Spain seeks rival in the Final Four of the Nations League

Spain will know today (17:30) its schedule for the Final Four of the Nations League (NL), which will be played in the cities of Milan and Turin in October 2021. The National Team will have as a possible rival in the semifinals Italy, Belgium or France, the other three countries qualified for the final round of the competition. The semifinals of the second edition of the NL will be played on October 6 and 7, 2021 and the final and the match for third place on Sunday the 10th of the same month.

In four days, next Monday, December 7, Spain will enter the football hype again to meet its rivals in the qualifying phase for the Qatar-2022 World Cup, which La Roja will start in March with a series of three games. Being in the Final a Cuatro of the NL decompresses the calendar of La Rojaas UEFA has established that the final four teams (Spain, Italy, Belgium and France) will be drawn for the 2022 World Cup into a group of five teams for the qualifying round, instead of a group of six teams to which the rest of the countries of the European zone will go.

Spain qualified first in their group after a brilliant win (6-0) against Germany and he will find an undefeated France in the qualifying phase, with an already consolidated Belgium that has the best scorer in the competition, Lukaku with five goals in five games, and with a new Italy that has managed to make a good team after a long journey, as has happened to the Selection.

As for the World Cup, Spain will be included as European seed in Pot 1 of the FIFA qualification draw for Qatar 2022 alongside France, England, Portugal, Italy, Croatia, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. The European qualification phase for Qatar 2022 will be played between March and November 2021. The top ten teams from each group will achieve the place directly.

UEFA will hold its last Committee of the year this Thursday. In addition to the details about the Final Four of the NL, after the meeting the host country of the final phase of the Conference League 2022, the third club competition that UEFA will launch from next year and the host country of the 2023 European Under-21 Championship.