Uefa Euro 2024 Qualifying

Below is the schedule of the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying campaign.

The qualifying group stage draw was held on 9 October 2022, 12:00 CEST, at the Festhalle in Frankfurt. Of UEFA's 55 member associations, 53 compete in the qualifying competition. Host team Germany qualified directly to the final tournament, while it was confirmed on 20 September 2022 that Russia were ineligible due to the suspension from FIFA and UEFA competitions following their country's invasion of Ukraine.

The 53 UEFA national teams were seeded into six pots based on the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League overall ranking following the conclusion of the league phase. The four participants of the 2023 UEFA Nations League Finals were placed into the UNL Pot and drawn into Groups A–D, which only had five teams, so that they only had to play eight qualifying matches, leaving two free matchdays to play in the Nations League Finals in June 2023. The next six-highest teams were then placed into Pot 1. If Germany had won their Nations League group, the UNL Pot would have contained three teams, and Pot 1 would have instead contained seven teams. Pots 2 to 5 contained ten teams, while Pot 6 contained the three lowest-ranked teams. The teams were drawn into ten groups: seven groups of five teams (Groups A–G) and three groups of six teams (Groups H–J). The draw started with the UNL Pot and Pot 1, and continued from Pot 2 to Pot 6, from where a team was drawn and assigned to the first available group (based on draw conditions) in alphabetical order.

The following restrictions were applied with computer assistance:

• Prohibited clashes: For political reasons, matches between the following pairs of teams were considered prohibited clashes, unable to be drawn into the same group: Armenia / Azerbaijan, Belarus / Ukraine, Gibraltar / Spain, Kosovo / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo / Serbia.
• Winter venues: A maximum of two teams whose venues were identified as having high or medium risk of severe winter conditions could be placed in each group: Belarus, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway.
  • The two "hard winter venues", Faroe Islands and Iceland, generally could not host games in March or November; the others were to play as few home matches as possible in March and November.
• Excessive travel: A maximum of one pair of teams identified with excessive travel distance in relation to other countries could be placed in each group:
  • Azerbaijan: with Gibraltar, Iceland, Portugal.
  • Iceland: with Cyprus, Georgia, Israel. (Armenia were also identified with Iceland for excessive travel distance, but the teams were in the same pot for the draw.)
  • Kazakhstan: with Andorra, England, France, Gibraltar, Iceland, Malta, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Wales. (Faroe Islands were also identified with Kazakhstan for excessive travel distance, but the teams were in the same pot for the draw.)

Seeding

The teams were seeded based on the September 2022 UEFA Nations League overall rankings.

Final tournament hosts

Team	Rank
Germany	10

Teams entering qualifying group stage

UNL pot Team Rank   Netherlands 1   Croatia 2   Spain 3   Italy (title holders) 4 Pot 1 Team Rank   Denmark 5   Portugal 6   Belgium 7   Hungary 8    Switzerland 9   Poland 11	Pot 2 Team Rank   France 12   Austria 13   Czech Republic 14   England 15   Wales 16   Israel 17   Bosnia and Herzegovina 18   Serbia 19   Scotland 20   Finland 21	Pot 3 Team Rank   Ukraine 22   Iceland 23   Norway 24   Slovenia 25   Republic of Ireland 26   Albania 27   Montenegro 28   Romania 29   Sweden 30   Armenia 31
Pot 4 Team Rank   Georgia 33   Greece 34   Turkey 35   Kazakhstan 36   Luxembourg 37   Azerbaijan 38   Kosovo 39   Bulgaria 40   Faroe Islands 41   North Macedonia 42	Pot 5 Team Rank   Slovakia 43   Northern Ireland 44   Cyprus 45   Belarus 46   Lithuania 47   Gibraltar 48   Estonia 49   Latvia 50   Moldova 51   Malta 52	Pot 6 Team Rank   Andorra 53   San Marino 54   Liechtenstein 55

Banned from entering qualifying

Team	Rank
Russia	32

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 10 October 2022, the day following the draw. The schedule was initially released on the day of the draw, but was withdrawn shortly after its distribution due to an alleged calendar issue. However, UEFA ultimately confirmed the initial schedule the following day, with no changes made. Group matches took place from 23 March to 21 November 2023.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	8	7	0	1	25	5	+20	21	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–0	3–0	3–1	6–0
2	Scotland	8	5	2	1	17	8	+9	17			2–0	—	3–3	2–0	3–0
3	Norway	8	3	2	3	14	12	+2	11			0–1	1–2	—	2–1	3–1
4	Georgia	8	2	2	4	12	18	−6	8	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–7	2–2	1–1	—	4–0
5	Cyprus	8	0	0	8	3	28	−25	0			1–3	0–3	0–4	1–2	—

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	8	7	1	0	29	3	+26	22	Qualify for final tournament		—	4–0	1–0	2–0	14–0
2	Netherlands	8	6	0	2	17	7	+10	18			1–2	—	3–0	1–0	3–0
3	Greece	8	4	1	3	14	8	+6	13	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		2–2	0–1	—	2–1	5–0
4	Republic of Ireland	8	2	0	6	9	10	−1	6			0–1	1–2	0–2	—	3–0
5	Gibraltar	8	0	0	8	0	41	−41	0			0–3	0–6	0–3	0–4	—

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	8	6	2	0	22	4	+18	20	Qualify for final tournament		—	3–1	2–0	7–0	2–0
2	Italy	8	4	2	2	16	9	+7	14			1–2	—	2–1	5–2	4–0
3	Ukraine	8	4	2	2	11	8	+3	14	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–1	0–0	—	2–0	1–0
4	North Macedonia	8	2	2	4	10	20	−10	8			1–1	1–1	2–3	—	2–1
5	Malta	8	0	0	8	2	20	−18	0			0–4	0–2	1–3	0–2	—

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey	8	5	2	1	14	7	+7	17	Qualify for final tournament		—	0–2	2–0	1–1	4–0
2	Croatia	8	5	1	2	13	4	+9	16			0–1	—	1–1	1–0	5–0
3	Wales	8	3	3	2	10	10	0	12	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–1	2–1	—	2–4	1–0
4	Armenia	8	2	2	4	9	11	−2	8			1–2	0–1	1–1	—	2–1
5	Latvia	8	1	0	7	5	19	−14	3			2–3	0–2	0–2	2–0	—

Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Albania	8	4	3	1	12	4	+8	15	Qualify for final tournament		—	3–0	2–0	2–0	0–0
2	Czech Republic	8	4	3	1	12	6	+6	15			1–1	—	3–1	3–0	1–0
3	Poland	8	3	2	3	10	10	0	11	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–0	1–1	—	1–1	2–0
4	Moldova	8	2	4	2	7	10	−3	10			1–1	0–0	3–2	—	1–1
5	Faroe Islands	8	0	2	6	2	13	−11	2			1–3	0–3	0–2	0–1	—

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	8	6	2	0	22	4	+18	20	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–1	1–1	5–0	5–0
2	Austria	8	6	1	1	17	7	+10	19			2–3	—	2–0	4–1	2–1
3	Sweden	8	3	1	4	14	12	+2	10			0–3	1–3	—	5–0	2–0
4	Azerbaijan	8	2	1	5	7	17	−10	7			0–1	0–1	3–0	—	1–1
5	Estonia	8	0	1	7	2	22	−20	1	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		0–3	0–2	0–5	0–2	—

Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	8	5	3	0	16	7	+9	18	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–1	3–1	2–0	3–0
2	Serbia	8	4	2	2	15	9	+6	14			1–2	—	3–1	2–0	2–2
3	Montenegro	8	3	2	3	9	11	−2	11			0–0	0–2	—	2–0	2–1
4	Lithuania	8	1	3	4	8	14	−6	6			2–2	1–3	2–2	—	1–1
5	Bulgaria	8	0	4	4	7	14	−7	4			2–2	1–1	0–1	0–2	—

Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	10	7	1	2	19	10	+9	22	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–1	3–1	3–1	1–0	4–0
2	Slovenia	10	7	1	2	20	9	+11	22			1–1	—	3–0	2–1	4–2	2–0
3	Finland	10	6	0	4	18	10	+8	18	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		0–1	2–0	—	1–2	4–0	6–0
4	Kazakhstan	10	6	0	4	16	12	+4	18			3–2	1–2	0–1	—	1–0	3–1
5	Northern Ireland	10	3	0	7	9	13	−4	9			2–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	—	3–0
6	San Marino	10	0	0	10	3	31	−28	0			1–2	0–4	1–2	0–3	0–2	—

Group I

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Romania	10	6	4	0	16	5	+11	22	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	4–0
2	Switzerland	10	4	5	1	22	11	+11	17			2–2	—	3–0	3–3	1–1	3–0
3	Israel	10	4	3	3	11	11	0	15	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–2	1–1	—	1–0	1–1	2–1
4	Belarus	10	3	3	4	9	14	−5	12			0–0	0–5	1–2	—	2–1	1–0
5	Kosovo	10	2	5	3	10	10	0	11			0–0	2–2	1–0	0–1	—	1–1
6	Andorra	10	0	2	8	3	20	−17	2			0–2	1–2	0–2	0–0	0–3	—

Group J

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	10	10	0	0	36	2	+34	30	Qualify for final tournament		—	3–2	9–0	2–0	3–0	4–0
2	Slovakia	10	7	1	2	17	8	+9	22			0–1	—	0–0	4–2	2–0	3–0
3	Luxembourg	10	5	2	3	13	19	−6	17	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		0–6	0–1	—	3–1	4–1	2–0
4	Iceland	10	3	1	6	17	16	+1	10			0–1	1–2	1–1	—	1–0	4–0
5	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10	3	0	7	9	20	−11	9			0–5	1–2	0–2	3–0	—	2–1
6	Liechtenstein	10	0	0	10	1	28	−27	0			0–2	0–1	0–1	0–7	0–2	—

Teams that failed in the qualifying group stage could still qualify for the final tournament through the play-offs. Leagues A, B, and C in the UEFA Nations League were allocated one of the three remaining final tournament spots. Four teams from each league that had not already qualified for the European Championship finals competed in the play-offs of their league. The play-off berths were first allocated to each Nations League group winner, and if any of the group winners already qualify for the European Championship finals, then to the next-best ranked team of the league.

Team selection

The team selection process determined the twelve teams that competed in the play-offs based on the Nations League overall rankings, using a set of criteria that obeyed these principles:

• Leagues A, B, and C each formed a path with the four best-ranked teams not yet qualified.
• If one of those leagues had fewer than four non-qualifying teams, spots were taken first by the best group winner from League D (unless already qualified), and then by any other eligible teams based on ranking.
• Group winners from Leagues B and C could not face teams from higher leagues.

League A Rank Team 1 GW   Spain 2 GW   Croatia 3 GW   Italy 4 GW   Netherlands 5   Denmark 6   Portugal 7   Belgium 8   Hungary 9    Switzerland 10   Germany † 11   Poland 12   France 13   Austria 14   Czech Republic 15   England 16   Wales

League B Rank Team 17 GW   Israel 18 GW   Bosnia and Herzegovina 19 GW   Serbia 20 GW   Scotland 21   Finland 22   Ukraine 23   Iceland 24   Norway 25   Slovenia 26   Republic of Ireland 27   Albania 28   Montenegro 29   Romania 30   Sweden 31   Armenia 32   Russia ‡

League C Rank Team 33 GW   Georgia 34 GW   Greece 35 GW   Turkey 36 GW   Kazakhstan 37   Luxembourg 38   Azerbaijan 39   Kosovo 40   Bulgaria 41   Faroe Islands 42   North Macedonia 43   Slovakia 44   Northern Ireland 45   Cyprus 46   Belarus 47   Lithuania 48   Gibraltar

League D Rank Team 49 BD   Estonia 50   Latvia 51   Moldova 52   Malta 53   Andorra 54   San Marino 55   Liechtenstein

Key

• ^GW Group winner from Nations League A, B or C
• ^BD Best group winner from Nations League D
•   Team in bold advanced to play-offs
•   Team qualified directly to final tournament
•  †  UEFA Euro 2024 host, qualified automatically
•  ‡  Banned from qualifying competition

Draw

The qualifying play-off draw took place on 23 November 2023, 12:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The draw followed the path formation rules to determine the paths in which the non-group winners will participate. Three separate draws determining the host of the play-off final of each path also took place between the winners of the semi-final pairings (identified as semi-final 1 for seed 1 v 4, and semi-final 2 for seed 2 v 3).

Due to the specificity of the draw, the exact procedure could only be finalised following the conclusion of the qualifying group stage. No restrictions were applied to the draw, as none of the clashes prohibited by UEFA for political reasons could occur. Based on the twelve teams that advanced to the play-offs, the three play-off paths were formed following the path formation rules, starting with League C and working up to League A:

• As there were four teams from League C (three group winners and one non-group winner), they were all placed in Path C.
• As there were five teams from League B (two group winners and three non-group winners), the two group winners were placed in Path B, while a draw decided which two of the three non-group winners were also placed in Path B.
• As there were two teams from League A (both non-group winners), they were both placed in Path A, along with the best-ranked League D group winner. The one remaining non-group winner from League B that was not drawn to Path B was then placed in Path A.

The following three non-group winners from League B (ordered by Nations League ranking) took part in the draw, with two being drawn into Path B, while the remaining team was allocated to Path A:

•   Finland (21)
•   Ukraine (22)
•   Iceland (23)

The two teams drawn into Path B occupied positions B3 and B4, following their Nations League ranking, while the team drawn into Path A occupied position A3.

The following was the composition of the play-off paths:

Path A Rank Team 11   Poland 16   Wales 21   Finland 49   Estonia

Path B Rank Team 17   Israel 18   Bosnia and Herzegovina 22   Ukraine 23   Iceland

Path C Rank Team 33   Georgia 34   Greece 36   Kazakhstan 37   Luxembourg

In the semi-finals of each path, the best-ranked team hosted the fourth-ranked team, and the second-ranked team hosted the third-ranked team.

The following semi-final winners were drawn to host the play-off final:

• Path A: Winner semi-final 2 (Wales v Finland)
• Path B: Winner semi-final 2 (Bosnia and Herzegovina v Ukraine)
• Path C: Winner semi-final 1 (Georgia v Luxembourg)

Path A

Home team	Score	Away team
Semi-finals
Poland	5–1	Estonia
Wales	4–1	Finland
Final
Wales	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–5 p)	Poland

Path B

Home team	Score	Away team
Semi-finals
Israel	1–4	Iceland
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–2	Ukraine
Final
Ukraine	2–1	Iceland

Path C

Home team	Score	Away team
Semi-finals
Georgia	2–0	Luxembourg
Greece	5–0	Kazakhstan
Final
Georgia	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–2 p)	Greece

There were 690 goals scored in 239 matches, for an average of 2.89 goals per match.

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The overall rankings were used for seeding in the final tournament draw. Results against sixth-placed teams were not considered in the ranking.

Rnk	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Allocation
1	J	Portugal	8	8	0	0	30	2	+28	24	Draw pot 1
2	B	France	8	7	1	0	29	3	+26	22
3	A	Spain	8	7	0	1	25	5	+20	21
4	F	Belgium	8	6	2	0	22	4	+18	20
5	C	England	8	6	2	0	22	4	+18	20
6	G	Hungary	8	5	3	0	16	7	+9	18	Draw pot 2
7	D	Turkey	8	5	2	1	14	7	+7	17
8	I	Romania	8	4	4	0	10	5	+5	16
9	H	Denmark	8	5	1	2	13	9	+4	16
10	E	Albania	8	4	3	1	12	4	+8	15
11	F	Austria	8	6	1	1	17	7	+10	19	Draw pot 2
12	B	Netherlands	8	6	0	2	17	7	+10	18	Draw pot 3
13	A	Scotland	8	5	2	1	17	8	+9	17
14	D	Croatia	8	5	1	2	13	4	+9	16
15	H	Slovenia	8	5	1	2	14	9	+5	16
16	J	Slovakia	8	5	1	2	13	8	+5	16
17	E	Czech Republic	8	4	3	1	12	6	+6	15
18	C	Italy	8	4	2	2	16	9	+7	14	Draw pot 4
19	G	Serbia	8	4	2	2	15	9	+6	14
20	I	Switzerland	8	2	5	1	17	10	+7	11
21	C	Ukraine	8	4	2	2	11	8	+3	14
22	B	Greece	8	4	1	3	14	8	+6	13
23	H	Finland	8	4	0	4	10	9	+1	12
24	D	Wales	8	3	3	2	10	10	0	12
25	A	Norway	8	3	2	3	14	12	+2	11
26	E	Poland	8	3	2	3	10	10	0	11
27	G	Montenegro	8	3	2	3	9	11	−2	11
28	J	Luxembourg	8	3	2	3	10	19	−9	11
29	F	Sweden	8	3	1	4	14	12	+2	10
30	I	Israel	8	2	3	3	7	10	−3	9
31	H	Kazakhstan	8	4	0	4	10	11	−1	12
32	E	Moldova	8	2	4	2	7	10	−3	10
33	D	Armenia	8	2	2	4	9	11	−2	8
34	A	Georgia	8	2	2	4	12	18	−6	8
35	I	Belarus	8	2	2	4	8	14	−6	8
36	C	North Macedonia	8	2	2	4	10	20	−10	8
37	F	Azerbaijan	8	2	1	5	7	17	−10	7
38	B	Republic of Ireland	8	2	0	6	9	10	−1	6
39	G	Lithuania	8	1	3	4	8	14	−6	6
40	J	Iceland	8	1	1	6	7	16	−9	4
41	I	Kosovo	8	1	4	3	6	9	−3	7
42	G	Bulgaria	8	0	4	4	7	14	−7	4
43	H	Northern Ireland	8	1	0	7	4	13	−9	3
44	J	Bosnia and Herzegovina	8	1	0	7	5	19	−14	3
45	D	Latvia	8	1	0	7	5	19	−14	3
46	E	Faroe Islands	8	0	2	6	2	13	−11	2
47	F	Estonia	8	0	1	7	2	22	−20	1
48	C	Malta	8	0	0	8	2	20	−18	0
49	A	Cyprus	8	0	0	8	3	28	−25	0
50	B	Gibraltar	8	0	0	8	0	41	−41	0
51	I	Andorra	10	0	2	8	3	20	−17	2
52	J	Liechtenstein	10	0	0	10	1	28	−27	0
53	H	San Marino	10	0	0	10	3	31	−28	0