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September 20, 2022, 1:57 PM UTC (AP) -- The 13 European national teams going to this year’s World Cup will play their last competitive soccer games in the Nations League this week, two months before the tournament starts in Qatar. For the rest of continent’s teams — with the exception of Russia, which has been suspended because of the war in Ukraine — next week’s final Nations League standings will decide the playoff path some will need to qualify for the 2024 European Championship. 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. 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
A total of 53 European nations learned their qualifying fates for Euro 2024 as the October 9 draw was held in Frankfurt, Germany. A number of big countries are set to face off during qualification as a result, including Euro 2021 finalists England and Italy who will once again resume their rivalry in Group C, alongside Ukraine, North Macedonia, and Malta. Gareth Southgate's side will be looking for revenge after the Azzurri took the 2021 crown on penalties at a packed-out Wembley Stadium, while North Macedonia will be eyeing up another shock against Italy after dumping Roberto Mancini's team out of 2022 World Cup reckoning at the play-off stage. Elsewhere, Netherlands and France were also drawn together in Group B alongside Ireland, Greece and Gibraltar, though other top seeds Spain, Belgium and Portugal will likely be content with their groups. MORE: When does the 2022 World Cup start? All the details Euro 2024 groupsHere are the final groups that were drawn for Euro 2024 qualifying.
MORE: Euro 2021 bracket with all the results and highlights When was the Euro 2024 group stage draw?The Euro 2024 qualifying draw took place on Sunday, October 9 in the host country Germany. Frankfurt's Festhalle Exhibition Centre was the venue for the draw (11:00 BST / 06:00 ET). UEFA had four ex-players on hand to assist the draw: Former German internationals Jurgen Klinsmann and Karl-Heinz Riedle, and ex-Italy stars Gianluca Zambrotta and Demetrio Albertini. UEFA provided a live stream of the draw on its official channels. Euro 2024 group pots, seedsThe 53 nations participating in qualifying were seeded ahead of the draw based on the final 2022/23 UEFA Nations League rankings following the completion of the Nations League group stage in September 2022. Germany automatically qualifies as host and will not participate in qualifying. Russia is banned from competing in the 2024 Euros as part of UEFA's decision to sanction the country following its invasion of Ukraine in February 2021. Below were the pot designations ahead of the October 9, 2022 qualifying draw:
The four Nations League finalists — Netherlands, Croatia, Spain, Italy — were broken out into a separate pot because they required special consideration. Given that those four nations needed to have open dates in June 2023 in order to participate in the Nations League finals, they had to be part of one of the five-team groups (A-G) and avoid the six-team groups (H-J), which feature additional matchdays. MORE: Complete 2022 FIFA World Cup schedule How the Euro 2024 qualifying draw workedThe draw followed a straightforward process: Officials began by drawing the Nations League Finalists pot, and then proceeded to Pot 1, and then Pot 2, and so on until each pot was emptied and teams were allocated to a group.
Unless there were restrictions or exceptions (see list below), teams were drawn into the next available group in alphabetical order (from Group A through Group J). That means the four Nations League teams were first drawn into Groups A-D and then the draw continued with the other Pot 1 teams slotted into Groups E-J. Up next was Pots 2-5 with every nation slotted in a group. The six-team groups are Groups H-J and so the three Pot 6 teams were drawn into one of those. Draw restrictions, exceptions and conditionsThe European governing body implemented a handful of restrictions to the draw. Were any of these scenarios to arise during the draw, they would have required adjustments:
When are the 2024 Euros?The round-robin qualifying will take place from March to November 2023 and the top two teams from each group qualify directly to Euro 2024 in Germany. The final three berths to the tournament will come through special playoffs that will be played in March 2024. These will be based on Nations League performance instead of group qualifying performance which has always been the case in the past. The Euros will be held in Germany between June 14 and July 14 of 2024. A total of 24 nations will contend for the European title:
Euros 2024 qualifying schedule
Author(s) Simon Borg is a senior editor for football/soccer at The Sporting News.  Nathan Evans is a data editor for The Sporting News. Who will host 2024 Euros?UEFA EURO 2024 will take place across ten world class stadiums in Germany from the Olympiastadion Berlin to the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg.
Is the next Euros in 2025?It will be the third edition since it was expanded to 16 teams. The host is expected to be selected in January 2023.
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UEFA Women's Euro 2025.. How much will EURO 2024 tickets cost?Euro 2024 ticket prices. Are the Euros every 4 years?The competition has been held every four years since 1960, except for 2020, when it was postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, but kept the name Euro 2020.
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