The Portuguese soccer team faces rivals this Sunday in qualifying for Euro 2024, whose final phase will be played in Germany, in a draw in which they are seeded.
The quinas team, European champion in 2016, is part of pot 1 of the draw that is scheduled in Frankfurt, at 12:00 local time (11:00 in Lisbon), in search of the 13th consecutive final in European Cups and World Championships, the eighth consecutive in the continental championship.
The draw will include 53 of the 55 countries that are part of UEFA, with only hosts Germany, who are guaranteed a place in the final, and Russia, who are excluded from all competitions due to the invasion of Ukraine.
The teams will be divided into ten qualifying groups, seven of them with five teams and the remaining three with six, with the four finalist teams of the Nations League (Holland, Croatia, Spain and Italy) remaining in the groups with five teams. , given his participation in the the last four of that test, in June of next year.
The remaining top seeds, such as Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Switzerland and Poland, will have as their main opponents the members of Pot 2: France, England, Austria, Czech Republic, Wales, Israel, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Scotland and Finland.
Among the conditions for the draw are the impossibility of sharing Armenia and Azerbaijan, Belarus and Ukraine, Gibraltar and Spain, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo and Serbia, and the limitation to two nations for grouping the list of countries with severe winters. , which includes Belarus, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Norway.
The first two places in each of the 10 groups qualify directly for the final phase of Euro 2024, and the remaining three places are decided by a ‘play-off’, which will be played in March 2024.
Euro 2024 will take place between June 14 and July 14, 2024 in Germany.
Pots for qualifying for Euro 2024:
Nations League pot: Holland, Croatia, Spain and Italy.
Pot 1: Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Switzerland and Poland.
Pot 2: France, Austria, Czech Republic, England, Wales, 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.
Source: TSF
