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Holders Germany will face Mexico, Sweden and South Korea at the World Cup finals, with all-European group contests as England meet Belgium, and Spain play Portugal.

From next month's FIFA World Cup finals draw all the way to UEFA EURO 2020, UEFA.com plots the key dates in the international window now that the European Qualifiers are over.

Russia laid down a marker with an entertaining draw against Spain while Germany twice came from behind to deny France. Check out how Europe's FIFA World Cup hopefuls got on.

Belgium, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Poland, Portugal, Serbia and Spain have won their groups to join Russia in the finals, with the eight play-off teams now also confirmed.

Germany and England secured their places in the FIFA World Cup finals with wins in Thursday's European Qualifiers but Poland must wait despite Robert Lewandowski's record-breaking hat-trick.

The road to the 2018 FIFA World Cup resumes on Thursday with teams able to clinch places in Russia in the penultimate European Qualifiers double-header.

Robert Lewandowski and Cristiano Ronaldo are battling to be top scorer in the European Qualifiers, while Andorra are emerging as one of 2017's unlikely form teams. UEFA.com digests the action.

Germany and Switzerland are the only sides yet to drop a point after the June European Qualifiers, while Robert Lewandowski is challenging Cristiano Ronaldo to be the competition's top scorer.

Germany scored seven, and there were hat-tricks for Robert Lewandowski and Stevan Jovetić, while first-time captain Harry Kane salvaged a point for England in Saturday's qualifiers.

Who looks well set to reach the FIFA World Cup following the last set of European Qualifiers for 2016? We look at the story so far in the nine groups.