The first edition of the "UEFA League " tournament kicks off Thursday evening, after it was formally adopted in December 2018 following the meeting of the EU executive committee " UEFA " .
UEFA introduced the tournament to replace the international friendly games on the one hand, and help the small European national federations to arrange strong matches with the big European teams on the other hand .
The 55 member teams are divided after Kosovo joins four levels, with 12 elected in Level I, 12 in level II, 15 in Level III and 16 at level 4.
The top 12 European teams--according to the October 2017 classification--were placed in the first round, which consists of four groups of three groups each, which will play in September, October and November.
Each team will play two round-trip matches in front of the other teams in its collection, and the group leaders in league a qualify for the Golden box of the tournament, where the final and final rotation is held in June 2019 in one place determined by the UEFA, in order to determine the champion of the first version of the competition .
While the four-tailed teams to arrange their collections fall to the second level, and the four-tailed teams drop out to arrange their second-to third-level groups, the same is the case for the third level tail with the owner of the worst third place .
The country hosting the first edition of the tournament has not yet been set, but will probably be held in Italy, Poland or Portugal after the three countries have shown their desire to organize, and the UEFA will take its final decision in December .
The tournament will provide a successor to the Euro 2020, where four places will be available to qualify for one team from each level, and in each level the group leaders will run a playoff tour, which will include two final games in addition to the finals, and the winner would eventually ascend to the Europe 2020 tournament .
If the leader of any group qualifies for the Europe 2020 tournament through the usual qualifiers, his place in the European league's round-trip will be awarded to the next team in his ranking and not the next team in his group .