The 2024 European Championship will take place in the coming summer, and with the competition six months adrift, it's time to craft the groups.
With 21 of the 24 participants determined, the Euro 2024 group stage draw will craft the structure of the first round of competition at the final tournament in Germany.
From mid-June to mid-July, the European Championship will see the next UEFA title winner determined, with a nation set to be crowned continental champions.
Hosts Germany will have loads of competition, with top nations like England, Spain,
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Euro 2024 draw for group stage live stream, TV channel
The group stage draw can be streamed worldwide on UEFA.com, but is also televised in various nations around the globe. Here's a list of broadcasters from an array of territories where the Euro 2024 group stage draw can be watched live.
| TV channel | Streaming | |
| USA | Fox Sports 1 | Fox Sports app/website, ViX, UEFA.com |
| UK | BBC, ITV | ITVX, BBC iPlayer, UEFA.com |
| Australia | — | Optus, UEFA.com |
| Canada | TSN | TVA Sports, UEFA.com |
| India | Sony Six | UEFA.com |
What time does Euro 2024 group stage draw begin?
The group stage draw from Hamburg, Germany is scheduled to begin on Saturday, December 2 at 6 p.m. local time.
Here's how that time translates across some of the major territories around the globe:
| Date | Kickoff time | |
| USA/Canada | Sat, Dec. 2 | 12 p.m. ET |
| USA/Canada | Sat, Dec. 2 | 9 a.m. PT |
| UK | Sat, Dec. 2 | 5 p.m. GMT |
| Australia | Sun, Dec. 3 | 4 a.m. AEDT |
| India | Sat, Dec. 2 | 10:30 p.m. IST |
How Euro 2024 draw works
The first stage for the final tournament of Euro 2024 will be constructed with six groups of four teams each, consisting of 24 total nations.
For the draw, the 24 teams will be divided into four pots. Additionally, the 21 qualifiers entering from the group stage will be placed in a full combined table ranking each nation based on their group stage results.
Pot one consists of hosts Germany plus the five highest-ranked group winners from qualifying. Pot 2 features the five lowest-ranked group winners plus the highest-ranked group runner-up. Pot 3 boasts group runners-up ranked second through seventh. Lastly, Pot 4 will consist of the lowest three ranked group runners-up.
Finally, the last three teams qualifying via the playoff will be entered into Pot 4, as those nations will not be known at the time of the draw.
Germany automatically falls into Group A as the hosts. From there, a ball will be drawn from Pot 1 and placed in the next available group in alphabetical order. This will be concluded until all Pot 1 teams are exhausted, and then each subsequent pot will go numerically until each one is empty.
While the World Cup has varying restrictions that determine who can and cannot be drawn into groups together based on confederation, there are no restrictions for which teams can be drawn into which groups for the European Championship, with a few small exceptions. Determined by the UEFA executive committee, the following nations cannot be drawn into the same group due to political conflict:
- Bosnia-Herzegovina / Kosovo
- Serbia / Kosovo
- Ukraine / Belarus
- Azerbaijan / Armenia
- Spain / Gibraltar
Euro 2024 betting odds & lines
The 2024 European Championships begin June 14, 2024 and will last exactly one month, with the final in Berlin slated for July 14.
England are the betting favourites, with France right behind and hosts Germany third.
| England | France | Germany | Portugal | Spain | Italy | Belgium | Netherlands | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DraftKings (USA) | +380 | +400 | +650 | +750 | +800 | +1600 | +1600 | +1600 |
