Azerbaijan in seeding pot 5 prior to Euro 2016 qualification draw
Baku, October 18 (AZERTAC). The Azerbaijan national football team have got into the fifth seeding pot out of six prior to the Euro 2016 qualification draw.
Azerbaijan are in one pot with Northern Ireland, Albania, Lithuania, Moldova, FYR Macedonia, Belarus, Georgia and Cyprus. This means that Azerbaijan will not be drawn in one group with either of these sides.
Other seeding pots are as follows:
1 - Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, England, Greece, Portugal, Russia and Bosnia and Herzegovina;
2 - Sweden, Ukraine, Croatia, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Ireland;
3 - Serbia, Turkey, Slovenia, Romania, Israel, Norway, Slovakia, Austria and Montenegro;
4 - Armenia, Poland, Scotland, Finland, Latvia, Wales, Bulgaria, Estonia and Iceland;
6 - Luxembourg, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Malta, Andorra, San Marino, Gibraltar and the Faroe Islands.
The Euro 2016 draw will take place in Nice on 23 February, while the qualification campaign will start in September 2014, 54 countries taking part in the competition. All participants, including the new one, Gibraltar, who have recently been accepted by FIFA, will be divided into nine groups, each comprising six teams. The final tournament will feature 24 teams (instead of 16 in line with the old format). The Euro 2016 finals will be held in France in the summer of 2016.
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