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Euro 2016 Qualifiers
Steveaustin316
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France will qualify automatically as hosts, which leaves 52 countries chasing 23 places in Euro 2012.
The simplest way would be to have 7 groups of 6 teams and 2 groups of 5 teams. Top 2 in each group plus best 5 3rd place teams go through to Euro 2016.
Anyone got any different suggestions?
The simplest way would be to have 7 groups of 6 teams and 2 groups of 5 teams. Top 2 in each group plus best 5 3rd place teams go through to Euro 2016.
Anyone got any different suggestions?
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Something like 12 groups of 4 or 5, with the top 2 qualifying and a single elimination game between two teams to get the 24 down to 23. This would mean we need just 6 or 8 qualifying games, not 12 for a 7 team group.
However with so many teams in the finals, it makes qualification a bit of a mockery given of the 52 teams, about a dozen have no chance of qualification whatsoever (San Marino, Andorra, Scotland
It would allow teams such as San Marino and the Faroe Islands to play against teams of a similar level and maybe actually win a few games rather than losing every game by wide margins.
It should just be the same as the qualification for Euro 2012 but with all the lines moved down a spot.
Luxembourg, Faroe Islands, Cyprus, Iceland, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Malta, Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino
Id say its a safe bet that none of them will qualify so that leaves 42 teams fighting for 23 places
In fact id be hard pushed to see the next 10 quailfying either although im surprised to see Bulgaria down there
Finland, Latvia, Albania, Israel, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Georgia, FYR Macedonia, Northern Ireland, Azerbaijan
so that could well be 32 teams realistically fighting for 23 places.
they do this in the asian tournament. The really small countries play a group then go into a middle round where most of the other countries enter than there is the final round where the top 3 or 4 teams enter.
Dont see why UEFA couldnt introduce a pre qualfying round for the bottom 10 or 15 ranked teams
7 groups of 6, plus 2 groups of 5
Top 2 from each go through, plus the best "3rd placed" team, total=19 qualifiers
The other 8 "3rd placed" teams have a 2-leg play off, producing 4 more qualifiers.
Total = 23 qualifiers joining France
I think the reason they don't have pre-qualifying is that the likes of Andorra, San Marino, Scotland
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Georgia 1-1 R. of Ireland
Hungary 0-0 Northern Ireland
Denmark 0-1 Armenia
Manuel Neuer - Sebastian Rudy, Jérôme Boateng, Benedikt Höwedes, Erik Durm - Christoph Kramer, Toni Kroos - Thomas Müller, Marco Reus, André Schürrle - Mario Götze
Make that 7 how many will Germany score against them 12 or 13 maybe
5 or 6 if they play as poorly as tonight.
It was only 1-0 at half time, so looked like they were going to get a decent result.
Northern Ireland won in Hungary so good start for them.
Actually, let's not go there.
First away win for Northern Ireland in four years so well done to them.
The Republic always seem to start their qualifying campaign with an away win having beaten Armenia away in the opener in 2010 and Kazakhstan in 2012.