Draw is on February, 7th.
Six groups of six and three groups of five. Winners are qualified + best 2nd place team. Other 8 2nd teams for play off.


Pot 1: Spain Germany Holland Italy England Croatia Portugal France Russia

Pot 2: Greece Czech Rep. Sweden Switzerland Serbia Turkey Denmark Slovakia Romania

Pot 3: Israel Bulgaria Finland Norway Ireland Scotland Northern Ireland Austria Bosnia-H.

Pot 4: Slovenia Latvia Hungary Lithuana Belgium Wales Macedonia Cyprus Belarus

Pot 5: Montenegro Albania Estonia Georgia Moldavia Iceland Armenia Kazakhstan Liechtenstein

Pot 6: Azerbaidshan Luxembourg Malta Faroer Andorra San Marino

Antarion wrote:Draw is on February, 7th.
Six groups of six and three groups of five. Winners are qualified + best 2nd place team. Other 8 2nd teams for play off.


Pot 1: Spain Germany Holland Italy England Croatia Portugal France Russia

Pot 2: Greece Czech Rep. Sweden Switzerland Serbia Turkey Denmark Slovakia Romania

Pot 3: Israel Bulgaria Finland Norway Ireland Scotland Northern Ireland Austria Bosnia-H.

Pot 4: Slovenia Latvia Hungary Lithuana Belgium Wales Macedonia Cyprus Belarus

Pot 5: Montenegro Albania Estonia Georgia Moldavia Iceland Armenia Kazakhstan Liechtenstein

Pot 6: Azerbaidshan Luxembourg Malta Faroer Andorra San Marino

I've highlighted the ones I would prefer we avoid - the draw is on Sunday ?

Antarion wrote:Draw is on February, 7th.
Six groups of six and three groups of five. Winners are qualified + best 2nd place team. Other 8 2nd teams for play off.


Pot 1: Spain Germany Holland Italy England Croatia Portugal France Russia

Pot 2: Greece Czech Rep. Sweden Switzerland Serbia Turkey Denmark Slovakia Romania

Pot 3: Israel Bulgaria Finland Norway Ireland Scotland Northern Ireland Austria Bosnia-H.

Pot 4: Slovenia Latvia Hungary Lithuana Belgium Wales Macedonia Cyprus Belarus

Pot 5: Montenegro Albania Estonia Georgia Moldavia Iceland Armenia Kazakhstan Liechtenstein

Pot 6: Azerbaidshan Luxembourg Malta Faroer Andorra San Marino

Teams I want to avoid if I could choose + Finland and Wales because we always get these

Draw is on Sunday

Last time this draw matters for this tournament, the established nations will have to be appauling to miss out when 24 teams qualify for Euro 2016 even with a bad draw.

Exciting

Why can't they just hold the draw. Seriously, who wants to watch this crap?!

i dont care, the group will bore the shit out of me, we always qualify

That Infantino bloke now is general secretary.... used to write letters to him when he was doing the UEFA disciplinary board. Hope he chokes on 1 of those balls

Everyone who get a group of 5 should beglad. No useless games against pot 6 teams.

Group A!

HA!That will be fun!

Germany get a relatively tough group. I was hoping France would be in Group B, them against Ireland would have been a rare highlight of the qualifying campaign.

Germany
Turkey
Austria
Beligum
Kazakhstan
Azerbaijan

Some nice rivalries there.

Good group for England. Not too easy but some interesting games.

Germany and Italy have the toughest groups

Pretty easy group for England. Either Group G or I looks easiest.

England
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Wales
Montegro

No easy teams but Switzerland are mediocre enough for it not to be much of a problem.

France
Romania
Bosnia
Belarus
Albania
Luxemburg

Not an easy group. And we got France again ffs. This is the 3rd time in a row now.

Spain got another easy draw after the WC draw (not that it should matter anyway)
France group is gonna be interesting as well as ours. Some nice rivalries.

I hope all pot 1 teams qualify to make an interesting EC.

England
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Wales
Montegro



Not a great draw IMO but not terrible.

Switzerland look very decent and won a group with Greece in it.

Bulgaria - if they haven't dropped Berbatov it will be piss, we can chuck in some CB's from the U17's so that they get experience of the occasion.

Wales put up a fight at home but we'll take 6 points.

Montenegro is a minging draw - we've seen what Jovetic did to 'pool and what Vucinic has done to Milan, Real, United and Chelsea - you look at the other teams from that pot and they don't have 2 players with anything like as much quality as these 2.

The other 9 players don't need to be special - as long as they are strong and hard working you have a team - I think they have drawn away to Ireland and Italy in competitive fixtures.

The seedings say

England
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Wales
Montenegro

...but I would expect it to finish...

England
Switzerland
Montenegro
Bulgaria
Wales

Group E
Netherlands
Sweden
Finland
Hungary
Moldova
San Marino


Who will Groningen fans cheer for ?


Has Litmanen retired for Finland yet BTW ?

yeah thank god, i always want harder enemys,

austira and turkey and belgium, i really like it, they are all handsome teams i will love to watch

Happy with Ireland's group. Russia and possibly Slovakia will be tough games and much travelling will be done which isn't helpful. However we should go into the qualifiers looking to come out as winners as all are very beatable.

On a seperate note, good to see John Hartson looking well.

Pierre Littbarski wrote:England
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Wales
Montegro



Not a great draw IMO but not terrible.

Switzerland look very decent and won a group with Greece in it.

Bulgaria - if they haven't dropped Berbatov it will be piss, we can chuck in some CB's from the U17's so that they get experience of the occasion.

Wales put up a fight at home but we'll take 6 points.

Montenegro is a minging draw - we've seen what Jovetic did to 'pool and what Vucinic has done to Milan, Real, United and Chelsea - you look at the other teams from that pot and they don't have 2 players with anything like as much quality as these 2.

The other 9 players don't need to be special - as long as they are strong and hard working you have a team - I think they have drawn away to Ireland and Italy in competitive fixtures.

The seedings say

England
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Wales
Montenegro

...but I would expect it to finish...

England
Switzerland
Montenegro
Bulgaria
Wales

Was that meant to be funny? This is a Swiss team that lost to Luxembourg. And still qualified ahead of Greece.

Bulgaria have some decent players but they were injured most of the last campaign and they have no strength in depth. The same with Montenegro. They can pull off a couple of surprises but won't sustain it over a qualifying campaign.

I actually fancy Wales. A better manager than Toshack could do something with the squad they have.

Its like i see the exact same groups every single year.

Group C: Italy, Serbia, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, Estonia, Faroe Islands

Ouch!! Thats a tough group, its going to get very complicated!!

Serbia are only going to get better with experience, most of their talents are quite young. Tough one for Italy.

Pierre Littbarski wrote:Group E
Netherlands
Sweden
Finland
Hungary

Who will Groningen fans cheer for ?

We have a lot more Swedish than Dutch internationals, that's true

We'll be cheering for Holland of course, we are not like the Brits or those NSB Ajax-Feyenoord fans

We also have Tim Sparv the Finnish international

.....and another favourite of the City : Erwin Koeman, is managing Hungary....

Spain will cruise our group and could make us look stupid. We will make ourselves look stupid in the other games.

bluenine wrote:Group C: Italy, Serbia, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, Estonia, Faroe Islands

Ouch!! Thats a tough group, its going to get very complicated!!

bluenine wrote:Group C: Italy, Serbia, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, Estonia, Faroe Islands

Ouch!! Thats a tough group, its going to get very complicated!!

Serbia are only going to get better with experience, most of their talents are quite young. Tough one for Italy.

How is it tough? Serbia are undoubtedly the best team outside of the first seeds, but those other sides should be nothing for Italy to worry about?

Shame we will only see one of Belgium/Turkey again.

Group H
Portugal
Denmark
Norway
Cyprus
Iceland

Going to the Euro's

Allthough we will be going through a transition now and we are getting weaker to be honest but Norway just aren't good enough allthough you never know what will happen with a bit momentum.

Calidad wrote:

bluenine wrote:Group C: Italy, Serbia, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, Estonia, Faroe Islands

Ouch!! Thats a tough group, its going to get very complicated!!

Serbia are only going to get better with experience, most of their talents are quite young. Tough one for Italy.

How is it tough? Serbia are undoubtedly the best team outside of the first seeds, but those other sides should be nothing for Italy to worry about?

Shame we will only see one of Belgium/Turkey again.

Like you said, Serbia were the toughest one outside the first pot, and Slovenia were among the tougher ones in pot 4. Relative to other groups, this is a tough one.