Even before the dust settled after his recent World Cup. Qatar, European teams roll up their sleeves again and get to work with the goal of being on the fields of Germanywhere the final stage of the European Championship will be held in the summer of 2024.

In this competitive marathon, which will last about a year, our national team will also enter the group where winning one of the first two places closing the ticket looks from very difficult to impossible, since for this you need to either skip either France or the Netherlands, which are group favourites.

On the other hand, on the positive side, by finishing first in her group in the League of Nations, she will have second chance declare its presence in Germany if it has not qualified. Turkey will be its possible opponent in the play-off semi-finals, also if it does not advance directly to the final stage, and in the final it will face the winner of the Kazakhstan-Georgia pair.

They will start Euro 2024 from Thursday (March 23) 53 groupswhich will require 20 tickets. Germany as hosts will be the 21st team, while the remaining three will take part in the playoffs of the League of Nations.

In addition to our own group, where the two heaviest teams (France and the Netherlands) are located, 3rd is also strong enough, where Italy and England claim the first two places, two teams that made it to the final of the previous competition at Wembley when Squadra Azzura eventually lifted the trophy on penalties.

Also noteworthy in this group is the presence of North Macedonia, a group that has deprived Italy of its presence in FIFA World Cup in Qatar as they beat them 1–0 in the play-off semi-final to reach the final against Portugal where they were defeated 2–0 by Portugal.

Our friend Fernando Santos changed the football roof and will try to bring it to the final stage Poland. In addition, next summer’s event will likely be the last to be visited by Robert Lewandowski, who is already 34 years old. The Barcelona player has scored 78 goals for the national team in 138 matches since his debut in 2008 and will aim to score one more goal in his final with the national team than at the World Cup in Qatar, where Poland lost in knocked out by France in the first round.

Certainly, “Take itare not the only ones of the big stars to take part in the 2024 event, and they clearly don’t want to miss the qualifying train. The same applies to Cristiano Ronaldo, who was suspended in Qatar – a shock in the quarter-finals of Morocco, but also to Luka Modric, who will also finish his huge career in Croatia. In fact, if the CR7 arrives with Portugal to win the trophy, it will break the record of Ricardo Carvalho, who was 38 years and 53 days old when Portugal won the European Championship in France in 2016.

It is expected that among the teams that can stand out in this qualifying stage will be Hungary Italian technician Marco Rossiwhich performed well in the Nations League, beating twice in its group Englandand he had a win and a draw with Germany.

With a new coach and possibly a new competitive look, he will also enter the battle of the qualifiers. Belgium. Roberto Martinez resigned after the team failed to qualify for the World Cup play-offs in Qatar and was replaced by 37-year-old Italian-German Domenico Tedesco, who played for Schalke and Leipzig among others.

Out of competition is Russia, which will not participate in the final stage of the Euro for the first time since 2000. On the other hand, Belarus is participating in the qualification, but will play its home matches in Serbia.

The qualifying round will run from March to November 2023, with three playoffs in March 2024.

After the anniversary Euro-20, which took place in 11 cities and 11 countries of Europe, the event returned to a single country, Germany, although Turkey also claimed it.

The event is held in Germany for the third time. The first was in 1988, when it was hosted by West Germany, and four matches of the previous Euro were held in Munich. However, it is worth noting that for the first time the games of the European Championship will be held in the former East German city of Leipzig.

Qualifying Groups

1st group: Spain, Scotland, Norway, Georgia, Cyprus.
2nd group: Netherlands, France, Ireland, Greece, Gibraltar.
3rd group: Italy, England, Ukraine, North Macedonia, Malta.
4th group: Croatia, Wales, Armenia, Turkey, Latvia.
Group 5: Poland, Czech Republic, Albania, Faroe Islands, Moldova.
6th group: Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Estonia.
7th group: Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Lithuania.
Group 8: Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, Kazakhstan, Northern Ireland, San Marino.
9th group: Switzerland, Israel, Romania, Kosovo, Belarus, Andorra.
Group 10: Portugal, Bosnia, Iceland, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Liechtenstein.