According to Tasnim news agency, on the last night of the tenth and last round of Euro 2024 group stage games, last night (Tuesday) at 23:15 Tehran time, seven games were held in groups D, B and I, the most important of which were from the group D, the national team of Croatia defeated its guest, Armenia, with a score of 1-0. The only goal of this game was scored by Ante Budimir in the 43rd minute.
With this victory, Croatia got 16 points and as the last team got the right to go directly to the final stage of the competition. In the same game, Turkey, whose promotion was confirmed in advance, settled for a 1-1 draw against its host, the Wales national team. In this game, first, Neko Williams gave Wales the lead in the 7th minute, and in the 70th minute, Youssef Yazichi scored the equalizer for Turkey from the penalty spot. With this result, Wales lost the opportunity to directly advance to Euro 2024.
From Group B, the Dutch national team, which had confirmed its promotion before, defeated its host Gibraltar with a score of 6-0. Calvin Steins in the 10th, 50th and 62nd minutes, Mats Wafer in the 23rd minute, Theon Koopminers in the 38th minute and Cody Khakpo in the 81st minute scored the goals of the Netherlands.
In the same game, France, the leader of Group B, settled for a 2-2 draw against its host, Greece. Randal Kolomwani scored in the 42nd minute and Youssef Fofana in the 74th minute for France, while Bakostas scored in the 56th minute and Fotis Levanidis scored in the 61st minute for Greece. Despite not being placed in the top two ranks of Group B, Greece still has a chance to qualify through the playoffs.
In Group I, the crucial battle between the two teams that have advanced in the group, namely Romania and Switzerland, ended with the victory of the host Romania 1-0, so that this team can wait for the draw of the final stage of Euro 2024 by maintaining the top of the table as the leader of the group. Denis Alibech scored the only goal of this game in the 50th minute. In the simultaneous games of this group, the occupied Quds regime passed the Andorra barrier with a score of 2-0, and Belarus beat Kosovo with one goal.
With the end of the qualifying phase of Euro 2024, the list of teams that have directly advanced to this competition is as follows:
Germany (host), Spain (head group), Scotland, France (head group), Netherlands, England (head group), Italy, Turkey (head group), Croatia, Albania (head group), Czech Republic, Belgium (head group), Austria, Hungary ( Group leader), Serbia, Denmark (group leader), Slovenia, Romania (group leader), Switzerland, Portugal (group leader) and Slovakia.
The fate of the remaining three quotas will be determined at the end of the playoffs, in which 12 teams from three paths will compete with each other between March 21 and 26, 2024, and the winner of each path will go to the Euro. The draw for playoff games will be held on November 23.
The presence of the teams of Georgia, Greece, Ukraine, Wales, Poland, Estonia, Finland, Kazakhstan, the occupying regime of Al-Quds, Luxembourg, Iceland, and Bosnia in the playoff stage has been confirmed, some of them due to obtaining the best results among the third teams of the groups and some Due to their good results in the European Nations League, they have been able to reach the playoffs.