UEFA Nations League: all we need to know
What is a credentials to a UEFA Nations League?
The rejuvenation of inhabitant organisation football – and a UEFA Nations League – stems from a enterprise of UEFA and a 55 member associations to urge a peculiarity and station of inhabitant organisation football. UEFA and a associations wanted some-more sporting definition in inhabitant organisation football, with associations, coaches, players and supporters increasingly of a opinion that accessible matches are not providing adequate foe for inhabitant teams.
Extensive conference and discussions started as distant behind as a 2011 UEFA Strategy Meeting in Cyprus and continued during a array of Top Executive Programme (TEP) meetings over a following 3 years. The UEFA Nations League was unanimously adopted during a XXXVIII Ordinary UEFA Congress in Astana on 27 Mar 2014.
What is a simple format?
- The format of a UEFA Nations League will underline graduation and relegation. The 55 European inhabitant teams have been divided into 4 leagues in suitability with UEFA’s inhabitant organisation fellow rankings on 11 Oct 2017.
- League A includes a top-ranked sides and League D includes a lowest:
League A: Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, France, England, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, Iceland, Croatia, Netherlands
League B: Austria, Wales, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine, Republic of Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Northern Ireland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Turkey
League C: Hungary, Romania, Scotland, Slovenia, Greece, Serbia, Albania, Norway, Montenegro, Israel, Bulgaria, Finland, Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania
League D: Azerbaijan, FYR Macedonia, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Latvia, Faroe Islands, Luxembourg, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Liechtenstein, Malta, Andorra, Kosovo, San Marino, Gibraltar
- Leagues A and B will include of 4 groups of 3 teams
- League C will contain one organisation of 3 teams and 3 groups of 4 sides
- League D will be shaped by 4 groups of 4 teams
- The League Phase Draw for a UEFA Nations League will take place during a SwissTech Convention Centre in Lausanne on 24 Jan 2018.
- In any league, 4 organisation winners are promoted (or play in a Finals, see below) and 4 teams are relegated for a successive foe to be played in 2020.
- The altogether UEFA Nations League rankings will establish a combination of a pull pots for a successive European Qualifiers.
- In addition, a UEFA Nations League will yield teams with another possibility to validate for a UEFA EURO final tournament, with 4 sides subordinate by play-off matches that take place in Mar 2020 (see below).
CONFIRMED: HOW THE UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE WILL LINE UP
When will a UEFA Nations League take place?
The UEFA Nations League will take place as follows:
- The UEFA Nations League organisation games will be hold over 6 matchdays, during a ‘double-headers’ in September, Oct and Nov 2018. The UEFA Nations League Finals competition for a teams that win a 4 groups within a tip multiplication is scheduled for Jun 2019.
- For a UEFA Nations League Finals, a organisation winners of UEFA Nations League A will play in a knockout format (semi-finals, third-place compare and final) in Jun 2019 to turn a UEFA Nations League winners. One horde nation will be allocated by a UEFA Executive Committee in Dec 2018 from among a finalist teams.
- The play-off matches will be staged in Mar 2020 (see below).
Will subordinate for a UEFA EURO change?
The changes to UEFA EURO subordinate will make it some-more streamlined. The equation is now simple: 10 groups with a tip dual teams in any organisation subordinate automatically, and a other 4 places being awarded to European Qualifiers play-off winners, in that a 16 organisation winners of a UEFA Nations League will be in contention.
The UEFA EURO 2020 subordinate pull will be done after a execution of a UEFA Nations League and concede for a 4 UEFA Nations League Finals participants to be drawn into groups of 5 teams.
But a pivotal element of a qualifiers remains: that any organisation can play any team.
The European Qualifiers for UEFA EURO 2020 embark in Mar 2019. There will be dual matchdays in any of March, June, September, Oct and Nov 2019. In total, there will be 5 groups of 5 teams and 5 groups of 6 teams (ten groups in all) personification over 10 matchdays (the same series as now). The leader and runner-up in any of a 10 groups will validate automatically for a UEFA EURO 2020 final contest (June 2020).
- The final 4 EURO places will be won by a European Qualifiers play-offs, that will take place in Mar 2020 and that will be contested by a 16 UEFA Nations League organisation winners.
- If a organisation leader has already competent around a European Qualifiers, afterwards their mark will go to a successive 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 ranking. Â
- Each joining will have a trail of a possess 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.
How are a altogether UEFA Nations League rankings calculated?
Within any joining (A, B, C and D), a altogether ranking will be distributed formed on position in a organisation afterwards points, idea difference, goals scored, divided goals scored, wins, divided wins, disciplinary points, fellow ranking.
What are a advantages for inhabitant associations and teams?
National associations and coaches, in consultations with UEFA, suggested that they feel that accessible internationals are not providing adequate sporting competition. The UEFA Nations League creates some-more suggestive and rival matches for teams and a dedicated calendar and structure for inhabitant organisation football.
Top teams can also aspire to take partial in a UEFA Nations League Finals, a new top-level event.
For middle-ranking and smaller nations, a UEFA Nations League will offer an additional approach to validate for UEFA EURO final tournaments. Lower-tier countries – the bottom 16 in a rankings – are now guaranteed one of a 24 subordinate slots for UEFA EURO.
Lower-ranking teams who have struggled opposite sides ranked extremely aloft than them will now get a possibility to take partial in offset matches. Teams do not learn and swell by regularly losing; now some sides will start winning.
While a UEFA Nations League will reinstate many accessible internationals, there will still be space in a calendar for friendlies, generally for tip teams who might wish to face antithesis from outward Europe as they will be in groups of 3 teams.
Associations and teams advantage from clarity of a tie calendar, and there is now a transparent aegis between a finish of a UEFA EURO and FIFA World Cup, and clamp versa, as good as fortitude of income.
What are a advantages for supporters?
Supporters some-more than many realize that many friendlies destroy to broach rival and suggestive football. Now they will have a event to see their teams play in some-more rival matches, take partial in a new foe and get a second possibility to validate for a vital tournaments.
In any even year there are World Cup or UEFA EURO champions; now in any peculiar year there will be a UEFA Nations League winners. Football is about foe and now, only like in bar football, there will be a inhabitant organisation champion during a tighten of any season.
Will this meant some-more final on players and clubs?
No: a UEFA Nations League and European Qualifiers will belong to a existent concluded general compare calendar. UEFA is always penetrating to safety a change between bar and general football. The new foe should, in fact, revoke final on players and clubs with reduction transport envisaged for accessible games while inhabitant teams will be personification some-more consistently during their possess level. With double-header matchweeks, players will even go behind to their clubs progressing than is now a case.
Is this only about generating some-more revenue?
No, finances are not a motorist for a new competition. However, a foe will have a same centralised media rights as have recently been introduced for all European Qualifiers so associations will have even some-more fortitude in their income.
Will there be no some-more accessible internationals?
There will positively be fewer accessible internationals and positively fewer incomprehensible friendlies. However, there will still be space in a calendar for accessible internationals – particularly warm-up matches for final tournaments. UEFA is also penetrating that European teams will still have a possibility to play opponents from other confederations.
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