Euro 2020 Qualifying Group D

**tricky_colour** · 11/09/2019, 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by Stuttgart88

A quick summary:

- 24 teams qualify for Euro 2020
- Ten groups, 2 qualify directly from each group = 20 teams
- Remaining 4 places are determined by a series of playoffs
- The participants in the playoffs are determined by the 2018/19 Nations League matches which have all taken place
- The 4 best teams from NL League D (who haven’t qualified via the traditional qualification groups) will be the League D play off teams. A 1 leg semi-final followed by a 1 leg final, in March 2020
- Same too for NL Leagues C, B and A
- But – in all likelihood all the League A teams will qualify outright, so the League A play off path gets made up of the best B (or maybe even C) teams that don’t qualify outright
- You’d also expect most B teams to qualify outright
- So, despite Ireland doing rubbish in the Nations League, as long as no more than 6 Nations League A or B teams fail to qualify from the groups, we get a playoff, probably in the vacant League A playoff path (because they’ve already qualified their playoff places go to the remaining B teams) – and @insidetherock was pointing out which other teams that would be against. That’s what the above posts were about.

A few of us were debating some of the finer nuances of the exact mechanism but this was a mix of highly intelligent (Geysir) and nerdy (mainly me, Sammy, insidetherock and davidatrb) posts.

I was OK up to the first two lines and then my head starts spinning!

I am mighty impressed by those who can, or pretend they can, understand it.