All eyes on Arnhem
Friday, November 24, 2006
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Hosts and holders the Netherlands are the top seeds in today's draw for the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship finals, which takes place from 18.15CET.
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The seedings for the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Championship draw have been revealed, with the eight finalists due to learn their fate at the City Hall in Arnhem on Friday.
Evening draw
The action will get under way at 18.15CET, and will see hosts and holders the Netherlands join play-off victors Belgium, Czech Republic, England, Israel, Italy, Portugal and Serbia in being divided into two groups of four teams. The Dutch have been automatically assigned position A1, and are joined in pot 1 by neighbours Belgium, the Czech Republic and England - all of whom are seeded due to having the best coefficients from qualifying. The remaining four nations will be in pot 2.
Four venues
Arnhem is one of four venues, along with Heerenveen, Groningen and Nijmegen, selected to host matches during the tournament. Group games will provisionally be played between 10 and 17 June next year, with Heerenveen and Arnhem each staging a semi-final three days after that. The final will be on Saturday 23 June at FC Groningen's 20,000-capacity Euroborg.
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