UEFA European Championship 2016 Draw

[jon545660]

Draw is Sunday 23rd February at 11:00 GMT.

England are a top seed, Scotland and Wales are among the fourth seeds and Northern Ireland are in Pot 5. Republic of Ireland are in Pot 2.

Full list of seedings:
Pot 1: Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, England, Portugal, Greece, Russia, Bosnia-Hercegovina.
Pot 2: Ukraine, Croatia, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Republic of Ireland.
Pot 3: Serbia, Turkey, Slovenia, Israel, Norway, Slovakia, Romania, Austria, Poland.
Pot 4: Montenegro, Armenia, Scotland, Finland, Latvia, Wales, Bulgaria, Estonia, Belarus.
Pot 5: Iceland, Northern Ireland, Albania, Lithuania, Moldova, FYR Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Cyprus.
Pot 6: Luxembourg, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Faroe Islands, Malta, Andorra, San Marino, Gibraltar.

 

[the count]

I hope we get an easy group and somehow mange to qualify.
I plan to be in France for it, regardless of whether we are there or not

 

[Spaghetti Legs]

Its 24 teams this time isn't it?

 

[localny]

Gibraltar!

 

[the count]

Its 24 teams this time isn't it?

yes

 

[Spaghetti Legs]

yes

Cheers, went and had a look at it earlier...

9 groups.
Top 2 qualify plus best 3rd place team - 19 teams qualify.
The other 8 3rd place teams go into playoffs - 4 teams qualify, add in the hosts and thats the 24 teams.

Got to be good news for Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

 

[Spaghetti Legs]

Not sure what the format will be for the tournement though.

4 groups of 6 with top 2 going to the quaters - would presume that would leave to many dead rubber games.

6 groups of 4 with top team going into quaters and the 2 best 2nd place teams? fuck knows tbh.

 

[SummerOnions]

This will be the first major tournament i plan to get to. Hope some good teams get in it

 

[Spaghetti Legs]

They will all be there looking at the qualifying format, even Hodgson should coast any group, fancy Scotland to make it this time.

 

[Zlate]

How on earth is Greece pot 1?

 

[Dreambeliever]

How on earth is Greece pot 1?

Winning the thing normally helps

 

[Zlate]

10 years ago. Belgium is a much better and stronger team.
Not to mention Croatia, Ukraine, Sweden and Denmark

 

[Tal]

Not sure what the format will be for the tournement though.

4 groups of 6 with top 2 going to the quaters - would presume that would leave to many dead rubber games.

6 groups of 4 with top team going into quaters and the 2 best 2nd place teams? fuck knows tbh.

The tournament format is going to be 6 groups of 4, with 16 teams going through to the knockout stages consisting of a 'round of 16', a quarter-final, a semi-final and final.

Pleanty of scope there for meaningless games at the group stage.

 

[Frogfish]

The qualifying competition is going to be more utter shite than usual without the urgency and stomach-churning of do-or-die matches. UEFA just want to be sure all the top teams make it through instead of losing money and TV ratings when they don't.

 

[the count]

Nasty 🙁

 

[King Binny]

Euro 2016 qualifying draw
GROUP A: Holland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Latvia, Iceland, Kazakhstan
GROUP B: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Israel, Wales, Cyprus, Andorra
GROUP C: Spain, Ukraine, Slovakia, Belarus, Macedonia, Luxembourg
GROUP D: Germany, Republic or Ireland, Poland, Scotland, Georgia, Gibraltar
GROUP E: England, Switzerland, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, San Marino
GROUP F: Greece, Hungary, Romania, Finland, Northern Ireland, Faroe Islands
GROUP G: Russia, Sweden, Austria, Montenegro, Moldova, Liechtenstein
GROUP H: Italy, Croatia, Norway, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Malta
GROUP I: Portugal, Denmark, Serbia, Armenia, Albania

Really kind draw for England

 

[ILD]

We have to navigate past Germany Scotland and Poland. FFS.

 

[the count]

We have to navigate past Germany Scotland and Poland. FFS.

One of the toughest groups we could have got

 

[jon545660]

Wales and NI should be happy with that.

 

[Frogfish]

We have to navigate past Germany Scotland and Poland. FFS.

Don't forget Gibraltar too !

 

[Hyena]

We have to navigate past Germany Scotland and Poland. FFS.

If you're feeling threatened by Scotland, you have a problem...