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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
John Brewin

Euro 2024 draw: get ready for a feast of footballing bonhomie

The Euro 2024 ball on a day out in Hamburg with the Elbphilharmonie behind it.
The Euro 2024 ball on a day out in Hamburg with the Elbphilharmonie behind it. Photograph: Boris Streubel/Uefa/Getty Images

IT’S ADMIN TIME!

Euro 2024, it’s sooner than you think. Because on Saturday evening, it’s the draw for the finals, to be played in Germany, of course. That’s taking place in Hamburg at 5pm GMT since you ask, and balls are being warmed in readiness for the 24 finalists, though make that 21 that we know of, as there’s the playoff round still to be decided. There, 12 nations who horsed their qualifications but were given a second chance by a Uefa Nations League equation that would have Nicolaus Copernicus reaching for his Casio scientific calculator will meet other such nations. By around midnight on 26 March all 24 teams will be revealed.

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