UEFA Nations League 2024/25 competition

For the UEFA Nations League 2024/25 competition this starts with 1st match on 5th September 2024.
There are 54 nations competing in this. RUSSIA STILL BANNED.
League’s A,B and C have 4 groups of 4 teams each.
Each group winner from League A will join the World Cup 2026 qualification play offs from the UEFA confederation.
They will join the 12 WC 2026 UEFA teams that finished 2nd in their WC groups, in the same WC qualification play offs.
SCOTLAND, being the only home nations team in League A are the only home nation team that have 2 chances to qualify for the WC 2026. Direct through WC qualifiers and through Nations League into WC play offs.

The following post will show who the home nations are up against in each group

 

League A
Group A1

Croatia
Poland
Portugal
Scotland
If Scotland finish bottom of this group they will be relegated to League B
Winners of the group will be guaranteed a place in the WC 2026 2nd rd play offs alongside the 3 other Group winners from League A and the 12 teams who finish 2nd in each of their proper WC qualifying groups

League B
Group B2

England
Finland
Rep Of Ireland
Greece

Winners of this group get promoted to League A
Bottom of group get relegated to League C

League B
Group B4

Wales
Iceland
Montenegro
Turkey

Winners of this group get promoted to League A
Bottom of group get relegated to League C


League C
Group C3

Luxembourg
Bulgaria
N Ireland
Belarus

Winners of this group get promoted to League B
Bottom of group get relegated to League D

 

First Scotland match is home against Poland on 5th September then away to Portugal on 8th September then away to Croatia on 12th October

 

I'm not watching any of the games until they get rid of Clarke

 

England Ireland..Come on Ireland!

Soz

 

If anyone interested I’m doing a prediction comp in the competition corner thread.

 

What a * ball that was from Cambiaso man. 2-0 Italy.

 

Italy down to 10 men and Belgium get one back, some finish. Daft challenge Pellegrini.

 

It's scary to think how much you'd need to pay for that Anthony Gordon, he's absolute *, wouldn't even have him as backup for Celtic, he's that bad he wouldn't even get in that * huns team.

Never impresses me.

 

Yass Greece 1-0

 

With current state of play Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales will all be in League B next term and N Ireland remaining in League C

 

Yesssss ya * rats..

Battered all game..

Tried to shithouse and nick a draw through that * * of a boy Bellingham..

Everytime I watch these * it's the same thing. Getting out of jail late undeservedly..

Most overrated country in history..

 

That'll be Carsley *... this and no singing the anthem..

 

* tremendous just had Armenia * my coupon against the Faroes but that late Greek goal has fair cheered me up.

 

I hope they still give it to him..

They've got good player but the next batch after your Kanes, centra halves, Walkers with Trent, lack of deoth in the centre mid positions as most of them are 10 types. No real top class keepers....I think they've missed their real spell where they've had * easy runs and other nations have been pish..

 

This competition is that unpopular, that dismissed and uncared for, I’ve tried to look for highlights for Nations League games. England’s is on ITVs Youtube, found France and thats it. Can’t find any others.

Any other ‘competition’ highlights are up on any game possible on YouTube within a half hour at the latest.

 

I long for the old days when you could watch all the highlights in one place that night, on itv or bbc

 

France v Warmonger IDFC

on Thursday could be a bit heated if the away fans don’t follow the advice to stay away…

Belgium refused to host the last one….

Just get them out of. uefa…

Make them play nicely with the neighbours in the appropriate federation.

 

* ridiculous that we are 11 games deep into a league campaign, ignoring games already played in cup competitions domestically and in Europe and we now on the * 3rd International break of the season.

No wonder players are starting to speak out about the amount of games they are playing.

Really wish breaks like this were scrapped altogether

 

I think players want international football, many of them anyway. It does need to be cut though. Nations league could be cut and that's 6 games plus play offs cut, with teams playing 16-20 games over 2 seasons. Start qualifying earlier so you can easily cut 2 International breaks a season.

FIFA and UEFA care about money, and more so than player welfare. As shown by the club world Cup.