Albania U-21 today knows the rivals in the European 2025 qualifiers

Today, the U-21 national team will meet their rivals in the 2025 European Championship qualifiers for this age group. The draw will take place on February 2 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, starting at 9:00 am. 53 countries will participate in the qualifiers, while Slovakia will qualify directly for the final stage as the host country of this tournament. The teams participating in the draw will be divided into 6 pots, with the ranking determined according to the UEFA coefficients, while we will have 7 groups of 6 teams and two groups of 5 such teams. According to this UEFA ranking, Albania U-21 is positioned in 36th place and is placed in the 4th pot together with Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary, Turkey, North Macedonia, Wales, Belarus and Ireland. North. The nine teams ranked in the first places of the groups at the end of the qualifying stage together with the three best second places will go directly to the final stage of the tournament. While the other six second places will face each other in the "play-off" phase to secure the last three tickets for the final of the tournament. The matches of the "play-off" stage will be played on November 11-19, 2024. After the draw and the groupings, the representatives of the AFL will sit down in discussions with the rivals in these qualifiers to determine the dates, times and places where they will to play confrontations between them. According to the UEFA calendar, the qualifying phase of the U-21 European Championship will start on March 20 and will end on October 15, 2024. Albania U-21, led by coach Alban Bushi, taking into account the composition of the team,