UEFA Nations League 2018/19

UEFA Nations League 2018/19/20
Group stage ( round-robin tournament )
Number of nations	55 (from 55 applicants)
Opening game	September 6, 2018
Tournament end	20th November 2018
Games	138
Gates	333 (⌀: 2.41 per game)
Top scorer	Serbia Aleksandar Mitrović (6 goals)

UEFA Nations League 2018/19/20
Final round ( Final Four )
Number of nations	4 (of 12 applicants)
winner	Portugal Portugal (1st title)
venue	Portugal Portugal
Opening game	5th June 2019
Endgame	June 9, 2019
Games	4th
Gates	9 (⌀: 2.25 per game)
Top scorer	Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo (3 goals)
Best player	Portugal Bernardo Silva

The 2018/19 UEFA Nations League will be the first to play this tournament. It will take place in three phases from September 6, 2018 to March 31, 2020.

A qualification for the European Football Championship 2021 is possible via this competition . The league affiliations in the UEFA Nations League 2020/21 are also determined via promotions and relegations .

mode

Group stage

All 55 UEFA members take part in the UEFA Nations League. It is played in four leagues ( divisions ). For this first draw, the national teams were assigned according to their UEFA coefficients as of October 11, 2017. Leagues A and B consist of four groups with three national teams each, League C consists of one group with three teams and three groups with four teams each. League D consists of four groups with four teams each. The groups within the divisions were drawn by lot on January 24, 2018 in the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne . Each team has to compete twice against all group opponents between September and November 2018. The game is played according to the concept of the week of football , which has been used in the European Championship qualifiers since 2014. Originally it was planned that the group winners of the lower divisions would move up to the next higher league, the bottom of the group (with the exception of League C, Group 1) and the worst group third in League C would be relegated to the next lower class. At the meeting of the UEFA Executive Committee on September 24, 2019 in Ljubljana , it was decided to increase Leagues A, B and C to 16 teams each, so that no team had to be relegated and, furthermore, from League C all runners-up and from League D all Second and the best third in the group rose.

Final round ( Final Four )

The four group winners of the highest league ( Division A ) play the UEFA Nations League winners among themselves in the knockout system in June 2019. The semi-finals will be drawn by lot. The venue will be in one of the four qualifying nations and will be determined by the UEFA Executive Committee in December 2018. The three teams from League A, Group 3 have applied to host the final round: Italy, Poland and Portugal. As UEFA wanted to award the matches to the winner of a group in League A, the decision was only made after the end of the group stage.

As the Portuguese national team won the group ahead of Italy and Poland in Group 3 of League A, the Nations League finals took place in Portugal in June 2019. The venues have been set by UEFA as Porto and Guimaraes.

Play-offs - qualification for the European Championship 2021

The qualification for the European Football Championship 2021 (initially planned for 2020) will be played after the Nations League group phase has ended. The overall table of the UEFA Nations League, which emerged after the end of the group phase, formed the basis for the draw pots for the European Championship qualification. The first 20 EM participants, consisting of the ten group first and second of the ten qualifying groups, are then determined via the qualification games. The four remaining EM tickets will be awarded in play-offs, probably in October and November 2020. The 16 group winners from the group stage of the UEFA Nations League are initially entitled to start. These four teams then play against each other in a knockout system, with two semi-finals and one final for the EM ticket.

However, if some group winners have already qualified for the EM 2021 via the EM qualification groups, there are replacement tables with relatively complex rules, which in extreme cases can lead to four teams from three leagues (League A, League B and League C) play the play-offs for a single European Championship ticket. The only thing that is certain from the outset is that four other teams from all leagues of the UEFA Nations League will travel to the 2021 European Championship after the play-offs are over. Thus, at least one team from each league - even from the lowest division with the weakest teams - will take part in the EM. The play-offs were drawn on November 22, 2019.

Timeframe

The Nations League games will mainly take place on dates on which friendly games would otherwise have been planned, so that there will be hardly any additional workload for the teams and no time conflicts with the dates for the European and World Cups.

year	month	UEFA Nations League 2018/19	EM 2021
2018	September	Group stage, 1st and 2nd matchday
	October	Group stage, 3rd and 4th matchday
	November	Group stage, 5th and 6th matchday
2019	March		Qualification phase, 1st and 2nd matchday
	June	Final round (Final Four)	Qualification phase, 3rd and 4th matchday
	September		Qualification phase, 5th and 6th matchday
	October		Qualification phase, 7th and 8th matchday
	November		Qualification phase, 9th and 10th matchday
2020	October	Qualification phase, play-offs, semi-finals
2020	November	Qualification phase, play-offs, finals
2021	June July		Finals

↑ ^a ^b Does not apply to participants in the Final Four who are drawn into five-man qualification groups and whose play-free days of the European Championship qualification are set to the period of the Final Four.

Group stage

League division

League A

League B

League C

League D

After the group stage of the qualification of UEFA representatives for the 2018 World Cup , UEFA announced the division into leagues on October 11, 2017. The group draw took place on January 24, 2018.

	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
League A	Germany Germany	Belgium Belgium	Portugal Portugal	Spain Spain
	France France	Switzerland Switzerland	Italy Italy	England England
	Netherlands Netherlands	Iceland Iceland	Poland Poland	Croatia Croatia
League B	Slovakia Slovakia	Russia Russia	Austria Austria	Wales Wales
	Ukraine Ukraine	Sweden Sweden	Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina	Ireland Ireland
	Czech Republic Czech Republic	Turkey Turkey	Northern Ireland Northern Ireland	Denmark Denmark
League C	Scotland Scotland	Hungary Hungary	Slovenia Slovenia	Montenegro Montenegro
	Albania Albania	Greece Greece	Bulgaria Bulgaria	Romania Romania
	Israel Israel	Finland Finland	Norway Norway	Serbia Serbia
		Estonia Estonia	Cyprus Republic Cyprus	Lithuania Lithuania
League D	Georgia Georgia	Belarus Belarus	Azerbaijan Azerbaijan	Armenia Armenia
	Latvia Latvia	Luxembourg Luxembourg	Faroese Faroe Islands	North Macedonia Macedonia
	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan	Moldova Republic Moldova	Malta Malta	Liechtenstein Liechtenstein
	Andorra Andorra	San Marino San Marino	Kosovo Kosovo	Gibraltar Gibraltar

League A

Group A1

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Netherlands Netherlands	4th	2	1	1	008: 400	+4	07th
2.	France France	4th	2	1	1	004: 400	± 0	07th
3.	Germany Germany	4th	0	2	2	003: 700	−4	02


September 6, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Munich
Germany	-	France	0-0
September 9, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Saint-Denis
France	-	Netherlands	2: 1 (1: 0)
October 13, 2018 at 8:45 pm at Amsterdam
Netherlands	-	Germany	3: 0 (1: 0)
October 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Saint-Denis
France	-	Germany	2: 1 (0: 1)
November 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Rotterdam
Netherlands	-	France	2: 0 (1: 0)
November 19, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Gelsenkirchen
Germany	-	Netherlands	2: 2 (2: 0)

Group A2

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Switzerland Switzerland	4th	3	1	014: 500	+9	09
2.	Belgium Belgium	4th	3	1	009: 600	+3	09
3.	Iceland Iceland	4th	0	4th	001:130	−12	00


September 8, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in St. Gallen
Switzerland	-	Iceland	6: 0 (2: 0)
September 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Reykjavík
Iceland	-	Belgium	0: 3 (0: 2)
October 12, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Brussels
Belgium	-	Switzerland	2: 1 (0: 0)
October 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Reykjavík
Iceland	-	Switzerland	1: 2 (0: 0)
November 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Brussels
Belgium	-	Iceland	2: 0 (0: 0)
November 18, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Lucerne
Switzerland	-	Belgium	5: 2 (3: 2)

Group A3

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Portugal Portugal	4th	2	2	0	005: 300	+2	08th
2.	Italy Italy	4th	1	2	1	002: 200	± 0	05
3.	Poland Poland	4th	0	2	2	004: 600	−2	02


September 7, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Bologna
Italy	-	Poland	1: 1 (0: 1)
September 10, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Lisbon
Portugal	-	Italy	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Chorzów
Poland	-	Portugal	2: 3 (1: 2)
October 14, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Chorzów
Poland	-	Italy	0: 1 (0: 0)
November 17, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Milan
Italy	-	Portugal	0-0
November 20, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Guimarães
Portugal	-	Poland	1: 1 (1: 0)

Group A4

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	England England	4th	2	1	1	006: 500	+1	07th
2.	Spain Spain	4th	2	0	2	012: 700	+5	06th
3.	Croatia Croatia	4th	1	1	2	004:100	−6	04th


September 8, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in London
England	-	Spain	1: 2 (1: 2)
September 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Elche
Spain	-	Croatia	6: 0 (3: 0)
October 12, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Rijeka
Croatia	-	England	0-0
October 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Seville
Spain	-	England	2: 3 (0: 3)
November 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Zagreb
Croatia	-	Spain	3: 2 (0: 0)
November 18, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. in London
England	-	Croatia	2: 1 (0: 0)

Color legend

At the end of the group stage:
Participants in the final round ( Final Four ) of the 2018/19 UEFA Nations League

League B

Group B1

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Ukraine Ukraine	4th	3	1	005: 500	± 0	09
2.	Czech Republic Czech Republic	4th	2	2	004: 400	± 0	06th
3.	Slovakia Slovakia	4th	1	3	005: 500	± 0	03


September 6, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Uherské Hradiště
Czech Republic	-	Ukraine	1: 2 (1: 1)
September 9, 2018 at 3 p.m. in Lviv
Ukraine	-	Slovakia	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 13, 2018 at 3 p.m. in Trnava
Slovakia	-	Czech Republic	1: 2 (0: 0)
October 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Kharkiv
Ukraine	-	Czech Republic	1: 0 (1: 0)
November 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Trnava
Slovakia	-	Ukraine	4: 1 (2: 0)
November 19, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Prague
Czech Republic	-	Slovakia	1: 0 (1: 0)

Group B2

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Sweden Sweden	4th	2	1	1	005: 300	+2	07th
2.	Russia Russia	4th	2	1	1	004: 300	+1	07th
3.	Turkey Turkey	4th	1	0	3	004: 700	−3	03


September 7, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Trabzon
Turkey	-	Russia	1: 2 (1: 1)
September 10, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Solna
Sweden	-	Turkey	2: 3 (1: 0)
October 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Kaliningrad
Russia	-	Sweden	0-0
October 14, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Sochi
Russia	-	Turkey	2: 0 (1: 0)
November 17, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Konya
Turkey	-	Sweden	0: 1 (0: 0)
November 20, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Solna
Sweden	-	Russia	2: 0 (1: 0)

Group B3

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina	4th	3	1	0	005: 100	+4	10
2.	Austria Austria	4th	2	1	1	003: 200	+1	07th
3.	Northern Ireland Northern Ireland	4th	0	0	4th	002: 700	−5	00


8 September 2018 at 3:00 p.m. in Belfast
Northern Ireland	-	Bosnia Herzegovina	1: 2 (0: 1)
September 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Zenica
Bosnia Herzegovina	-	Austria	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 12, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Vienna
Austria	-	Northern Ireland	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Sarajevo
Bosnia Herzegovina	-	Northern Ireland	2: 0 (1: 0)
November 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Vienna
Austria	-	Bosnia Herzegovina	0-0
18 November 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Belfast
Northern Ireland	-	Austria	1: 2 (0: 0)

Group B4

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Denmark Denmark	4th	2	2	0	004: 100	+3	08th
2.	Wales Wales	4th	2	0	2	006: 500	+1	06th
3.	Ireland Ireland	4th	0	2	2	001: 500	−4	02


September 6, 2018 at 8:45 pm in Cardiff
Wales	-	Ireland	4: 1 (3: 0)
September 9, 2018 at 6 p.m. in Aarhus
Denmark	-	Wales	2: 0 (1: 0)
October 13, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Dublin
Ireland	-	Denmark	0-0
October 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Dublin
Ireland	-	Wales	0: 1 (0: 0)
November 16, 2018 at 8:45 pm in Cardiff
Wales	-	Denmark	1: 2 (0: 1)
November 19, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Aarhus
Denmark	-	Ireland	0-0

Color legend

At the end of the group stage:
Promoted to League A 2020/21

League C

Group C1

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Scotland Scotland	4th	3	1	010: 400	+6	09
2.	Israel Israel	4th	2	2	006: 500	+1	06th
3.	Albania Albania	4th	1	3	001: 800	−7	03


September 7, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Elbasan
Albania	-	Israel	1: 0 (0: 0)
September 10, 2018 at 8:45 pm in Glasgow
Scotland	-	Albania	2: 0 (0: 0)
October 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Haifa
Israel	-	Scotland	2: 1 (0: 1)
October 14, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Beersheba
Israel	-	Albania	2: 0 (1: 0)
November 17, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Shkodra
Albania	-	Scotland	0: 4 (0: 2)
November 20, 2018 at 8:45 pm in Glasgow
Scotland	-	Israel	3: 2 (2: 1)

Group C2

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Finland Finland	6th	4th	0	2	005: 300	+2	12
2.	Hungary Hungary	6th	3	1	2	009: 600	+3	10
3.	Greece Greece	6th	3	0	3	004: 500	−1	09
4th	Estonia Estonia	6th	1	1	4th	004: 800	−4	04th


September 8, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Tampere
Finland	-	Hungary	1: 0 (1: 0)
8 September 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Tallinn
Estonia	-	Greece	0: 1 (0: 1)
September 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Turku
Finland	-	Estonia	1: 0 (1: 0)
September 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Budapest
Hungary	-	Greece	2: 1 (2: 1)
October 12, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Tallinn
Estonia	-	Finland	0: 1 (0: 0)
October 12, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Athens
Greece	-	Hungary	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Tallinn
Estonia	-	Hungary	3: 3 (1: 1)
October 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Tampere
Finland	-	Greece	2: 0 (0: 0)
November 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Budapest
Hungary	-	Estonia	2: 0 (1: 0)
November 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Athens
Greece	-	Finland	1: 0 (1: 0)
November 18, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Athens
Greece	-	Estonia	0: 1 (0: 1)
November 18, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Budapest
Hungary	-	Finland	2: 0 (2: 0)

Group C3

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Norway Norway	6th	4th	1	1	007: 200	+5	13
2.	Bulgaria Bulgaria	6th	3	2	1	007: 500	+2	11
3.	Cyprus Republic Cyprus	6th	1	2	3	005: 900	−4	05
4th	Slovenia Slovenia	6th	0	3	3	005: 800	−3	03


September 6, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Ljubljana
Slovenia	-	Bulgaria	1: 2 (1: 1)
September 6, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Oslo
Norway	-	Cyprus	2: 0 (2: 0)
September 9, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Sofia
Bulgaria	-	Norway	1: 0 (0: 0)
September 9, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Nicosia
Cyprus	-	Slovenia	2: 1 (0: 0)
October 13, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Oslo
Norway	-	Slovenia	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 13, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Sofia
Bulgaria	-	Cyprus	2: 1 (0: 1)
October 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Oslo
Norway	-	Bulgaria	1: 0 (1: 0)
October 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Ljubljana
Slovenia	-	Cyprus	1: 1 (0: 1)
November 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Nicosia
Cyprus	-	Bulgaria	1: 1 (1: 0)
November 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Ljubljana
Slovenia	-	Norway	1: 1 (1: 0)
November 19, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Sofia
Bulgaria	-	Slovenia	1: 1 (0: 0)
November 19, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Nicosia
Cyprus	-	Norway	0: 2 (0: 1)

Group C4

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Serbia Serbia	6th	4th	2	0	011: 400	+7	14th
2.	Romania Romania	6th	3	3	0	008: 300	+5	12
3.	Montenegro Montenegro	6th	2	1	3	007: 600	+1	07th
4th	Lithuania Lithuania	6th	0	0	6th	003:160	−13	00


September 7, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Vilnius
Lithuania	-	Serbia	0: 1 (0: 1)
September 7, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Ploieşti
Romania	-	Montenegro	0-0
September 10, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Podgorica
Montenegro	-	Lithuania	2: 0 (1: 0)
September 10, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Belgrade
Serbia	-	Romania	2: 2 (1: 0)
October 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Vilnius
Lithuania	-	Romania	1: 2 (0: 1)
October 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Podgorica
Montenegro	-	Serbia	0: 2 (0: 1)
October 14, 2018 at 3 p.m. in Bucharest
Romania	-	Serbia	0-0
October 14, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Vilnius
Lithuania	-	Montenegro	1: 4 (0: 3)
November 17, 2018 at 3 p.m. in Belgrade
Serbia	-	Montenegro	2: 1 (2: 0)
November 17, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Ploieşti
Romania	-	Lithuania	3: 0 (1: 0)
November 20, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Belgrade
Serbia	-	Lithuania	4: 1 (0: 0)
November 20, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Podgorica
Montenegro	-	Romania	0: 1 (0: 1)

Color legend

At the end of the group stage:
Promoted to League B 2020/21

League D

Group D1

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Georgia Georgia	6th	5	1	0	012: 200	+10	16
2.	Kazakhstan Kazakhstan	6th	1	3	2	008: 700	+1	06th
3.	Latvia Latvia	6th	0	4th	2	002: 600	−4	04th
4th	Andorra Andorra	6th	0	4th	2	002: 900	−7	04th


September 6, 2018 at 4:00 p.m. in Astana
Kazakhstan	-	Georgia	0: 2 (0: 0)
September 6, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Riga
Latvia	-	Andorra	0-0
September 9, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Tbilisi
Georgia	-	Latvia	1: 0 (0: 0)
September 10, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Andorra la Vella
Andorra	-	Kazakhstan	1: 1 (0: 0)
October 13, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Tbilisi
Georgia	-	Andorra	3: 0 (1: 0)
October 13, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Riga
Latvia	-	Kazakhstan	1: 1 (1: 1)
October 16, 2018 at 4:00 p.m. in Astana
Kazakhstan	-	Andorra	4: 0 (2: 0)
October 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Riga
Latvia	-	Georgia	0: 3 (0: 2)
November 15, 2018 at 4:00 p.m. in Astana
Kazakhstan	-	Latvia	1: 1 (1: 0)
November 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Andorra la Vella
Andorra	-	Georgia	1: 1 (0: 1)
November 19, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Tbilisi
Georgia	-	Kazakhstan	2: 1 (0: 0)
November 19, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Andorra la Vella
Andorra	-	Latvia	0-0

Group D2

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Belarus Belarus	6th	4th	2	0	010-000	+10	14th
2.	Luxembourg Luxembourg	6th	3	1	2	011: 400	+7	10
3.	Moldova Republic Moldova	6th	2	3	1	004: 500	−1	09
4th	San Marino San Marino	6th	0	0	6th	000:160	−16	00


September 8, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Minsk
Belarus	-	San Marino	5: 0 (2: 0)
September 8, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Luxembourg
Luxembourg	-	Moldova	4: 0 (1: 0)
September 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Chișinău
Moldova	-	Belarus	0-0
September 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Serravalle
San Marino	-	Luxembourg	0: 3 (0: 2)
October 12, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Minsk
Belarus	-	Luxembourg	1: 0 (0: 0)
October 12, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Chișinău
Moldova	-	San Marino	2: 0 (0: 0)
October 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Minsk
Belarus	-	Moldova	0-0
October 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Luxembourg
Luxembourg	-	San Marino	3: 0 (1: 0)
November 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Luxembourg
Luxembourg	-	Belarus	0: 2 (0: 1)
November 15, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Serravalle
San Marino	-	Moldova	0: 1 (0: 0)
November 18, 2018 at 6 p.m. in Serravalle
San Marino	-	Belarus	0: 2 (0: 1)
November 18, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Chișinău
Moldova	-	Luxembourg	1: 1 (0: 0)

Group D3

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Kosovo Kosovo	6th	4th	2	0	015: 200	+13	14th
2.	Azerbaijan Azerbaijan	6th	2	3	1	007: 600	+1	09
3.	Faroese Faroe Islands	6th	1	2	3	005:100	−5	05
4th	Malta Malta	6th	0	3	3	005:140	−9	03


September 7, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Baku
Azerbaijan	-	Kosovo	0-0
September 7, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Tórshavn
Faroe Islands	-	Malta	3: 1 (2: 1)
September 10, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Attard
Malta	-	Azerbaijan	1: 1 (1: 1)
September 10, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Pristina
Kosovo	-	Faroe Islands	2: 0 (0: 0)
October 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Tórshavn
Faroe Islands	-	Azerbaijan	0: 3 (0: 1)
October 11, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Pristina
Kosovo	-	Malta	3: 1 (1: 0)
October 14, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Baku
Azerbaijan	-	Malta	1: 1 (0: 1)
October 14, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Tórshavn
Faroe Islands	-	Kosovo	1: 1 (0: 1)
November 17, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Baku
Azerbaijan	-	Faroe Islands	2: 0 (2: 0)
November 17, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Attard
Malta	-	Kosovo	0: 5 (0: 1)
November 20, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Pristina
Kosovo	-	Azerbaijan	4: 0 (1: 0)
November 20, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. at Attard
Malta	-	Faroe Islands	1: 1 (1: 1)

Group D4

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Macedonia 1995 Macedonia	6th	5	0	1	014: 500	+9	15th
2.	Armenia Armenia	6th	3	1	2	014: 800	+6	10
3.	Gibraltar Gibraltar	6th	2	0	4th	005:150	−10	06th
4th	Liechtenstein Liechtenstein	6th	1	1	4th	007:120	−5	04th


September 6, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Yerevan
Armenia	-	Liechtenstein	2: 1 (1: 1)
September 6, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Gibraltar
Gibraltar	-	Macedonia	0: 2 (0: 2)
September 9, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Skopje
Macedonia	-	Armenia	2: 0 (1: 0)
September 9, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Vaduz
Liechtenstein	-	Gibraltar	2: 0 (1: 0)
October 13, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Yerevan
Armenia	-	Gibraltar	0: 1 (0: 0)
October 13, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Skopje
Macedonia	-	Liechtenstein	4: 1 (3: 1)
October 16, 2018 at 6:00 p.m. in Yerevan
Armenia	-	Macedonia	4: 0 (1: 0)
October 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Gibraltar
Gibraltar	-	Liechtenstein	2: 1 (0: 1)
November 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Vaduz
Liechtenstein	-	Macedonia	0: 2 (0: 0)
November 16, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Gibraltar
Gibraltar	-	Armenia	2: 6 (1: 1)
November 19, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Skopje
Macedonia	-	Gibraltar	4: 0 (1: 0)
November 19, 2018 at 8:45 p.m. in Vaduz
Liechtenstein	-	Armenia	2: 2 (1: 1)

Color legend

At the end of the group stage:
Promoted to League C 2020/21

Final round ( Final Four )

Qualified teams

The winners of groups A1, A2, A3 and A4 of League A qualify for the final round.

	team	Qualification date
Winner A1	Netherlands Netherlands	19th November 2018
Winner A2	Switzerland Switzerland	18th November 2018
Winner A3	Portugal Portugal	17th November 2018
Winner A4	England England	18th November 2018

After the qualified teams had been determined, the semi-final pairings were drawn on December 3, 2018 in the Hotel Shelbourne in Dublin , Ireland , and the venues in the country of the winner of group A3 ( Portugal ) were announced at the same time .

Semifinals

June 5, 2019, 8:45 p.m., Porto
Portugal Portugal	-	Switzerland Switzerland	3: 1 (1: 0)
June 6, 2019, 8:45 p.m., Guimarães
Netherlands Netherlands	-	England England	3: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1)

3rd place match

June 9, 2019, 3 p.m., Guimarães
Switzerland Switzerland	-	England England	0: 0 a. E.

final

June 9, 2019, 8:45 p.m., Porto
Portugal Portugal	-	Netherlands Netherlands	1: 0 (0: 0)

Nations League final table

The final table is determined from the games in the group stage and for the top four positions through the final round. It is needed to determine the pairings for the third phase of the Nations League, the play-offs. It is also used for the 2021 European Football Championship to determine seeding lists and lottery pots for the draws for the qualification groups .

League A
rank	team	Lottery pot EM-Q	Play-off EM-Q
1	Portugal	UNL	Q
2	Netherlands	UNL	Q
3	England	UNL	Q
4th	Switzerland	UNL	Q
5	Belgium	1	Q
6th	France	1	Q
7th	Spain	1	Q
8th	Italy	1	Q
9	Croatia	1	Q
10	Poland	1	Q
11	Germany	2	Q
12	Iceland	2	Way a

League B
rank	team	Lottery pot EM-Q	Play-off EM-Q
13	Bosnia Herzegovina	2	Way B
14th	Ukraine	2	Q
15th	Denmark	2	Q
16	Sweden	2	Q
17th	Russia	2	Q
18th	Austria	2	Q
19th	Wales	2	Q
20th	Czech Republic	2	Q
21st	Slovakia	3	Way B
22nd	Turkey	3	Q
23	Ireland	3	Way B
24	Northern Ireland	3	Way B

League C
rank	team	Lottery pot EM-Q	Play-off EM-Q
25th	Scotland	3	Way C
26th	Norway	3	Way C
27	Serbia	3	Way C
28	Finland	3	Q
29	Bulgaria	3	Way a
30th	Israel	3	Way C
31	Hungary	4th	Way a
32	Romania	4th	Way a
33	Greece	4th	DNQ
34	Albania	4th	DNQ
35	Montenegro	4th	DNQ
36	Cyprus	4th	DNQ
37	Estonia	4th	DNQ
38	Slovenia	4th	DNQ
39	Lithuania	4th	DNQ

League D
rank	team	Lottery pot EM-Q	Play-off EM-Q
40	Georgia	4th	Way D
41	North Macedonia	5	Way D
42	Kosovo	5	Way D
43	Belarus	5	Way D
44	Luxembourg	5	DNQ
45	Armenia	5	DNQ
46	Azerbaijan	5	DNQ
47	Kazakhstan	5	DNQ
48	Moldova	5	DNQ
49	Gibraltar	5	DNQ
50	Faroe Islands	5	DNQ
51	Latvia	6th	DNQ
52	Liechtenstein	6th	DNQ
53	Andorra	6th	DNQ
54	Malta	6th	DNQ
55	San Marino	6th	DNQ

Note: For League C with its groups of different sizes, the results of the first three teams against the bottom of the group are not taken into account for the creation of this final table in groups of four, 2, 3 and 4. Status after the draw for the play-offs on November 22, 2019.

Explanation:

UNL: Lostopf for the first four qualifying groups with five teams (UNL stands for the final round of the subscriber U EFA N ations L eague)
Q: Directly qualified for the EM
Path A / B / C / D: Not directly qualified for the EM, but for a play-off path
DNQ (did not qualify) : Not qualified (neither directly nor for the play-offs)

Best goal scorers

Aleksandar Mitrović scored 6 goals for Serbia in Liga C. He is the top scorer in the group stage.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the top scorer in the finals with 3 goals. He scored all 3 goals in the semi-final against Switzerland.

referee

The following referees have been used in the Nations League 2018/19 so far (as of November 19, 2018, number of games played in brackets ):

League A

Germany Felix Brych (2)
Germany Felix Zwayer (1)
England Michael Oliver (1)
England Anthony Taylor (1)
France Benoît Bastien (1)
France Clement Turpin (1)
Greece Anastasios Sidiropoulos (1)
Israel Orel Grinfeld (1)
Italy Daniele Orsato (2)
Netherlands Danny Makkelie (2)
Poland Szymon Marciniak (1)
Romania Ovidiu Hațegan (1)
Russia Sergei Karassev (2)
Scotland William Collum (1)
Sweden Andreas Ekberg (1)
Serbia Milorad Mažić (1)
Slovenia Damir Skomina (1)
Spain Carlos del Cerro Grande (1)
Spain Antonio Mateu Lahoz (1)
Spain Alberto Undiano Mallenco (1)
Turkey Cüneyt Çakır (1)
Belarus Aljaksej Kulbakou (1)

League B

Azerbaijan Aliyar Aghayev (1)
Belgium Jonathan Lardot (1)
Bulgaria Georgi Kabakov (1)
Germany Deniz Aytekin (1)
England Anthony Taylor (1)
Finland Mattias Gestranius (1)
France Benoît Bastien (1)
France Ruddy Buquet (1)
France Clement Turpin (1)
Greece Anastasios Sidiropoulos (1)
Italy Luca Banti (1)
Lithuania Gediminas Mažeika (1)
Montenegro Nikola Dabanović (1)
Netherlands Bjorn Kuipers (1)
Poland Paweł Raczkowski (1)
Portugal Artur Dias (1)
Romania István Kovács (1)
Scotland Andrew Dallas (1)
Slovakia Ivan Kružliak (1)
Slovenia Slavko Vinčić (1)
Spain Xavier Estrada Fernández (1)
Spain Alejandro Hernández Hernández (1)
Spain Jesus Gil Manzano (1)
Czech Republic Pavel Královec (1)

League C

Albania Enea Jorgji (1)
Belarus Aljaksej Kulbakou (1)
Denmark Jakob Kehlet (1)
Denmark Mads-Kristoffer Kristoffersen (1)
Germany Daniel Siebert (1)
Germany Tobias Stieler (1)
Germany Tobias Welz (1)
Germany Felix Zwayer (1)
England Craig Pawson (1)
Estonia Kristo Tohver (1)
France Ruddy Buquet (1)
France François Letexier (1)
Israel Orel Grinfeld (1)
Italy Luca Banti (1)
Italy Marco Guida (1)
Italy Davide Massa (1)
Italy Paolo Mazzoleni (1)
Italy Gianluca Rocchi (1)
Latvia Andris Treimanis (1)
Lithuania Gediminas Mažeika (1)
Netherlands Kevin Blom (1)
Netherlands Serdar Gözübüyük (1)
Austria Robert Schörgenhofer (1)
Poland Paweł Gil (1)
Poland Daniel Stefański (2)
Romania István Kovács (1)
Russia Vladislav Besborodov (2)
Scotland John Beaton (1)
Scotland Bobby Madden (1)
Sweden Mohammed Al-Hakim (1)
Serbia Srđan Jovanović (1)
Slovakia Ivan Kružliak (1)
Slovenia Matej Jug (1)
Slovenia Slavko Vinčić (1)
Spain Alberto Undiano Mallenco (1)
Turkey Huseyin Gocek (1)
Turkey Halis Ozkahya (1)
Ukraine Yevhen Aranovsky (1)
Hungary Viktor Kassai (1)
Hungary Istvan Vad (1)

League D

Albania Enea Jorgji (1)
Belgium Beard Vertenten (1)
Denmark Jens Maae (2)
Finland Ville Nevalainen (1)
France Benoît Millot (1)
Georgia Giorgi Kruashvili (1)
Greece Georgios Kominis (1)
Greece Anastasios Papapetrou (1)
Ireland Rob Harvey (1)
Iceland Vilhjálmur Thórarinsson (1)
Israel Roi Reinshreiber (1)
Kazakhstan Daniyar Sakhi (1)
Croatia Ivan Bebek (1)
Croatia Mario Zebec (1)
Latvia Aleksandrs Golubevs (1)
Luxembourg Alain Durieux (1)
Malta Alan Mario Sant (1)
Montenegro Nikola Dabanović (1)
Netherlands Kevin Blom (1)
Netherlands Serdar Gözübüyük (1)
Northern Ireland Keith Kennedy (1)
Norway Ola Hobber Nilsen (1)
Norway Kai Erik Steen (1)
Austria Harald Lechner (1)
Austria Manuel Schüttengruber (1)
Poland Bartosz Frankowski (1)
Portugal Tiago Martins (1)
Romania Radu Petrescu (1)
Russia Alexei Jeskow (1)
Russia Vitaly Meshkov (1)
Scotland Kevin Clancy (1)
Sweden Martin Strömbergsson (1)
Switzerland Adrien Jaccottet (1)
Switzerland Fedayi San (1)
Switzerland Sandro Schärer (1)
Slovakia Filip Glova (1)
Czech Republic Petr Ardeleanu (2)
Czech Republic Miroslav Zelinka (1)
Turkey Halil Umut Meler (2)
Turkey Ali Palabıyık (1)
Ukraine Serhiy Bojko (1)
Hungary Tamás Bognár (1)
Cyprus Republic Vasilis Dimitriou (1)
Cyprus Republic Demetrios Masias (1)
Cyprus Republic Leondios Trattou (1)

Broadcast and reporting

Germany

The four Nations League games of the German national team in the group stage were broadcast by ARD and ZDF , as was the Final Four . The remaining group games, but also the Final Four, were broadcast to DAZN . Since Germany played in League A and thus in a group of three, the German team had two game days off. Instead, friendly matches were held on these match days and were broadcast by the private broadcaster RTL .

Switzerland

The SRG SSR institutions equipment SRF , RTS , RSI and RTR had the right to the games of the Nations League the senior team , radio and accompany exclusively on television multimedia.

Austria

The Nations League games with Austrian participation as well as the Final Four were broadcast by Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). The ORF secured the radio, online and television broadcasting rights until 2022.

Web links

UEFA Nations League - 2018/19 - Official website of the UEFA Nations League
Green light for UEFA Nations League - information about the competition on the UEFA website (27 March 2014)

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