Edited post to update mistake earlier
On current UEFA rankings lets imagine that teams qualify according to their rankings.. so, the top 20 qualify
Belgium, France, England, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Croatia, Wales, Sweden, Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Austria, Scotland, Hungary, Norway
Along with Germany as hosts, and excluding Russia who will likely still be banned by the time the draw takes place
If the playoffs were to be allocated based on the tables this morning
The non qualified teams from Path A would be:
Zero
But, this creates an anomaly that I will bring up in a minute.
The non qualified teams from Path B
Ireland, Armenia
Isreal, Iceland, Albania
Bosnia, Montenegro, Finland, Romania
Slovenia
The play offs for this path would then be
Israel, Bosnia,
But, this where the anomaly kicks in.
The next two non qualified teams in B, are Iceland and Ireland.
So,
Israel, Bosnia, Iceland, Montenegro
But there are still no teams gone up to A... so you might imagine, the next four again would go up to make up the A play off (like Ireland, N Ireland and Slovakia did last time, to compete with Iceland)
And the next four currently are..
Ireland, Albania, Finland, Romania
But..
The Isrealis and Bosnians would have a good argument for saying that the A path like this, is actually an easier pathway to qualify, than the B pathway (its full of 3/4 place teams, while the B path has 1/2nd placed teams)
So, I think Israel would be pushed up as the 1st place team in A.. and Bosnia as the first placed team in B
Making the A play off
Isreal, Albania, Finland, Romania
And the B play off
Bosnia, Iceland, Ireland, Montenegro
Complicated eh
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