About time to make an extra thread about this. 2016 UEFA European Championship 10 June to 10 July 2016 Host: France (games to be played in Bordeaux, Lens, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nice, Paris, Saint-Denis, Saint-Étienne, and Toulouse) Defending Champions: Spain For the first time the tournament will be contested by 24 nations. There are five debutants in Iceland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Slovakia and Albania. The groups will be drawn in a few minutes. Pot 1 France * Spain Germany England Portugal Belgium Pot 2 Italy Russia Switzerland Austria Croatia Ukraine Pot 3 Czech Republic Sweden Poland Romania Slovakia Hungary Pot 4 Turkey Republic of Ireland Iceland Wales Albania Northern Ireland * Hosts France will be automatically assigned as the top seeds in Group A.
That would be a nice one For Germany I hope to get Austria and Turkey, that would be nice matches. Also hope for a inner-british battle.
Group A France Romania Albania Switzerland Group B England Russia Slovakia Wales Group C Germany Northern Ireland Poland Ukraine Group D Turkey Spain Croatia Czech Republic Group E Italy Sweden Belgium Ireland Group F Iceland Portugal Hungary Austria
Group A France Romania Albania Switzerland Group B England Russia Wales Slovakia Group C Germany Ukraine Poland Northern Ireland Group D Spain Czech Republic Turkey Croatia Group E Belgium Italy Republic of Ireland Sweden Group F Portugal Iceland Austria Hungary Easy one for Germany. Little disappointed about the rest, since there's no "big" match in the group stage. England v Wales should be good regarding the atmosphere. Group E could be the most intereseting, looks very open.
Watching Ibra take on the Italians and Belgians will be sweet, but yeah, Sweden does seem to get hosed pretty often.
Looking at the last two tournaments, it's just you I'm afraid. In 2008 Sweden had Spain, Greece and Russia. Tough but far from the toughest one. In 2012 they actually got one of the two easier groups with host Ukraine as the head plus France and England, both struggling at this time. Now it was bad luck, I agree, although I'm not sold on Belgium.
Wow it us always sad to see such a tournament without your team... To bad Ireland is in such a bad group.