Euro 2012 Qualifiers

[Alex MacLeod]

Am I right in thinking top 9 go through leaving 7 spots which means top runner up goes through and the rest go to play offs? Or is it just the top 7 runners up who qualify?

The first one. 9 group winners + best runner up + 4 play-off winners + hosts = 16

9+1+4+1 was 15 when I went to school :D

[EWS]

There are two hosts Alex

[+DoofersDad]

Yes, Poland and Ukraine

[Harry Chibber]

There are two hosts Alex

[Council Juice]

Totally forgot to take any hosts into account. Do'h!

So the 2 hosts, 9 winners, 4 play off winners and the best runner up from the qualifiers. Simples!

[culduthel]

Scotland being drawn into this group strenghens the case for a North Atlantic Group instead, consisting of - Scotland, Greenland, Iceland and The Faeroes. Then we might have a slim chance of qualifying.

[Caley Stan]

Scotland fixtures

2010

Friday 3 September - Lithuania (away)

Tuesday 7 September - Liechtenstein (home)

Friday 8 October - Czech Republic (away)

Tuesday 12 October - Spain (home)

2011

Saturday 3 September - Czech Republic (home)

Tuesday 6 September - Lithuania (home)

Saturday 8 October - Liechtenstein (away)

Tuesday 11 October - Spain (away

We have to get off to flyer or this could be over by the second week of October.

[Yngwie]

Looking at those dates, we only actually need an international manager for 2 months per year.

[RowdyBey]

Whats up with these Friday games?

[Yngwie]

Only one of our home games is on a Saturday. Always much more of an occassion on Saturdays and we seem to play better.

[GBlackhallict]

OMG, the home game against Spain is the day before my birthday. That would be an awesome present.

[Kylef]

Whats up with these Friday games? :(

Whats up with these Tuesday games?

[RowdyBey]

Whats up with these Friday games? :(

Whats up with these Tuesday games?

Somebody said to me today its so that clubs get their players back earlier before games, not sure myself

[Iain]

There was only a slim chance of us qualifying for this one being in Seed 3 and i think we needed someone like switzerland as 2nd and england as our top seed.

Switzerland are miles ahead of the Czechs, anyway can't really complain with the draw with second seeds like Switzerland, Greece and Turkey some could say we had a lucky escape. Czech reupublic have been sliding downhill, nto to say that means we'll pip them to second place but no one can complain - some were even hoping for them!

I don't mind the fixtures, but I do prefer the home games to fall on a Saturday right enough but as long as we're in Ukraine/Poland come 2012 I won't be complaining!