New UEFA International Qualifying Structure

[Frankie Burrows Cap]

Impacts all qualifying and Nations League after Euro 2028

New concept for men’s national team competitions as of 2028 approved today

European Qualifiers to be structured over a tiered system of two leagues.

www.uefa.com

 

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The written explanation was making my brain stall, but thankfully there's a link to pdf/powerpoint in there to make it clearer for simple people like me...

 

[Frankie Burrows Cap]

The written explanation was making my brain stall, but thankfully there's a link to pdf/powerpoint in there to make it clearer for simple people like me...

Yeah, sorry I should have mentioned that!

It’s probably not in the first language of the person writing it but it was really poorly written. The PDF makes sense though.

I always thought they’d look to link the Nations league structure to qualification so there are fewer dead rubbers.

Interesting that all qualification is condensed to two windows in September - November (6 matches) with playoffs in the March that follows.

Looks like they’ll have to tweak the playoffs next March for this iteration of the Nations League to go from the 16-16-16-6 structure to 18-18-18.