It's a bit early perhaps, but why not start the thread with the draw taking place this evening for the UEFA EURO 2012 finals:
Draw process
The 16 teams will be drawn into four groups of four teams each (Groups A to D). Four seeding pots will be created, with the host associations Poland and Ukraine being top seeds. Poland will be automatically placed in Group A, as A1, Ukraine in Group D, as D1.
The remaining teams have been allocated to the four pots according to their respective national team coefficients.
Pot 1: Spain, Netherlands
Pot 2: Germany, Italy, England, Russia
Pot 3: Croatia, Greece, Portugal, Sweden
Pot 4: Denmark, France, Czech Republic, Republic of Ireland
Full coefficient list
The draw will start with Pot 1 in order to fill position one in Groups B and C. The draw will continue with Pot 4, from which a team will be allocated to each group consecutively, from Group A to Group D. This procedure will then be repeated for Pot 3 and finally for Pot 2.
The position of each team within its group (2, 3 or 4) will also be determined during the draw.
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From those seeding I see the best possible group for Denmark is being drawn with Poland, Russia (or England) and Sweden (or Greece). That would be a manageble group.
The worst case scenario would for me be Spain, Germany, Croatia. Having beaten Portugal in the last two qualifiers for first place I don't fear them as much.
So who do people on here fancy drawing?
Draw process
The 16 teams will be drawn into four groups of four teams each (Groups A to D). Four seeding pots will be created, with the host associations Poland and Ukraine being top seeds. Poland will be automatically placed in Group A, as A1, Ukraine in Group D, as D1.
The remaining teams have been allocated to the four pots according to their respective national team coefficients.
Pot 1: Spain, Netherlands
Pot 2: Germany, Italy, England, Russia
Pot 3: Croatia, Greece, Portugal, Sweden
Pot 4: Denmark, France, Czech Republic, Republic of Ireland
Full coefficient list
The draw will start with Pot 1 in order to fill position one in Groups B and C. The draw will continue with Pot 4, from which a team will be allocated to each group consecutively, from Group A to Group D. This procedure will then be repeated for Pot 3 and finally for Pot 2.
The position of each team within its group (2, 3 or 4) will also be determined during the draw.
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From those seeding I see the best possible group for Denmark is being drawn with Poland, Russia (or England) and Sweden (or Greece). That would be a manageble group.
The worst case scenario would for me be Spain, Germany, Croatia. Having beaten Portugal in the last two qualifiers for first place I don't fear them as much.
So who do people on here fancy drawing?
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