UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying

The UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from March 2023 to March 2024 to determine the 23 UEFA member men's national teams that would join the automatically qualified host team Germany in the UEFA Euro 2024 final tournament. The competition was linked with the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League, which gave countries a secondary route to qualify for the final tournament.^[1]

UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying

Tournament details
Dates	23 March 2023 – 26 March 2024
Teams	53
Tournament statistics
Matches played	239
Goals scored	690 (2.89 per match)
Attendance	5,311,891 (22,225 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Romelu Lukaku (14 goals)
← 2020 2028 →

A total of 53 UEFA member associations entered the qualifying process. The draw for the qualifying group stage took place at the Festhalle in Frankfurt on 9 October 2022.^[2]

Qualified teams

 

  Team qualified for UEFA Euro 2024

  Team failed to qualify

  Team banned from competition

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament^[A]
Germany^[B]	Host	27 September 2018	13 (1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
Belgium	Group F winner	13 October 2023	6 (1972, 1980, 1984, 2000, 2016, 2020)
France	Group B winner	13 October 2023	10 (1960, 1984, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
Portugal	Group J winner	13 October 2023	8 (1984, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
Scotland	Group A runner-up	15 October 2023	3 (1992, 1996, 2020)
Spain	Group A winner	15 October 2023	11 (1964, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
Turkey	Group D winner	15 October 2023	5 (1996, 2000, 2008, 2016, 2020)
Austria	Group F runner-up	16 October 2023	3 (2008, 2016, 2020)
England	Group C winner	17 October 2023	10 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012, 2016, 2020)
Hungary	Group G winner	16 November 2023	4 (1964, 1972, 2016, 2020)
Slovakia^[C]	Group J runner-up	16 November 2023	5 (1960, 1976, 1980, 2016, 2020)
Albania	Group E winner	17 November 2023	1 (2016)
Denmark	Group H winner	17 November 2023	9 (1964, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2012, 2020)
Netherlands	Group B runner-up	18 November 2023	10 (1976, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2020)
Romania	Group I winner	18 November 2023	5 (1984, 1996, 2000, 2008, 2016)
Switzerland	Group I runner-up	18 November 2023	5 (1996, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020)
Serbia^[D]	Group G runner-up	19 November 2023	5 (1960, 1968, 1976, 1984, 2000)^[E]
Czech Republic^[C]	Group E runner-up	20 November 2023	10 (1960, 1976, 1980, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
Italy	Group C runner-up	20 November 2023	10 (1968, 1980, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
Slovenia	Group H runner-up	20 November 2023	1 (2000)
Croatia	Group D runner-up	21 November 2023	6 (1996, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
Georgia	Play-off Path C winner	26 March 2024	0 (debut)
Ukraine	Play-off Path B winner	26 March 2024	3 (2012, 2016, 2020)
Poland	Play-off Path A winner	26 March 2024	4 (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)

1. Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.
2. From 1972 to 1988, Germany competed as West Germany.
3. From 1960 to 1980, Slovakia and the Czech Republic competed as Czechoslovakia.^[3][4][5][6]
4. From 1960 to 1984, Serbia competed as Yugoslavia, and in 2000 as FR Yugoslavia.
5. FR Yugoslavia were initially to appear in 1992 (after qualifying as Yugoslavia), but were replaced after being banned by the United Nations from all international sport.

Format

The format is similar to the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying competition: the group stage decided 20 of the 23 teams that would advance to the final tournament to join host Germany. The 53 UEFA member associations were divided into ten groups, with seven groups containing five teams and three containing six teams. The draw for the qualifying group stage took place on 9 October 2022,^[2] after conclusion of the league phase of the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League. The four UEFA Nations League Finals participants were drawn into groups of five teams (so they were able to compete in the Nations League Finals in June 2023). The qualifying group stage was played in a home-and-away, round-robin format on double matchdays in March, June, September, October, and November 2023. The winners and runners-up from the ten groups qualified directly to the final tournament.^[7]

Following the qualifying group stage, the remaining three teams will be decided through the play-offs, to be held in March 2024. Twelve teams were selected based entirely on their performance in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League. These teams will be divided into three paths, each containing four teams, with one team from each path qualifying for the final tournament. The group winners of Nations Leagues A, B, and C automatically qualified for the play-off path of their league, unless they qualified for the final tournament via the qualifying group stage. If a group winner had already qualified through the qualifying group stage, they would be replaced by the next best-ranked team in the same league. However, if there were not enough non-qualified teams in the same league, then the spot would go first to the best-ranked group winner of League D, unless that team had already qualified for the final tournament. The remaining slots were then allocated to next best team in the Nations League overall ranking. However, group winners of Leagues B and C could not face teams from a higher league.

The three play-off paths will each feature two single-leg semi-finals, and one single-leg final. In the semi-finals, the best-ranked team will host the lowest-ranked team, and the second-ranked team will host the third-ranked team. The host of the final will be drawn between the winners of the semi-final pairings. The three play-off path winners will join the twenty teams that already qualified for the final tournament through the group stage.^[8]

Tiebreakers for group ranking

If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied:^[8]

1. Higher number of points obtained in the matches played among the teams in question;
2. Superior goal difference in matches played among the teams in question;
3. Higher number of goals scored in the matches played among the teams in question;
4. If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 were reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings.^[a] If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 11 applied;
5. Superior goal difference in all group matches;
6. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
7. Higher number of away goals scored in all group matches;
8. Higher number of wins in all group matches;
9. Higher number of away wins in all group matches;
10. Fair play conduct in all group matches (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card);
11. Position in the UEFA Nations League overall ranking.

Notes

1. When there were two or more teams tied in points, criteria 1 to 3 were applied. After these criteria were applied, they may define the position of some of the teams involved, but not all of them. For example, if there was a three-way tie on points, the application of the first three criteria may only break the tie for one of the teams, leaving the other two teams still tied. In this case, the tiebreaking procedure was resumed, from the beginning, for those teams that were still tied.

Criteria for overall ranking

To determine the overall rankings of the European Qualifiers, results against teams in sixth place were discarded and the following criteria were applied:^[8]

1. Position in the group;
2. Higher number of points;
3. Superior goal difference;
4. Higher number of goals scored;
5. Higher number of goals scored away from home;
6. Higher number of wins;
7. Higher number of wins away from home;
8. Fair play conduct (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card);
9. Position in the UEFA Nations League overall ranking.

Schedule

Below is the schedule of the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying campaign.^[9]

Stage	Matchday	Dates
Qualifying group stage	Matchday 1	23–25 March 2023
	Matchday 2	26–28 March 2023
	Matchday 3	16–17 June 2023
	Matchday 4	19–20 June 2023
	Matchday 5	7–9 September 2023
	Matchday 6	10–12 September 2023
	Matchday 7	12–14 October 2023^[note 1]
	Matchday 8	15–17 October 2023^[note 1]
	Matchday 9	16–18 November 2023
	Matchday 10	19–21 November 2023
Play-offs	Semi-finals	21 March 2024
	Finals	26 March 2024

Draw

The qualifying group stage draw was held on 9 October 2022, 12:00 CEST,^[12] at the Festhalle in Frankfurt.^{[2][13][14][15]} Of UEFA's 55 member associations, 53 compete in the qualifying competition. Host team Germany qualified directly to the final tournament, while it was confirmed on 20 September 2022 that Russia were ineligible due to the suspension from FIFA and UEFA competitions following their country's invasion of Ukraine.^[16]

The 53 UEFA national teams were seeded into six pots based on the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League overall ranking following the conclusion of the league phase. The four participants of the 2023 UEFA Nations League Finals were placed into the UNL Pot and drawn into Groups A–D, which only had five teams, so that they only had to play eight qualifying matches, leaving two free matchdays to play in the Nations League Finals in June 2023. The next six-highest teams were then placed into Pot 1. If Germany had won their Nations League group, the UNL Pot would have contained three teams, and Pot 1 would have instead contained seven teams. Pots 2 to 5 contained ten teams, while Pot 6 contained the three lowest-ranked teams. The teams were drawn into ten groups: seven groups of five teams (Groups A–G) and three groups of six teams (Groups H–J). The draw started with the UNL Pot and Pot 1, and continued from Pot 2 to Pot 6, from where a team was drawn and assigned to the first available group (based on draw conditions) in alphabetical order.^[17]

The following restrictions were applied with computer assistance:^[17]

• Prohibited clashes: For political reasons, matches between the following pairs of teams were considered prohibited clashes, unable to be drawn into the same group: Armenia / Azerbaijan, Belarus / Ukraine, Gibraltar / Spain, Kosovo / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo / Serbia.
• Winter venues: A maximum of two teams whose venues were identified as having high or medium risk of severe winter conditions could be placed in each group: Belarus, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway.
  • The two "hard winter venues", Faroe Islands and Iceland, generally could not host games in March or November; the others were to play as few home matches as possible in March and November.^[18]
• Excessive travel: A maximum of one pair of teams identified with excessive travel distance in relation to other countries could be placed in each group:
  • Azerbaijan: with Gibraltar, Iceland, Portugal.
  • Iceland: with Cyprus, Georgia, Israel. (Armenia were also identified with Iceland for excessive travel distance, but the teams were in the same pot for the draw.)
  • Kazakhstan: with Andorra, England, France, Gibraltar, Iceland, Malta, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Wales. (Faroe Islands were also identified with Kazakhstan for excessive travel distance, but the teams were in the same pot for the draw.)

Seeding

The teams were seeded based on the September 2022 UEFA Nations League overall rankings.^[19]

Final tournament hosts

Team	Rank
Germany	10

Teams entering qualifying group stage

UNL pot Team Rank   Netherlands 1   Croatia 2   Spain 3   Italy (title holders) 4 Pot 1 Team Rank   Denmark 5   Portugal 6   Belgium 7   Hungary 8    Switzerland 9   Poland 11	Pot 2 Team Rank   France 12   Austria 13   Czech Republic 14   England 15   Wales 16   Israel 17   Bosnia and Herzegovina 18   Serbia 19   Scotland 20   Finland 21	Pot 3 Team Rank   Ukraine 22   Iceland 23   Norway 24   Slovenia 25   Republic of Ireland 26   Albania 27   Montenegro 28   Romania 29   Sweden 30   Armenia 31
Pot 4 Team Rank   Georgia 33   Greece 34   Turkey 35   Kazakhstan 36   Luxembourg 37   Azerbaijan 38   Kosovo 39   Bulgaria 40   Faroe Islands 41   North Macedonia 42	Pot 5 Team Rank   Slovakia 43   Northern Ireland 44   Cyprus 45   Belarus 46   Lithuania 47   Gibraltar 48   Estonia 49   Latvia 50   Moldova 51   Malta 52	Pot 6 Team Rank   Andorra 53   San Marino 54   Liechtenstein 55

Banned from entering qualifying

Team	Rank
Russia	32

Summary

  Group winners and runners-up qualified directly for UEFA Euro 2024

  Teams advanced to the play-offs, selected based on their performance in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League

  Other teams were eliminated after the qualifying group stage

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D	Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H	Group I	Group J
Spain   Scotland	France   Netherlands	England   Italy	Turkey   Croatia	Albania   Czech Republic	Belgium   Austria	Hungary   Serbia	Denmark   Slovenia	Romania   Switzerland	Portugal   Slovakia
Norway	Greece	Ukraine	Wales	Poland	Sweden	Montenegro	Finland	Israel	Luxembourg
Georgia	Republic of Ireland	North Macedonia	Armenia	Moldova	Azerbaijan	Lithuania	Kazakhstan	Belarus	Iceland
Cyprus	Gibraltar	Malta	Latvia	Faroe Islands	Estonia	Bulgaria	Northern Ireland	Kosovo	Bosnia and Herzegovina
							San Marino	Andorra	Liechtenstein

Groups

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 10 October 2022, the day following the draw.^[20][21][22] The schedule was initially released on the day of the draw, but was withdrawn shortly after its distribution due to an alleged calendar issue.^[23] However, UEFA ultimately confirmed the initial schedule the following day, with no changes made.^[24] Group matches took place from 23 March to 21 November 2023.

Group A

Main article: UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain	8	7	0	1	25	5	+20	21	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–0	3–0	3–1	6–0
2	Scotland	8	5	2	1	17	8	+9	17			2–0	—	3–3	2–0	3–0
3	Norway	8	3	2	3	14	12	+2	11			0–1	1–2	—	2–1	3–1
4	Georgia	8	2	2	4	12	18	−6	8	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–7	2–2	1–1	—	4–0
5	Cyprus	8	0	0	8	3	28	−25	0			1–3	0–3	0–4	1–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group B

Main article: UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France	8	7	1	0	29	3	+26	22	Qualify for final tournament		—	4–0	1–0	2–0	14–0
2	Netherlands	8	6	0	2	17	7	+10	18			1–2	—	3–0	1–0	3–0
3	Greece	8	4	1	3	14	8	+6	13	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		2–2	0–1	—	2–1	5–0
4	Republic of Ireland	8	2	0	6	9	10	−1	6			0–1	1–2	0–2	—	3–0
5	Gibraltar	8	0	0	8	0	41	−41	0			0–3	0–6	0–3	0–4	—

Source: UEFA

Group C

Main article: UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	8	6	2	0	22	4	+18	20	Qualify for final tournament		—	3–1	2–0	7–0	2–0
2	Italy	8	4	2	2	16	9	+7	14^[a]			1–2	—	2–1	5–2	4–0
3	Ukraine	8	4	2	2	11	8	+3	14^[a]	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–1	0–0	—	2–0	1–0
4	North Macedonia	8	2	2	4	10	20	−10	8			1–1	1–1	2–3	—	2–1
5	Malta	8	0	0	8	2	20	−18	0			0–4	0–2	1–3	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Italy 4, Ukraine 1.

Group D

Main article: UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey	8	5	2	1	14	7	+7	17	Qualify for final tournament		—	0–2	2–0	1–1	4–0
2	Croatia	8	5	1	2	13	4	+9	16			0–1	—	1–1	1–0	5–0
3	Wales	8	3	3	2	10	10	0	12	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–1	2–1	—	2–4	1–0
4	Armenia	8	2	2	4	9	11	−2	8			1–2	0–1	1–1	—	2–1
5	Latvia	8	1	0	7	5	19	−14	3			2–3	0–2	0–2	2–0	—

Source: UEFA

Group E

Main article: UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Albania	8	4	3	1	12	4	+8	15^[a]	Qualify for final tournament		—	3–0	2–0	2–0	0–0
2	Czech Republic	8	4	3	1	12	6	+6	15^[a]			1–1	—	3–1	3–0	1–0
3	Poland	8	3	2	3	10	10	0	11	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–0	1–1	—	1–1	2–0
4	Moldova	8	2	4	2	7	10	−3	10			1–1	0–0	3–2	—	1–1
5	Faroe Islands	8	0	2	6	2	13	−11	2			1–3	0–3	0–2	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. Head to head points: Albania 4, Czech Republic 1.

Group F

Main article: UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	8	6	2	0	22	4	+18	20	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–1	1–1^[a]	5–0	5–0
2	Austria	8	6	1	1	17	7	+10	19			2–3	—	2–0	4–1	2–1
3	Sweden	8	3	1	4	14	12	+2	10			0–3	1–3	—	5–0	2–0
4	Azerbaijan	8	2	1	5	7	17	−10	7			0–1	0–1	3–0	—	1–1
5	Estonia	8	0	1	7	2	22	−20	1	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		0–3	0–2	0–5	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. The Belgium v Sweden match was abandoned at 1–1 at half-time for security reasons, as two Swedish supporters had been killed in a terrorist shooting in Brussels prior to the match; the score was later confirmed as final.^[25][26]

Group G

Main article: UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Hungary	8	5	3	0	16	7	+9	18	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–1	3–1	2–0	3–0
2	Serbia	8	4	2	2	15	9	+6	14			1–2	—	3–1	2–0	2–2
3	Montenegro	8	3	2	3	9	11	−2	11			0–0	0–2	—	2–0	2–1
4	Lithuania	8	1	3	4	8	14	−6	6			2–2	1–3	2–2	—	1–1
5	Bulgaria	8	0	4	4	7	14	−7	4			2–2	1–1	0–1	0–2	—

Source: UEFA

Group H

Main article: UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Denmark	10	7	1	2	19	10	+9	22^[a]	Qualify for final tournament		—	2–1	3–1	3–1	1–0	4–0
2	Slovenia	10	7	1	2	20	9	+11	22^[a]			1–1	—	3–0	2–1	4–2	2–0
3	Finland	10	6	0	4	18	10	+8	18^[b]	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		0–1	2–0	—	1–2	4–0	6–0
4	Kazakhstan	10	6	0	4	16	12	+4	18^[b]			3–2	1–2	0–1	—	1–0	3–1
5	Northern Ireland	10	3	0	7	9	13	−4	9			2–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	—	3–0
6	San Marino	10	0	0	10	3	31	−28	0			1–2	0–4	1–2	0–3	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Notes:

1. Head to head points: Denmark 4, Slovenia 1.
2. Goal difference in all group matches: Finland +8, Kazakhstan +4.

Group I

Main article: UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group I

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Romania	10	6	4	0	16	5	+11	22	Qualify for final tournament		—	1–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	4–0
2	Switzerland	10	4	5	1	22	11	+11	17			2–2	—	3–0	3–3	1–1	3–0
3	Israel	10	4	3	3	11	11	0	15	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		1–2	1–1	—	1–0	1–1	2–1
4	Belarus	10	3	3	4	9	14	−5	12			0–0	0–5	1–2	—	2–1	1–0
5	Kosovo	10	2	5	3	10	10	0	11			0–0	2–2	1–0	0–1	—	1–1
6	Andorra	10	0	2	8	3	20	−17	2			0–2	1–2	0–2	0–0	0–3	—

Source: UEFA

Group J

Main article: UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying Group J

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	10	10	0	0	36	2	+34	30	Qualify for final tournament		—	3–2	9–0	2–0	3–0	4–0
2	Slovakia	10	7	1	2	17	8	+9	22			0–1	—	0–0	4–2	2–0	3–0
3	Luxembourg	10	5	2	3	13	19	−6	17	Advance to play-offs via Nations League		0–6	0–1	—	3–1	4–1	2–0
4	Iceland	10	3	1	6	17	16	+1	10			0–1	1–2	1–1	—	1–0	4–0
5	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10	3	0	7	9	20	−11	9			0–5	1–2	0–2	3–0	—	2–1
6	Liechtenstein	10	0	0	10	1	28	−27	0			0–2	0–1	0–1	0–7	0–2	—

Source: UEFA

Play-offs

Main article: UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying play-offs

Teams that failed in the qualifying group stage could still qualify for the final tournament through the play-offs. Leagues A, B, and C in the UEFA Nations League were allocated one of the three remaining final tournament spots. Four teams from each league that had not already qualified for the European Championship finals competed in the play-offs of their league. The play-off berths were first allocated to each Nations League group winner, and if any of the group winners already qualify for the European Championship finals, then to the next-best ranked team of the league.^[27]

Team selection

The team selection process determined the twelve teams that competed in the play-offs based on the Nations League overall rankings,^[19] using a set of criteria that obeyed these principles:^[8]

• Leagues A, B, and C each formed a path with the four best-ranked teams not yet qualified.
• If one of those leagues had fewer than four non-qualifying teams, spots were taken first by the best group winner from League D (unless already qualified), and then by any other eligible teams based on ranking.
• Group winners from Leagues B and C could not face teams from higher leagues.

League A Rank Team 1 ^GW   Spain 2 ^GW   Croatia 3 ^GW   Italy 4 ^GW   Netherlands 5   Denmark 6   Portugal 7   Belgium 8   Hungary 9    Switzerland 10   Germany ^† 11   Poland 12   France 13   Austria 14   Czech Republic 15   England 16   Wales

League B Rank Team 17 ^GW   Israel 18 ^GW   Bosnia and Herzegovina 19 ^GW   Serbia 20 ^GW   Scotland 21   Finland 22   Ukraine 23   Iceland 24   Norway 25   Slovenia 26   Republic of Ireland 27   Albania 28   Montenegro 29   Romania 30   Sweden 31   Armenia 32   Russia ^‡

League C Rank Team 33 ^GW   Georgia 34 ^GW   Greece 35 ^GW   Turkey 36 ^GW   Kazakhstan 37   Luxembourg 38   Azerbaijan 39   Kosovo 40   Bulgaria 41   Faroe Islands 42   North Macedonia 43   Slovakia 44   Northern Ireland 45   Cyprus 46   Belarus 47   Lithuania 48   Gibraltar

League D Rank Team 49 ^BD   Estonia 50   Latvia 51   Moldova 52   Malta 53   Andorra 54   San Marino 55   Liechtenstein

Key

• ^GW Group winner from Nations League A, B or C
• ^BD Best group winner from Nations League D
•   Team in bold advanced to play-offs
•   Team qualified directly to final tournament
•  †  UEFA Euro 2024 host, qualified automatically
•  ‡  Banned from qualifying competition

Draw

The qualifying play-off draw took place on 23 November 2023, 12:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.^[28][29][30] The draw followed the path formation rules to determine the paths in which the non-group winners will participate. Three separate draws determining the host of the play-off final of each path also took place between the winners of the semi-final pairings (identified as semi-final 1 for seed 1 v 4, and semi-final 2 for seed 2 v 3).^[31]

Due to the specificity of the draw, the exact procedure could only be finalised following the conclusion of the qualifying group stage.^[32] No restrictions were applied to the draw, as none of the clashes prohibited by UEFA for political reasons could occur.^{[note 2]} Based on the twelve teams that advanced to the play-offs, the three play-off paths were formed following the path formation rules, starting with League C and working up to League A:^[33][34]

• As there were four teams from League C (three group winners and one non-group winner), they were all placed in Path C.
• As there were five teams from League B (two group winners and three non-group winners), the two group winners were placed in Path B, while a draw decided which two of the three non-group winners were also placed in Path B.
• As there were two teams from League A (both non-group winners), they were both placed in Path A, along with the best-ranked League D group winner. The one remaining non-group winner from League B that was not drawn to Path B was then placed in Path A.

The following three non-group winners from League B (ordered by Nations League ranking) took part in the draw, with two being drawn into Path B, while the remaining team was allocated to Path A:

•   Finland (21)
•   Ukraine (22)
•   Iceland (23)

The two teams drawn into Path B occupied positions B3 and B4, following their Nations League ranking, while the team drawn into Path A occupied position A3.

The following was the composition of the play-off paths:

Path A Rank Team 11   Poland 16   Wales 21   Finland 49   Estonia

Path B Rank Team 17   Israel 18   Bosnia and Herzegovina 22   Ukraine 23   Iceland

Path C Rank Team 33   Georgia 34   Greece 36   Kazakhstan 37   Luxembourg

In the semi-finals of each path, the best-ranked team hosted the fourth-ranked team, and the second-ranked team hosted the third-ranked team.

The following semi-final winners were drawn to host the play-off final:

• Path A: Winner semi-final 2 (Wales v Finland)
• Path B: Winner semi-final 2 (Bosnia and Herzegovina v Ukraine)
• Path C: Winner semi-final 1 (Georgia v Luxembourg)

Path A

Home team	Score	Away team
Semi-finals
Poland	5–1	Estonia
Wales	4–1	Finland
Final
Wales	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–5 p)	Poland

Path B

Home team	Score	Away team
Semi-finals
Israel	1–4	Iceland
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–2	Ukraine
Final
Ukraine	2–1	Iceland

Path C

Home team	Score	Away team
Semi-finals
Georgia	2–0	Luxembourg
Greece	5–0	Kazakhstan
Final
Georgia	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–2 p)	Greece

Goalscorers

There were 690 goals scored in 239 matches, for an average of 2.89 goals per match.

14 goals

•   Romelu Lukaku

10 goals

•   Cristiano Ronaldo

9 goals

•   Kylian Mbappé

8 goals

•   Harry Kane

7 goals

•   Rasmus Højlund
•   Scott McTominay

6 goals

•   Erling Haaland
•   Bruno Fernandes
•   Zeki Amdouni

5 goals

•   Georgios Masouras
•   Gerson Rodrigues
•   Aleksandar Mitrović
•   Benjamin Šeško

4 goals

•   Marcel Sabitzer
•   Andrej Kramarić
•   Bukayo Saka
•   Daniel Håkans
•   Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
•   Anastasios Bakasetas
•   Dominik Szoboszlai
•   Barnabás Varga
•   Albert Guðmundsson
•   Bakhtiyar Zaynutdinov
•   Ion Nicolaescu
•   Joselu

January 01, 1970