Euro 2024: The Athletic’s quick guide to teams, groups, kits, fixtures, predictions

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Euro 2024 is lastly right here and happening throughout 4 weeks in Germany.

There are 24 groups cut up into six teams, which is able to then transfer on to a spherical of 16 (see particulars beneath), quarters, semis and the ultimate in Berlin on July 14.

We’ve got a wealth of content material to accompany you on the journey. Whether or not your curiosity is within the gamers, the nations, the techniques, the information, the kits, or the historical past and politics of the match and Germany itself, now we have all of it right here in a single place.

For each match on the match, you possibly can observe our reside protection in our app and on our web site.

Shortly after every match, we’ll additionally publish The Briefing, an in depth breakdown of what occurred (and why), dropped at you by our crew of writers on the bottom in Germany.

So strap in and revel in Euro 2024 with The Athletic.

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How you can observe Euro 2024 on The Athletic…

If you’d like some last-minute cheat sheets for the way each nation is gearing up, then take a look at our detailed group and squad guides (and each confirmed squad right here):

• Group A (Germany, Scotland, Hungary, Switzerland)
• Group B (Spain, Italy, Croatia, Albania)
• Group C (England, Denmark, Serbia, Slovenia)
• Group D (France, Netherlands, Austria, Poland)
• Group E (Belgium, Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia)
• Group F (Portugal, Turkey, Czech Republic, Georgia)

Our writers have additionally given their predictions for what is going to occur. Greatest participant? Largest disappointment? Who’re the darkish horses?

Additionally, you will have to know when and the place the matches are happening. So you possibly can view the total schedule right here from Matchday 1 via to the ultimate on the Olympiastadion in Berlin on July 14 (a stadium with an attention-grabbing and complex historical past that Adam Crafton has detailed right here). Right here is Tim Spiers’ information to the host cities.

And whereas watching all these matches, you’ll in all probability need to know who the most effective gamers are to be careful for.

Nicely, we might help you there, too, with our unbelievable in-depth scouting information The Radar, which provides tactical profiles of fifty gamers to control.

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Plus, should you’re questioning which nation has the oldest squad or which membership has essentially the most call-ups, then we even have an final knowledge information to the match.

It’s not simply the celebs that may entice you to a sure crew, the kits they’re sporting is also a giant consider who you observe (or who’s your second crew). And for that, now we have ranked and rated all 24 house shirts from finest to worst. And the away kits, too.

For a historic context, we’ve seemed again at the most effective and worst of all time (the Dutch in ’88 characteristic, as does David Seaman at Euro ’96 — guess which ranks greater…)

If these pique your curiosity within the earlier editions of the Euros, then we even have the next:

We even have quite a lot of different items for you:

As we get in the direction of the tip of the group phases, you might marvel who qualifies for the final 16 from six teams. Nicely, right here it goes…

How does qualification for the knockout stage work?

The highest two groups in every of the six teams qualify routinely for the knockout stage. Groups ending first will face one of many group-stage runners-up or a third-place crew within the final 16. These ending second will face one of many group winners or one other of the runners-up within the final 16. As there will probably be six every of group winners and runners-up, it leaves 4 spots to be stuffed. And people will probably be taken by 4 of the six groups that end third.

Of the six third-place groups, the 4 with essentially the most factors will advance to the final 16. Within the occasion of a tie on factors, the next elements will probably be used to find out which crew advances:

1. Objective distinction
2. Targets scored
3. Quantity of group-stage wins
4. Decrease disciplinary factors complete
5. General rating in Euro 2024 qualifying

On prime of all this, we will probably be overlaying all of the off-pitch information because it occurs, bringing you particulars from the crew camps, media conferences, and every other breaking information.

Away from the Euros, we are going to proceed to cowl the summer time switch window, with our weekly Switch DealSheet popping out each Tuesday in addition to The Athletic 500 Switch Scores, which you’ll examine right here.

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We may also have protection of the Copa America and the Olympics developing, however extra on that later — take pleasure in!

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