The competition will start in the fall of next year and will divide three Olympic places
UEFA announced on Thursday the creation of a new competition in women’s football, the League of Nations, effective from autumn 2023. The tournament kicks off after the World Cup celebrations in Australia and New Zealand ending on August 20 and will split three places for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
This new League of Nations, which will have a format similar to the men’s, was approved on Wednesday by the Executive Committee of the governing body of European football and comes after “extensive work by a national team competitions working group made up of representatives from different national teams.” associations and on the recommendation of the UEFA Women’s Football Commission.
The Women’s Nations League will bring more competitiveness and interest to women’s football and will be played for the first time in the run-up to the qualifying phase for Euro 2025. “At the end of the Nations League, the final phases determine the winner of the Nations League and every four The three European teams qualifying for the Olympic Games this year.The final standings of the Nations League (with automatic promotion and relegation), as well as the promotion and relegation matches, will also determine the starting position of the national teams in the European qualifiers.
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin expressed his satisfaction with the emergence of this new tournament and underlined his pledge from last summer stating that they would continue to “invest in women’s football”. “After a historic UEFA Women’s Euro Cup, it is time to further develop women’s team football,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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