How to play the European National League?

The 55 teams in Europe are all divided into four grades: A, B, C and D. According to the home and away games, each event has promotion and demotion, and each grade competes for the championship.

Scoring rules:

The seats of 55 national teams were determined according to the ranking of FIFA at that time. The highest ranked team 12 constitutes a league, followed by 12 constitutes a league B, and the remaining 3 1 0 constitutes a league C and a league D of 16 respectively. Among them, there are 4 groups and 3 teams in League A and League B, 3 teams in League C 1 Group and 4 teams in League D. ..

Promotion and demotion rules:

Each team will play the home and away round robin from September 6th. After six international matches, the ranking of each team is determined, and the number of relegation places is determined according to the group ranking: the team at the bottom of each group in the A and B leagues is "relegated" and relegated to the next team in the European National League in 2020-2 1 season to participate in the group draw. The C League, with a slightly larger number of teams, will be relegated by the difference: in addition to the relegation of the team at the bottom, the third place with the worst performance in the four groups will also be relegated to the D League.

According to the national league competition system, the top four teams in the B, C and D leagues will directly advance to the next level, replacing the previously relegated teams to participate in the next national league grouping.

Final stage:

And the four champions of A-League are "precious". They will enter the final stage of the first European national league, and draw lots to decide the semi-final (decisive game, not home and away). The winner enters the final, and the loser decides three or four.

European Cup wild card play-offs:

According to the rules, each of the four levels of the European National League A, B, C and D can decide a qualifying team.

16 qualification for play-offs, first in the national league 16 group match. However, if the above-mentioned teams have already qualified in the European Cup qualifiers, the number of places to participate in the play-offs will be postponed to the team whose performance is second only to the top of each group in the same league.

If there are too many teams in the first-level league, such as 12 teams in the A-level league, there may not be four teams that have not qualified for the European Cup, then the remaining vacancies can be replaced by teams in the lower-level B-level league.