Men's Football UEFA European Championship 2024

[Makedonas 1,584]

8 hours ago, copravolley said:

It`s true that the current play-off system is brutal and not very fair. The old system with a match and a rematch was better.

I am not saying this is why we lost, we should always be able to win against a team like Georgia, who aside from their goalkeeper and Kvaratskhelia have mostly players who play for small clubs, I mean one of their defenders on Tuesday night plays for Panetolikos, which is one of the worst teams in the Greek Super League.

 

We would never in a million years have a player in our starting 11 from a bottom table Greek club like that, yet here we are losing to a team that does...

 

I agree the old system was better, I'm sure you know because Italy was also a victim of this format for 2022, but if anything maybe the matches should be at a neutral location instead of giving one team the home advantage? I'm curious to see statistics on how many home teams advanced since they implemented this new system.

[hckošice 13,267]

19 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

I'm curious to see statistics on how many home teams advanced since they implemented this new system.

For EURO it is rather negative sum.

 

Only 2 out of 7 (well, 3 if you count neutral venue for as home...)

 

Home Final qualified

EURO 2020 & EURO 2024 (home but neutral venue lol)* &

 

Away Final qualified

EURO 2020 & & EURO 2024

 

 

However for World Cup this system was implemented only once for 2022 and funnily enough only home teams won the play-off final

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[Makedonas 1,584]

Thanks @hckošice, weren't the 2020 ones played without fans though?

[hckošice 13,267]

kit for the EURO was presented in Munchen

 

 

[hckošice 13,267]

The Zebras for the EURO

 

The full list of referees who have been selected (in alphabetical order):

 

Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)
Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain)
Marco Guida (Italy)
Istvan Kovacs (Romania)
Ivan Kruzliak (Slovakia)
François Letexier (France)
Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)
Szymon Marciniak (Poland)
Halil Umut Meler (Türkiye)
Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)
Michael Oliver (England)
Daniele Orsato (Italy)
Sandro Schärer (Switzerland)
Daniel Siebert (Germany)
Anthony Taylor (England)
Clément Turpin (France)
Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)
Felix Zwayer (Germany)

In addition, as for UEFA EURO 2020 and as part of the co-operation between UEFA and the South American Football Confederation CONMEBOL, a referee from Argentina, Facundo Tello, together with his two assistants, will join the European group of referees at the final tournament in Germany.