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= UEFA Euro 2028 qualifying =

The UEFA Euro 2028 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from March 2027 to March 2028 to determine the 22 UEFA member men's national teams that would join the automatically qualified host teams England and the Republic of Ireland in the UEFA Euro 2028 final tournament.

A total of 51 UEFA member associations entered the qualifying process. The draw for the qualifying group stage took place at Buckingham Palace in London on 5 October 2026.

Format
The format was similar to the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying competition: the group stage decided 20 of the 22 teams that would advance to the final tournament to join hosts England and the Republic of Ireland. The 53 UEFA member associations were divided into ten groups, with nine groups containing five teams and one containing six teams. The draw for the qualifying group stage took place on 5 October 2026,. The qualifying group stage was played in a home-and-away, round-robin format on double matchdays in March, June, September, October, and November 2027. The winners and runners-up from the ten groups qualified directly to the final tournament.

Following the qualifying group stage, the ten teams that placed third in their respective groups were ordered based on points, and if tied, goal difference. The two teams with the highest amount of points qualified for the group stage, with the other eight not appearing on the final tournament.

Tiebreakers for group ranking
If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied:


 * 1) Higher number of points obtained in the matches played among the teams in question;
 * 2) Superior goal difference in matches played among the teams in question;
 * 3) Higher number of goals scored in the matches played among the teams in question;
 * If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still had an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 were reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 11 applied;
 * 1) Superior goal difference in all group matches;
 * 2) Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
 * 3) Higher number of away goals scored in all group matches;
 * 4) Higher number of wins in all group matches;
 * 5) Higher number of away wins in all group matches.

Criteria for overall ranking
To determine the overall rankings of the European Qualifiers, results against teams in sixth place were discarded and the following criteria were applied:
 * 1) Position in the group;
 * 2) Higher number of points;
 * 3) Superior goal difference;
 * 4) Higher number of goals scored;
 * 5) Higher number of goals scored away from home;
 * 6) Higher number of wins;
 * 7) Higher number of wins away from home.

Schedule
Below was the schedule of the UEFA Euro 2028 qualifying campaign.

Draw
For the first time in UEFA Euro history, teams were drawn by an Artificial Intelligence system, which was trained on information based on all friendly matches from the last five years between participating countries, to ensure the highest level of entertainment. The draw was held at Buckingham Palace in London on 5 October 2026, at 12:00 BST.

Summary
{{legend|#BBF3BB|Group winners and runners-up qualified directly for UEFA Euro 2028}} {{legend|#BBF3FF|Teams that qualified based on their position in the third-placed table}} {{legend||Other teams were eliminated after the qualifying group stage}}