ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
 Thursday


UEFA has dissolved Armenia and Azerbaijan in the League of Nations

Yerevan October 12

David Stepanyan. The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)
has teamed up with the national teams of Armenia and Azerbaijan, which
will not be included in the same grouping for the fourth division of
the League of Nations.

According to the press service of UEFA, a similar decision was made
for Russia and Ukraine, whose national teams will not participate in
the same group of the second division of the League of Nations.

Following the qualifying matches of the group stage of the World Cup
in 2018 in the European zone, in the League of Nations of UEFA the
Armenian team will play in the fourth division D together with the
teams taking places from 40th to 50th. These are Azerbaijan,
Macedonia, Georgia, Belarus, the Faroe Islands, Latvia, Luxembourg,
Kazakhstan, Moldova, Liechtenstein, Malta, Kosovo, Andorra, San Marino
and Gibraltar.

Division B - teams, located on the lines from the 13th to the 24th:
Austria, Wales, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Ireland, Sweden, Northern
Ireland, Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic and Turkey.
In the division there will also be four groups of three teams.

The League of Nations was established at the UEFA Congress in the
spring of 2014. The purpose of the new tournament is to save teams
from friendly matches, which will be replaced by official meetings
with roughly equal opponents. The prize fund of the League of Nations
has not yet been named. The tournament will start in September 2018,
and its winner will be known in June 2019.

In total, the League of Nations will be 55, divided into four
divisions (A, B, C and D) of European teams. In each division there
will be four groups, the draw of which will be held on January 24 in
the Swiss Lausanne. The divisions are formed on the basis of the
teams' positions in the rating of the national teams of UEFA, which
takes into account the results of the national teams in the qualifying
and final tournaments of the 2014 World Cup, the 2016 European
Championship, and in the qualification of the 2018 World Cup.