In one of the shortest qualifying rounds in decades, UEFA member countries advance to Euro 2024, only 15 months left before the final.

Three months after the satisfactory completion of the World Cup, the national teams entered the qualifying round yesterday, which will last only eight months due to the tight schedule set by World Cup in Qatar..

There are no barriers. Of the ten groups of five or six teams, the first two advance to the final in Germany, so that together with the hosts and three teams from the Nations League play-offs, they will make up the 24 finalists of the Euro, which will take place on June 14 from July 14, 2024. The playoffs of the League of Nations will take place exactly one year later, that is, from March 21 to 26, and the Greek team has the right to participate in them.

The qualifiers, which take place on the first matchday out of ten, feature 53 teams, i.e. all UEFA members except host Germany and excluded Russia. Competitions will be held in pairs in March, June, September, October and November.

“Group of death” does not exist, just as there was no particularly complex group, except perhaps the group of Greece. In most groups there are clear favorites for the two preferred positions, but in the rest big battles are expected.

The Winter World Cup in Qatar has changed the schedule ahead of Euro 2024.

Spain, with Luis de la Fuente now in charge in place of Luis Enrique, are the favorites in Group A, starting tomorrow at home with the Norwegian side without the injured Erling Haaland before heading to Scotland on Tuesday. Cyprus and Georgia will fight in the same group.

Group C, in addition to the favorites of Italy and England, also includes Ukraine, North Macedonia and Malta, and the fourth group is more unpredictable: Croatia, Wales, Armenia, Turkey and Latvia. Group D is also of interest to Greece, as any qualification for Turkey will mean that if Greece is forced to seek a second chance in the Nations League, it will not find Turkey in its path, but a lower-ranked team such as Kazakhstan or Luxembourg. .

In the 5th group, today’s premier of the Czech Republic against Poland will decide a lot, and Albania, the Faroe Islands and Moldova are outsiders. More open is the sixth group, which includes Belgium and Sweden (which are found today on Swedish soil), as well as Austria, as well as Estonia and Azerbaijan.

Group G contains only Eastern European teams (Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Lithuania), while the other three groups contain six countries and are more mixed: Group E includes Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, Kazakhstan, Northern Ireland and San Marino, IX. Switzerland, Romania, Israel, Kosovo, Belarus and Andorra and IX Portugal, Bosnia, Iceland, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Liechtenstein.