The Euro 2008 Final Draw took place on Sunday December 2 at 12:00pm local time, in Lucerne, Switzerland. Soccerlens has covered the event LIVE, and now gives you the list of the 4 groups of Euro 2008.
Edit 4:52pm:
For post-draw reactions by Italian coach Roberto Donadoni and Netherlands coach Marco Van Basten, see this post.
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13:00: This concludes our presentation on Soccerlens. Full list of the groups after the jump.
12:58: Group D: Greece, Russia, Spain, and Sweden. All the groups have been drawn.
12:57: Group C: Netherlands, France, Romania… and ITALY!! The “Group of Death” is here boys…
12:56: Group B: Austria, Poland, Germany, and Croatia.
12:55: Group A: Switzerland, Turkey, Portugal, and Czech Republic.
12:53: Italy, Czech Republic, Sweden, Croatia are now left.
12:53: Group D: Greece, Russia… and Spain .
12:52: Group C: Netherlands, France…. and Romania.
12:51: Group B: Austria, Poland… and Germany.
12:50: Group A: Switzerland, Turkey… and Portugal.
12:45: So far: Group A: Switzerland, Turkey, Group B: Austria, Poland, Group C: Netherlands, France, Group D: Greece, Russia
12:43: After the drawing procedure has been explained, the draw can now begin!
12:40: Now the moment we’ve all been waiting for: THE DRAW!
12:38: Presidents of the football federations of Switzerland and Austria are now appearing.
12:34: Now representatives of past Euro championships are set to be presented. Among others, Michel Platini, Dino Zoff, Marco Van Basten…
12:31: The official Adidas matchball is presented. It is called “Eurofast““Europass”.
12:28: Some more musical performances.
12:25: Now tennis champion Roger Federer presenting his home country Switzerland (the country, not the team). Austria will be presented right after (by ski champion Hermann Maier if I understood correctly).
12:19: A presentation of the 16 participating teams of Euro 2008.
12:15: World tenor José Carreras now to perform.
12:13: Greece’s path to Euro 2004 glory is now being presented.
12:08: A brief look at history, with a video of past Euro tournaments.
12:00pm: The ceremony has begun. First a musical introduction by the Vienna boys’ choir, the draw of the groups will take place a little later. You can watch the whole thing unfold on the uefa.com site too by the way (audio & video).
As a reminder, the 16 qualified teams have been separated into 4 different pots, which will be utilized to determine the 4 groups of the tournament by drawing one team from each pot.
With the two co-host nations (Austria/Switzerland) already occupying positions A1 and B1 in the draw, Pot 1 will be formed by European champions Greece, and the team with the highest UEFA coefficient from the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008 qualifying, in this case the Netherlands. The remaining pots have been filled in order of coefficient. The teams in Pot 2 will be Croatia, world champions Italy, the Czech Republic and Sweden, while Romania, Germany, Portugal and Spain will occupy Pot 3. Finally, Pot 4 contains Euro championship newcomers Poland, as well as France, Turkey and Russia.
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UEFA’s seedings give rise to interesting scenarios. Namely a “group of death” could potentially contain Netherlands, Italy, Germany, and France, while a “relatively easy” group could include Austria, Croatia, Romania, and Poland.
For more information on the methods used to determine the seedings, see our “Euro 2008 – Group Stage Draw Seedings” post.
Marco Pantanella writes for the mCalcio blog
oh my god ! my Romania it’s in hell right now ! but maybe we will be the surprise of the group !
My Predictions ->
Group A: Portugal, Czech Republic
Group B: Germany, Croatia
Group C: France, Italy
Group D: Greece, Spain
fk … first england drop out, then italy get the group of death.
spain aren’t going to do much, so who the hell do I support now?
which team outside Italy’s group (and Spain) has the best-lookin fans?
Group C is mouth watering when England get the boot i always go for spain so spain it is
Probably Portugal
To all Romanians…..you have my sympathy. Next summer your goalkeeper will have to withstand the attacking power of Henry, Van Nistelrooy and Luca Toni…..good luck!
As for england fans, well our team humiliated us by failing to qualify for next year’s tournament so I propose supporting a country that has a connection with your club.
Man utd fans-Portugal (Ronaldo, Nani)
Liverpool fans- Spain ( Rafa, torres, alonso)
Cheslki fans-Russia (Abramovic, he is your sugar daddy after all!)
Arsenal fans-France ( Wenger plus the club’s long standing connection to french players)
Everyone else-Poland (most of their population are already in england so we might as well join the party!)
MY MAN!
Group A: Czech Republic, Portugal
Group B: Germany, Poland
Group C: Italy, Holland (France have had trouble winning against good teams in qualification).
Group D: Spain, Greece.
I’m so rooting for Romania this tournament now that England’s out.
ROMANIA ole ole!
Ahmed: Swedish girls. Duh.
http://www.mopo.ca/uploaded_images/swedish-girls-kissing-741227.jpg
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00253/jenter__sverige__vm_253020x.jpg
I think Italy will kick France ass again in Group C
THEY ARE WORLD CHAMPS for God’s Sake
I am going for Romania!! My home country!! And I seriously believe that we will finish in fourth place!! Given that they will not qualify I will root for Holland because that is my secind to England always.
NB France is openeing against Romania… in 2002, after winning WC1998 and EURO2000 they were beaten by Senegal, the tournament underdogs, 1-0. Hope history repeats itself. And if that happens we can beat Holland and go through to the quarters where we will fail to beat Greece
Sorry about “root”. Looks like the Canadian enviroment is getting to me, eh? DAMIT!!
BTW Frank, thanks
My predictions:
you heard it from me 1st )
Grp A; Portugal,Czech rep.
Grp B: Croatia,Germanu
Grp C: Holland, Romania(Romania will be underated and i think they will shine through)
Grp D: Russia ,Spain( Russia will beat Spain and Greece and will draw with Sweeden, You just watch Russia is gonna be big in football after this tournament
Andrei,
since they won fuckall at Euro 04 and WC 06, maybe they’ll win the first game this time just to prove a point?
As far as cutest fans after the Italians…based on my experience at WC 2006, I would have to go with Czech>Portugal>Sweden.
And the official ball is called Europass (get it), not Eurofast.
Cheers!
You’re right Kalifornia, duly corrected.
No worries, thanks for putting this together!!
MY PREDICTIONS
GROUP A:
Czech Republic, Portugal
GROUP B:
Croatia, Germany
GROUP C:
Netherlands, Romania
GROUP D:
Greece, Spain
i always support my ideal team, its Spain. Finally game : Spain Vs Germany
my predictions:
Group A:
Group B:
Group C:
Group A: Switzerland and Czech Republic
The Swiss will be playing at home and the Czech’s wil go through
Group B: Austria and Poland
The weakest group of the tournament. Austria will go through with Poland having it’s best shot at advancement in years
Group C: Netherlands and France
The toughest group. The Dutch and French like to attack and play an open game. The Dutch have to much firepower and the French are looking for revenge. The Italians will have to play and not act and they can only do one thing…..
Group D: Spain and Russia
Spain and Russia will advance
group a
portugal
czeh republic
group b
germany
poland
group c
netherlands
france(romania)
group d
spain
russia
champion
netherlands
second
russia
3
portugal