Group C: Germany - Northern Ireland - Poland - Ukraine

[Muddled]

Legend
Pl: Games played, W: Won, D: Drawn, L: Lost, F: Goals For, A: Goals Against, GD: Goal difference, Pts: Points

Fixtures

Sunday, 12 June 2016
17:00: Poland v Northern Ireland
Allianz Riviera, Nice (BBC)

Sunday, 12 June 2016
20:00: Germany v Ukraine
Stade Pierre-Mauroy, Lille (BBC)

Thursday, 16 June 2016
17:00: Ukraine v Northern Ireland
Parc OL, Lyon (ITV)

Thursday, 16 June 2016
20:00: Germany v Poland
Stade de France, Paris (ITV)

Tuesday, 21 June 2016
17:00: Northern Ireland v Germany
Parc des Princes, Paris (BBC)

Tuesday, 21 June 2016
17:00: Ukraine v Poland
Stade Vélodrome, Marseille (BBC)

[Muddled]

GERMANY

Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Bernd Leno (Bayer Leverkusen), Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Barcelona)

Defenders: Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Emre Can (Liverpool), Jonas Hector (Cologne), Benedikt Hoewedes (Schalke 04), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), Shkodran Mustafi (Valencia), Antonio Ruediger (Roma)

Midfielders: Julian Draxler (VfL Wolfsburg), Sami Khedira (Juventus), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Mesut Ozil (Arsenal), Lukas Podolski (Galatasaray), Andre Schurrle (VfL Wolfsburg), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United), Julian Weigl (Borussia Dortmund).

Forwards: Mario Gomez (Besiktas), Mario Goetze (Bayern Munich), Leroy Sane (Schalke 04)

Manager:
Joachim Löw

Record at the European Championships:

Appearances: 11 (First in 1972)
Best result: Champions (1972, 1980, 1996)

FIFA World Ranking:

5

[Muddled]

NORTHERN IRELAND

Goalkeepers: Michael McGovern (Hamilton), Roy Carroll (Notts County), Alan Mannus (St. Johnstone)

Defenders: Craig Cathcart (Watford), Gareth McAuley (West Brom), Jonathan Evans (Manchester United), Luke McCullough (Doncaster), Aaron Hughes (Melbourne), Daniel Lafferty (Burnley), Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood), Michael Smith (Peterborough), Lee Hodson (MK Dons), Paddy McNair (Manchester United), Chris Baird (Derby)

Midfielders: Shane Ferguson (Millwall), Stuart Dallas (Leeds), Steven Davis (Southampton), Oliver Norwood (Reading), Corry Evans (Blackburn), Ben Reeves (MK Dons), Niall McGinn (Aberdeen), Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest)

Forwards: Billy McKay (Wigan), Liam Boyce (Ross County), Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock), Kyle Lafferty (Norwich), Conor Washington (QPR), Will Grigg (Wigan)

Manager:
Michael O'Neill

Record at the European Championships:

Appearances: 1 (First in 2016)
Best result: TBD

FIFA World Ranking:

26

[Muddled]

POLAND

Goalkeepers:
Artur Boruc (Bournemouth), Lukasz Fabianski (Swansea City), Wojciech Szczesny (Roma), Przemyslaw Tyton (Stuttgart).

Defenders:
Thiago Cionek (Palermo), Pawel Dawidowicz (Benfica), Kamil Glik (Torino), Artur Jedrzejczyk (Legia Warszawa), Michal Pazdan (Legia Warszawa), Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund), Maciej Rybus (Terek Grozny), Bartosz Salamon (Cagliari), Jakub Wawrzyniak (Lechia Gdańsk).

Midfielders:
Jakub Blaszczykowski (Fiorentina), Kamil Grosicki (Rennes), Tomasz Jodlowiec (Legia Warszawa), Bartosz Kapustka (Cracovia), Grzegorz Krychowiak (Sevilla), Karol Linetty (Lech Poznan), Krzysztof Maczynski (Wisla Krakow), Slawomir Peszko (Lechia Gdansk), Filip Starzynski (Zaglebie Lubin), Pawel Wszolek (Verona), Piotr Zieliński (Empoli).

Forwards:
Robert Lewandowski (Bayern München), Arkadiusz Milik (Ajax), Artur Sobiech (Hannover), Mariusz Stępinski (Ruch Chorzow).

Manager:
Adam Nawałka

Record at the European Championships:

Appearances: 3 (First in 2008)
Best result: Group Stage (2008 & 2012)

FIFA World Ranking:

27

[Muddled]

UKRAINE

Goalkeepers: Denis Boyko (Besiktas), Andriy Pyatov (Shakhtar), Mykyta Shevchenko (Zorya)

Defenders: Artem Fedetskyy (Dnipro), Nikita Kamenyuka (Zorya), Yevhen Khacheridi (Dynamo Kiev), Olexandr Kucher (Shakhtar), Yaroslav Rakitskiy (Shakhtar), Viacheslav Shevchuk (Shakhtar)

Midfielders: Denis Garmash (Dynamo Kiev), Oleg Gusev (Dynamo Kiev), Oleksandr Karavayev (Zorya), Yevhen Konoplyanka (Sevilla), Viktor Kovalenko (Shakhtar), Maksim Malyshev (Shakhtar), Ivan Petryak (Zorya), Ruslan Rotan (Dnipro), Serhiy Rybalka (Dynamo Kiev), Evgeniy Shakhov (Dnipro), Taras Stepanenko (Shakhtar), Sergiy Sydorchuk (Dynamo Kiev), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (Kairat), Andriy Yarmolenko (Dynamo Kiev)

Forwards: Pylyp Budkivsky (Zorya), Artem Kravets (Stuttgart), Roman Zozulya (Dnipro)

Manager:
Mykhaylo Fomenko

Record at the European Championships:

Appearances: 2 (First in 2012)
Best result: Group stage (2012)

FIFA World Ranking:

22

[Fernandinho]

GERMANY

Goalkeepers:
Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Bernd Leno (Bayer Leverkusen), Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Barcelona)

Defenders:
Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), Emre Can (Liverpool), Jonas Hector (Cologne), Benedikt Howedes (Schalke), Shkodran Mustafi (Valencia), Sebastian Rudy (Hoffenheim), Antonio Rudiger (Roma)

Midfielders:
Mario Gotze (Liverpool), Mesut Ozil (Arsenal), Sami Khedira (Juventus), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Karim Bellarabi (Bayer Leverkusen), Julian Brandt (Bayer Leverkusen), Julian Draxler (Wolfsburg), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United), Julian Weigl (Borussia Dortmund)

Forwards:
Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Andre Schurrle (Wolfsburg), Lukas Podolski (Galatasaray), Mario Gomez (Besiktas), Marco Reus (Liverpool), Leroy Sane (Schalke)

Manager:
Joachim Löw

Record at the European Championships:

Appearances: 11 (First in 1972)
Best result: Champions (1972, 1980, 1996)

FIFA World Ranking:

5

Can as a defender... Hate that. I hope Weigl plays for them, he is absolute class and we should break the bank for him.

[The_weatherman]

Mario Gotze (Liverpool), Marco Reus (Liverpool)

[Mark79]

NORTHERN IRELAND

Record at the European Championships:

Appearances: 8 (First in 1968)
Best result: Third place (1968); Semi-finals (1996)

FIFA World Ranking:

26

WTF? This is Northern Ireland's first appearance at a Euros, never mind a semi-final in '96

[danperkins]

WTF? This is Northern Ireland's first appearance at a Euros, never mind a semi-final in '96

[Chazza]

Borussia Dortmund's Marco Reus has been omitted from Germany's Euro 2016 squad but Manchester United's Bastian Schweinsteiger has been included.

Reus, 27, missed the 2014 World Cup and has had recent injury concerns.

Fellow midfielder Schweinsteiger, 31, has not played since picking up a knee injury in March while away with Germany but has been selected by Joachim Low.

Bayer Leverkusen's Julian Brandt, Karim Bellarabi and Hoffenheim's Sebastian Rudy have all been left out.

"The medical staff could not give a clear prognosis for Marco," Low said of Reus's omission, which comes on his birthday.

"He has massive injury problems and the medical staff was very sceptical about his ability to last through the coming weeks and such a gruelling tournament.

"It is a bitter decision and bitter for Marco."

Liverpool midfielder Emre Can, Arsenal's Mesut Ozil and former Gunners attacking midfielder Lukas Podolski, now at Turkish side Galatasaray, have all been included as the world champions search for their first European title since 1996.

Germany squad:

Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Bernd Leno (Bayer Leverkusen), Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Barcelona)

Defenders: Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Emre Can (Liverpool), Jonas Hector (Cologne), Benedikt Hoewedes (Schalke 04), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), Shkodran Mustafi (Valencia), Antonio Ruediger (Roma)

Midfielders: Julian Draxler (VfL Wolfsburg), Sami Khedira (Juventus), Joshua Kimmich (Bayern Munich), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid), Thomas Muller (Bayern Munich), Mesut Ozil (Arsenal), Lukas Podolski (Galatasaray), Andre Schurrle (VfL Wolfsburg), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United), Julian Weigl (Borussia Dortmund).

Forwards: Mario Gomez (Besiktas), Mario Goetze (Bayern Munich), Leroy Sane (Schalke 04)

[redmike65]

Reus trophy haul is currently one Super Cup.

They better hope they don't have a midfield crisis with Schweinsteiger in the squad. Can should have his place.

[Muddled]

WTF? This is Northern Ireland's first appearance at a Euros, never mind a semi-final in '96

You passed the test, congratulations.

Extra bonus points for naming the team that qualified for the first time in 1968 and reached the semi-finals in both 1968 and 1996.

[Mark79]

You passed the test, congratulations.

Extra bonus points for naming the team that qualified for the first time in 1968 and reached the semi-finals in both 1968 and 1996.

That would be En-ger-land.

[Muddled]

You're just the best.

*goes off to check England's profile*

[CJ]

Muds the mighty northern Ireland are actually 25th in the Fifa rankings