ENGLAND landed tough tests against Spain and Croatia in the Uefa Nations League draw.
Gareth Southgate‘s Three Lions will face both sides home and away in League A for the chance to play in the tournament’s finals in June 2019.
New Wales boss Ryan Giggs faces the Republic of Ireland and Denmark in League B, the side that ended Martin O’Neill’s side’s World Cup hopes.
Managerless Scotland were put in League C with Albania and Israel at the draw in Lausanne.
World Champions Germany ended up in a mouthwatering group alongside France and Holland.
But for English fans it will provide the chance to see the nation’s best up against Spanish Prem stars David De Gea, David Silva and Alvaro Morata.
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The first Nations League matches will take place in September this year.
The tournament involves promotion and relegation and is designed so that similarly-ranked countries play each other in competitive games, in an attempt to reduce the reliance on meaningless friendlies.
It will also offer some, who do not qualify via the normal route, a path to the Euro 2020 play-offs.
The 55 associations have been split into four leagues according to their coefficients.
Four group winners of League A will qualify for the Nations League finals which will take place in June 2019.
The winners of Leagues B, C and D gain promotion and those at the bottom of A, B and C will be relegated.
The competition will see semi-finals, the final and a third-placed game, held between June 5-9, 2019.
The 16 Nations League group winners will go into play-offs for Euro 2020, to be played in March 2020.
If they have already qualified for the European Championship the next best-ranked team in their league will take their place in the play-offs.
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Each league has a path of its own, and will consist of two single leg semi-finals and a one-off final. The winner of each path qualifies for Euro 2020.
At the end of the group stages of the Nations League, those who finish bottom of the groups will be relegated to the league below and four teams will be promoted to the league above.
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