The new match will divide international locations into three tiers and groups will play in teams of three or 4, with promotion and relegation between the leagues. The high two from every of the 4 League A teams will qualify robotically for the Euros, with the remaining seven locations determined by way of playoffs amongst groups from Leagues B and C.

UEFA launched the boys’s Nations League in 2018 to switch meaningless friendlies with extra aggressive video games.

“The revamped format is interconnected, dynamic and meritocratic, and aims to create a more competitive environment with greater sporting and commercial interest,” UEFA stated in an announcement. The announcement comes on the again of this 12 months’s profitable girls’s European Championship, with the match gained by hosts England setting data for attendances and tv viewers.

“I said this summer that we would continue to invest in women’s football, and we are. Off the back of a historic UEFA Women’s EURO, it is now time to further develop women’s national team football,” stated UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin.