Euro 08 seedings announced..

Nunu

Potential for some real tasty groups there:)...imagine Holland, Italy, Germnay and France!!

Pot 1: Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Holland

Pot 2: Croatia, Italy, Czech Rep, Sweden

Pot 3: Romania, Germany, Portugal, Spain

Pot 4: Poland, France, Turkey, Russia

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/news/kind=1/newsid=623231.html

kaimera

****; Germany, Portugal & Spain?!

Good potential there

prendy

ya but potential for some crap later round games if the big teams get drawn together early!!
strange seedings i think
dont understand the way the seedings are done..

PiE

It's pretty stupid having the hosts as first seeds automatically, especially since there's two. Screws up the rest of the seedings.

Raekwon

prendy wrote:

strange seedings i think
dont understand the way the seedings are done..

Me neither! How did Holland get into the top seed pot when they finished second behind Romania in their group? Ditto Sweden & Spain

radiospan

And why are France bottom seed?

Something to do with lowest points from the qualifying round?

Nunu

prendy wrote: »

ya but potential for some crap later round games if the big teams get drawn together early!!
strange seedings i think
dont understand the way the seedings are done..

PiE wrote: »

It's pretty stupid having the hosts as first seeds automatically, especially since there's two. Screws up the rest of the seedings.

Raekwon wrote: »

Me neither! How did Holland get into the top seed pot when they finished second behind Romania in their group? Ditto Sweden & Spain

It's all explained in the link.

Hosts are always top seeds so to insure they play their group games in their home country.

The rest of the seeding is based on the overall coeffients from the last 2 qualifying campaigns(World Cup 06 and Euro 08)

eirebhoy

I presume UEFA are using their own seedings which are based on the average points to games played over the last 2 qualifying campaigns. Greece are seeded because they won it, Austria and Switzerland because they host it.

Raekwon

plazzTT wrote:

It's all explained in the link.

Hosts are always top seeds so to insure they play their group games in their home country.

The rest of the seeding is based on the overall coeffients from the last 2 campaigns(World Cup 06 and Euro 08)

Then why are World Cup finalist France in the last seed position? The got 26 points in the qualifying group, the same amount as Holland who are top seeds. Also Germany got 27 points in their group, came 3rd in the World Cup and are seeded in the 3rd group.

It just seems like a weird system that UEFA have there.

kinaldo

seedings make perfect sense and are explained clearly in the uefa link

Raekwon

Ahhhhh, got it

"The system is based on the results of the qualifying competitions – a cycle of two competitions, that is to say one EURO qualifying competition and one World Cup qualifying competition."

Nunu

Raekwon wrote: »

Then why are World Cup finalist France in the last seed position? The got 26 points in the qualifying group, the same amount as Holland who are top seeds. Also Germany got 27 points in their group, came 3rd in the World Cup and are seeded in the 3rd group.

It just seems like a weird system that UEFA have there.

Uefa only use the overall points gained divided by the number of games played in the qualifying groups. it doesn't include games at World Cup 06.

If you look at the coefficients they are actually all very close each other points wise.

Edit: ah, aminute too late!

patmac

kinaldo wrote: »

seedings make perfect sense and are explained clearly in the uefa link

Hence the reason why Holland lost to Belarus last night to try and avoid being seeded as they are now guaranteed the so called 'Group of Death'

Unearthly

Pot 1 is a shambles. Ironically the weakest one.

PHB

There's no need to put them in Pot 1 in order to make sure their home games are in one country. That could be done through other tinkering. Two host nations made the pot 1 look a bit silly.

gosplan

OMG!!

Looking at them all. Can you imagine if Ireland were in this? I could see us maybe beating Austria and Switzerland and that's about it.

PHB

Pot 1: Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Holland
Pot 2: Croatia, Italy, Czech Rep, Sweden
Pot 3: Romania, Germany, Portugal, Spain
Pot 4: Poland, France, Turkey, Russia

Possible Groups:
Austria, Sweden, Romania, Turkey
or
Holland, Italy, Germany, France

I'd love to see the second group. It'd be a bloodbath.

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gosplan wrote: »

Looking at them all. Can you imagine if Ireland were in this? I could see us maybe beating... Switzerland

ORLY?

tdv

Hmmm, Holland have the best pot.

PHB

This system is stupid exactly because of that. Holland have been punished for coming top.