Germany will face Scotland within the opening match of the 2024 European Football Championship at residence in Munich. The different opponents within the first spherical are Switzerland and Hungary. This was the results of the draw on Saturday (December 2, 2023) for UEFA EURO 2024 in Hamburg.
The choice of the German Football Association (DFB) will compete within the opening match of the European Championship on June 14, 2024 at 9 pm in Munich. The DFB staff’s second qualifying match will happen on June 19 in Stuttgart in opposition to Hungary. At the tip of the primary spherical, Germany, as hosts in Group A, will face Switzerland in Frankfurt on June 23.
Former stars Wesley Sneijder, Blaise Matuidi and Brian Laudrup have introduced nationwide coach Julian Nagelsmann’s facet manageable competitions. A “group of demise” with defending champions Italy, the Netherlands and DFB-Schreck Austria was additionally a risk.
Germany’s A staff at a look.
Defending champions Italy have lastly made it into the fourth pot of the draw after a robust efficiency – and can now face Spain, Croatia and Albania in a really powerful group within the finals of the European Championship.
Group D additionally seems to be very tough in comparison with the German group, with France, Netherlands and Austria.
Nagelsmann: “There isn’t any group of demise”
National coach Julian Nagelsmann was very optimistic: “It’s not a staff we won’t handle,” he mentioned, “a staff the place we’ve the best to enhance,” he mentioned. Against the Scots it will likely be “an excellent begin. The different video games may even be thrilling duels. Not a staff of demise, however excellent.”
“I’m trying ahead to the opening recreation in opposition to the Scots. It’s an amazingly good crowd who will absolutely assist their staff on the European Championships in Germany,” mentioned sporting director Rudi Völler. “They are a cussed staff. Of course we respect all their opponents, particularly in our scenario. But we need to enter the following spherical.”
“For the primary time we face Germany within the ultimate, we’re completely happy,” mentioned Switzerland coach Murat Yakin and known as the DFB staff “favorites” within the group.
“The Germans have to organize themselves for the Scottish crowd,” mentioned Scotland staff supervisor Steve Clark. “It’s good that we will open the match, I hope we will begin it effectively. We need to make it possible for we aren’t too happy with the occasion however as a substitute concentrate on the sport.”
Holger Dahl, Sportschau, December 2, 2023 8:10 pm
Due to this draw, the DFB staff’s preparations for the match are progressing. As Völler confirmed, the match can be in opposition to France in Lyon in March and in opposition to the Netherlands, probably in Frankfurt.
These will then turn out to be the true touchstones of EM. The pair who confronted off within the ultimate checks at first of June in the course of the European Championship coaching camp are actually needed. If potential, it needs to be a blueprint for the staff’s opponents.
Buffon, Khedira, Silva – they’re excellent in drawing The Elbphilharmonie
ARD presenter Esther Sedlaczek and UEFA Portugal presenter Pedro Pinto hosted the occasion at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. The legend of the goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon from the defending champion Italy introduced the European Cup to the stage.
Other notable gamers embody Angelos Charisteas, Steve McManaman, Sami Khedira and Spanish and European world champion David Silva, who introduced the official match ball to the Hamburg stage.
There can be six teams of 4 groups every on the European Championships. The high two from every group and the highest 4 third-place finishers advance to the spherical of 16. The desk can be created by a 3rd get together. The highest variety of factors, one of the best aim distinction, the best variety of targets scored, the best variety of winners, the typical truthful play and at last the European Championship qualification ratio are relevant.
UEFA EURO 2024 Match Schedule
Teams in EURO 2024 at a look
EM 2024: Only 21 of the 24 individuals have been confirmed
After the qualification, which ended on November twenty first, solely 21 of the 24 individuals had been confirmed. That is why three tickets with the imprint “Qualifier” go into the lottery pots. Fight for the remaining three locations after the tip of the sport League of Nations 2022/23 twelve groups in Playoffs video games. There can be three teams of 4 groups every, who will play the winner of the group and subsequently take part within the European Championship in two semi-finals and the ultimate. All this takes place from March 21 to March 26, 2024.
Eligibility has been achieved
These groups can be in EURO 2024
This is how the playoffs work
The following pairings will happen within the playoffs:
Playoff semi-finals A: Poland – Estonia, Wales – Finland. In the ultimate, the winner from Wales-Finland has residence benefit.
Playoff finals B: Bosnia-Herzegovina – Ukraine, Israel – Iceland. In the ultimate, the winner of Bosnia-Herzegovina – Ukraine has residence benefit.
Playoff semi-finals C: Georgia – Luxembourg, Greece – Kazakhstan. In the ultimate, the winner from Georgia – Luxembourg has residence benefit.
The outcomes of qualifying lottery pots are decisive
In addition to Germany, pot 1 consists of the 5 nations with one of the best factors in qualifying for the European Championship. Pots two and three every are made up of the following six finest groups.
In the fourth pot there have been the three groups with the bottom factors in absolute phrases and the three that certified for the playoffs in March 2024. When figuring out the factors standings, solely the video games of the primary 5 groups in every group counted in opposition to one another. The groups from the six groups didn’t win.
Martin Roschitz, Sportschau, December 3, 2023 10:05 am