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Following the relative success of the Tier 2 nations in the 2015 Rugby World Cup, there were calls by Octavian Morariu, the president of Rugby Europe, to let Georgia and Romania join the Six Nations due to their consistent success in the European Nations Cup and ability to compete in the Rugby World Cup. [2] [3]
The Nations League Finals, originally scheduled for 2–6 June 2021, were moved to October 2021 following the rescheduling of UEFA Euro 2020 to June and July 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] [ 15 ] The scheduling of the league phase was reviewed by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting on 17 June 2020. [ 22 ]
The Nations League Finals took place in October 2021 and were contested by the four group winners of League A. The four teams were each drawn into a five-team group (rather than a six-team group) for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification group stage, thereby leaving the October 2021 window available for the Nations League Finals.
The event was held from June 3 to 6, 2021 at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver, Colorado, [1] and was contested by the four group winners of League A. The event consisted of two semi-finals, a third place play-off, and final to determine the inaugural champions of the CONCACAF Nations League.
The 2022 Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) was the 23rd Six Nations Championship, the annual rugby union competition contested by the national teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, and Wales, and the 128th edition of the competition (including all its previous incarnations as the Home Nations Championship and Five Nations ...
The 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (also referred to as AFCON 2021 or CAN 2021), known as the TotalEnergies 2021 Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons, [4] was the 33rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the biennial international men's football championship of Africa organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
The League C relegation play-outs took place on 21 and 26 March 2024, after UEFA decided that Russia would be excluded from the Nations League due to the country's continued war against Ukraine: therefore, only one team was relegated from League C and two teams (Estonia and Latvia) were promoted from League D, so that the 2024–25 League C ...
Following a format change from the first season, League D was reduced from 16 to 7 teams. [2] The league consisted of the lowest ranked UEFA members from 49–55 in the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League overall ranking , who were split into two groups (one group of four teams and one group of three teams).