Today, it’s 6:00 pm. and via UEFA.tv, the draw for the 2024-2025 Nations League will take place in Paris. As in the three previous editions, the competition will be divided into four Leagues and these in turn into four groups, except for League D, which will consist of two groups.
UEFA has distributed 54 teams into four pots of four teams in League A, B and C based on their results in the 2022-23 Nations League. For League D, he designed two pots for six teams.
The rivals he avoids and those who can get hold of him
Champion Spain leads Pot 1 of League A along with Croatia, Italy and the Netherlands, participants in the last Final Four held in June 2023, so they will not face it.
The rivals of the group led by Luis De la Fuente one will come from pot 2 (Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary), another from pot 3 (Switzerland, Germany, Poland, France) and another from pot 4 (Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Scotland) .
Quarterfinals, the great novelty
The battles will be September to November 2024 and the first two in the group in League A will play in the quarterfinals, introduced in this edition, in March 2025. The Final Four will take place from June 4 to 8, 2025.
League B, C and D pots
LEAGUE B
Pot 1: Austria, Czech Republic, England and Wales
Pot 2: Finland, Ukraine, Iceland and Norway
Pot 3: Slovenia, Republic of Ireland, Albania and Montenegro
Pot 4: Georgia, Greece, Turkey, Kazakhstan
LEAGUE C
Pot 1: Romania, Sweden, Armenia and Luxembourg
Pot 2: Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Bulgaria and Faroe Islands
Pot 3: North Macedonia, Slovakia, Northern Ireland and Cyprus
Pot 4: Belarus, Lithuania or Gibraltar, Estonia, Latvia
D LEAGUE
Pot 1: Lithuania or Gibraltar and Moldova
Pot 2: Malta, Andorra, San Marino and Liechtenstein
* Lithuania and Gibraltar must play a playoff in March 2024 to decide which of the two will stay in League C or be relegated to League D
Raffle restrictions
UEFA has determined that Armenia and Azerbaijan, for political reasons, they cannot fall in pairss in the same League C group.
Furthermore Kazakhstan can only respond in their League B group one of these options (England, Iceland, Ireland or Wales) to avoid the accumulation of very long journeys.
Source: La Verdad
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