Euro 2024 groups: How many teams advance to European Championship in Germany
Euro 2024 features a compacted qualification campaign with all automatic spots set to be confirmed before the end of 2023.
Due to the schedule disruption to the traditional calendar caused by the Qatar World Cup last year, UEFA has opted to fit qualifiers into fewer international windows to reduce the risk of a fixture overload.
Defending champions Italy face a rematch with their Euro 2020 final opponents against England in Group C as Roberto Mancini looks to begin the defence of their title in a positive fashion.
Hosts Germany have secured an automatic berth in the tournament, as per UEFA rules, with the remaining 23 places up for grabs.
When is the draw for Euro 2024? All the details on next year's finals in Germany
In total, 24 teams will compete at Euro 2024, following the pattern of previous tournaments since UEFA's expansion from 16 national sides at Euro 2016.
Germany are the only team confirmed as finalists before a ball is kicked in qualification with Hansi Flick's side expected to play a host of friendly matches to prepare for the competition.
That means there are 23 places up for grabs.
As tournament hosts, Germany were the only team to have qualified for Euro 2024 before the October qualifying matches.
Here are the teams who joined them over the course of the closing fixtures.
Fifty-three national sides were involved in the qualifying draw in October 2022, with Germany removed and Russia banned following a FIFA/UEFA suspension following the invasion of Ukraine.
Teams were seeded and drawn into 10 groups (A-J) based on their FIFA rank: there are seven groups of five teams, and three of six, as part of a reformatted structure.
The automatic qualification picture is relatively straightforward: the top two teams from each
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