. The group winners are guaranteed a playoff, should they not qualify automatically. They are: League A League B League C If one of the group winners qualifies automatically, the best-ranked team which requires a playoff in that league path will take the place. If a league path cannot be filled (for instance if 13 countries qualify from League A automatically), then Estonia (best ranked in League D) will slot into that path. If more than one place has to be filled, after Estonia it reverts to overall rank in the next league. When will the qualifying games be played?The group stage will take place in the five international windows of March, June, September, October and November 2023. It starts on March 23, 2023 and finishes on Nov. 21. The playoffs will be held in March 2024. When is the final tournament?The Euro 2024 finals will be held in Germany between Friday, June 14 and Sunday, July 14, 2024. Will there still be international friendlies?The 31 countries in the five-team Groups A to G who are not in the UEFA Nations League finals will have two free dates for friendlies in 2023. How were the draw pots decided?The teams were divided into seven pots based upon the final positions in the 2022-23 UEFA Nations League (UNL) group stage. The four top-ranked countries were the UNL Pot, with the next six in Pot 1. The UNL Pot exists because these countries must be drawn into a group of five countries to have the June international dates free for the UEFA Nations League finals; they will be drawn into Groups A-D. The other pots all have 10 teams, other than Pot 6 which contains the three lowest-ranked countries. What were the draw pots?UNL POT POT 1 POT 2 POT 3 POT 4 POT 5 POT 6 Where were Germany and Russia?Germany do not have to qualify as they are the host nation. Russia are still banned from international competition by UEFA due to the invasion of Ukraine. What were the restrictions on the draw?Other than the UEFA Nations League finalists needing to be in Groups A through to D, there were: - Winter venue restriction: Only two of Belarus, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway can be in the same group. - Prohibited team clashes: Armenia / Azerbaijan - Belarus / Ukraine - Gibraltar / Spain - Kosovo / Bosnia-Herzegovina - Kosovo / Serbia - Excessive travel restrictions: Kazakhstan, Iceland and Azerbaijan have a series of specific draw conditions to prevent more than two teams being in one group. Will there be a Euro in 2024?The UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying tournament is an upcoming football competition that will be played from March 2023 to March 2024 to determine the 23 UEFA member men's national teams that will join the automatically qualified host team Germany in the UEFA Euro 2024 final tournament.
Is the next EUROs in 2025?UEFA today confirmed that it has received final bids to host the UEFA Women's EURO 2025 final tournament from four bidders following the deadline of 12 October. A final bid dossier was submitted by the football associations of France, Poland, Switzerland, and a joint bid from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Where will Euro 2024 occur?Article summary. UEFA EURO 2024 will take place across ten world class stadiums in Germany from the Olympiastadion Berlin to the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg. Find out history, tourist attractions, fixtures and stadium capacity for all the venues and cities.
Will England play in the next EUROs 2024?England men's senior team will face opposition from Italy, Ukraine, North Macedonia and Malta in their UEFA EURO 2024 qualifying group. The draw was made on Sunday morning in Frankfurt, with Germany hosting the 2024 edition of the EUROs, and the Three Lions were drawn out as a second seed in Group C.
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