page_title: UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying
section_title: Schedule
hierarchical_section_title: UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying / Schedule
caption_attribution_description: English: UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying, Group G – Austria national football team (red shirts) vs. Moldova national football team (blue shirts) on 2015-09-05 in Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna: The photo shows the official ball of the EURO 2016
context_page_description: The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from September 2014 to November 2015 to determine the 23 UEFA member men's national teams joining the automatically qualified host team France in the UEFA Euro 2016 final tournament.
  A total of 53 national teams participated in this qualifying process, with Gibraltar taking part for the first time. The draw took place at the Palais des Congrès Acropolis, Nice, on 23 February 2014.
context_section_description: This is the first qualifying tournament after UEFA announced centralised rights deals for both UEFA Euro and FIFA World Cup qualifying. UEFA has proposed the "Week of Football" concept for the scheduling of qualifying matches:
  Matches take place from Thursday to Tuesday.
  Kick-off times are largely set at 18:00 and 20:45 CET on Saturdays and Sundays, and 20:45 CET on Thursdays, Fridays, Mondays and Tuesdays.
  On double-header matchweeks, teams play on Thursday and Sunday, or Friday and Monday, or Saturday and Tuesday.
  Matches in the same group are played on the same day.
  There are ten matchdays for the qualifying group stage, and two matchdays for the play-offs:
  Unlike previous qualifying campaigns where group fixtures were determined by negotiation between the national federations, UEFA themselves decided each group's fixture list, released the same day as the draw.
caption: Official match ball of the UEFA Euro qualifiers
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