Group A: Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Iceland, Latvia, Turkey, Czech Republic

Group B: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Andorra, Wales, Israel, Belgium

Group C: Spain, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Belarus, Slovakia, Ukraine

Group D: Germany, Gibraltar, Georgia, Scotland, Poland, Republic of Ireland

Group E: England, San Marino, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovenia, Switzerland

Group F: Greece, Faroe Islands, Northern Ireland, Finland, Romania, Hungary

Group G: Russia, Lichtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, Austria, Sweden

Group H: Italy, Malta, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Norway, Croatia

Group I: Portugal, Albania, Armenia, Serbia, Denmark

 

That is a very nice draw for England, you couldn't ask for much better really. I think it's the easiest group of the lot.

Edited February 23, 201412 yr by Scott Harris

Group D is the only that really stands out to be honest. 

are france in group i?

Greeks get a tough draw once again. 

are france in group i?

 

Euro 2016 will be in France so they don't need to qualify.

France get put in the group but their games are friendlies and don't mean anything

Really there is no point of even worrying about any of the top teams missing out because from now on 24 teams qualify for the Euro's. Qualification has been made 10x easier.

Euro 2016 will be in France so they don't need to qualify.

yeah i was just wondering where they were.

The Euros will be so diluted with 24 teams, but I suppose it gives more nations a great chance to assert themselves on the world stage.

England's draw is great albeit a bit boring. Switzerland May push us for top, but that doesn't matter in this format.

Wales have to be fancying their chances of coming third and even Northern Ireland would have a chance.

Scotland and RoI are in a difficult group but I think one of them will come in the top 3

I'm pleased with our draw (Serbia).

Wouldn't be surprised if Switzerland beat us to be honest.

I'm pleased with our draw (Serbia).

 

I think you have a tough draw.

Only two qualify, and you have Portugal and Denmark.

Tough group.

I think you have a tough draw.

Only two qualify, and you have Portugal and Denmark.

Tough group.

 

Only two going through is a motive plus for us. Bosnia lost twice against Portugal and were unlucky in both matches, so I think it's time for someone from Ex-Yu to take them down. Besides that, if Drulovic is appointed as headhoach is also a plus cause he knows them very well. I'm not so worried about Denmark, think we're better side. 

Glad Bosnia are in "easy" group.

How on earth did this expansion to 24 teams get voted through? Who even wants to see half that amount of teams from the qualifying groups play football matches?

 

It's all politics and co-operative wiener shaking at UEFA; I get the impression Mr Platini could propose to change European qualifying to an X-Factor style competition where teams take it in turns to do tricks on a stage and it would get voted through.

Odd really,that the expansion of the Euro 2016 comes at a period when interest in International football appears to be at an all time low. 

 

I mean really,apart from a few,who gives a toss about their national side thesedays?.

 

For the majority it's club first & the national side can take a running jump........ isn't it?.

Odd really,that the expansion of the Euro 2016 comes at a period when interest in International football appears to be at an all time low. 

 

I mean really,apart from a few,who gives a toss about their national side thesedays?.

 

For the majority it's club first & the national side can take a running jump........ isn't it?.

 

Looking at that draw really highlights the problems that international football has. Too many mismatches and too many games that no one cares about. The old Euros format of 16 teams qualifying was fine. It made for a competitive tournament by only having strong and strong(ish) teams involved. That's where the Champions League has it right. After the group stages, most of the matches are interesting and competitive.

Call me unpatriotic if you will but I would rather personally hand Germany/France anyone the World Cup/Euro's than see Gerrard lift it. Aside from Cahill I refuse to give a toss about any of the team. Unless Lampard scores the winner in which case I never doubted them at all.

Looking at that draw really highlights the problems that international football has. Too many mismatches and too many games that no one cares about. The old Euros format of 16 teams qualifying was fine. It made for a competitive tournament by only having strong and strong(ish) teams involved. That's where the Champions League has it right. After the group stages, most of the matches are interesting and competitive.

Yeah too many games is a bad thing. Remember the Champions League sky rocketed in interest post 2004 a and one of the fundamental factors was scrapping the second group stage. It is no surprise that the UEFA cup/Europa League started going down the pan once they began to add more games.

The Euro's will die a painful death. Euro 2008 was the best international tournament so far this century, mainly because 12 of the 16 teams were of very high quality.

As somebody else pointed aswell, there are too many dead rubbers in qualifying. They should just make it a seeded knockout system so most of the elite nations only play two knock out two legged ties.

There will be so many terrible terrible games to watch there.

 

England have Switzerland to provide them with 2 reasonable games but outside of that, you'd expect every other game to be embarrassingly one sided.

 

Not even any amusingly politically charged games either. Turkey vs Cyprus or Russia vs Ukraine could've been funny.

Good draw for N.Ireland, but we still wont qualify because we are famously sh*te againts countries who are even worse than us (on paper)

Scotland will probably struggle against Gibraltar !

Would have been great if Spain had drawn Gibraltar. Unfortunately, UEFA put a stop to that. Can you imagine all the Gibraltar flags being flown in a stadium in Spain.