Dale Johnson
Football issues correspondent in Brussels

The national team coaches and guests have just been given a warning to take their seats.

They are doing so to a lounge room version of Black or White by Michael Jackson

England were drawn against France in the test draw.

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The live stream of the draw is being broadcast on Uefa's official website and it has started now. They've gone early with the dancing.

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Pot 1*: Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Gibraltar or Latvia, Malta or Luxembourg

Pot 2: Liechtenstein, Andorra

* The ranking of the teams in 49th to 52nd position will be confirmed following the 2024/25 Nations League C/D play-offs in March. For the draw, the teams participating in these play-off ties will be represented by placeholders.

Pot 1: Iceland, Albania, Montenegro, Kazakhstan

Pot 2: Finland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Armenia

Pot 3: Belarus, Faroe Islands, Cyprus, Estonia

Pot 4*: Latvia or Gibraltar, Luxembourg or Malta, Moldova, San Marino

* The ranking of the teams in 45th to 48th position will be confirmed following the 2024/25 Nations League C/D play-offs in March between Latvia/Gibraltar and Luxembourg/Malta. For the draw, the teams participating in these play-off ties will be represented by placeholders.

Scotland, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland are all in League B and they could be drawn in the same group together.

Uefa have also ruled that Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo cannot be drawn in the same groups as each other.

Pot 1: Scotland, Hungary, Poland, Israel

Pot 2: Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Ukraine

Pot 3: Slovenia, Georgia, Republic of Ireland, Romania

Pot 4: Sweden, North Macedonia, Northern Ireland, Kosovo

A team from each pot is drawn in each group. England are in Pot 3 and could end up in a group with Wales.

Pot 1: Portugal, Spain, France, Germany

Pot 2: Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Croatia

Pot 3: Serbia, Belgium, England, Norway

Pot 4: Wales, Czech Republic, Greece, Turkey

Right, let's take a closer look at the leagues and the pots as draw time draws closer.

Gary Flintoff
BBC Radio 5 Live reporter

This is the venue for tonight's UEFA Nations League Draw. The building is called Palais 3 at Brussels Expo and it's just across the road from the King Baudouin Stadium.

Chris Wathan
BBC Sport Wales

This will be Wales’ second crack at League A after a rather underwhelming experience back in 2022.

Rob Page’s side managed just one point from six games the last time they were in the top bracket, although the timing was hardly ideal.

The start of Wales’ campaign clashed with the build-up – and ensuing celebrations – of their World Cup play-off with Ukraine, before later games were treated as preparations for the finals themselves.

No such issues this time.

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Today's draw will see the groups within each league decided.

In the top three leagues, teams have been ranked across four pots based on their performance from the 2024-25 Nations League campaign.

One team from each pot will then be drawn into groups of four in each league, determining each campaign's fixtures.

For League D, two groups of three teams will be drawn, with only six teams in League D compared to the 16 in each of the top three leagues.

Gary Flintoff
BBC Radio 5 Live reporter

The venue for this evening's Nations League draw is north of Brussels city centre.

It is also right next door to one of the city's most famous landmarks called the Atomium, which was built in 1958 for the Brussels World Fair.

John Murray
BBC football correspondent

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With the short-term attention on the World Cup, this draw in Brussels maps out the future beyond it.

England are back in League A, the top tier of the competition, as is Craig Bellamy's Wales. Both could find themselves in powerful looking groups.

England and Wales could land in the same group as could Scotland and Northern Ireland, who are both in League B.

Scotland, relegated last time, will probably want to avoid Switzerland and Austria, whilst newly promoted Northern Ireland are back in the second tier after spending two editions of the tournament in League C.

The draw is due to take place from 17:00 GMT but that's is when the ceremony begins so there's bound to be plenty of speeches and probably some random dancing.

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Hello!

The draw for the fifth edition of the Nations League takes place shortly, and you can find out who will face who right here.