Malta will know its opponents in the 2024/25 UEFA Nations League on Thursday as the draw will be held at Maison de la Mutualité in Paris.
With Russia being suspended from participation in both FIFA and UEFA competitions, 54 teams will be taking part in the 2024/25 UEFA Nations League with sixteen teams in each of Leagues A, B and C and the remaining six in League D.
The teams in League D are the loser of the UNL 2022/23 play-out between Lithuania and Gibraltar along with Moldova, Malta, Andorra, San Marino and Liechtenstein.
Lithuania/Gibraltar and Moldova will be seeded in Pot 1 while Pot 2 will include Malta, Andorra, San Marino and Liechtenstein.
The draw starts with League D and Pot 1, which contains two balls. The drawn teams are assigned to the groups in ascending order from D1 to D2:
• A first ball is drawn and the team assigned to group D1.
• The second ball is drawn and the team assigned to group D2.
The draw continues with Pot 2:
• A first ball is drawn and the team assigned to group D1.
• The second ball is drawn and the team assigned to group D2.
• A third ball is drawn and the team assigned to group D1.
• The fourth ball is drawn and the team assigned to group D2.
When both pots have been emptied, groups D1 and D2 will contain three teams each.
Matches will be played as follows:
| Matchday 1 | 5-7 September 2024 |
| Matchday 2 | 8-10 September 2024 |
| Matchday 3 | 10-12 October 2024 |
| Matchday 4 | 13-15 October 2024 |
| Matchday 5 | 14-16 November 2024 |
| Matchday 6 | 17-19 November 2024 |
Group winners are automatically promoted to League C while the two runners-up from League D will face the two best-ranked fourth-placed teams in play-offs.
Since teams in League D will be playing four matches instead of six, they will play two friendly matches on the dates that remain free of competition matches. Fixtures for these friendly matches will be confirmed on May 7.
Meanwhile the UEFA Nations League will be expanded with a new knockout round to be played in March 2025, thereby creating continuity between the league phase ending in November and the finals played in June.
The League A group winners and runners-up will participate in home-and-away quarter-finals, with the winners of these ties qualifying for the final tournament.
The fourth-placed teams in Leagues A and B are automatically relegated to League B and C respectively. The two lowest-ranked fourth-placed teams in League C, meanwhile, are relegated to League D.
The four group winners in Leagues B and C, as well as the two group winners in League D, are automatically promoted to Leagues A, B and C respectively.
The third-ranked teams of League A and the runners-up of League B, as well as the third-ranked teams of League B and the runners-up of League C, will play a home-and-away promotion/relegation play-off. There will also be play-offs between the two best-ranked fourth-placed teams from League C and the two runners-up from League D.
The expansion of the UEFA Nations League into the International Match Calendar window of March will only concern a selected number of teams and the remaining teams will already be available to start the European Qualifiers.
The pot allocations in 2024/25 UEFA Nations League is as follows:
Nations League A
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| Spain | Denmark | Switzerland | Israel |
| Croatia | Portugal | Germany | Bosnia-Herzegovinna |
| Italy | Belgium | Poland | Serbia |
| Netherlands | Hungary | France | Scotland |
Nations League B
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| Austria | Finland | Slovenia | Georgia |
| Czechia | Ukraine | Ireland | Greece |
| England | Iceland | Albania | Turkiye |
| Wales | Norway | Montenegro | Kazakhstan |
Nations League C
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| Romania | Azerbaijan | North Macedonia | Belarus |
| Sweden | Kosovo | Slovakia | Lithuania/Gibraltar |
| Armenia | Bulgaria | Northern Ireland | Estonia |
| Luxembourg | Faroe Islands | Cyprus | Latvia |
Nations League D
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 |
| Lithuania/Gibraltar | Malta |
| Moldova | Andorra |
| San Marino | |
| Liechtenstein |