The Nations League 2018/19 and 2020/21

[kancutlawns]

Well well well. The poor man’s Euros never mind Workd Cup. If and when England win a tournament that none of the decent nations give a shit about, will this be a surrogate international trophy and a new world order in football? It’s all going to get very confusing with knock out matches being held all over the tournament, pretty much as with the 2020 Euros.

Don’t much like groups with just three teams. Will this country’s clubs actually going to release their players unlike with the friendlies? Like fuck they will.

[Carlos J]

I quite like the idea, kancut. The groups have 3 or 4 teams but each league has 12, 15 or 16 teams. So each group winner goes to the groups semis, then winners to the finals. Winners of the lower groups get promoted and worst team in the groups gets relegated. Plus spots for the Euros. Better than shite friendlies IMO.

[kancutlawns]

You could well be right Carlos but again the same issue with the clubs not releasing their players or only allowing them to play for a single half a la friendlies but if it makes the matches competetive and watchable then great. Should satisfy the craving for football in between the big tournaments.

[Carlos J]

That could be a factor, kancut, but I presume as an official UEFA sanctioned tournament, things might be a tad more stringent.

[Bad Blue 2000]

Typical of Albania to get the easy group.

[kevin04]

Looking forward to it, Lawnsaidh. Gives an incentive for teams to take it properly as it is a fall back for the playoffs for Euro 2020 - much better system than 3rd placed teams in Euro 2016 qualifying going in to playoffs, plus the League A top four teams going to a netural venue tournament is excellent. We'll also see a team from the D league at the Euros, but it probably won't be the likes of Gibraltar, San Marino etc as there's teams like Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan in there. There's a group meant to be full of minnows which has Kosovo, Malta, Faroe Islands, and Azerbaijan - wouldn't fancy being in that one.

Scotland have drawn Israel and Albania - who we have never played, yet they've been playing international qualifiers for fifty years!

Wales, Ireland and Denmark in one group should be quite good. Nul points for the coaching maestro Giggsy??!!

Roll on September.

[delboy1983]

2 hard away ties ,could have been easier.
Not good ties for the travelling fans either

[JimmyDee]

Ah, yes, a tinpot tournament that's beneath England's dignity to even be part of, a bit like that World Cup they held in Uruguay in 1930. No-one ever heard of that nonsense ever again, did they?

It does seem a bit over-elaborate, though. Was this devised by Mike Parry, by any chance? It sounds like one of his ideas, that confuses complication with intelligent thought.

[AlcoholBrazil]

This will displease the big clubs even more when the calendar is shuffled to accommodate Qatar 2022.

[kancutlawns]

This fledgling tournament gets underway this Thursday with World Champions France playing Germany.

Here are the fixtures for this coming week.

Thursday 6 September

League A
Group A1: Germany v France (20:45)

League B
Group B1: Czech Republic v Ukraine (20:45)
Group B4: Wales v Republic of Ireland (20:45)

League C
Group C3: Slovenia v Bulgaria (20:45), Norway v Cyprus (20:45)

League D
Group D1: Kazakhstan v Georgia (16:00), Latvia v Andorra (20:45)
Group D4: Armenia v Liechtenstein (20:45), Gibraltar v FYR Macedonia (20:45)

Friday 7 September

League A
Group A3: Italy v Poland (20:45)

League B
Group B2: Turkey v Russia (20:45)

League C
Group C1: Albania v Israel (20:45)
Group C4: Lithuania v Serbia (20:45), Romania v Montenegro (20:45)

League D
Group D3: Azerbaijan v Kosovo (18:00), Faroe Islands v Malta (20:45)

European Qualifiers: How the play-offs for UEFA EURO 2020 work
Saturday 8 September

League A
Group A2: Switzerland v Iceland (18:00)
Group A4: England v Spain (20:45)

League B
Group B3: Northern Ireland v Bosnia and Herzegovina (15:00)

League C
Group C2: Finland v Hungary (18:00), Estonia v Greece (20:45)

League D
Group D2: Belarus v San Marino (18:00), Luxembourg v Moldova (20:45)

Matchday two
Sunday 9 September

League A
Group A1: France v Netherlands (20:45)

League B
Group B1: Ukraine v Slovakia (15:00)
Group B4: Denmark v Wales (18:00)

League C
Group C3: Bulgaria v Norway (18:00), Cyprus v Slovenia (20:45)

League D
Group D1: Georgia v Latvia (18:00)
Group D4: FYR Macedonia v Armenia (18:00), Liechtenstein v Gibraltar (20:45)

Listen to the UEFA Nations League anthem
Monday 10 September

League A
Group A3: Portugal v Italy (20:45)

League B
Group B2: Sweden v Turkey (20:45)

League C
Group C1: Scotland v Albania (20:45)
Group C4: Serbia v Romania (20:45), Montenegro v Lithuania (20:45)

League D
Group D1: Andorra v Kazakhstan (20:45)
Group D3: Kosovo v Faroe Islands (20:45), Malta v Azerbaijan (20:45)

Tuesday 11 September

League A
Group A2: Iceland v Belgium (20:45)
Group A4: Spain v Croatia (20:45)

League B
Group B3: Bosnia and Herzegovina v Austria (20:45)

League C
Group C2: Hungary v Greece (20:45), Finland v Estonia (20:45)

League D
Group D2: San Marino v Luxembourg (20:45), Moldova v Belarus (20:45)

[Reg]

Devalues the Euros.

[finchman]

Bring back the home internationals and fuck this shit off.
See what Claude Fuckin Juncker has too say about that.

[kancutlawns]

Areola in goal for the French against Germany.

[delboy1983]

Areola in goal for the French against Germany.

Complete with nipple

[delboy1983]

2-0 already Wales v Republic ,Lawrence and Bale the scorers