2020 UEFA European Championship Qualifiers
The qualifiers for the 2020 UEFA European Championship are back for the last international break of the year. Some of the countries have already secured their place in the group stages of Euro 2020. There's a ton of interest in the teams that should be considered favorites to win the championship. Teams that performed well in the newly formed UEFA Nations League have received seeding benefits that will pay off when the tournament starts, helping the individual group stage leaders under the new format of the UEFA European Championship.
The Euro 2020 seedings include 24 squads that took part in the qualifying matches played between March and November 2019. Only 20 of those 24 would have advanced based on their points total in the group play format that the tournament uses. The other four are teams that did well enough in the 2018-19 UEFA Nations League to secure an appearance in Euro 2020.
What Date is Euro 2020?
In the 60th edition of the tournament, the UEFA governing body altered the format so that European teams no longer have to play friendlies during international breaks. They set up a UEFA Nations League in which national teams compete to remain in the top tier and avoid relegation to a lower rung of the league. The sweetener to the deal was that the national team winning the league in its first year would be guaranteed a seed when the draw for the Euro 2020 Championship was made.
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The finals fixtures of Euro 2020 will be defined by which teams made it out of the qualifiers. When the qualification round kicked off, 55 nations who are members of UEFA took part in the competition. These football nations were split into 10 groups; 5 with 5 teams each, and 5 with 6 teams each. Both set of groups played home and away matches to determine which teams would move on to the finals of Euro 2020.
Euro 2020 Finals Schedule
The draw for Euro 2020 will take place on 30 November 2020 and usually occurs once the last teams have qualified for the tournament. The teams’ pots are determined by FIFA rankings, with the top teams in Pot 1 and so on down to Pot 4. This tournament will take place in June, after all the league competitions across Europe have concluded. The biggest change from past Euro tournaments is that instead of automatically being placed into the tournament as host nation (which is what some national teams are indicating as their desired outcome), England will be one of the Euro 2020 Finals venues because the semifinal and final matches will be held at Wembley Stadium while the tournament final will be held at Wembley Stadium.
Watch the last UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying matches to see which squads advanced.