Double draw for Orange in Dublin Football

Many of his colleagues return home on Sunday after the draw, but Koeman remains one day. On Monday, the Dutch team will also participate in the final phase of the League of Nations.

To the surprise, not in the last place of Koeman, the national team of division A finished first of the group with France and Germany, world champions. from 2018 and 2014. Orange is therefore assured of two chances to win the Euro 2020. If the following year in the regular qualifying fails, Koeman with his team in March 2020 a second chance in the play-offs.

Qualification for the European Championship

The national coach has in Dublin the KNVB company, director of football, Nico Jan Hoogma, the general secretary Gijs de Jong and the head of the team. team, Fernando Arrabal. The Dutch team participates in the draw for the European Championship of pot 1, alongside Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Poland and the three countries also qualified for the final stage of the League of Nations: Switzerland, England and Portugal. The four finalists will be split between groups A to D, which, like group E, will comprise five countries. There are six countries in the other five groups.

League of Nations

The Dutch team will not play qualifying matches at the beginning of June, but will then participate in the lucrative victory of the League of Nations. On Monday, the draw will take place for the semi-finals. The final phase takes place in the Portuguese cities of Porto and Guimarães, although UEFA has yet to officially confirm it. The winner of the tournament will receive 6 million euros.

55 countries participate in the qualification at the European Championship. The first two in each group qualify for the last round of 2020, which will be held in twelve countries. Amsterdam is then one of the gambling cities. A number of restrictions apply to the draw for the qualification. For example, Kosovo can not join the group in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Spain can not join Gibraltar. Long distances traveled to the cities of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Iceland are also taken into account. Russia and Ukraine are in the same pot and can not meet each other.

The first round of the qualifying series will take place from March 21 to 23, the last one ending between November 17 and 19.