The EURO 2024 playoffs has six teams remaining for contention for the grand prize. Three of these national teams will qualify for the finals in host country Germany. There’s Georgia vs. Greece, Iceland vs. Ukraine, and Poland vs. Wales to look forward to.
In other words, we’ve reached the final stage of the UEFA EURO 2024 playoffs (or play-offs). Six teams are battling for supremacy, which are about to become three teams and then one team.
The Play-Offs Fixture, Ventures, and More
- Who Has Reached the Play-Offs? The teams that has reached the EURO 2024 playoffs include Wales, Poland, Ukraine, Iceland, Greece, and Georgia. There are several paths to the play-off finals, ranging from Path A to Path C. They’re all scrambling towards the finish line.
- Path A: In Path A, Poland will be hosted by Wales in the play-off final, with Rob Page’s Wales giving a thorough drumming of Finland with a score of 4-1. Meanwhile, the Polish national team doled out a more systemic destruction of Estonia’s ten players at the score of 5-1.
- Path B: Ukraine has been through a lot in terms of Geopolitics. Therefore, they use the EURO 2024 playoffs to represent the resilience of their people in the face of a Russian invasion. This is apparent with their comeback victory against Bosnia-Herzegovina, thus setting up an Iceland final after Iceland iced Israel’s 10-player team at 4-1.
- Path C: Path C is Georgia serving as host to Greece in a home game for a place at the EURO 2024 tournament. Their path to the EURO 2024 playoffs came about after they routed Luxembourg in a 2-0 high-defense game, while Greece was all offense against the helpless Kazakhstan at a score of 5-0.
- When Will the Finals Be Held? All of the finals will happen on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. The Ukraine and Iceland football battle will be hosted in Poland instead of being a home game at the Ukraine itself due to the country’s ongoing issues with the invading force of Russia.
- When Does the EURO 2024 Finals Begin? Germany is the host nation seeded in Group A and thusly occupy the A1 position. They’ll play in the opening match in Munich on June 14, 2024. The remaining match destinations were determined through a final tournament draw back in December 2, 2023 in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall.
For the first time in UEFA EURO tournament history, sustainability considerations were factored into the tournament regulations in deciding the schedules of the matches of the EURO 2024 proper.
Therefore, the 10 venues have been divided into 3 clusters—South (Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Munich), West (Cologne, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Dusseldorf, and Frankfurt), and North to Northeast (Berlin, Leipzig, and Hamburg).