Follow Euro 2024 play-off draw LIVE!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBy way of reminder, each Nations \u2018League\u2019 contained four groups of four (other than League D, but let\u2019s not get bogged down in that now). So that\u2019s 12 groups in Leagues A, B and C, and each group winner received a pass to the play-offs. However, if a group winner made Euro 2024 automatically, through regular qualifying, the country in their Nations League with the next highest points tally would take up their play-off spot.<\/p>\n
So, Serbia topped Group B4 with 13 points, earning them a place in the play-offs. But because they automatically reached Euro 2024 through regular qualification, their spot was handed to the next team in the League B standings \u2013 and this is where it gets needlessly complicated, if it hadn\u2019t already.<\/p>\n
Instead of giving Serbia\u2019s place to the team who finished second behind them in Group B4, Norway, Uefa instead collated the efforts of all the teams across each league and chose the four non-qualified teams with the highest points tallies to go into the play-offs. In League B, this also included Norway. But\u2026<\/p>\n
League B\u2019s symmetry was disrupted by Uefa\u2019s disqualification of Russia following the country\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. As a result, Group B2 lost Russia and was reduced to only three nations. So, in its wisdom, Uefa decided it was only fair to dismiss all League B results involving the bottom ranked side of each group, so that each team\u2019s points tally could be compared equally (as the Russia-less Group B2 teams had only played four games, not six).<\/p>\n
So, Norway\u2019s two wins over Group B4 losers Sweden were both eradicated from the final standings. Norway won three games in the Nations League but will not be in the play-offs. There will be no Erling Haaland or Martin Odegaard at Euro 2024.<\/p>\n
Instead, Iceland \u2013 who did not win a single Nations League match, but drew four to get four points \u2013 edged out Norway on goal difference, once Uefa had taken away Norway\u2019s wins over Sweden.<\/p>\n
Quite why Serbia\u2019s spot couldn\u2019t simply be given to their group runners up, Norway, is unclear. Why Norway\u2019s results against Sweden were expunged, rather than using a points-per-game metric to compare their performance with the Russia-less Group B2 teams, is also unclear. But this is where we are. <\/p>\n
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