Uefa is considering a radical overhaul of international football that would see national teams playing a new Nations League competition, reports The Guardian. The idea, floated at executive committee meetings that preceded a Uefa meeting in Dubrovnik last month, would see Uefa using existing dates for friendlies in the international calendar to launch a new league involving all 54 member nations.
The new concept, first revealed by Norwegian paper Dagbladet, would see all Uefa's members divided into a series of perhaps nine divisions based on their recent results, with promotion and relegation following each round of matches.
How the groups might look:
First division Spain, Germany, Holland, Italy, England, Portugal
Second division Russia, Greece, Croatia, Sweden, France, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Third division Ukraine, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary, Czech Republic
Fourth division Republic of Ireland, Serbia, Norway, Slovakia, Turkey, Israel
Fifth division Slovenia, Austria, Romania, Montenegro, Poland, Finland
Sixth division Scotland, Armenia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus
Seventh division Wales, Northern Ireland, Albania, Iceland, Lithuania, Macedonia
Eighth division Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Kazakhstan
Ninth division Liechtenstein, Faroe Islands, Malta, Andorra, San Marino, Gibraltar
