GOAL has everything you need to know about the upcoming Euro 2024 qualifying draw Show
The 2024 iteration of UEFA's premier international football competition, the European Championship, will be hosted in Germany. It will be the second time that the tournament is played on German soil after 1988. The 2024 edition will see a return to the traditional format of a single country staging affairs, with Euro 2020 a pan-European event spanning 12 countries. GOAL brings you everything you need to know about the Euro 2024 qualificationdraw, including the date, time and where to watch it live. When is the Euro 2024 Qualification draw?The Euro 2024 Qualification draw will take place on Sunday, October 9, 2022. It will be held in Frankfurt, Germany at the Festhalle Exhibition Center and the event will begin at 11am BST (6am ET). Where to watch the Euro 2024 on TV and live stream onlineThe Euro 2024 Qualification draw will be live streamed on the UEFA website and the official Youtube channel. Which teams are involved in the Euro 2024 qualifying draw?A total of 53 UEFA member associations will enter the qualifying process and take part in the draw. Hosts Germany have already for the final tournament, while Russia have been suspended from Euro 2024 qualifying following the military invasion of Ukraine, UEFA has confirmed. Seeding pots for the Euro 2024 qualifying drawTeams are divided into seven seeding pots for the purposes of the draw. These comprise the UNL Pot, which includes the four UEFA Nations League finalists and pots numbered one to six. The UNL Pot contains Netherlands, Croatia, Spain and Italy, with Pot One populated by Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Switzerland and Poland. England are in Pot Two along with reigning World Cup champions France, as well as fellow home nations Wales and Scotland. You can see the full seeding pots in the table above. What is the Euro 2024 qualifying draw procedure?The 53 participating national teams will be seeded into six pots based on the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League overall ranking of the league phase. The four teams who have qualified for the final phase of the Nations League will be placed into the UNL pot and will be drawn across Groups A-D, which will each have five teams. They will be required to play only eight qualifying matches, instead of 10, so that they have two free matchdays to play in Nations League Finals in June 2023. The next six-highest ranked teams will find themselves in Pot 1. Pot 2 to 5 will have 10 teams each, based on their rankings, while Pot 6 will be comprised of the three lowest-ranked teams. Subsequently, the teams will be drawn into 10 groups, with Group A-G having five teams and H-J being made of six teams. What restrictions will be applied during the draw?UEFA has imposed three restrictions which will bind the draw. Those are as follows:
a) Azerbaijan: with Gibraltar, Iceland, and Portugal. b) Iceland: with Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia, Israel. c) Kazakhstan: with Andorra, England, Faroe Islands, France, Gibraltar, Iceland, Malta, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Spain, and Wales. When does Euro 2024 qualification start?Euro 2024 qualification begins in March 2023 and runs across 10 matchdays before concluding in November 2023. The top two teams out of each of the 10 groups advance to the European Championship finals, with the remaining three places decided via the play-off, for which teams qualify through the Nations League. Editors' Picks
How many teams qualify out of the euro groups?Group matches are played according to the European Qualifiers match calendar from March to November 2023. The ten group winners and the ten group runners-up qualify directly for the final tournament.
Will Euro 2024 have 32 teams?European soccer's governing body also ditches plans to expand Euros to 32 teams from 24. Uefa plans to trim down the size of qualification groups for the men's 2028 European Championship due to a lack of interest from television broadcasters, according to The Times.
Who has already qualified for Euro 2024?The Euro 2024 qualifying groups
Group A: Spain, Scotland, Norway, Georgia, Cyprus. Group B: Netherlands, France, Republic of Ireland, Greece, Gibraltar. Group C: Italy, England, Ukraine, North Macedonia, Malta.
How does the Euro 2024 draw work?There will be 53 teams drawn into 10 groups: seven groups of five teams (Groups A-G) and three groups of six teams (Groups H-J) with the six seeding pots having already been confirmed after the recent UEFA Nations League phase. Teams play each other home and away in a round-robin system.
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