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Holders Spain will be among nine top seeds in the UEFA EURO 2012â„¢ qualifying draw at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw on 7 February (12.00CET).

Draw procedure
Nine groups will be formed in the qualifying draw including six sections of six sides and three of five, as teams chase 14 finals places alongside co-hosts Poland and Ukraine. The seeding pots are formed on the basis of the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system, finalised after the completion of FIFA World Cup qualifying, with the reigning European champions automatically top seeded. All groups will contain one nation from the first five pots and six sections will also include a team from Pot 6.

Qualifying competition
Sides in each group will play one another on a home-and-away basis, with qualifiers scheduled according to the international match calendar between September 2010 and October 2011. The nine winners and the runner-up with the best record against the teams first, third, fourth and fifth in their group qualify directly for the final tournament. The eight remaining runners-up contest play-off matches in November 2011.


Seeding pots

Pot 1: Spain (holders), Germany, Netherlands, Italy, England, Croatia, Portugal, France, Russia


Pot 2: Greece, Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, Turkey, Denmark, Slovakia, Romania


Pot 3: Israel, Bulgaria, Finland, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina


Pot 4: Slovenia, Latvia, Hungary, Lithuania, Belarus, Belgium, Wales, FYR Macedonia, Cyprus


Pot 5: Montenegro, Albania, Estonia, Georgia, Moldova, Iceland, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein


Pot 6: Azerbaijan, Luxembourg, Malta, Faroe Islands, Andorra, San Marino

That would be poetic justice I suppose but if you did don't you think France would leave him out for those two games as it may just spark a riot?

I don't really mind who we get.