EURO 2010 Qualification Groups

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A total number 16 teams will participate in the final tournament.

Directly Qualified for the 2010 EHF Euro in Austria:

DEN: Defending Champion and AUT: Organiser

Apart from DEN and AUT, a total of 36 National Federations have registered for the qualification matches to the 2010 EHF Euro.

These 36 teams have been drawn into a total of 7 groups on 18 April 2008. There will be 1 group with 6 teams and 6 groups with 5 teams. The teams ranked 1st and 2nd from each group are directly qualified for the 2010 EHF Euro in Austria.

Qualification groups

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6	Group 7
POL	RUS	ISL	CRO	GER	FRA	ESP
SWE	SRB	NOR	HUN	SLO	CZE	UKR
ROU	SUI	MKD	SVK	BLR	POR	LTU
MNE	BIH	EST	GRE	ISR	LAT	NED
TUR	ITA	BEL	FIN	BUL	LUX	CYP
dontdisplay	FAR	dontdisplay	dontdisplay	dontdisplay	dontdisplay	dontdisplay

Here are the 36 participating teams in alphabetical order:

Belgium (BEL), Bosnia Herzegovina (BIH), Belarus (BLR), Bulgaria (BUL), Croatia (CRO), Cyprus (CYP), Czech Republic (CZE), Spain (ESP), Estonia (EST), Faroe Islands (FAR), Finland (FIN), France (FRA), Germany (GER), Greece (GRE), Hungary (HUN), Iceland (ISL), Israel (ISR), Italy (ITA), Latvia (LAT), Lithuania (LTU), Luxembourg (LUX), FYR Macedonia (MKD), Montenegro (MNE), Netherlands (NED), Norway (NOR), Poland (POL), Portugal (POR), Rumania (ROU), Russia (RUS), Slovenia (SLO), Serbia (SRB), Switzerland (SUI), Slovakia (SVK), Sweden (SWE), Turkey (TUR), Ukraine (UKR)

The original pots for the draw, according to the National Team Ranking:

Pot 1: FRA, GER, CRO, ESP, POL, RUS, ISL

Pot 2: SLO, NOR, HUN, SWE, SRB, CZE, UKR

Pot 3: SVK, SUI, POR, BLR, ROU, LTU,MKD

Pot 4: GRE, BIH, LAT, NED, ISR, MNE, EST

Pot 5: FIN, BUL, ITA, TUR, BEL, CYP, LUX

Pot 6: GEO**, MDA*, FAR

*Moldova originally registered for the draw and were drawn into Group 3, but later withdrew from the qualifications for organisational difficulties.

**Georgia were originally drawn to Group 1, but they withdrew later and the playing schedule has been adapted accordingly.

The teams ranked 1-4 (FRA, GER, CRO, ESP) were drawn to those groups with 5 teams.