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Only a week to kick off now, can't see a thread for this!
Really looking forward to this tournament, it's fantastic to have so much 'home' involvement that we can all root for
Here's the groups:
First time for a 24 team format:
Now, off to get a wall planner...
Really looking forward to this tournament, it's fantastic to have so much 'home' involvement that we can all root for
Here's the groups:
First time for a 24 team format:
Wiki said:
To accommodate the expansion from a 16 team finals tournament to 24 teams, the format will be changed from that used in 2012 with the addition of two extra groups in the group stage, and an extra round in the knockout stages. The six groups (A to F) would still contain four teams each, with the top two from each group still going through to the knockout stage. In the new format however, the four best third-ranked sides would also progress, leaving 16 teams going into the new round of 16 knockout stage, ahead of the usual quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, and only 8 teams going out at the group stage.[13] The format is exactly the one which was applied to the 1986, 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cups, with the exception of the absence of a third-place play-off.
This format generates a total of 51 games, compared with 31 games for the previous 16-team tournament, to be played over a period of 31 days. UEFA's general secretary Gianni Infantino previously described the format as "not ideal" due to the need for third-ranked teams in the group stage advancing, leading to a difficulty in preventing situations where teams might be able to know in advance what results they need to progress out of the group, lending to a lack of suspense for fans, or even the prospect of mutually beneficial collusion between teams.
Our feast of football has expanded by 20 games This format generates a total of 51 games, compared with 31 games for the previous 16-team tournament, to be played over a period of 31 days. UEFA's general secretary Gianni Infantino previously described the format as "not ideal" due to the need for third-ranked teams in the group stage advancing, leading to a difficulty in preventing situations where teams might be able to know in advance what results they need to progress out of the group, lending to a lack of suspense for fans, or even the prospect of mutually beneficial collusion between teams.
Now, off to get a wall planner...
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hstewie said:
hstewie said: Oh so they removed the entire thread because some pillock posted that image on the last page of the thread.
Expected the image to get pulled as it was stupid to put it up there, but the whole thread, really?!
Oh is that what happened?Expected the image to get pulled as it was stupid to put it up there, but the whole thread, really?!
I'm all in favour of our ant overlords but Jesus titty f
king Christ. Get a grip.
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