Uefa has confirmed the format for the new Uefa Nations League international tournament, reports, www.sportspromedia.com/.
The competition will feature promotion and relegation, and will see the continent's 55 national teams divided into four leagues in accordance with their national association coefficient rankings, which are due to be released on 11th October 2017.
League A will be made up of the top-ranked sides while League D will comprise the lowest-ranked.
The first edition of the new tournament is scheduled to begin on 6th September 2018, less than two months after the end of the 2018 Fifa World Cup in Russia.
Each league will be sub-divided into four groups of three or four teams, and nations will play each other home and away during September and November 2018.
The winners of each of the bottom three groups will be promoted while the side that finishes bottom will be relegated to the league below. The four group winners of League A will qualify for the Uefa Nations League Finals, which are scheduled to be staged in June 2019, and will feature two semi-finals, a third-place play-off and the final.
The Uefa executive committee will select a host country for the finals from the four qualified teams.