UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying draw: Date, time, how to watch and how it works

Excitement levels across the globe are at fever pitch ahead of the World Cup finals next month. The first-ever winter edition of the tournament will take place in Qatar - less than 18 months after Euro 2020.

It barely seems a moment ago since England suffered home-soil heartache and lost the Wembley Stadium final to Italy on penalties. An unprecedented winter World Cup means there is a shortened gap between international tournaments in the coming years.

After this year’s finals, attention will turn to the 2024 Euros as the Three Lions aim to avenge their shoot-out defeat. Germany will host the competition, having done so while still partitioned as West Germany in 1998.

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The nation did host the 2006 World Cup, made memorable by Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt, Cristiano Ronaldo’s cheeky wink and Graham Poll awarding Croatia’s Josip Simunic three yellow cards!

Manchester Evening News have profiled everything you need to know ahead of the upcoming qualifying draw…

When does the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying draw take place?

The draw will take place on October 9 - this Sunday - in Frankfurt. Fans can expect the ceremony to begin at around 11am GMT but, as is usually the case, proceedings can be long-winded and it could take around an hour to conclude the draw.

How are the pots decided?

Countries are placed into seven pots depending on where they finished in their Nations League groups. The top-four ranked countries (Netherlands, Croatia, Spain, Italy) are placed in Pot UNL (UEFA Nations League).

A further six nations (Switzerland, Poland, Belgium, Portugal, Hungary and Denmark) make up Pot 1. After that, each pot consists of 10