Pots already determined

Immediately after all qualifiers were played the four pots for the European championship has been decided. So far we know only 20 direct teams that will play at the event next summer, while the remaining four places are going to be known in March through play-off matches. For the sixtieth birthday and the sixteenth edition of the competition, six groups will be formed on 30 November (next Saturday) at the exhibition centre Romexpo in Bucharest (Romania) at 18.00 CET, and those are going to be made from:

Pot 1: Belgium, Italy, England, Germany, Spain, Ukraine.

Pot 2: France, Poland, Switzerland, Croatia, Netherlands, Russia.

Pot 3: Portugal, Turkey, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, Czech Republic.

Pot 4: Wales, Finland and the winners of play-off duels A, B, C, D.