This is from Euro 2024 qualifying but the listed pairs are pretty much equivalent.
Basically, because Wales were already in Kazakhstan’s group the Kazahks couldn’t also be drawn against any other team in this list - in this case Andorra.
This is from Euro 2024 qualifying but the listed pairs are pretty much equivalent.
Basically, because Wales were already in Kazakhstan’s group the Kazahks couldn’t also be drawn against any other team in this list - in this case Andorra.
Ah cheers, thought Kazakhstan and Andorra had some completely random long running beef that I’d never heard about!
About as easy a group as we could ever expect to get.
In theory, the hardest game will be away to Serbia.
Yep, not the friendliest of places for an away game either.
Fancy trips to Albania (Tirana is supposed to be nice according to my youngest) and Andorra assuming they play in Barcelona (Espanol Stadium) as the home stadium only holds a couple of thousand and tickets will be very hard to come by if they play there.
With almost 28k travel club members you would hope Andorra might be tempted for the payday and play in Barcelona. Otherwise it will be 4 more unsuccessful ballot attempts for me in 2025.
About as easy a group as we could ever expect to get.
In theory, the hardest game will be away to Serbia.
Yep, not the friendliest of places for an away game either.
Fancy trips to Albania (Tirana is supposed to be nice according to my youngest) and Andorra assuming they play in Barcelona (Espanol Stadium) as the home stadium only holds a couple of thousand and tickets will be very hard to come by if they play there.
Was definitely hoping for Gib.
I was just looking this up, re Andorra. We played them at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona in 2008 (FC Barca's current interim stadium while they refurb Camp Nou). However, World Cup qualifiers 2022, we played them at the national stadium in Andorra, which holds 3,300. So not much chance of getting tickets for that unfortunately.
With almost 28k travel club members you would hope Andorra might be tempted for the payday and play in Barcelona. Otherwise it will be 4 more unsuccessful ballot attempts for me in 2025.
I've got plenty of caps but not enough is there's only a few hundred tickets!
Only Serbia V Kosovo is banned. I assumed V Croatia would have been as well. I guess FIFA believe things have cooled down there which seems to me to be another case of them being clueless to me!
With almost 28k travel club members you would hope Andorra might be tempted for the payday and play in Barcelona. Otherwise it will be 4 more unsuccessful ballot attempts for me in 2025.
We played them in Andorra the last time we faced them
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ENGLAND - Serbia - Albania - Latvia - Andorra
From the Home Nations so far
Losers from Portugal vs Denmark - Greece - SCOTLAND - Belarus
Serbia v Albania itself will be interesting…
Why did we get Andorra in the end, they mentioned that Andorra couldn't be paired with another team in another Group, which I found really odd
Edit: Answered below
Serbia v Albania will be tasty.
Decent group for us.
England, Serbia, Albania, Latvia, Andorra.
About as easy a group as we could ever expect to get.
I've got plenty of caps but not enough is there's only a few hundred tickets!
rough ticket allocations
serbia - 2850
albania - 1125
latvia - 520
andorra - 165
the joys of being a strong nation i suppose.
i also expect that serbia and alabania will have fairly big turnouts at wembley.