Euro 2024 playoffs: History for Georgia after shootout win over Greece

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The 24-team area for this summer season’s European Championship will likely be cemented Tuesday, because the final three event berths are being determined by the qualifying playoffs. Under, we’re monitoring the outcomes of the all-or-nothing playoff finals that’ll determine which nations seal last-gasp spots on the marquee occasion in Germany and which of them narrowly miss out.

Path A: Wales vs. Poland (3:45 p.m. ET)

Path B: Ukraine vs. Iceland (3:45 p.m. ET)

Path C

Georgia 0-0 Greece (Georgia wins 4-2 on penalties)

Georgia certified for a serious event for the primary time as an unbiased nation after beating Greece in a penalty shootout in Tbilisi. The primary of three playoff finals was excessive on vitality and low on high quality for almost all of the competition, with only a single shot on track between the groups after 90 minutes.

Georgia, which separated from the Soviet Union in 1991, survived a scare within the 102nd minute when Konstantinos Mavropanos smacked the crossbar with a leaping header off a nook kick. It then withstood the injury-forced departure of star participant Khvicha Kvaratskhelia earlier than going to penalties. Giorgi Mamardashvili saved the primary of Greece’s spot-kicks, and Nika Kvekveskiri dispatched the decisive purpose into the underside left nook to ship the 55,000 in attendance into rapture.

Georgia will face Turkey, Portugal, and Czechia in Group F, whereas Greece should wait to make a primary main event look since 2014.

Accomplished Euro 2024 teams

With the Euro 2024 draw being carried out months earlier than the completion of the playoff matches, Tuesday’s contributors already knew their assigned teams and opponents ought to they attain the event.

Match schedule (kickoffs in ET)

June 14: Germany vs. Scotland – 3 p.m.

June 15: Hungary vs. Switzerland – 9 a.m.

June 19: Germany vs. Hungary – 12 p.m.

June 19: Scotland vs. Switzerland – 3 p.m.

June 23: Switzerland vs. Germany – 3 p.m.

June 23: Scotland vs. Hungary – 3 p.m.

Match schedule (kickoffs in ET)

June 15: Spain vs. Croatia – 12 p.m.

June 15: Italy vs. Albania – 3 p.m.

June 19: Croatia vs. Albania – 9 a.m.

June 20: Spain vs. Italy – 3 p.m.

June 24: Albania vs. Spain – 3 p.m.

June 24: Croatia vs. Italy – 3 p.m.

Match schedule (kickoffs in ET)

June 16: Slovenia vs. Denmark – 12 p.m.

June 16: Serbia vs. England – 3 p.m.

June 20: Slovenia vs. Serbia – 9 a.m.

June 20: Denmark vs. England – 12 p.m.

June 25: England vs. Slovenia – 3 p.m.

June 25: Denmark vs. Serbia – 3 p.m.

Match schedule (kickoffs in ET)

June 16: Wales or Poland vs. Netherlands – 9 a.m.

June 17: Austria vs. France – 3 p.m.

June 21: Wales or Poland vs. Austria – 12 p.m.

June 21: Netherlands vs. France 3 p.m.

June 25: Netherlands vs. Austria – 12 p.m.

June 25: France vs. Wales or Poland – 12 p.m.

Match schedule (kickoffs in ET)

June 17: Romania vs. Ukraine or Iceland – 9 a.m.

June 17: Belgium vs. Slovakia – 12 p.m.

June 21: Slovakia vs. Ukraine or Iceland – 9 a.m.

June 22: Belgium vs. Romania – 3 p.m.

June 26: Slovakia vs. Romania – 12 p.m.

June 26: Ukraine or Iceland vs. Belgium – 12 p.m.

Match schedule (kickoffs in ET)

June 18: Turkey vs. Georgia – 12 p.m.

June 18: Portugal vs. Czechia – 3 p.m.

June 22: Georgia vs. Czechia – 9 a.m.

June 22: Turkey vs. Portugal – 12 p.m.

June 26: Georgia vs. Portugal – 3 p.m.

June 26: Czechia vs. Turkey – 3 p.m.

The highest two groups from every group, together with the 4 greatest third-placed finishers, advance to the knockout stage of the competitors, which opens June 29.

The Euro 2024 remaining takes place July 14 on the Olympiastadion in Berlin.