Points system at an EM

The basic principle of EM

• At a European football championship, the 16 best European national teams play against each other to determine the European champion. In addition to the host country (or host countries), the individual national teams must first qualify for participation in the European Championship in a qualifying round. The tournament begins with a group phase, which is followed by a knockout phase. In the final of the knockout phase, the winner of the competition will be determined. In the group stage there is a point system with points for win and draw. From the knockout phase, there can also be extra time and penalty shoot-outs.

• Who comes into which group will be drawn after the qualification. The encounters of the knockout phase have already been decided beforehand. In the quarter-finals, the winner of group A plays against the runner-up in group B. The winner of Group B plays against the runner-up in Group A, and so on. In the semifinals, the winner of the first quarter-finals will play against the winner of the third Quarter-finals and the winner from the second, against the winner from the fourth Quarter final game. The respective semi-final winners then contest the final against each other.
  instagram viewer

• From 2016 the number of teams will be increased to 24, now there are six instead of four groups in the group stage and there will also be a round of 16.

The point system simply explained

• In the group stage of the tournament, each group member plays against each other once and there is a special point system, which should help to determine the best teams. The basic principle is known from normal game operations in the respective national leagues. So for a win the team gets three points, for a draw one and for a defeat no point at all. In the group stage, the first two in the table advance. As of 2016, the three best thirds in the group will also advance (by comparing all thirds in the group).

• In addition to the points, the goal difference is important in the event of a tie. The goals scored and goals scored are counted. The difference is the goal difference or the goal difference.


EM: Advance if there is a tie - rules simply explained

At the beginning of a European Championship, games are played in groups. According to the regulations ...

• The so-called direct comparison is particularly important, because this is used before the general goal difference. The results and goals of the respective matches are important here. This is where things get complicated, because nine cases can occur.

• In the first case, two teams are tied. Now it is not the general goal difference that decides, but the direct relationship between the two teams. So if team A has a total goal difference of 0 and team B of 1, but team A has won against B, A continues. In the case of three teams A, B and C tied on points, this looks like this. Only the points from the matches of the three teams A, B and C are compared with each other, and whoever is ahead is also further.

• The second case occurs when, after case one, the teams are still tied. Now the goal difference counts in the matches of the teams with the same points. In this case, as in the first case, only the direct encounters between the teams with the same points count, all other games are not taken into account!

• If the direct goal difference is also the same, case three comes into force. This provides for a comparison of the goals scored in the direct games. So the one who has scored the most goals in the direct encounters will advance.

• If in the third case no winner can be determined either, cases four and five come into force. Now the goal difference from all group games counts first (case four), if the goal difference is the same, the team with the most goals scored from all group games will advance (case five).

• In the event that no winner can be determined, case six will occur and the UEFA coefficient will decide. This is calculated from all the results of the qualification, European Championship and World Cup matches of European teams. The team with the higher UEFA coefficient will then be given preference.

• In case seven, the UEFA coefficient is also the same. Now the team that played fairer moves ahead. So has committed fewer fouls or got fewer cards.

• Case eight is unlikely, but it was still considered. If the fair play behavior does not bring a result either, the lot decides quite vulgarly.

• And because none of this is cumbersome enough, there is of course a special rule, case 9. Should two teams with equal points meet in the last group game, which also have the same goal difference and the same number of goals scored and there is no third team with the same number of points and this game ends in a draw, then after 90 minutes a penalty shoot-out decides who goes on comes.