The DRAW for the EHF Euro 2008 Final Round, which will be held from 2 to 14 December 2008 in FYR Macedonia, took place in the Ancient Amphitheatre in Ohrid today.

 

The draw took place on the location of the Ohrid Summer Festival.

 

The preliminary round and main round matches of the EHF Euro 2008 will be played in Skopje and Ohrid. The placement match, the semi-finals and finals in Skopje.

 

Here are the results of the draw:

 

 

Group A  (Skopje)	Group B (Ohrid)	Group C (Ohrid)	Group D (Skopje)
France	Norway	Russia	Germany
Hungary	Portugal	Sweden	Croatia
Denmark	Spain	Austria	FYR Macedonia
Romania	Ukraine	Belarus	Serbia

 

The preliminary round matches will be the following (two groups playing on 2., 4. and 6 December, the two other groups playing on 3., 5. and 7 December):

 

Day	Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
02./03.12.2008	FRA v DEN HUN v ROU	NOR v ESP POR v UKR	RUS v AUT SWE v BLR	GER v MKD CRO v SRB
04./05.12.2008	ROU v FRA DEN v HUN	UKR v NOR ESP v POR	BLR v RUS AUT v SWE	SRB v GER MKD v CRO
06./07.12.2008	FRA v HUN DEN v ROU	NOR v POR ESP v UKR	RUS v SWE AUT v BLR	GER v CRO MKD v SRB

 

The detailed match schedule, with the individual match details and the exact playing times will be published by the EHF in August following the coordination of TV requirements.

 

The teams ranked 1 to 3 in each group qualify for the main round. The results from the matches against teams which also qualify for the main round remain valid for the ranking of the main round.

 

Each team in the main round plays against each team which qualified from the parallel group.