The 24 teams will be drawn into six groups of four teams each. The finals will start on Friday 10 June 2016, with the showpiece taking place at Stade de France on Sunday 10 July. please log in to view this image 18.00CET, 12 December 2015, Paris Draw procedure There will be four pots: Pot 1: five teams to include Spain, as the reigning European champions, if they qualify (Spain, Germany, England, Portugal, Belgium) Pots 2, 3 and 4: six teams France are not included in the pots as they are automatically assigned as team A1. The teams will be drawn into six groups of four teams each (Groups A to F), with the top two in each plus the four best third-placed sides to advance to the knockout phase. The group stage runs from 10–22 June 2016. Coefficients of teams qualified for the final tournament France (46.416) - guaranteed in Group A, position 1 as hosts Spain (37.962) - guaranteed in Pot 1 as holders Germany (40.236) - Pot 1 England (35.963) - Pot 1 Portugal (35.138) - Pot 1 Belgium (34.442) - Pot 1 Italy (34.345) - Pot 2 Russia (31.345) - Pot 2 Switzerland (31.254) - Pot 2 Austria (30.932) - Pot 2 Croatia (30.642) - Pot 2 Republic of Ireland (26.902) - tbc Czech Republic (29.403) - tbc Poland (28.306) - tbc Romania (28.038) - tbc Slovakia (27.171) - tbc Hungary (27.142) - tbc Turkey (27.033) - tbc Iceland (25.388) - Pot 4 Wales (24.531) - Pot 4 Albania (23.216) - Pot 4 Northern Ireland (22.61) - Pot 4 Coefficients of teams in play-offs Ukraine (30.313) - seeded Sweden (29.028) - seeded Denmark (27.140) - unseeded Slovenia (25.441) - unseeded • Knockout system Round of 16 (all times CET) Match 1: Runner-up Group A v Runner-up C (15.00, 25 June, St-Etienne) Match 2: Winner D v Third-place B/E/F (21.00, 25 June, Lens) Match 3: Winner B v Third-place A/C/D (18.00, 25 June, Paris) Match 4: Winner F v Runner-up E (21.00, 26 June, Toulouse) Match 5: Winner C v Third-place A/B/F (18.00, 26 June, Lille) Match 6: Winner E v Runner-up D (18.00, 27 June, St-Denis) Match 7: Winner A v Third-place C/D/E (15.00, 26 June, Lyon) Match 8: Runner-up B v Runner-up F (21.00, 27 June, Nice) • For which third place team will play in each tie, see Article 17.03 of the Official Regulations Quarter-finals 1: Winner Match 1 v Winner Match 2 (21.00, 30 June, Marseille) 2: Winner Match 3 v Winner Match 4 (21.00, 1 July, Lille) 3: Winner Match 5 v Winner Match 6 (21.00, 2 July, Bordeaux) 4: Winner Match 7 v Winner Match 8 (21.00, 3 July, St-Denis) Semi-finals 1: Winner QF1 v Winner QF2 (21.00, 6 July, Lyon) 2: Winner QF3 v Winner QF4 (21.00, 7 July, Marseille) Final Winner SF1 v Winner SF2 (21.00, 10 July, St-Denis) http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/finals/draws/index.html#final tournament draw
what a waste of time having 24 teams, only 8 of them won't get out of the group stages? Ridiculous, utterly utterly ridiculous. Should never have expanded past 16.
Platini did it I guess to get the votes of weaker countries in a presidential poll. Havelange performed the same trick when in charge at FIFA. People said there were too many weak teams at the last Euros and now there are an extra eight.
Yeah, all about chasing more money and 'buying' the backing of the small countries, exact same principal that Josef Sepp Bellend Blatter employed to stay in power for so long, it's just so pointless, when you have what 50 odd members, how can you have half of them making the championships? If you're going to have 24 you may as well go the whole hog and have 32 so a sensible format can be followed
Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler Seedings mean England have 50-50 chance of being drawn with Wales, N Ireland or Republic in Euro 2016 finals.
So when is the draw? That seems to be oddly lacking from something professing to include the final details for the draw.
please log in to view this image Euro 2016 prize money for 24 teams - minimum €8m per team up to maximum €27m for the winner. Goal-line technology likely to be used in Euro 2016 - final decision in Jan.
Ones organised by FIFA and the other UEFA so guess different people have to agree - UEFA don't use it in the Champions League as we know - extra officials preferred.
