2018–19 UEFA Nations League D

The 2018–19 UEFA Nations League D was the fourth and lowest division of the 2018–19 edition of the UEFA Nations League, the inaugural season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of UEFA.[1]

2018–19 UEFA Nations League D
Tournament details
Dates6 September – 20 November 2018
Teams16
Promoted Armenia
 Azerbaijan
 Belarus
 Georgia
 Kazakhstan
 Kosovo
 Luxembourg
 Macedonia
 Moldova
Tournament statistics
Matches played48
Goals scored121 (2.52 per match)
Attendance435,442 (9,072 per match)
Top scorer(s) Yura Movsisyan
Stanislaw Drahun
(5 goals each)

Format

League D consisted of the lowest 16 UEFA members ranked from 40–55, who were split into four groups of four. The top two teams of each group, as well as the best ranked third-place team, were promoted to the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League C.[2]

In addition, League D was allocated one of the four remaining UEFA Euro 2020 places. Four teams from League D which had not already qualified for the European Championship finals competed in the play-offs for each division, which were played in October and November 2020. The play-off berths were first allocated to the group winners, and if any of the group winners had already qualified for the European Championship finals, then to the next best ranked team of the division, etc. If there were fewer than four teams in League D which had not already qualified for the European Championship finals, and League D had no group winner available, the best team in the overall ranking would be selected. The play-offs consisted of two "one-off" semi-finals (best-ranked team vs. fourth best-ranked team and second best-ranked team vs. third best-ranked team, played at home of higher-ranked teams) and one "one-off" final between the two semi-final winners (venue drawn in advance between semi-final 1 and 2).[3][4]

Seeding

Teams were allocated to League D according to their UEFA national team coefficients after the conclusion of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying group stage on 11 October 2017. Teams were split into four pots of four teams, ordered based on their UEFA national team coefficient.[5][6] The seeding pots for the draw were announced on 7 December 2017.[7]

Pot 1
Team Coeff Rank
 Azerbaijan 17,761 40
 Macedonia 17,071 41
 Belarus 16,868 42
 Georgia 16,523 43
Pot 2
Team Coeff Rank
 Armenia 15,846 44
 Latvia 15,821 45
 Faroe Islands 15,490 46
 Luxembourg 14,231 47
Pot 3
Team Coeff Rank
 Kazakhstan 13,431 48
 Moldova 13,130 49
 Liechtenstein 10,950 50
 Malta 10,870 51
Pot 4
Team Coeff Rank
 Andorra 10,240 52
 Kosovo 9,950 53
 San Marino 8,190 54
 Gibraltar 7,550 55

The group draw took place at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne, Switzerland on 24 January 2018, 12:00 CET.[8][9][10][11] For political reasons, Armenia and Azerbaijan could not be drawn into the same group (due to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict). Due to excessive travel restrictions, any group could only contain a maximum of one of the following pairs: Andorra and Kazakhstan, Faroe Islands and Kazakhstan, Gibraltar and Kazakhstan, Gibraltar and Azerbaijan.[12]

Groups

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 24 January 2018 following the draw.[13][14]

Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion[lower-alpha 1]
1  Georgia (P) 6 5 1 0 12 2 +10 16 Promotion to League C — 2–1 1–0 3–0
2  Kazakhstan (P) 6 1 3 2 8 7 +1 6 0–2 — 1–1 4–0
3  Latvia 6 0 4 2 2 6 −4 4[lower-alpha 2] 0–3 1–1 — 0–0
4  Andorra 6 0 4 2 2 9 −7 4[lower-alpha 2] 1–1 1–1 0–0 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(P) Promoted.
Notes:
  1. Due to revamp of the format for the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League, the second-placed teams in each group and the best third-placed team among all groups were also promoted.
  2. Tied on head-to-head results. Overall goal difference was used as the tiebreaker.
Kazakhstan 0–2 Georgia
Report
Attendance: 28,736[15]
Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey)
Latvia 0–0 Andorra
Report
Attendance: 4,803[15]
Referee: Keith Kennedy (Northern Ireland)
Georgia 1–0 Latvia
 Report
Attendance: 45,716[15]
Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Greece)
Andorra 1–1 Kazakhstan
 Report
Attendance: 1,235[15]
Referee: Vilhjálmur Þórarinsson (Iceland)
Georgia 3–0 Andorra
 Report
Attendance: 32,212[15]
Referee: Leontios Trattou (Cyprus)
Latvia 1–1 Kazakhstan
 Report
Attendance: 4,878[15]
Kazakhstan 4–0 Andorra
 Report
Attendance: 19,854[15]
Latvia 0–3 Georgia
Report
Attendance: 3,185[15]
Kazakhstan 1–1 Latvia
 Report
Attendance: 21,463[15]
Referee: Jens Maae (Denmark)
Andorra 1–1 Georgia
 Report
Attendance: 1,311[15]
Andorra 0–0 Latvia
Report
Attendance: 1,021[15]
Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey)
Georgia 2–1 Kazakhstan
 Report
Attendance: 52,220[15]

Group 2
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion[lower-alpha 1]
1  Belarus (P) 6 4 2 0 10 0 +10 14 Promotion to League C — 1–0 0–0 5–0
2  Luxembourg (P) 6 3 1 2 11 4 +7 10 0–2 — 4–0 3–0
3  Moldova (P) 6 2 3 1 4 5 −1 9 0–0 1–1 — 2–0
4  San Marino 6 0 0 6 0 16 −16 0 0–2 0–3 0–1 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(P) Promoted.
Notes:
  1. Due to revamp of the format for the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League, the second-placed teams in each group and the best third-placed team among all groups were also promoted.
Belarus 5–0 San Marino
 Report
Attendance: 13,634[17]
Luxembourg 4–0 Moldova
 Report
Attendance: 2,956[17]
Referee: Rob Harvey (Republic of Ireland)
San Marino 0–3 Luxembourg
Report
Attendance: 794[17]
Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia)
Moldova 0–0 Belarus
Report
Attendance: 4,942[17]
Referee: Mario Zebec (Croatia)
Belarus 1–0 Luxembourg
 Report
Attendance: 14,122[17]
Moldova 2–0 San Marino
 Report
Attendance: 5,242[17]
Referee: Bryn Markham-Jones (Wales)
Belarus 0–0 Moldova
Report
Attendance: 10,870[17]
Luxembourg 3–0 San Marino
 Report
Attendance: 2,876[17]
Referee: Aleksandrs Golubevs (Latvia)
San Marino 0–1 Moldova
Report
Attendance: 747[17]
Referee: Georgios Kominis (Greece)
Luxembourg 0–2 Belarus
Report
Attendance: 4,533[17]
Moldova 1–1 Luxembourg
 Report
Attendance: 4,642[17]
San Marino 0–2 Belarus
Report
Attendance: 736[17]
Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)

Group 3
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion[lower-alpha 1]
1  Kosovo (P) 6 4 2 0 15 2 +13 14 Promotion to League C — 4–0 2–0 3–1
2  Azerbaijan (P) 6 2 3 1 7 6 +1 9 0–0 — 2–0 1–1
3  Faroe Islands 6 1 2 3 5 10 −5 5 1–1 0–3 — 3–1
4  Malta 6 0 3 3 5 14 −9 3 0–5 1–1 1–1 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(P) Promoted.
Notes:
  1. Due to revamp of the format for the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League, the second-placed teams in each group and the best third-placed team among all groups were also promoted.
Azerbaijan 0–0 Kosovo
Report
Attendance: 19,500[18]
Referee: Ola Hobber Nilsen (Norway)
Faroe Islands 3–1 Malta
 Report
Attendance: 3,234[18]
Referee: Ville Nevalainen (Finland)
Kosovo 2–0 Faroe Islands
 Report
Attendance: 12,677[18]
Referee: Bart Vertenten (Belgium)
Malta 1–1 Azerbaijan
 Report
Attendance: 4,500[18]
Faroe Islands 0–3 Azerbaijan
Report
Attendance: 2,820[18]
Kosovo 3–1 Malta
 Report
Attendance: 12,420[18]
Azerbaijan 1–1 Malta
 Report
Attendance: 16,200[18]
Referee: Ivan Bebek (Croatia)
Faroe Islands 1–1 Kosovo
 Report
Attendance: 2,300[18]
Azerbaijan 2–0 Faroe Islands
 Report
Attendance: 12,653[18]
Referee: Demetrios Masias (Cyprus)
Malta 0–5 Kosovo
Report
Attendance: 2,115[18]
Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)
Kosovo 4–0 Azerbaijan
 Report
Attendance: 12,532[18]
Referee: Benoît Millot (France)
Malta 1–1 Faroe Islands
 Report
Attendance: 2,152[18]

Group 4
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion[lower-alpha 1]
1  Macedonia (P) 6 5 0 1 14 5 +9 15 Promotion to League C — 2–0 4–0 4–1
2  Armenia (P) 6 3 1 2 14 8 +6 10 4–0 — 0–1 2–1
3  Gibraltar 6 2 0 4 5 15 −10 6 0–2 2–6 — 2–1
4  Liechtenstein 6 1 1 4 7 12 −5 4 0–2 2–2 2–0 —
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(P) Promoted.
Notes:
  1. Due to revamp of the format for the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League, the second-placed teams in each group and the best third-placed team among all groups were also promoted.
Armenia 2–1 Liechtenstein
 Report
Attendance: 5,132[19]
Referee: Enea Jorgji (Albania)
Gibraltar 0–2 Macedonia
Report
Attendance: 1,850[19]
Referee: Jens Maae (Denmark)
Macedonia 2–0 Armenia
 Report
Attendance: 4,730[19]
Liechtenstein 2–0 Gibraltar
 Report
Attendance: 1,110[19]
Referee: Alan Mario Sant (Malta)
Armenia 0–1 Gibraltar
Report
Attendance: 11,000[19]
Referee: Fedayi San (Switzerland)
Macedonia 4–1 Liechtenstein
 Report
Attendance: 8,100[19]
Referee: Roi Reinshreiber (Israel)
Armenia 4–0 Macedonia
 Report
Attendance: 8,300[19]
Gibraltar 2–1 Liechtenstein
 Report
Attendance: 2,000[19]
Referee: Vasilis Dimitriou (Cyprus)
Gibraltar 2–6 Armenia
 Report
Attendance: 1,955[19]
Referee: Kai Erik Steen (Norway)
Liechtenstein 0–2 Macedonia
Report
Attendance: 2,116[19]
Macedonia 4–0 Gibraltar
 Report
Attendance: 2,152[19]
Referee: Daniyar Sakhi (Kazakhstan)
Liechtenstein 2–2 Armenia
 Report
Attendance: 1,166[19]
Referee: Alain Durieux (Luxembourg)

Ranking of third-placed teams
Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion
1 D2  Moldova (P) 6 2 3 1 4 5 −1 9 Promotion to League C
2 D4  Gibraltar 6 2 0 4 5 15 −10 6
3 D3  Faroe Islands 6 1 2 3 5 10 −5 5
4 D1  Latvia 6 0 4 2 2 6 −4 4
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Wins; 6) Away wins; 7) Disciplinary points; 8) UEFA national team coefficient.
(P) Promoted.

Goalscorers

There were 121 goals scored in 48 matches, for an average of 2.52 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Overall ranking

The 16 League D teams were ranked 40th to 55th overall in the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League according to the following rules:[2][20]

  • The teams finishing first in the groups were ranked 40th to 43rd according to the results of the league phase.
  • The teams finishing second in the groups were ranked 44th to 47th according to the results of the league phase.
  • The teams finishing third in the groups were ranked 48th to 51st according to the results of the league phase.
  • The teams finishing fourth in the groups were ranked 52nd to 55th according to the results of the league phase.
Rnk Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
40 D1  Georgia 6 5 1 0 12 2 +10 16
41 D4  Macedonia 6 5 0 1 14 5 +9 15
42 D3  Kosovo 6 4 2 0 15 2 +13 14
43 D2  Belarus 6 4 2 0 10 0 +10 14
44 D2  Luxembourg 6 3 1 2 11 4 +7 10
45 D4  Armenia 6 3 1 2 14 8 +6 10
46 D3  Azerbaijan 6 2 3 1 7 6 +1 9
47 D1  Kazakhstan 6 1 3 2 8 7 +1 6
48 D2  Moldova 6 2 3 1 4 5 −1 9
49 D4  Gibraltar 6 2 0 4 5 15 −10 6
50 D3  Faroe Islands 6 1 2 3 5 10 −5 5
51 D1  Latvia 6 0 4 2 2 6 −4 4
52 D4  Liechtenstein 6 1 1 4 7 12 −5 4
53 D1  Andorra 6 0 4 2 2 9 −7 4
54 D3  Malta 6 0 3 3 5 14 −9 3
55 D2  San Marino 6 0 0 6 0 16 −16 0
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Ranking criteria

Prize money

The prize money to be distributed was announced in March 2018.[21] Each team in League D received a solidarity fee of €500,000. In addition, the four group winners received double this amount with a €500,000 bonus fee. This meant that the maximum amount of solidarity and bonus fees for a team from League D was €1 million.

Qualifying play-offs
Main article: UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying play-offs § Path D

The four best teams in League D according to the overall ranking that did not qualify for UEFA Euro 2020 through the qualifying group stage competed in the play-offs, with the winners qualifying for the final tournament. If there had been fewer than four teams in League D that had not qualified, the remaining slots would have been allocated to teams from another league, according to the overall ranking.

League D
Rank Team
40 GW  Georgia
41 GW  North Macedonia
42 GW  Kosovo
43 GW  Belarus
44  Luxembourg
45  Armenia
46  Azerbaijan[H]
47  Kazakhstan
48  Moldova
49  Gibraltar
50  Faroe Islands
51  Latvia
52  Liechtenstein
53  Andorra
54  Malta
55  San Marino

Key

  1. GW Nations League group winner
  2. H UEFA Euro 2020 host
  3.   Team advanced to play-offs
  4.   Team qualified directly to final tournament

Notes
  1. CEST (UTC+2) for matchdays 1–4 (September and October 2018), CET (UTC+1) for matchdays 5–6 (November 2018).
  2. The Andorra v Georgia match, originally scheduled on 16 November 2018, was moved to the previous day at the same time to allow for an equal rest period.[16]

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