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Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
^^^^^^I read the Euro is going to 24 teams for 2016. Does anyone know how they would do the knockout phase??
I'm assuming they would have 6 groups of 4, so winners and runners up would be 12, but that would be uneven for 2 sides of a bracket. So I'm thinking 4 teams would get some kind of a bye or they allow the 4 best 3rd place teams to go thru making a Round of 16.
Any other ideas of they might do the groupings and knockout rounds?? Sorry to derail, but I found the expansion kinda interesting.
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Any FIFA tournament that is or was 24 teams allowed 4 3rd placed teams. Old World Cups from 82-94 and current U-17 and U-20 tournaments.
I would expect Euro to follow this format.
Here's a schedule from U-20 2009
http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tour...chschedule.pdf
I always found this schedule a bit unfair since if you're in Groups E or F you not only play later and have less rest but you can't play one of the wildcard teams even if you finish first.