Erling Haalnd is a Premier League, Champions League, and FA Cup winner, and he has 49 goals in 47 Premier League games for Man City this season. He will not, however, be able to compete in the EURO 2024 finals because Haaland’s Norway did not qualify. In the qualifying phase, Man City’s gifted striker scored six of Norway’s fourteen goals.
Martin Odegaard, Arsenal captain and Haaland’s Norwegian national team teammate, will also be unable to play at Europe’s largest football party. On September 12, Odegaard scored Norway’s second goal in a 2-1 qualifying win over Georgia. Norway, on the other hand, finished third in Group A, six points behind second-placed Scotland, and thus did not qualify.
Norway was eliminated early so that its two biggest stars could watch EURO 2024 on TV, which is not surprising given that this country’s squad has not qualified for major tournament finals since 2000.
Manchester United defender Victor Lindelof started all three games as Sweden defeated Poland and Slovakia, drawing with Spain, to advance to the knockout phase of EURO 2020. However, in this EURO 2024 qualifier, Sweden finished third in Group F, losing 10 points to top team Belgium and 9 points to Austria, failing to earn a place in the qualifying phase.
Dejan Kulusevski, Tottenham’s top winger, will be unable to compete in EURO 2024, as will Lindelof. Kulusevski received the Guldbollen award, which recognizes the greatest male player in Sweden in 2022. He started all eight matches in the EURO 2024 qualifiers, scoring one goal and assisting on two others.
A.Isak, a young striker who is doing well for Newcastle, is in the same boat as Kulusevski. Isak is the youngest Swedish striker to score for the national team, doing so in a 6-0 win over Slovakia in January 2017 at the age of 17 years, 3 months, and 22 days.
Stefan Savic previously won the Premier League with Manchester City, and he also won La Liga and the Europa League with Atletico Madrid. Stefan Savic also scored a goal in the EURO 2024 qualifiers, however it was not enough for Montenegro to qualify for the qualifying stage, since they were ranked below Hungary and Serbia.
Evan Ferguson (Brighton Club) is only 19 years old, but he has already scored a hat-trick in the Premier League. Ferguson became the Republic of Ireland’s youngest player to score when he scored against Latvia in March.
Fans will also miss seeing Jonny Evans (Manchester United Club) play in the team shirt as a result of Reland’s departure. Jonny Evans helped Northern Ireland reach the knockout stages in 2016.
The 36-year-old defender is still playing well for club and country, although Northern Ireland failed to qualify for next summer’s tournament after losing seven of ten qualifying games.
After coming third in the tournament, Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski is hoping to assist the Polish national side qualify for Euro 2024 through the play-off round. Following Albania and the Czech Republic in the qualifying group.
Mykhailo Mudryk will be the team’s next opponent in the play-off round. In January, he signed a contract with Chelsea worth up to 89 million pounds, and he will now join the Ukrainian squad in their quest for a ticket to Germany next summer via the play-off round.