Euro 2022: 100 days to go until England host Women's European Championship

Less than nine months since England hosted a Euros final and we're already counting down the days until the next — this time in the women's event.

There are just 100 days to go until the opening match of Euro 2022, a tournament which is set to draw the biggest crowds ever seen at the Women's European Championship.

The competition, being held at 10 stadiums in England from 6-31 July, was originally scheduled to take place last year but was moved back 12 months because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Here we take a look at some of the main talking points, including which team will replace Russia and how Northern Ireland will fare on their debut.

To mark the 100 days milestone, remaining tickets went on general sale at 08:00 BST (on 28 March) for the 31 matches, although ticket sales have already broken previous records.

In August it was announced that 53,000 tickets had already been bought for the Wembley final, which would surpass the current record attendance of 41,302 when Germany defeated hosts Sweden at Euro 2013.

England kick off this year's tournament against Austria at Old Trafford on 6 July, with the final being held at Wembley on 31 July.

The other venues staging matches will be Brentford, Brighton, Leigh (Leigh Sports Village), Manchester City (Academy Stadium), Milton Keynes, Rotherham, Sheffield (Bramall Lane) and Southampton.

Uefa says it has sold more than 350,000 of the 700,000 tickets available, compared with the previous record of 240,000 tickets sold for the last tournament in the Netherlands in 2017.

There will be 16 nations taking part, although we only know 15 of them after Russia were kicked out of the competition following the country's invasion of Ukraine.

Russia were meant to be in Group C alongside the