The Spanish team, current champion of the Nations League and current World Champion, already knows its path to the European Championship that Switzerland will host in July next year. Spain avoided the most dangerous rival it could face, England, the current champions, as well as Sweden and benefited from a very peaceful draw with accessible rivals of which Denmark will be the most complicated. Denmark and Czechia, two more modest teams, complete group A2 in which the Spanish team has been included.
Spain was located in the first pot, thus avoiding facing the most dangerous powers such as France, the eight-time champion Germany and the Netherlands; along with ‘the red one’, the four finalists of the Nations League. The draw that took place in Nyon (Switzerland) has divided 51 teams into three leagues, according to their coefficient, leaving Spain in League A, which will be made up of four groups of four teams.
Without a doubt, the group of death will be the one formed by France, Ireland, England – current champions – and Sweden, semi-finalist in the last Euro Cup, silver in the Tokyo Games and third in the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
Group A1: Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Finland
Group A2: Spain, Denmark, Belgium, Czechia
Group A3: France, England, Sweden, Ireland
Group A4: Germany, Austria, Iceland, Poland
The qualifying phase will start next month, in April, and will last until July. The top two finishers from each group in League A, in which Spain is located, will join the hosts, Switzerland, in the final phase of the Euro Cup. The remaining seven places will come from the play-off that will be played by the teams classified in the rest of the groups and that will be played at the end of the year.
