Helping with tonight's draw are four special guests.

The first is former Latvia head coach Marian Pahars. He's walking up to the stage now.

And now we go to a video of some highlights from the last tournament.

It was never going to be a quick draw, was it?

Right, music done. Pedro Pinto has walked out on to the stage. He says there's a lot of "emotion and excitement" in the building.

Hi Paris, London calling.

Congrats on a great show. The United Kingdom's 12 points go to Uefa for "The Nations League song".

It's very Eurovision.

Strobe lighting and a violin as well.

OK we're starting with a musical performance.

Not catching much of the lyrics but there is this UCL anthem likeness to the song which has a sole singer, all in black, chant "The Nations League" at the end of every chorus.

Paul: So England are in league B. Looking at those pots England shouldn’t worry about anyone as we should be beating them all and have no excuse for not doing so.

Cue music...and the draw show is live!

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George: I would like to see my home countries of Greece and England play one another. I'll go for Republic of Ireland from pot 3. Regarding pot 2 they all look interesting choices but the main one for me is Ukraine. Fingers crossed that Gibraltar stay in league C.

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Scotland won Group B1 last time to seal their promotion to League A for the first time, while England dropped a division after finishing bottom of Group A3.

Wales were also in the top tier last time but finished bottom of Group A4 with one point from six games.

England and Wales cannot end up in the same group, as they are in the same pot, but one of them could face the Republic of Ireland, who have remained in League B since the competition started up.

Northern Ireland are in League C again.

Pot 1: Lithuania/Gibraltar*, Moldova

Pot 2: Malta, Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein

* Gibraltar and Lithuania face a play-out, effectively a relegation play-off to see who ends in Leagues C and D, in March 2024.

Pot 1: Romania, Sweden, Armenia, Luxembourg

Pot 2: Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Faroe Islands

Pot 3: North Macedonia, Slovakia, Northern Ireland, Cyprus

Pot 4: Belarus, Lithuania/Gibraltar*, Estonia, Latvia

* Gibraltar and Lithuania face a play-out, effectively a relegation play-off to see who ends in Leagues C and D, in March 2024.

Pot 1: Austria, Czech Republic, England, Wales

Pot 2: Finland, Ukraine, Iceland, Norway

Pot 3: Slovenia, Republic of Ireland, Albania, Montenegro

Pot 4: Georgia, Greece, Turkey, Kazakhstan

Pot 1: Spain, Croatia, Italy, Netherlands

Pot 2: Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Hungary

Pot 3: Switzerland, Germany, Poland, France

Pot 4: Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Scotland

Shall I take you through who's in each pot? The draw show will start in Paris in a few minutes.

Yeah, loads.

Armenia and Azerbaijan can't be in the same group for political reasons, and some nations are too far away from others to be lumped together.

It's a little complex, and unlikely, so I'll only try to explain if necessary.

Who are you keen to avoid? Who would you want to play?

Who do you make favourites at this very early stage?

Drop us a line by all means.

These things have tended to be about as slow as a snail in the past. The draw should start at 17:00 GMT, but who knows when we'll be done by! We're starting with League D, then C, then B, then A.

Every European country, bar the suspended Russia, is involved.

Each team in Leagues A, B and C play two group games in September, two in October and two in November 2024.

A lot of teams will play extra games in March 2025, with four teams in the Nations League finals in June 2025.

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Leagues A, B and C all have four groups of four teams - with one drawn from each seeding pot into each group. Teams play each other home and away.

League D has two groups of three teams.