Before the Euro 2016 qualifying draw which will take place in Nice on February 23, the Georgian national football team got in the fifth pot. The official site of UEFA reports it.
The following countries are in the pot with Georgia: Iceland, Northern Ireland, Albania, Lithuania, Moldova, Macedonia, Azerbaijan and Cyprus.
Other pots look like this:
Pot 1: Spain (holders), Germany, Netherlands, Italy, England, Portugal, Greece, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pot 2: Ukraine, Croatia, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Czech Republic, Hungary, Republic of Ireland
Pot 3: Serbia, Turkey, Slovenia, Israel, Norway, Slovakia, Romania, Austria, Poland
Pot 4: Montenegro, Armenia, Scotland, Finland, Latvia, Wales, Bulgaria, Estonia, Belarus
Pot 6: Luxembourg, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Faroe Islands, Malta, Andorra, San Marino, Gibraltar
The teams have been divided into seeding pots based on their UEFA national team coefficients (taking into account results from the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the 2010–12 UEFA European Football Championship and 2014 World Cup qualifying). France as a host will not play in the qualifying cycle. 53 teams will play for other 23 places. They will form 9 groups.
The first-second-placed teams and the best third-placed ones will play at the final stage. Other 8 teams will play for the last 4 places in November 2015.
According to the decision of UEFA, the following countries will not be in the same group: Georgia and Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Spain and Gibraltar. The qualifying cycle will start in September 2014 and last till October 2015.
Euro 2016 qualifiers calendar:
Matchday 1: 7–9 September 2014
Matchday 2: 9–11 October 2014
Matchday 3: 12–14 October 2014
Matchday 4: 14–16 November 2014
Matchday 5: 27–29 March 2015
Matchday 6: 12–14 June 2015
Matchday 7: 3–5 September 2015
Matchday 8: 6–8 September 2015
Matchday 9: 8–10 October 2015
Matchday 10: 11–13 October 2015
Play-off first leg: 12–14 November 2015
Play-off second leg: 15–17 November 2015
Final tournament draw: 12 December 2015
Final tournament (France): 10 June–10 July 2016
Lasha Tabagari
