Hungary Euro 2024 Fixtures: Dates, Venues and Analysis

Hungary kept their chances of qualifying for the Euro 2024 knockout stages alive with a 1-0 win over Scotland in their final group game.

The Hungary side will now have to wait to see how results go in the other group games to determine whether they will enter the round of 16. The four best third placed teams will receive entry into the knockout stage, something that will become clear in the coming days as the remaining groups play their final games.

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Group A – Matchweek One

One of the benefits to being drawn in Group A is that your first match comes very quickly. Hungary begin on Matchday 2 as the second match of the tournament against Switzerland. This will be a very important match for qualification given the closeness in the rankings of the two nations and both will want to get something positive to take away from the opener.

This will be the 47th meeting between the near neighbours. Most of the meetings occurred in the early days of international football and through the time when Hungary were a great football power, so the Magyars have a very healthy 30 wins from the 46 previous meetings. However, Switzerland have won all three of the meetings this century, so the momentum of the match-up is definitely with the Swiss.

Group A – Matchweek Two

Hungary and Germany have played a few times recently and it is actually Hungary that have the recent upper hand. Hungary won the last match in the head-to-head in the Nations League in 2022. Overall, it is actually a very tight history between the two, with 12 wins for Hungary, 12 draws, and 13 wins for Germany.

Group A – Matchweek Three

Another rarely played international fixture rounds off Scotland’s group stage with a first meeting with Hungary since a 2018 friendly. Before that friendly, which Scotland won 1-0, the two nations hadn’t played each other since 2004, which, in turn, was the first time since the 1980s. The nations have followed a similar path in having their heydays in the 20th century and then becoming resurgent again in modern times.