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England in the European Championship 2008
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Group E Table
Team P W D L F A GD Pts
Croatia 12 9 2 1 28 8 +20 29
Russia 12 7 3 2 18 7 +11 24
England 12 7 2 3 24 7 +17 23
Israel 12 7 2 3 20 12 +8 23
FYR Macedonia 12 4 2 6 12 12 =0 14
Estonia 12 2 1 9 5 21 -16 7
Andorra 12 0 0 12 2 42 -40 0

 

Group E Matches
Date Match Score H.T. Venue Att.
16-Aug-2006 Estonia 0 FYR Macedonia 1 [0-0] Le Coq Arena, Tallinn 7,500
02-Sep-2006 England 5 Andorra 0 [3-0] Old Trafford, Manchester 56,290
02-Sep-2006 Estonia 0 Israel 1 [0-1] Le Coq Arena, Tallinn 7,800
06-Sep-2006 Russia 0 Croatia 0 [0-0] Lokomotiv Stadion, Moskva 27,500
06-Sep-2006 Israel 4 Andorra 1 [3-0] Stadion De Goffert, Nijmegen, Netherlands none
06-Sep-2006 FYR Macedonia 0 England 1 [0-0] Gradski Stadion, Skopje 16,500
07-Oct-2006 Russia 1 Israel 1 [1-0] Lokomotiv Stadion, Moskva 22,000
07-Oct-2006 England 0 FYR Macedonia 0 [0-0] Old Trafford, Manchester 72,062
07-Oct-2006 Croatia 7 Andorra 0 [2-0] Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb 15,000
11-Oct-2006 Andorra 0 FYR Macedonia 3 [0-3] Estadio Comunal de Aixovall, Andorra La Vella 300
11-Oct-2006 Croatia 2 England 0 [0-0] Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb 38,000
11-Oct-2006 Russia 2 Estonia 0 [0-0] Petrovsky Stadion, St. Petersburg 21,500
15-Nov-2006 FYR Macedonia 0 Russia 2 [0-2] Gradski Stadion, Skopje 16,000
15-Nov-2006 Israel 3 Croatia 4 [1-2] The National Stadium, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv 38,000
24-Mar-2007 Estonia 0 Russia 2 [0-0] Le Coq Arena, Tallinn 11,000
24-Mar-2007 Israel 0 England 0 [0-0] Estadio Comunal de Aixovall, Andorra La Vella 40,012
24-Mar-2007 Croatia 2 FYR Macedonia 1 [0-1] Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb 20,000
28-Mar-2007 Israel 4 Estonia 0 [2-0] The National Stadium, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv 23,658
28-Mar-2007 Andorra 0 England 3 [0-0] Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, Montjuïc, Barcelona, Spain 12,800
02-Jun-2007 Russia 4 Andorra 0 [2-0] Petrovsky Stadion, St. Petersburg 21,000
02-Jun-2007 FYR Macedonia 1 Israel 2 [1-2] Gradski Stadion, Skopje 15,000
02-Jun-2007 Estonia 0 Croatia 1 [0-1] Le Coq Arena, Tallinn 10,000
06-Jun-2007 Andorra 0 Israel 2 [0-1] Estadio Comunal de Aixovall, Andorra La Vella 680
06-Jun-2007 Estonia 0 England 3 [0-1] Le Coq Arena, Tallinn 11,000
06-Jun-2007 Croatia 0 Russia 0 [0-0] Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb 38,000
22-Aug-2007 Estonia 2 Andorra 1 [1-0] Le Coq Arena, Tallinn 10,000
08-Sep-2007 Croatia 2 Estonia 0 [2-0] Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb 20,000
08-Sep-2007 England 3 Israel 0 [1-0] National Stadium, Wembley, London 85,372
08-Sep-2007 Russia 3 FYR Macedonia 0 [1-0] Lokomotiv Stadion, Moskva 26,000
12-Sep-2007 Andorra 0 Croatia 6 [0-3] Estadio Comunal de Aixovall, Andorra La Vella 200
12-Sep-2007 England 3 Russia 0 [2-0] National Stadium, Wembley, London 86,106
12-Sep-2007 FYR Macedonia 1 Estonia 1 [1-1] Gradski Stadion, Skopje 5,000
13-Oct-2007 England 3 Estonia 0 [3-0] National Stadium, Wembley, London 86,655
13-Oct-2007 Croatia 1 Israel 0 [0-0] Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb 32,000
17-Oct-2007 FYR Macedonia 3 Andorra 0 [2-0] Gradski Stadion, Skopje 20,000
17-Oct-2007 Russia 2 England 1 [0-1] Olimpiyskiy Kompleks Luzhniki Stadion, Moskva 84,700
17-Nov-2007 Andorra 0 Estonia 2 [0-1] Estadio Comunal de Aixovall, Andorra La Vella 200
17-Nov-2007 Israel 2 Russia 1 [1-0] The National Stadium, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv 27,563
17-Nov-2007 FYR Macedonia 2 Croatia 0 [0-0] Gradski Stadion, Skopje 18,000
21-Nov-2007 Israel 1 FYR Macedonia 0 [1-0] The National Stadium, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv 2,736
21-Nov-2007 Andorra 0 Russia 1 [0-0] Estadio Comunal de Aixovall, Andorra La Vella 200
21-Nov-2007 England 2 Croatia 3 [0-2] National Stadium, Wembley, London 88,091

Qualifying Regulations

The group winners and group runners-up will qualify directly for the final tournament.

If two or more teams finish group play with the same number of points, their position in the group will be determined by these criteria:

a)  Number of points obtained in the matches among the teams in question
b)  Goal difference resulting from the matches among the teams in question
c)  Number of away goals in the matches among the teams in question
d)  Results of all qualifying-competition matches:
  Goal difference
  Number of goals
  Number of away goals
e)  Fair play conduct of the teams in question
f)  Drawing of lots

Background

UEFA's Executive Committee awarded the European Championship 2008 final tournament to Austria/Switzerland on 12 December 2002.   The announcement was made by UEFA President Lennart Johansson at the Hotel Intercontinental in Geneva the day after final presentations supporting the seven bids were made at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.  Austria has never hosted a major football tournament; Switzerland staged the World Cup final tournament in 1954.  

There were six other bids, four of them made jointly-- from Croatia/Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece/Turkey, Hungary, Nordic 2008 (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), Russia, and Scotland/Republic of Ireland.  The 2008 tournament will be the second time the European Championship finals have been jointly hosted.  The Netherlands and Belgium staged the 2000 tournament.

The 2008 tournament will begin on 7 June with the opening match at St. Jakob Park in Basel and end with the final match at the Ernst Happel Stadion in Vienna on 29 June.  The preliminary qualifying competition will begin in 2006.  As host nations, Austria and Switzerland both qualify automatically for the final tournament and will not take part in qualification matches.

The draw procedure had been announced on 19 January 2006 for the European Championship 2008 qualifying competition draw to take place in Montreux, Switzerland on 27 January at 12.00CET.  Fifty countries will go into the draw, with Austria and Switzerland qualifying automatically as co-hosts of the final round in three summers' time.  All 52 UEFA member associations have entered the competition.  The qualifying competition will consist of seven groups: 1 group of 8 teams (Group A) and 6 groups of 7 teams (Groups B-G).  Based on a league system on a home-and-away basis, to be played according to the international match calendar between September 2006 and November 2007.  The associations in a group have 90 days after the draw in which to agree on the order of their matches. If the associations in question are unable to reach agreement, the games will take place according to a standard fixture list drawn up by the UEFA administration.  The 7 winners and 7 runners-up of each group qualify for the final tournament.

Allocation of teams to pots - The 50 teams are allocated into 7 pots. Pots 1-6 contain 7 teams, Pot 7 contains 8 teams.  The sides are classified on the basis of their results in the qualifying competitions for the 2004 UEFA European Championship and the 2006 FIFA World Cup.  The pots and their teams were:

Pot 1:  1. Greece; 2. Netherlands; 3. Portugal; 4. England; 5. Czech Republic; 6. France; 7. Sweden.

Pot 2:  8. Germany; 9. Croatia; 10. Italy; 11. Turkey; 12. Poland; 13. Spain; 14. Romania.

Pot 3:  15. Serbia and Montenegro; 16. Russia; 17. Denmark; 18. Norway; 19. Bulgaria; 20. Ukraine; 21. Slovakia.

Pot 4:  22. Bosnia-Herzegovina; 23. Republic of Ireland; 24. Belgium; 25. Latvia; 26. Israel; 27. Scotland; 28. Slovenia.

Pot 5:  29. Hungary; 30. Finland; 31. Estonia; 32. Wales; 33. Lithuania; 34. Albania; 35. Iceland.

Pot 6:  36. Georgia; 37. F.Y.R. Macedonia; 38. Belarus; 39. Armenia; 40. Northern Ireland; 41. Cyprus; 42. Moldova.

Pot 7:  43. Liechtenstein; 44. Azerbaijan; 45. Andorra; 46. Malta; 47. Faroe Islands; 48. Kazakhstan; 49. Luxembourg; 50. San Marino.

The draw starts with Pot 7 and ends with Pot 1 in order to ensure the strongest teams are drawn last. Each pot is entirely emptied before proceeding to the next pot.  A ball will first be drawn from Pot 7 to determine the team in the eighth position of Group A.  Then, a second ball will be drawn from Pot 7 to determine the team in the seventh position of Group B.  The third ball drawn from Pot 7 will determine the team in the seventh position of Group C.  The same procedure is repeated until the seventh position of Group G is filled. The last ball from Pot 7 will determine the side in the seventh position of Group A.   Then the 7 teams in Pot 6 are drawn into the sixth position of each group, starting with Group A and ending with Group G (in alphabetical order).   The same procedure applies to Pots 5-1 taking into consideration the respective positions within the respective groups.

European Championship 2008 Preliminary Groups
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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-Portugal -France -Greece -Czech Republic
-Poland -Italy -Turkey -Germany
-Serbia & Montenegro -Ukraine -Norway -Slovakia
-Belgium -Scotland -Bosnia~Herzegovina -Republic of Ireland
-Finland -Lithuania -Hungary -Wales
-Armenia -Georgia -Moldova -Cyprus
-Azerbaijan -Faroe Islands -Malta -San Marino
-Kazakhstan      
Group E
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Group F
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Group G
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-England -Sweden -Netherlands
-Croatia -Spain -Romania
-Russia -Denmark -Bulgaria
-Israel -Latvia -Slovenia
-Estonia -Iceland -Albania
-FYR Macedonia -Northern Ireland -Belarus
-Andorra -Liechtenstein -Luxembourg

Final Tournament Venues and Matches

Vienna - Ernst Happel Stadion, 50,008 - opened 1931 and completely renovated

Innsbruck - Tivoli Neu Stadion, 30,600 - opened in the summer of 2000 with a capacity of 15,200 to be increased to 30,600 by 2004

Klagenfurt -  Waidmannsdorf Stadion ("Worthersee Arena"), 40,000 - scheduled for completion by  2004 with an increase of the original capacity of 30,757 to 40,000 planned after the success of the Euro 2008 bid

Salzburg - Stadion Salzburg, 32,700 - scheduled for completion in the spring of 2003 in the Wals-Siezenheim district on the outskirts of Salzburg

Berne - Stadion Wankdorf, 40,228 - scheduled  to open in 2005 and replacing the old Wankdorf, venue for the World Cup 1954 final match

Basel - St. Jakob Park, 30,132 - opened 15 March 2001 and replacing the old St. Jakob's Stadion, venue for several World Cup 1954 final tournament matches

Geneva - Stade de Genève 30,502 - opened 16 March 2003 for a club match but to be officially inaugurated by a friendly match between Switzerland and Italy on 30 April 2003

Zürich - Stadion Zürich, 30,016 - scheduled for completion in 2006 and replacing the old Hardturn Stadion

Group A - Bern and Geneva

Group B - Basel and Zürich

Group C - Innsbruck and Salzburg

Group D - Klagenfurt and Vienna

Quarter-finals - two in Vienna, two in Bern

Semi-finals - Vienna and Bern

Final - Vienna

New Trophy

The new UEFA European Championship trophy is 18 centimetres higher and two kilos heavier than the original designed by Arthus Bertrand in 1960 and named after Henri Delaunay, the former president of the French Football Federation. The upper part of the trophy is based on the original and is also made out of sterling silver. The new trophy, created by Asprey London, will also retain its historical name.

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