UEFA Nations League 2026/27 in Sudan: calendar, format and markets
The UEFA Nations League is the tournament UEFA built for its national teams, and it replaced most of the friendlies that European sides used to arrange in these very weeks. Fifty-four teams are spread over four divisions, A down to D, and every division plays its own group phase across two autumn windows. The trophy itself is at stake in League A only, while the same tables in the divisions underneath send group winners up a tier and push the bottom places the other way.
Portugal starts this edition as the holder. The Portuguese won the very first tournament in 2019 and took the trophy back in June 2025, which leaves them alone on two titles, and Spain, the side they beat in that last final, lines up again in League A. The shape of a season has not changed since the quarter-finals were added: groups in autumn, two-legged ties in spring, a four-team finish in June.
Four editions, two Portuguese titles β½
The Nations League has produced four finals so far, and Portugal have won two of them. France and Spain took one each, the Netherlands and Croatia have lost one apiece, and Spain has been the beaten side twice.
Edition | Champion | Beaten in the final |
|---|---|---|
2019 | Portugal | Netherlands |
2021 | France | Spain |
2023 | Spain | Croatia |
2025 | Portugal | Spain |
The last of those finals needed everything Munich had to give, on 8 June 2025. Spain led twice, first through Zubimendi and then through Oyarzabal, and each time Portugal replied β Nuno Mendes, then Cristiano Ronaldo; extra time added nothing to the 2:2, and the shoot-out went to Portugal, 5:3. The best player of that closing week was Nuno Mendes, while Ronaldo ended the whole edition on 8 goals, more than anyone else managed.
The groups and what each table decides
Brussels hosted the draw on 12 February 2026, and it left the holders Portugal in A4 with Denmark, Norway and Wales. A1 has France alongside Italy, Belgium and Turkey. Germany, the Netherlands, Serbia and Greece fill A2, and A3 sets Spain against Croatia, England and Czechia. Each team then plays six matches, two against each of its group rivals, and the top two of a group stay in the competition.
The drop runs on those same tables. Whoever ends a League A group in last place goes down a division with nothing more to play, while third place is pushed into an extra tie against the team that finishes second in a League B group. So the November fixtures settle the head of each table and its tail at once, A4 included, and four winners from the division below move up.
When the matchdays land, hour by hour π
The autumn splits in two: the first window from 24 September through to 6 October, the second covering 12β17 November. Each matchday is played over three evenings, and in Sudan the second and third of those evenings fall on the weekend for matchdays 1, 3 and 5 β Friday and Saturday both carry football.
Kick-off is 20:45 CET for most of the programme, with five games at 18:00 CET. Sudanese clocks hold one setting all year while European ones shift back in late October, so an evening game opens at 20:45 here across the autumn dates and at 21:45 for the November rounds; the early kick-offs shift from 18:00 to 19:00 in the same step.
Day | Fixture | Start in Sudan |
|---|---|---|
Friday 25 September | Turkey β France | 20:45 |
Saturday 26 September | England β Spain | 20:45 |
Friday 2 October | France β Italy | 20:45 |
Saturday 3 October | Croatia β England | 18:00 |
Saturday 3 October | Spain β Czechia | 20:45 |
Friday 13 November | Serbia β Germany | 21:45 |
Saturday 14 November | Portugal β Denmark | 21:45 |
Group A3 fills three of those rows: England open against Spain, meet Croatia a week later, and Spain play Czechia on that same Saturday evening. The A1 heavyweights of France and Italy meet on the Friday of the first October round, then again in Italy when the last window opens.
What 1xBet lists on the UEFA Nations League
Every League A fixture has a page of its own in the line, days before it is played. The markets follow the usual football pattern: the winner of the match, double chance, totals on goals, handicaps, both teams to score, the half-time result and the exact score. Group by group, the fixture list appears inside Football, on the side of the programme that opens days ahead, and each game crosses to the live football markets at kick-off, where the line stays open to the final whistle.
Next to the single matches, the outright section carries season-long positions: who takes the trophy and who tops each League A group, open while the tables take shape. The tournament sits beside every other competition in the day's scheduled card.
A balance here is held in Sudanese pounds (SDG) and topped up with USDT on several networks, with Bitcoin, Ethereum or other coins, or in cash. Newcomers can set up an account before the opening matchday.
After 17 November π
The group phase ends on 17 November, with Norway visiting Denmark and Portugal travelling to Wales, and the tournament then goes quiet. The eight quarter-finalists carry their status through the winter with nothing to play in between: the final kick of that Tuesday is also the last of 2026 in this competition.
Spring reopens it on fixed dates. The eight quarter-finalists play their two legs inside the window of 25β30 March 2027, and the third-placed teams defend their status against League B in those same days; whoever wins a quarter-final then meets in June 2027, between the 9th and the 13th: semi-finals first, then the match for third, then the final. Until then the daily programme on 1xBet Sudan keeps the football calendar moving.