I think it's been mentioned in other threads, but probably deserves a thread of its own.
Draw is next Sunday at 11am Irish time. We're third seeds.
The pots are -
Pot 1 - Netherlands, Croatia, Spain, Italy (who are the four NL semi-finalists and will be in a 5-team group), Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Switzerland, Poland
Pot 2 - France, Austria, Czech Republic, England, Wales, Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Scotland, Finland
Pot 3 - Ukraine, Iceland, Norway, Slovenia, Republic of Ireland, Albania, Montenegro, Romania, Sweden, Armenia
Pot 4 - Georgia, Greece, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Faroe Islands, North Macedonia
Pot 5 - Slovakia, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Belarus, Lithuania, Gibraltar, Estonia, Latvia, Moldova, Malta
Pot 6 - Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein
Obviously a huge gap in some of those pots - Spain/France/Sweden/Turkey/Slovakia is a possible draw, as is Hungary/Finland/Armenia/Faroe Islands/Gibraltar/San Marino. Slovakia in Pot 5 is definitely one to avoid; I don't know how they've fallen that far. And obviously England/France from Pot 2
Top two qualify, but really we'll have to wait until the draw is made before we set targets.
Games from March to November next year, with NL play-offs in Mar 2024
Edited to correct Friday to Sunday. Strange day for it
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UEFA Euro 2024Code:Friday, 24th March 2023 France v Netherlands Gibraltar v Greece Monday, 27th March 2023 Netherlands v Gibraltar Republic of Ireland v France Friday, 16th June 2023 Gibraltar v France Greece v Republic of Ireland Monday, 19th June 2023 France v Greece Republic of Ireland v Gibraltar Thursday, 7th September 2023 France v Republic of Ireland Netherlands v Greece Sunday, 10th September 2023 Greece v Gibraltar Republic of Ireland v Netherlands Friday, 13th October 2023 Netherlands v France Republic of Ireland v Greece Monday, 16th October 2023 Gibraltar v Republic of Ireland Greece v Netherlands Saturday, 18th November 2023 France v Gibraltar Netherlands v Republic of Ireland Tuesday, 21st November 2023 Gibraltar v Netherlands Greece v France
UEFA Euro 2024
UEFA Euro 2024 Qualifying
UEFA Euro 2024 Qualifying - Group B
UEFA Euro 2024 Qualifying - Play Offs
Last edited by tetsujin1979; 18/06/2023 at 10:54 PM.
Should we have a seperate thread for the playoff situation? I know others have addressed it but I expect things are partially clearer now with the group stage of the NL over.
edited to add I think the Euro draw is Sunday 9 Oct at 11am.
No matter what group we get I've a feeling we'll somehow make a boll!x of it
Folding my way into the big money!!!
Still on for the Group of Predictability:
Denmark
Wales
Ireland
Georgia
Gibraltar
Andorra
Lord god, have mercy on us. Forgive us our sins.Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Give me Italy and France over seeing Denmark, Wales, and Georgia again. Wales and Georgia will also be in League B next campaign so you know we'll get both for the qualifiers and next NL
I think a group of 6 would be better than a group of 5 (hopefully two more winnable matches to build momentum). That would however rule out the NL semi-finalists from pot 1. Ideally, I'd like to see a strong pot 1 team (against which the others don't collect points) and one of the weaker pot 2 teams. I'd go for:
Belgium
Finland
Ireland
Faroes
Estonia
Liechtenstein
Will there still be international windows with 3 games for this campaign?
I hope not ~ ~ We struggle with two games in a window.
No, its 5 series of 2 games each and we could probably do with being in a 5 team group not 6.
Matchday 1 23-25 March 2023
Matchday 2 26-28 March 2023
Matchday 3 16-17 June 2023
Matchday 4 19-20 June 2023
Matchday 5 7-9 September 2023
Matchday 6 10-12 September 2023
Matchday 7 12-14 October 2023
Matchday 8 15-17 October 2023
Matchday 9 16-18 November 2023
Matchday 10 19-21 November 2023
We're seeded 5th in Pot 3
If we got the 5th seeds from each Pot, the group would be..
Denmark
Wales
Ireland
Luxembourg
Lithuania
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Not sure about that given our tendency to bottle it against smaller team, less of them the better as far as I?m concerned!
Just looking at the Pot 1 seeds.. Croatia mightnt be the worst draw there.. lot of their top players likely to retire post WC I'd say, especially with club teams heading into a heavy schedule of European games in March when the qualifiers start up
Possibly true Croatia have a tendency to be very up and down during qualifiers, if I?m being honest all I care about is getting a manageable side from pot 2 as even if Croatia aren?t at their best you?d still expect them to finish no lower than 2nd in qualifying.
It's who to avoid in pot 2 is most probably the important factor, namely England and France. The rest of them in pot 2 are doable.
A bonus if drawn against Croatia is you avoid a six team group and being stuck with Andorra, San Marino, or Liechtenstein.
Sorry if already discussed
But is 2nd place an automatic qualification spot or just a play off?
Auto.
Top two (from ten groups) qualify automatically, as do Germany as hosts (who will presumably be placed into one of the five-team groups for friendly purposes, as happened with Qatar and France before)
Then three spots left for the Nations League play-offs - nominally League A, League B and League C, but never pans out quite like that of course (and as JR89 I think it was said elsewhere, it seems a League D team may have a chance too, which would be Estonia)
So your saying there's a chance!!
Watch out for that “ hope " ~ ~ Tis a dangerous thing ! !
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