Spain, seeded in the draw for the qualifying phase for Euro 2024

The draw will take place on Sunday, October 9.

MADRID, 29 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish football team will be seeded for the draw for the Euro 2024 qualifying phase, which will take place next Sunday, October 9 in Frankfurt (Germany), after qualifying for the 'Final Four' of the UEFA Nations League.

A total of 53 national teams participate in a draw in which Germany will not participate, as the organizer of the continental event, therefore already automatically classified for the final phase. Neither will Russia, currently suspended due to the war in Ukraine.

In this way, the national teams are seeded according to the general classification of the UEFA Nations League 2022/23 and will be placed in ten classification groups (seven groups of five teams and three groups of six).

Luis Enrique's team will thus avoid the Netherlands, Croatia and Italy, their rivals to rise in the Nations League, in the same way as Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary, Switzerland and Poland, all of them in pot 1. The 'Roja ' yes, he will still have dangerous opponents to avoid in the rest of the pots, among the most prominent France and England

Also appearing in Pot 2 are the Czech Republic, Wales, Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Scotland and Finland. In the third Ukraine, Iceland, Norway, Slovenia, Republic of Ireland, Albania, Montenegro, Romania, Sweden and Armenia. Already in fourth are Georgia, Greece, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Bulgaria, the Faroe Islands and North Macedonia.

In the fifth, and penultimate pot, is Slovakia, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Belarus, Lithuania, Gibraltar, Estonia, Latvia, Moldova and Malta, while in the sixth Andorra, San Marino and Liechtenstein.

The final four of the Nations League will play the last matches of this competition in June 2023. As a consequence, these teams only have eight matchdays for the group stage of the European qualification and must be assigned to groups of five teams.

There will be ten groups for qualification, including seven groups of five teams (Groups A-G) and three groups of six teams (Groups H-J). The teams will meet at home and away in a home-and-away system. Group matches are played according to the European qualifying match schedule, from March to November 2023.

The first ten of the group and the ten second of the group qualify directly for the final tournament. The remaining three places will be filled by the teams that qualify through the play-offs in March 2024.