The Euro 2020 qualifying tournament will be played from March 2019 to November 2019 to determine the 24 national teams that will enter into the Euro 2020 final tournament.

The competition will be linked with the 2018-19 edition of the Uefa Nations League, giving countries a secondary route to qualify for the final tournament. For the first time since 1976, no team will automatically qualify for the finals, with 55 national teams taking part in the qualifying process.

As the host cities were appointed by Uefa in September 2014, before the qualifiers for Uefa Euro 2020, it is possible for the national teams from the host cities to fail to qualify for the finals tournament.

With the creation of the Nations League starting in 2018, the 2018-19 tournament will be linked with Euro 2020 qualifying and only 20 of the 24 spots for Euro 2020 will be decided from the main qualifying process, leaving four spots to be decided through the National League play-offs.

Each play-off path will feature two single-leg semi-finals, and one single-leg final with the four play-off path winners joining the 20 teams to qualify through the main process.