Euro 2012 - Qualifications: Oranje draw Sweden and Erwin Koeman

Sunday 07 February 2010

The qualifications are still half a year away, but yesterday the draw took place in Warsaw, Poland.

Holland were drawn into a group with Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Moldavia and San Marino.

That means a double trip up north and meeting with former European Champion ('88) and now manager of Hungary, Erwin Koeman.

Dick Advocaat, manager of Belgium was less fortunate. His Rode Duivels have to fight it out in one of the toughest groups with Germany, Turkey, Austria, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan.

The group winners and the best runner up of the nine groups will qualify directly for the finals to be held in Poland and Ukraine. The eight other runners up will play for four additional places in a play-off.

As the hosts Ukraine and Poland are already qualified.

Qualification rounds will be played between September 2010 and October 2011.

The play-offs are scheduled for November 2011.

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