Draw to be made early next month... 3rd December I think it is. The same day they draw the Nations League finals.
England will be in pot 1 alongside France, Croatia, Belgium, Portugal, Spain etc.
One team who won’t be in pot 1 are GERMANY. Their disasterous year has meant they slip down the rankings and into pot 2.
England could therefore theoretically be drawn with the Germans in qualifying.
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Pot 1a: Switzerland, Portugal, Netherlands, England
(guaranteed a five team group so Nations League finals can take place in June while the rest of the continent plays qualifiers)
Pot 1b: Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Poland
Pot 2: Germany, Iceland, Bosnia, Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Austria, Wales, Czech Rep
Pot 3: Slovakia, Turkey, Rep.Ireland, N.Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Serbia, Finland, Bulgaria, Israel
Pot 4: Hungary, Romania, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Cyprus, Estonia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Georgia
Pot 5: Macedonia, Kosovo, Belarus, Luxembourg, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Gibraltar, Faroe Islands
Pot 6: Latvia, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Malta, San Marino
We wont be able to face any of the teams in pot six
Easiest i think: Wales, Finland, Lithuania, Gibraltar.
Also like the fact that the Qualifying is across the one calendar year rather than being spread over a two year period.
already have 2 stag dos and a potential oktobrefest trip lined up
There are several restrictions on who can be drawn with who.
Uefa has tried to increase the likelihood that countries hosting Euro 2020 games also qualify for the tournament - so no more than two teams with games can be in the same group.
Those teams are England, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Hungary, Romania and Russia.
Because the draw works from the top seeds downwards, it means that if, for example, England were drawn with Germany, Denmark or Russia, they could not then be in a group with the Republic of Ireland or Scotland.
For political reasons, Spain and Gibraltar will be kept apart, while Kosovo cannot be in a group with Serbia or Bosnia-Herzegovina.
A maximum of two countries at risk of severe winters can be in one group - Belarus, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia and Ukraine.
And there are restrictions over who Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Iceland could play for geographical reasons. Each side can only be in a group with one listed country that would involve excessive travel distance. In Kazakhstan's case, that includes the home nations and Republic of Ireland.
Just imagine "oops, start again"
Along with Northern Ireland
Croatia have Wales in group E
4 playoff matches decided once qualifying has finished and we know which teams haven’t made it