Having just checked the dates and venues, I am getting extremely excited about this - in contrast to the Nations League. After initially thinking that it was a fop having it touring around Europe because no-one could really afford to hold it (the rumour I heard), I think it is a good idea now. The cities holding it are, on the whole, great and I like the idea of no automatically qualified teams (although the Nations League qualifiers spoils this somewhat). Out of the cities holding matches, I would love to revisit six of them regardless of who is playing - Copenhagen, Amsterdam, , Glasgow, Bilbao, Dublin, Budapest; two I would like to visit anew regardless of who is playing - Rome and Munich; two I would like to visit if Wales are playing there - Baku and Bucharest. I love London naturally but have no need to schlep all the way up to Wembleynotlondon unless Wales were playing. I am assuming boycotting restrictions will still be running over Saint Petersburg.
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The pottery for the qualifying draw on 2 December. Five groups of five, five groups of six. Twenty teams (top 2 x 10) qualify automatically.
A few pots still to confirm, after the final Nations League games tonight. For example, Scotland beating Israel tonight would get them into Pot 3.Last edited by Kevin S; 20-11-2018, 09:53.
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If Poland take points from Portugal this evening then Germany will be in Pot 2, would certainly make one of the groups interesting - or likely pretty impossible for any Pot 3-6 team to qualify from a group containing Germany and a Pot 1 seed.
Conceivable there could be a England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland & Gibraltar group?
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Yes. So these qualifiers (which are drawn a week on Sunday) will start in late March.
Ten groups, top two qualify from each group. So that's 20 of your 24 (no hosts).
That will all be sorted out by this time next year.
The other four will indeed come from the Nations League playoffs, and they will take place in March 2020.
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These are the international breaks for the Euro 2020 qualifiers. The groups with six teams in will use all the match days. Teams in groups of five will have a couple of slots for friendlies (or, in the case of Portugal, Netherlands, Switzerland and England, the Nations League finals in the June slots).
Matchday 1 21–23 March 2019 Matchday 2 24–26 March 2019 Matchday 3 7–8 June 2019 Matchday 4 10–11 June 2019 Matchday 5 5–7 September 2019 Matchday 6 8–10 September 2019 Matchday 7 10–12 October 2019 Matchday 8 13–15 October 2019 Matchday 9 14–16 November 2019 Matchday 10 17–19 November 2019
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Originally posted by Kevin S View PostSwitzerland-BiH-Serbia-Albania-Kosovo
There are also a number of other restrictions on the draw - no more than two sides hosting finals matches can be drawn in the same group, no more than two nations classified as medium/ high risk for severe weather can be drawn together and then there are some limits to prevent excessive travel for some countries on the extremities of Europe.
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I have to say that, like many I presume, I have changed my mind about the Nations League. My main issue with it presently is that there are still friendlies as well but no-one, I suppose, is forcing me to go.
Anyway, onto this, though the seeding system makes no sense ( I would feel fairly aggrieved if I were a NL group winner being in a pot down from the above groups relegated team) , I am just glad to see Wales in Pot 2. I remember a time when I thought I would never see us that high in my lifetime, such was the endless circuit of non-qualifying and hence being seeded in the lower pots. Here we are two years from having qualified and we still are in Pot 2, despite not having done a huge amount in that time.
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No, it's only the four teams in the League A finals who will be in the five team groups for certain. The Nations League playoffs for the final four spots take place early in 2020, after the main qualifying has finished.
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Originally posted by Kevin S View PostAnd I see what you're saying Bored - this looks generous to Poland and Croatia at the expense of BiH and Ukraine.
Edit - and same in pots 4&5
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Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostI don’t know what’s going on anymore. What is the 2020 vision
and how are they going to cram in another international competition.
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Here are the hosting cities for Euro 2020, per Wiki:
Each city will host three group stage matches and one match in the round of 16 or quarter-finals. The match allocation for the 12 stadiums is as follows:
Group stage, round of 16, semi-finals, and final: London (England)
Group stage and quarter-finals: Munich (Germany), Baku (Azerbaijan), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Rome (Italy)
Group stage and round of 16: Copenhagen (Denmark), Bucharest (Romania), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Dublin (Republic of Ireland), Bilbao (Spain), Budapest (Hungary), Glasgow (Scotland)
The host cities were divided into six pairings, established on the basis of sporting strength (assuming all host teams qualify), geographical considerations, and security/political constraints. The pairings were allocated to groups by means of a random draw on 7 December 2017. Each qualified host country will play a minimum of two matches at home. The group venue pairings is as follows:[29]
Group A: Rome (Italy) and Baku (Azerbaijan)
Group B: Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Copenhagen (Denmark)
Group C: Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Bucharest (Romania)
Group D: London (England) and Glasgow (Scotland)
Group E: Bilbao (Spain) and Dublin (Republic of Ireland)
Group F: Munich (Germany) and Budapest (Hungary)
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Each qualified host country will play a minimum of two matches at home. The group venue pairings is as follows:[29]
Group A: Rome (Italy) and Baku (Azerbaijan)
Group B: Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Copenhagen (Denmark)
Group C: Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Bucharest (Romania)
Group D: London (England) and Glasgow (Scotland)
Group E: Bilbao (Spain) and Dublin (Republic of Ireland)
Group F: Munich (Germany) and Budapest (Hungary)
Does that mean that if England and Scotland both qualify they're automatically already in group D together, or Russia and Denmark in Group B? That's going to take a lot of the suspense out of the finals draw.
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