UEFA Nations League format confirmed

UEFA has reliable a final foe manners and regulations for a UEFA Nations League, reduction than a year before a initial compare is due to be played on 6 Sep 2018. The new trademark for a contest was also denounced following Wednesday’s UEFA Executive Committee assembly in Nyon.

• All we need to know about a UEFA Nations League

2018/19 UEFA Nations League: how it works

The UEFA Nations League is a new foe that aims to safeguard a continued success of inhabitant organisation football by replacing many friendlies with rival matches and by permitting all nations to play opposite equally ranked teams.

• All 55 UEFA associations enter.
• The teams are split into 4 leagues, A–B–C–D, according to their position in a UEFA National Team Coefficient Rankings following a finish of a European Qualifiers for a 2018 FIFA World Cup (as per 11 Oct 2017; play-off formula will not be included).
• League A will include of a 12 top-ranked teams. The subsequent 12 teams will be in League B, a subsequent 15 in League C and a remaining 16 in League D.
• Leagues A and B will any comprise four groups of 3 teams.
• League C will enclose one organisation of three teams and 3 groups of 4 sides; League D will be shaped by four groups of 4 teams.
• All pull procedures to be confirmed. Matches to be played home and away between September and Nov 2018 (teams will play 4 or 6 games depending on a distance of their group).
• The 4 organisation winners of League A will validate for a UEFA Nations League Finals, to be hold in Jun 2019, with dual semi-finals, a third-place compare and a final. One horde nation will be allocated by a UEFA Executive Committee in Dec 2018 from among a finalist teams.
• The organisation winners in Leagues B, C and D will benefit promotion and those who finish bottom of a groups in Leagues A, B and C will be relegated.

National teams will so possibly be competing to turn UEFA Nations League winners, or be fighting for graduation and to equivocate relegation.

The League Phase Draw for a UEFA Nations League will take place during a SwissTech Convention Centre in Lausanne on 24 Jan 2018, when a new UEFA Nations League prize will also be unveiled.

Qualifying for UEFA EURO 2020

Qualifying for UEFA EURO 2020 stays mostly a same (with 24 finalists in all), nonetheless a European Qualifiers will now start in a Mar after a vital contest instead of immediately in Sep (i.e. Mar 2019 in this case). No organisation will benefit auomatic gift as hosts (there are 13 horde nations in all).

Qualifying organisation theatre (20 teams qualify)
The teams will be separate into 10 groups of 5 or six, and the tip dual from any group will validate for a final tournament, final a initial 20 places.

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European Qualifiers play-offs explained

Play-offs (4 teams qualify)
The final 4 EURO places will be won by a European Qualifiers play-offs, that will be contested by a 16 UEFA Nations League organisation winners (i.e. a 4 organisation winners in any of a 4 divisions).

• Each joining will have a trail of a own and any trail will underline dual single-leg semi-finals and one single-leg final.  The leader of any trail will win a sheet to UEFA EURO 2020.

• If a UEFA Nations League organisation leader has already competent around a European Qualifiers, afterwards their mark will go to a subsequent best-ranked organisation in their league. If a joining does not have 4 teams to compete, a remaining slots are allocated to teams from another league, according to a altogether UEFA Nations League rankings.

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