4) in advance of the draw

　　The UEFA EURO 2024 final tournament draw took place on Saturday 2 December. The draw ceremony started at 18:00 CET.

　　The draw was held at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg is one of ten EURO 2024 host cities and will stage four group games and a quarter-final.

　　Tournament hosts Germany qualified automatically. A further 20 teams – the top two in each of the ten European Qualifiers groups – had also booked their spots by the time of the draw.

　　The final three berths will be determined via play-offs set to be played in March 2024. Twelve teams contest the play-offs, based on their performances in the 2022/23 Nations League. There will be six semi-finals on 21 March followed by three finals on 26 March, with the three winning teams in those games completing the 24-team finals line-up.

　　Teams were allocated to one of four pots (1, 2, 3, 4) in advance of the draw, in accordance with their results in the qualifying group stage. Hosts Germany were seeded in Pot 1 but were not drawn as they were automatically allocated to Group A. The three eventual play-off winners were assigned to Pot 4.

　　A further six pots (A, B, C, D, E, F) were required to draw the respective team's position in each group. Pots B to F contained four balls each to represent the positions available in each group (eg B1, B2, B3 and B4). Pot A contained only three balls for the positions A2, A3 and A4 in Group A, since Germany occupied position A1.

　　A full list of broadcasters is available here. The draw was also streamed live on UEFA.com and the official UEFA EURO 2024 app.

　　The format will be the same as for UEFA EURO 2020. The top two in each of the six final tournament groups will proceed to the round of 16 along with the four best third-placed finishers.

　　The tournament then enters into knockout football with a round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-final and final.