Following Saturday's Euro 2016 draw in Paris, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have found out who they will face in France next summer.
Here's a guide to the teams that stand in their way of a place in the knock-out phase.
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
Manager Martin O'Neill said that the group that his side are in could not be tougher as his side meet Sweden, Italy and Belgium.
SWEDEN - Monday, 13 June, Stade de France, 5pm (Irish time)
Coach: Erik Hamren
Star player: Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Chances: While they have Ibrahimovic, they have a chance. Their hopes rest on his shoulders, just as he likes it.
Tournament best: Semi-finalists 1992.
Qualifying record: W5 D3 L2. Beat Denmark in a play-off 4-3 on aggregate.
Need to know: Including the play-offs, Sweden scored 19 goals in total in their qualification campaign and Ibrahimovic helped himself to 11 of them.
As harsh as Sweden’s 4-3 play-off win over local rivals Denmark may have been, there won’t have been too many tears from neutrals desperate to see the Zlatan show roll into Euro 2016.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic was the difference between those sides over the two legs, scoring three of his side’s four goals and most of the Swedes' hopes in France will rest with him. However, even the special talent that is Ibrahimovic isn’t always enough for his side, as evidenced by a qualifying campaign that saw them finish behind Russia and the unfancied Austria.
Outside of Ibrahimovic, manager Erik Hamren is presiding over a limited group of players and it’s a team that often defer to their star man too much, waiting for him to produce something magical rather than trying something themselves. Injury for Ibrahimovic, who at 34 is surely at his last major championship, would be a disaster and even with him, they may struggle to get out of their group.
BELGIUM - Saturday, 18 June, Stade de Bordeaux, 2pm (Irish time)
Coach: Marc Wilmots
Star player: Eden Hazard
Chances: With a star-studded squad, Belgium are capable of winning the tournament but much depends on how they gel as a team and are coached.
Tournament best: Finalists 1980
Qualifying record: W7 D2 L1
Need to know: After winning Group B, Belgium - 66th in 2009 - moved to the top of FIFA's world rankings for the first time in their history.
The number one ranked team in the world, Belgium perhaps took a bit longer to book their place in Euro 2016 that many would have expected.
A draw and a defeat against Wales in qualifying would give Ireland hope that they could claim something from Marc Wilmots' side. Throughout their Group B campaign they struggled to break down organised defences.
Despite a host of attacking options throughout his squad - including the likes of Eden Hazard, Romelu Lukaku and Christian Benteke - Wilmots often opts to play just a lone striker up front. Much will depend on the form of Hazard who, like the rest of the Chelsea squad, is enduring a torrid time at the moment.
ITALY - Wednesday, 22 June, Stade Pierre Mauroy, Lille, 8pm (Irish time)
Coach: Antonio Conte
Star player: Gianluigi Buffon
Chances: The Italians may have qualified comfortably but lack the star quality of the past and can only be regarded as having an outside chance of glory.
Tournament best: Winners 1968
Qualifying record: W7 D3 L0
Need to know: Italy were short of goals in qualifying with Southampton's Graziano Pelle their top scorer with three.
Italy are very much the side that Ireland would have hoped to avoid from the second pot. Much like the great Italian sides of the past, Antonio Conte’s side are built on the foundation of a mean defence and stifling midfield.
A defence centred around the likes of Giorgio Chielini, Leonardo Bonucci, Matteo Darmian and goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon would be enough to give any team nightmares, let alone one that could be as short of attacking options as we have seen Ireland in the past.
However, while Italy have a wealth of options at the back, they struggle to impose themselves as much in attack. Southampton frontman Graziano Pelle, as mentioned above, was their top goalscorer in qualifying with three goals and the majority of their victories in qualifying came by just a single goal.
NORTHERN IRELAND
Michael O'Neill's side face two of the sides that the Republic battled with in the qualifying stages as they take on world champions Germany, Poland and Ukraine.
POLAND - Sunday, 12 June, Allianz Riviera, Nice, 5pm (Irish time)
Coach: Adam Nawalka
Star player: Robert Lewandowski
Chances: With Lewandowski fit and firing anything might be possible, but the quarter-finals might be a realistic aim.
Tournament best: Group stages 2008, 2012
Qualifying record: W6 D3 L1
Need to know: Lewandowski's 13 goals equalled the record set by Northern Ireland's David Healy for the most goals scored in a European Championship qualifying campaign.
Suffering just one defeat in the campaign, which came against World Cup holders Germany, Poland were able to produce the right result when the pressure was on and you wouldn’t back against them doing the same in the summer.
In Lewandowski, they have one of the most in-form players in European football right now and if the striker can carry that into sort of the summer’s tournament there’s no telling how far they could go.
UKRAINE - Thursday, 16 June, Stade de Lyon, 5pm (Irish time)
Coach: Mykhaylo Fomenko
Star player: Andriy Yarmolenko
Chances: Unfortunate not to progress in the group stage and blessed with two of the continent's finest talents in Yarmolenko and Sevilla's Yevhen Konoplyanka, they will have last-16 aspirations.
Tournament best: Group stages 2012.
Qualifying record: W6 D1 L3. Beat Slovenia in a play-off 3-1 on aggregate.
Need to know: Ukraine finally ended their play-off hoodoo by beating Slovenia over two legs having failed to progress via that route in their previous five play-off ties for major international tournaments.
This is the first European Championships Ukraine have qualified for, after taking part in Euro 2012 as co-hosts. Finishing behind Spain and Slovakia in Group C, Ukraine’s progress to France 2016 was built on a mean defence and they conceded just five goals in all 12 of their group games and their play-off with Slovenia. Coach Fomenko has his side incredibly well drilled and while they might not always be the most exciting team to watch, it’s hard to argue with his results.
With attacking options like Sevilla’s Yevhen Konoplyanka and Andriy Yarmolenko of Dynamo Kiev, they have goals in them as well.
GERMANY - Tuesday, 21 June, Parc des Princes, Paris, 5pm (Irish time)
Coach: Joachim Low
Star player: Thomas Muller
Chances: Despite stuttering over the line with less-than-convincing performances in their final two qualifiers, the world champions are likely to begin the tournament as favourites.
Tournament best: Winners 1972, 1980, 1996
Qualifying record: W7 D1 L2
Need to know: Germany had the most attempts on goal of any team during the group stage of qualifying with 232, ahead of Belgium (207) and England (195).
Martin O’Neill has already proven that he has the tactical nous to get the better of Germany, shocking everyone as Ireland took four points from their clashes in Group D. A shaky qualifying campaign proved that the world champions are not invincible and Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill will be looking to follow the Republic's lead.
Germany, however, remain joint favourites for the tournament, but the air of invincibility around them has faded after suffering defeats to Ireland and Poland in the qualifiers. Nevertheless, Joachim Loew’s side have proven time and again that they save their best for the big tournaments and having been finalists in 2008 and semi-finalists last time out, there’s no reason to believe they won’t be involved at the business end in France.
However, one place where Loew still has questions is up front. He’s muddled through much of his side’s qualifying campaign with midfielders playing striker roles and aside from Thomas Muller, no other front man has staked a major claim for a starting place in France.
