UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying

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UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
Tournament details
DatesMarch 2019 – March 2020
Teams55 (from 1 confederation)
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The UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying tournament is an upcoming football competition that will be played from March 2019 to March 2020 to determine the 24 UEFA member men's national teams that will enter into the UEFA Euro 2020 final tournament.[1][2] The competition will be linked with the 2018–19 edition of the UEFA Nations League, giving countries a secondary route to qualify for the final tournament. For the first time since 1976, no team will automatically qualify for the UEFA European Championship as the host country.

A total of 55 national teams will participate in the qualifying process, with Kosovo taking part for the first time.

Teams

All 55 UEFA national teams are eligible to compete in the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying tournament. The 55 members will be divided into ten groups, with five of them containing five teams, and five of the groups containing six teams.

Format

There will be no automatic qualifying berth, and all 55 UEFA national teams, including the 13 national teams whose countries will stage matches, must compete in the qualifiers for the 24 places at the finals tournament.[3][4] As the host cities were appointed by UEFA in September 2014, before the qualifiers of UEFA Euro 2020, it is possible for the national teams from the host cities to fail to qualify for the finals tournament.[5][6]

With the creation of the UEFA Nations League starting in 2018,[6][7][8][9][10] the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League will be linked with UEFA Euro qualifying, providing teams another chance to qualify for UEFA Euro 2020.

The main qualifying process will now begin in March 2019 instead of immediately in September 2018 following the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and will end in November 2019. The format will remain largely the same, although only 20 of the 24 spots for the finals tournament will be decided from the main qualifying process, leaving four spots still to be decided. Following the admission of Kosovo to UEFA in May 2016, it was announced that the 55 members at the time would be drawn into 10 groups after the completion of the UEFA Nations League (five groups of five teams and five groups of six teams, with the four UEFA Nations League Final Four participants guaranteed to be drawn into groups of five teams), with the top two teams in each group qualifying. The qualifiers will be played on double matchdays in March, June, September, October and November 2019.[8]

Each Nations League division will be allocated one of the four remaining UEFA Euro 2020 places. Four teams from each division which have not already qualified for the Euro finals will compete in the play-offs for each division, to be played in March 2020. The play-off berths will be first allocated to each pool winner, and if any of the pool winners have already qualified for the Euro finals, then to the next best ranked team of the division, etc.

If in any division, there are fewer than four teams which have not already qualified for the Euro finals, the play-off berths will be allocated to the next best ranked team of the following division, etc. The winners of the play-offs for each division, to be decided by two "one-off" semi-finals (best-ranked team vs. fourth best-ranked team and second best-ranked team vs. third best-ranked team, played at home of higher-ranked teams) and one "one-off" final (venue drawn in advance between the two semi-finals winners), will join the 20 teams which have already qualified for the Euro finals. This means at least one team from each Nations League division will be guaranteed to qualify for the Euro finals.[9][10]

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied:[11]

  1. Higher number of points obtained in the matches played among the teams in question;
  2. Superior goal difference in matches played among the teams in question;
  3. Higher number of goals scored in the matches played among the teams in question;
  4. Higher number of goals scored away from home in the matches played among the teams in question;
  5. If, after having applied criteria 1 to 4, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 4 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings.[a] If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 6 to 10 apply;
  6. Superior goal difference in all group matches;
  7. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
  8. Higher number of away goals scored in all group matches;
  9. Fair play conduct in all group matches (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card);
  10. Position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system.
Notes
  1. ^ When there are two or more teams tied in points, criteria 1 to 4 are applied. After these criteria are applied, they may define the position of some of the teams involved, but not all of them. For example, if there is a three-way tie on points, the application of the first four criteria may only break the tie for one of the teams, leaving the other two teams still tied. In this case, the tiebreaking procedure is resumed, from the beginning, for those teams that are still tied.

Schedule

Below is the proposed schedule of the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League and UEFA Euro 2020.[6][8][8][9][10]

Year Month 2018–19 UEFA Nations League UEFA Euro 2020
2018 September Group stage
(Double matchday)
October Group stage
(Double matchday)
November Group stage
(Double matchday)
2019 March Qualifying stage
(Double matchday)
June "Final four competition"
(Semi-finals, third place and final) 		Qualifying stage
(Double matchday)
September Qualifying stage
(Double matchday)
October Qualifying stage
(Double matchday)
November Qualifying stage
(Double matchday)
2020 March Qualifying play-offs
(Semi-finals and finals)
June–July Finals tournament


References

  1. ^ "UEFA Euro 2020 Tournament Requirements" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  2. ^ "Bids for Euro 2020 due today; tournament to be held all across Europe". NBC Sports. 12 September 2013.
  3. ^ "UEFA Euro 2020 Tournament Requirements" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  4. ^ "Bids for Euro 2020 due today; tournament to be held all across Europe". NBC Sports. 12 September 2013.
  5. ^ "All you need to know about UEFA EURO 2020". UEFA.com. 21 September 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  6. ^ a b c "UEFA Nations League/UEFA EURO 2020 qualifying" (PDF). UEFA.com.
  7. ^ "UEFA Nations League receives associations' green light". UEFA.org. 27 March 2014.
  8. ^ a b c d "UEFA Nations League: all you need to know". UEFA.com. 27 March 2014.
  9. ^ a b c "UEFA Nations League format and schedule approved". UEFA.com. 4 December 2014.
  10. ^ a b c "UEFA Nations League format and schedule confirmed". UEFA.org. 4 December 2014.
  11. ^ a b "Regulations of the UEFA European Football Championship 2014–16" (PDF). UEFA.com.

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