France - this is the country of the Old World, which will host Euro 2016. Therefore, we can say that after eighteen years, Platini and Zidane motherland again will host the participants of the football feast.The delights of the upcoming European Championship is its new concept, based on which to play the title of the best team of the Old World will be able to immediately Twenty-four teams instead of twelve, which were in previous times.
period of qualification for Euro 2016
List of the nine qualifying groups was announced twenty-third in February 2014, and the first match started in September.As for the group, they were quite equal in power, because the rankings were compiled on the basis of the national team in the FIFA list.Russian national football team got into Group G, where will compete for access to the main stage of the competition with teams in Sweden, Austria, Liechtenstein, Moldova and Montenegro.In this group are the favorites, Russia and Sweden.Also, an unpleasant surprise for fans of the Russian team can present to the Austrian team.Ukraine and Belarus were in the same group C, where also will compete with Spain, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Macedonia.If the Ukrainian team little hurt to leave the group, that Belarus should be good to try to take at least third place.In October 2015, will be known the names of all the teams, who would go to Euro 2016, which will host the next feast for football fans.
Favourites their qualifying groups
Total qualifying participating 53 teams in Europe playing soccer.Euro 2016 group which will be increased to eight, will take only 24 teams.Each of the nine qualifying groups is composed of favorites.In Group A are teams of the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.The first two places in Group B is likely to compete for national teams of Bosnia and Belgium.The clear leader of the group C is Spain, and Ukraine will compete for the second place with Slovakia.Germany, Ireland and Poland - favorite group D. In Group E the main contenders for access to the main stage of Euro 2016 are England and Switzerland.Perhaps the most feeble is Group F, where leaders are Greece and Hungary.If about the group G mentioned above, the groups H and I are favorites tandems Italy-Croatia, Portugal, Denmark, respectively.
cities which will host Euro 2016
France is rich in interesting cities that have good stadiums for matches such an important competition.At Euro 2016 the team will be able to play in different cities on different stadiums.Among the cities that will matches the main football competition in Europe 2016, can be identified Lyon, Bordeaux, Lille, Marseille, Saint-Denis, and of course, Paris.In Lyon, the matches will be held at the stadium "Stade de Lumière" with 58 thousand people.One of the most beautiful stadiums of the country is the home arena of Marseille "Olympic", the capacity of which is 67 thousand people is the largest in the Euro 2016. Where will the final game is unknown, but most likely it will take fifty thousand "Parc des Princes" located in Paris.
Briefly about possible triumpher European Championship 2016
time immemorial in the drawing title of best team in Europe participated sixteen teams.The upcoming European Championship will compete already 24. But in spite of such a large number of applicants actually fight for the title are about seven or eight teams.Clear favorites of football festivals in France, where it will be the Euro 2016, Spain and Germany are seen, which are the European champion in 2012 and world champion in 2014, respectively.Also among the contenders for the title, you can select Italy, Holland, England, Belgium and, of course, the owner held the competition.
little about the winners of previous years
greatest number of victories in the European Football Championship are the two countries: Germany and Spain.They boast three major titles.But if the Germans had won his last title in late 1996, Spain has won the last two championships.The first team that has managed to become the champion of Europe, was the USSR national team, which in 1960 broke the resistance of the national team of Yugoslavia.The country, which will host Euro 2016, France became the European champion twice.The first time she did it in 1984, and in 2000 she was in the title of best team in the world in 1998 and added the title of best team in Europe, beating in the final match of the Italian national team with a score of 2-1.
Concept upcoming European Football Championship
current idea of holding Euro 2016 is different from what it was in previous championships.If earlier in the qualifying round were selected only 16 teams, at this European Championship to compete for the title of best team of the Old World will be able to 24 teams.All commands are divided into six groups, each of which will be four teams.From each group to the next stage are probably the first two.The remaining four places are filled by the team that scored the most points among the third places.It may be noted that at the stage of the playoffs will not be 8 teams, as before, and 16, which adds to the 1/8 stage.In addition, little changed and the concept of the qualifying matches.If earlier the host country to hold friendly games with different teams, now the national team, which will host Euro 2016, will play friendly matches with the national team final group, which does not hold an official match in their group.
