2024–25 UEFA Nations League A

The 2024–25 UEFA Nations League A was the top division of the 2024–25 edition of the UEFA Nations League, the fourth season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of UEFA. League A began with the league phase in September 2024, and culminated with the Nations League Finals in June 2025 to determine the champions of the competition.

2024–25 UEFA Nations League A

Tournament details
Dates	League phase: 5 September – 19 November 2024 Quarter-finals: 20–23 March 2025 Nations League Finals: 4–8 June 2025
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Portugal (2nd title)
Runners-up	Spain
Third place	France
Fourth place	Germany
Relegated	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Hungary  Israel  Poland  Scotland   Switzerland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	60
Goals scored	190 (3.17 per match)
Attendance	2,234,254 (37,238 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Cristiano Ronaldo (8 goals)
← 2022–23 2026–27 →

For the first time, a quarter-final round was contested in League A by the group winners and runners-up, with the winners advancing to the Nations League Finals.

Spain were the defending champions, having won the 2023 finals.

Portugal won the final against Spain, 5–3 on penalties following a 2–2 draw after extra time, for their second UEFA Nations League title.

Format

League A consisted of the 16 top-ranked UEFA members in the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League access list, split into four groups of four. Each team played six matches within their group, using the home-and-away round-robin format on double matchdays in September, October and November 2024.^[1]

On 25 January 2023, the UEFA Executive Committee approved a modified format for the Nations League after the league phase, with the following changes being implemented in League A:^[2][3]

• A new quarter-final round to be played in March 2025 was introduced, thus creating continuity between the league phase ending in November 2024 and the Nations League Finals in June 2025.
• The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the quarter-finals, unlike previous editions where only the group winners advanced to the finals.
• The four third-placed teams of League A faced the four runners-up of League B in the relegation play-offs, which were also introduced starting this season.

The last-placed teams of each group continued to be relegated directly to League B, while the third-placed teams competed against the runners-up of League B to determine their permanence in League A for the next season or their relegation to 2026–27 UEFA Nations League B. The relegation play-offs were played home-and-away over two legs in March 2025, with the League A third-placed teams hosting the second leg.

The quarter-finals were also played home and away over two legs. In each tie, group winners faced a runner-up from a different group, with the group winner hosting the second leg. The four quarter-final winners advanced to the Finals.

The Nations League Finals retained its previous format, which was played in a knockout format in June 2025, consisting of the semi-finals, third place play-off, and final. The semi-final pairings were determined using an open draw. The host country was selected by the UEFA Executive Committee, preferably hosted by one of the participating teams, with the winners of the final crowned as the champions of the UEFA Nations League.

In all two-legged ties, the team that scored more goals on aggregate was the winner. If the aggregate score was level, extra time was played without the away goals rule. If the score remained level after extra time, a penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner.^[4]

Teams

The 16 League A teams included the top 12 teams from the 2022–23 League A overall ranking and four promoted teams from the 2022–23 League B.

Team changes

The following were the team changes in League A from the 2022–23 season:^[5]

Incoming Promoted from Nations League B  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Israel  Scotland  Serbia

Outgoing Relegated to Nations League B  Austria  Czech Republic  England  Wales

Bosnia and Herzegovina returned to League A, after a one-season absence, by securing first place in their 2022–23 League B group with a 1–0 victory over Montenegro on 23 September 2022.^[6][7] Israel, Scotland and Serbia reached the top flight of the UEFA Nations League for the first time, all three following similar paths, starting in League C in the inaugural edition and spending two seasons in League B before their promotion to League A.^[8][9]

Seeding

In the 2024–25 access list, UEFA ranked teams based on the 2022–23 Nations League overall ranking, considering promotion and relegation between the leagues and the results of the 2023 UEFA Nations League Finals.^[10] The seeding pots for the league phase were confirmed on 2 December 2023,^[11] and were based on the access list ranking.^[4]

Pot 1 Team Rank  Spain (title holders) 1  Croatia 2  Italy 3  Netherlands 4

Pot 2 Team Rank  Denmark 5  Portugal 6  Belgium 7  Hungary 8

Pot 3 Team Rank   Switzerland 9  Germany 10  Poland 11  France 12

Pot 4 Team Rank  Israel 13  Bosnia and Herzegovina 14  Serbia 15  Scotland 16

The draw for the league phase took place at the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris, France, on 8 February 2024, 18:00 CET.^[12][13] Each group contained one team from each pot.

Groups

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 9 February 2024, the day following the draw.^[14][15][16]

Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Portugal	6	4	2	0	13	5	+8	14	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2–1	2–1	5–1
2	Croatia	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8			1–1	—	2–1	1–0
3	Scotland (R)	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	7	Qualification for relegation play-offs		0–0	1–0	—	2–3
4	Poland (R)	6	1	1	4	9	16	−7	4	Relegation to League B		1–3	3–3	1–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(R) Relegated

5 September 2024 (2024-09-05)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Portugal	2–1	Croatia
Dalot 7' Ronaldo 34'	Report	Dalot 41' (o.g.)

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 57,675^[17]

Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey)

5 September 2024 (2024-09-05)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Scotland	2–3	Poland
Gilmour 46' McTominay 76'	Report	S. Szymański 8' Lewandowski 44' (pen.) Zalewski 90+7' (pen.)

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 46,356^[18]

Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

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8 September 2024 (2024-09-08)

20:45

Croatia	1–0	Poland
Modrić 52'	Report

Opus Arena, Osijek

Attendance: 12,612^[19]

Referee: François Letexier (France)

8 September 2024 (2024-09-08)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Portugal	2–1	Scotland
Fernandes 54' Ronaldo 88'	Report	McTominay 7'

Estádio da Luz, Lisbon

Attendance: 59,894^[20]

Referee: Maurizio Mariani (Italy)

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12 October 2024 (2024-10-12)

18:00

Croatia	2–1	Scotland
Matanović 36' Kramarić 70'	Report	Christie 33'

Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb

Attendance: 21,702^[21]

Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

12 October 2024 (2024-10-12)

20:45

Poland	1–3	Portugal
Zieliński 78'	Report	B. Silva 26' Ronaldo 37' Bednarek 88' (o.g.)

Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw

Attendance: 56,854^[22]

Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands).

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15 October 2024 (2024-10-15)

20:45

Poland	3–3	Croatia
Zieliński 5' Zalewski 45' S. Szymański 68'	Report	Sosa 19' P. Sučić 24' Baturina 26'

Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw

Attendance: 56,103^[23]

Referee: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Spain)

15 October 2024 (2024-10-15)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Scotland	0–0	Portugal
	Report

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 49,057^[24]

Referee: Lawrence Visser (Belgium)

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15 November 2024 (2024-11-15)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)

Portugal	5–1	Poland
Leão 59' Ronaldo 72' (pen.), 87' Fernandes 80' Neto 83'	Report	Marczuk 88'

Estádio do Dragão, Porto

Attendance: 47,239^[25]

Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)

15 November 2024 (2024-11-15)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)

Scotland	1–0	Croatia
McGinn 86'	Report

Hampden Park, Glasgow

Attendance: 48,810^[26]

Referee: Orel Grinfeeld (Israel)

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18 November 2024 (2024-11-18)

20:45

Croatia	1–1	Portugal
Gvardiol 65'	Report	Félix 33'

Stadion Poljud, Split

Attendance: 33,386^[27]

Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)

18 November 2024 (2024-11-18)

20:45

Poland	1–2	Scotland
Piątkowski 59'	Report	McGinn 3' Robertson 90+3'

Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw

Attendance: 55,433^[28]

Referee: Christian Dingert (Germany)

Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	France	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	13[a]	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–3	2–0	0–0
2	Italy	6	4	1	1	13	8	+5	13[a]			1–3	—	2–2	4–1
3	Belgium (O)	6	1	1	4	6	9	−3	4[b]	Qualification for relegation play-offs		1–2	0–1	—	3–1
4	Israel (R)	6	1	1	4	5	13	−8	4[b]	Relegation to League B		1–4	1–2	1–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Tied on head to head results. Overall goal difference: France +6, Italy +5.
2. Tied on head to head points. Head to head goal difference: Belgium +1, Israel –1.

6 September 2024 (2024-09-06)

20:45

Belgium	3–1	Israel
De Bruyne 21', 52' (pen.) Tielemans 48'	Report	Castagne 36' (o.g.)

Nagyerdei Stadion, Debrecen (Hungary)^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 0^{[29][note 2]}

Referee: Michael Oliver (England)

6 September 2024 (2024-09-06)

20:45

France	1–3	Italy
Barcola 1'	Report	Dimarco 30' Frattesi 51' Raspadori 74'

Parc des Princes, Paris

Attendance: 44,956^[30]

Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland)

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9 September 2024 (2024-09-09)

20:45

France	2–0	Belgium
Kolo Muani 29' Dembélé 57'	Report

Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Décines-Charpieu

Attendance: 42,358^[31]

Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)

9 September 2024 (2024-09-09)

20:45

Israel	1–2	Italy
Abu Fani 90'	Report	Frattesi 38' Kean 62'

Bozsik Aréna, Budapest (Hungary)^{[note 3]}

Attendance: 2,090^[33]

Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

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10 October 2024 (2024-10-10)

20:45

Israel	1–4	France
Gandelman 24'	Report	Camavinga 7' Nkunku 28' Guendouzi 87' Barcola 89'

Bozsik Aréna, Budapest (Hungary)^{[note 3]}

Attendance: 2,226^[34]

Referee: Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro)

10 October 2024 (2024-10-10)

20:45

Italy	2–2	Belgium
Cambiaso 1' Retegui 24'	Report	De Cuyper 42' Trossard 61'

Stadio Olimpico, Rome

Attendance: 44,297^[35]

Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)

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14 October 2024 (2024-10-14)

20:45

Belgium	1–2	France
Openda 45+3'	Report	Kolo Muani 35' (pen.), 62'

King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 39,731^[36]

Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

14 October 2024 (2024-10-14)

20:45

Italy	4–1	Israel
Retegui 41' (pen.) Di Lorenzo 54', 79' Frattesi 72'	Report	Abu Fani 66'

Stadio Friuli, Udine

Attendance: 11,700^[37]

Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea (Spain)

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14 November 2024 (2024-11-14)

20:45

Belgium	0–1	Italy
	Report	Tonali 11'

King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 41,367^[38]

Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

14 November 2024 (2024-11-14)

20:45

France	0–0	Israel
	Report

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Attendance: 16,611^[39]

Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)

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17 November 2024 (2024-11-17)

20:45

Israel	1–0	Belgium
Shua 86'	Report

Bozsik Aréna, Budapest (Hungary)^{[note 3]}

Attendance: 675^[40]

Referee: Sebastian Gishamer (Austria)

17 November 2024 (2024-11-17)

20:45

Italy	1–3	France
Cambiaso 35'	Report	Rabiot 2', 65' Vicario 33' (o.g.)

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 68,158^[41]

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

Group 3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Germany	6	4	2	0	18	4	+14	14	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–0	5–0	7–0
2	Netherlands	6	2	3	1	13	7	+6	9			2–2	—	4–0	5–2
3	Hungary (R)	6	1	3	2	4	11	−7	6	Qualification for relegation play-offs		1–1	1–1	—	0–0
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina (R)	6	0	2	4	4	17	−13	2	Relegation to League B		1–2	1–1	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(R) Relegated

7 September 2024 (2024-09-07)

20:45

Germany	5–0	Hungary
Füllkrug 27' Musiala 58' Wirtz 66' Pavlović 77' Havertz 81' (pen.)	Report

Merkur Spiel-Arena, Düsseldorf

Attendance: 49,235^[42]

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

7 September 2024 (2024-09-07)

20:45

Netherlands	5–2	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zirkzee 13' Reijnders 45+2' Gakpo 56' Weghorst 88' Simons 90+2'	Report	Demirović 27' Džeko 73'

Philips Stadion, Eindhoven

Attendance: 31,139^[43]

Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)

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10 September 2024 (2024-09-10)

20:45

Hungary	0–0	Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Report

Puskás Aréna, Budapest

Attendance: 46,443^[44]

Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)

10 September 2024 (2024-09-10)

20:45

Netherlands	2–2	Germany
Reijnders 2' Dumfries 50'	Report	Undav 38' Kimmich 45+3'

Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam

Attendance: 50,109^[45]

Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)

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11 October 2024 (2024-10-11)

20:45

Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–2	Germany
Džeko 70'	Report	Undav 30', 36'

Bilino Polje Stadium, Zenica

Attendance: 11,000^[46]

Referee: François Letexier (France)

11 October 2024 (2024-10-11)

20:45

Hungary	1–1	Netherlands
Sallai 32'	Report	Dumfries 83'

Puskás Aréna, Budapest

Attendance: 55,300^[47]

Referee: Lukas Fähndrich (Switzerland)

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14 October 2024 (2024-10-14)

20:45

Bosnia and Herzegovina	0–2	Hungary
	Report	Szoboszlai 38', 50' (pen.)

Bilino Polje Stadium, Zenica

Attendance: 8,329^[48]

Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)

14 October 2024 (2024-10-14)

20:45

Germany	1–0	Netherlands
Leweling 64'	Report

Allianz Arena, Munich

Attendance: 68,367^[49]

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

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16 November 2024 (2024-11-16)

20:45

Germany	7–0	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Musiala 2' Kleindienst 23', 79' Havertz 37' Wirtz 50', 57' Sané 66'	Report

Europa-Park Stadion, Freiburg

Attendance: 28,143^[50]

Referee: Vassilis Fotias (Greece)

16 November 2024 (2024-11-16)

20:45

Netherlands	4–0	Hungary
Weghorst 21' (pen.) Gakpo 45+12' (pen.) Dumfries 64' Koopmeiners 86'	Report

Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam

Attendance: 51,611^[51]

Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain)

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19 November 2024 (2024-11-19)

20:45

Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–1	Netherlands
Demirović 67'	Report	Brobbey 24'

Bilino Polje Stadium, Zenica

Attendance: 4,134^[52]

Referee: Aliyar Aghayev (Azerbaijan)

19 November 2024 (2024-11-19)

20:45

Hungary	1–1	Germany
Szoboszlai 90+9' (pen.)	Report	Nmecha 76'

Puskás Aréna, Budapest

Attendance: 53,212^[53]

Referee: Duje Strukan (Croatia)

Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Spain	6	5	1	0	13	4	+9	16	Advance to quarter-finals		—	1–0	3–0	3–2
2	Denmark	6	2	2	2	7	5	+2	8			1–2	—	2–0	2–0
3	Serbia (O)	6	1	3	2	3	6	−3	6	Qualification for relegation play-offs		0–0	0–0	—	2–0
4	Switzerland (R)	6	0	2	4	6	14	−8	2	Relegation to League B		1–4	2–2	1–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

5 September 2024 (2024-09-05)

20:45

Denmark	2–0	Switzerland
Dorgu 82' Højbjerg 90+2'	Report

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen

Attendance: 26,024^[54]

Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)

5 September 2024 (2024-09-05)

20:45

Serbia	0–0	Spain
	Report

Stadion Rajko Mitić, Belgrade

Attendance: 29,981^[55]

Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

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8 September 2024 (2024-09-08)

18:00

Denmark	2–0	Serbia
Grønbæk 36' Poulsen 61'	Report

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen

Attendance: 34,902^[56]

Referee: Chris Kavanagh (England)

8 September 2024 (2024-09-08)

20:45

Switzerland	1–4	Spain
Amdouni 41'	Report	Joselu 4' Fabián 13', 77' F. Torres 80'

Stade de Genève, Geneva

Attendance: 26,265^[57]

Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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12 October 2024 (2024-10-12)

20:45

Serbia	2–0	Switzerland
Elvedi 45+1' (o.g.) Mitrović 61'	Report

Dubočica Stadium, Leskovac

Attendance: 6,383^[58]

Referee: Simone Sozza (Italy)

12 October 2024 (2024-10-12)

20:45

Spain	1–0	Denmark
Zubimendi 79'	Report

Nueva Condomina, Murcia

Attendance: 29,870^[59]

Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

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15 October 2024 (2024-10-15)

20:45

Spain	3–0	Serbia
Laporte 5' Morata 65' Baena 77'	Report

Nuevo Arcángel, Córdoba

Attendance: 20,345^[60]

Referee: Daniel Stefanski (Poland)

15 October 2024 (2024-10-15)

20:45

Switzerland	2–2	Denmark
Freuler 26' Amdouni 45+1' (pen.)	Report	Isaksen 27' Eriksen 69'

Kybunpark, St. Gallen

Attendance: 16,182^[61]

Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey)

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15 November 2024 (2024-11-15)

20:45

Denmark	1–2	Spain
Isaksen 84'	Report	Oyarzabal 15' Pérez 58'

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen

Attendance: 36,985^[62]

Referee: Rade Obrenović (Slovenia)

15 November 2024 (2024-11-15)

20:45

Switzerland	1–1	Serbia
Amdouni 78'	Report	Terzić 88'

Stadion Letzigrund, Zurich

Attendance: 21,115^[63]

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

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18 November 2024 (2024-11-18)

20:45

Serbia	0–0	Denmark
	Report

Dubočica Stadium, Leskovac

Attendance: 7,295^[64]

Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

18 November 2024 (2024-11-18)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)

Spain	3–2	Switzerland
Pino 32' Gil 68' Zaragoza 90+3' (pen.)	Report	Monteiro 63' Zeqiri 85' (pen.)

Heliodoro Rodríguez López, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Attendance: 21,204^[65]

Referee: Bastian Dankert (Germany)

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals							Semi-finals					Final
	Italy		1	3	4
								4 June – Munich
	Germany		2	3	5
								Germany		1
								Portugal		2
	Denmark		1	2	3
													8 June – Munich
	Portugal (a.e.t.)		0	5	5
													Portugal (p)		2 (5)
													Spain		2 (3)
	Netherlands		2	3	5 (4)
								5 June – Stuttgart
	Spain (p)		2	3	5 (5)
								Spain		5			Third place play-off
								France		4			8 June – Stuttgart
	Croatia		2	0	2 (4)
													Germany		0
	France (p)		0	2	2 (5)
													France		2

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 22 November 2024, 12:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, along with the draw for the semi-finals and promotion/relegation play-offs.^[66][67] In the draw, teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other.^[68] First, the group runners-up were drawn into a quarter-final pairing (1 to 4), after which group winners were drawn and allocated to the first available quarter-final (in numerical order).^[69]

Seeding

The group winners were seeded in the draw, while the runners-up were unseeded.^[70] The Nations League interim overall ranking of November 2024 is shown below in brackets.

Quarter-final draw pots

Group	Winners (seeded in Pot 1)	Runners-up (unseeded in Pot 2)
A1	Portugal (3)	Croatia (8)
A2	France (4)	Italy (5)
A3	Germany (2)	Netherlands (6)
A4	Spain (1)	Denmark (7)

Summary

The first legs were played on 20 March, and the second legs were played on 23 March 2025.^[14]

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Netherlands	5–5 (4–5 p)	Spain	2–2	3–3 (a.e.t.)
Croatia	2–2 (4–5 p)	France	2–0	0–2 (a.e.t.)
Denmark	3–5	Portugal	1–0	2–5 (a.e.t.)
Italy	4–5	Germany	1–2	3–3

Matches

Times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).^[71]

20 March 2025 (2025-03-20)

20:45

Netherlands	2–2	Spain
Gakpo 28' Reijnders 46'	Report	Williams 9' Merino 90+3'

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 42,003^[72]

Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

23 March 2025 (2025-03-23)

20:45

Spain	3–3 (a.e.t.)	Netherlands
Oyarzabal 8' (pen.), 67' Yamal 103'	Report	Depay 54' (pen.) Maatsen 79' Simons 109' (pen.)
Penalties
Merino Torres García Yamal Baena Pedri	5–4	Van Dijk Koopmeiners Simons Lang Taylor Malen

Mestalla, Valencia

Attendance: 48,082^[73]

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

5–5 on aggregate; Spain won 5–4 on penalties.

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20 March 2025 (2025-03-20)

20:45

Croatia	2–0	France
Budimir 26' Perišić 45+1'	Report

Stadion Poljud, Split

Attendance: 30,551^[74]

Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)

23 March 2025 (2025-03-23)

20:45

France	2–0 (a.e.t.)	Croatia
Olise 52' Dembélé 80'	Report
Penalties
Mbappé Tchouaméni Koundé Kolo Muani Hernandez Doué Upamecano	5–4	Baturina Moro Ivanović Pašalić Jakić Ćaleta-Car Stanišić

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Attendance: 77,502^[75]

Referee: Michael Oliver (England)

2–2 on aggregate; France won 5–4 on penalties.

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20 March 2025 (2025-03-20)

20:45

Denmark	1–0	Portugal
Højlund 78'	Report

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen

Attendance: 36,322^[76]

Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

23 March 2025 (2025-03-23)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+0)

Portugal	5–2 (a.e.t.)	Denmark
Andersen 38' (o.g.) Ronaldo 72' Trincão 86', 91' Ramos 115'	Report	Kristensen 56' Eriksen 76'

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 47,123^[77]

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

Portugal won 5–3 on aggregate.

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20 March 2025 (2025-03-20)

20:45

Italy	1–2	Germany
Tonali 9'	Report	Kleindienst 49' Goretzka 76'

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 60,334^[78]

Referee: François Letexier (France)

23 March 2025 (2025-03-23)

20:45

Germany	3–3	Italy
Kimmich 30' (pen.) Musiala 36' Kleindienst 45'	Report	Kean 49', 69' Raspadori 90+5' (pen.)

Westfalenstadion, Dortmund

Attendance: 64,762^[79]

Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

Germany won 5–4 on aggregate.

Nations League Finals

Main article: 2025 UEFA Nations League Finals

UEFA appointed the winner of the quarter-final tie between Italy and Germany, which Germany ultimately won, as the host for the final tournament.^[80][81] The semi-finals pairings were determined by means of an open draw on 22 November 2024, 12:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, along with the draw for the League A quarter-finals and promotion/relegation play-offs.^[66][67] For scheduling purposes, the host team was allocated to semi-final 1 as the administrative home team.^[68]

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA.

Semi-finals

4 June 2025 (2025-06-04)

21:10^{[note 4]}

Germany	1–2	Portugal
Wirtz 48'	Report	Conceição 63' Ronaldo 68'

Allianz Arena, Munich

Attendance: 65,823^[83]

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

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5 June 2025 (2025-06-05)

21:00

Spain	5–4	France
Williams 22' Merino 25' Yamal 54' (pen.), 67' Pedri 55'	Report	Mbappé 59' (pen.) Cherki 79' Vivian 84' (o.g.) Kolo Muani 90+3'

MHPArena, Stuttgart

Attendance: 51,724^[84]

Referee: Michael Oliver (England)

Third place play-off

8 June 2025 (2025-06-08)

15:00

Germany	0–2	France
	Report	Mbappé 45' Olise 84'

MHPArena, Stuttgart

Attendance: 51,313^[85]

Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

Final

Main article: 2025 UEFA Nations League final

8 June 2025 (2025-06-08)

21:00

Portugal	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Spain
Mendes 26' Ronaldo 61'	Report	Zubimendi 21' Oyarzabal 45'
Penalties
Ramos Vitinha Fernandes Mendes R. Neves	5–3	Merino Baena Isco Morata

Allianz Arena, Munich

Attendance: 65,852^[86]

Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland)

Goalscorers

There were 190 goals scored in 60 matches, for an average of 3.17 goals per match.

8 goals

• Cristiano Ronaldo

4 goals

• Randal Kolo Muani
• Tim Kleindienst
• Florian Wirtz
• Mikel Oyarzabal

3 goals

• Jamal Musiala
• Deniz Undav
• Dominik Szoboszlai
• Davide Frattesi
• Moise Kean
• Denzel Dumfries
• Cody Gakpo
• Tijjani Reijnders
• Lamine Yamal
• Zeki Amdouni

2 goals

• Kevin De Bruyne
• Ermedin Demirović
• Edin Džeko
• Christian Eriksen
• Gustav Isaksen
• Bradley Barcola
• Ousmane Dembélé
• Kylian Mbappé
• Michael Olise
• Adrien Rabiot
• Kai Havertz
• Joshua Kimmich
• Mohammad Abu Fani
• Andrea Cambiaso
• Giovanni Di Lorenzo
• Giacomo Raspadori
• Mateo Retegui
• Sandro Tonali
• Xavi Simons
• Wout Weghorst
• Sebastian Szymański
• Nicola Zalewski
• Piotr Zieliński
• Bruno Fernandes
• Francisco Trincão
• John McGinn
• Scott McTominay
• Mikel Merino
• Fabián Ruiz
• Nico Williams
• Martín Zubimendi

1 goal

• Maxim De Cuyper
• Loïs Openda
• Youri Tielemans
• Leandro Trossard
• Martin Baturina
• Ante Budimir
• Joško Gvardiol
• Andrej Kramarić
• Igor Matanović
• Luka Modrić
• Ivan Perišić
• Borna Sosa
• Petar Sučić
• Patrick Dorgu
• Albert Grønbæk
• Pierre-Emile Højbjerg
• Rasmus Højlund
• Rasmus Kristensen
• Yussuf Poulsen
• Eduardo Camavinga
• Rayan Cherki
• Mattéo Guendouzi
• Christopher Nkunku
• Niclas Füllkrug
• Leon Goretzka
• Jamie Leweling
• Felix Nmecha
• Aleksandar Pavlović
• Leroy Sané
• Roland Sallai
• Omri Gandelman
• Yarden Shua
• Federico Dimarco
• Brian Brobbey
• Memphis Depay
• Teun Koopmeiners
• Ian Maatsen
• Joshua Zirkzee
• Robert Lewandowski
• Dominik Marczuk
• Kamil Piątkowski
• Francisco Conceição
• Diogo Dalot
• João Félix
• Rafael Leão
• Nuno Mendes
• Pedro Neto
• Gonçalo Ramos
• Bernardo Silva
• Ryan Christie
• Billy Gilmour
• Andrew Robertson
• Aleksandar Mitrović
• Aleksa Terzić
• Álex Baena
• Bryan Gil
• Joselu
• Aymeric Laporte
• Álvaro Morata
• Pedri
• Ayoze Pérez
• Yeremy Pino
• Ferran Torres
• Bryan Zaragoza
• Remo Freuler
• Joël Monteiro
• Andi Zeqiri

1 own goal

• Timothy Castagne (against Israel)
• Joachim Andersen (against Portugal)
• Guglielmo Vicario (against France)
• Jan Bednarek (against Portugal)
• Diogo Dalot (against Croatia)
• Daniel Vivian (against France)
• Nico Elvedi (against Serbia)

Overall ranking

Following the league phase, the 16 League A teams were ordered 1st to 16th in an interim overall ranking for the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League according to the following rules:^[4][87]

• The teams finishing first in the groups were ranked 1st to 4th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing second in the groups were ranked 5th to 8th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing third in the groups were ranked 9th to 12th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing fourth in the groups were ranked 13th to 16th according to the results of the league phase.

Rnk	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	A4	Spain	6	5	1	0	13	4	+9	16
2	A3	Germany	6	4	2	0	18	4	+14	14
3	A1	Portugal	6	4	2	0	13	5	+8	14
4	A2	France	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	13
5	A2	Italy	6	4	1	1	13	8	+5	13
6	A3	Netherlands	6	2	3	1	13	7	+6	9
7	A4	Denmark	6	2	2	2	7	5	+2	8
8	A1	Croatia	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8
9	A1	Scotland	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	7
10	A4	Serbia	6	1	3	2	3	6	−3	6
11	A3	Hungary	6	1	3	2	4	11	−7	6
12	A2	Belgium	6	1	1	4	6	9	−3	4
13	A1	Poland	6	1	1	4	9	16	−7	4
14	A2	Israel	6	1	1	4	5	13	−8	4
15	A4	Switzerland	6	0	2	4	6	14	−8	2
16	A3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6	0	2	4	4	17	−13	2

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Ranking criteria

A final overall ranking was also compiled, though this was only used to rank teams within their new leagues for the following edition of the competition.^[4]

Notes

1. CEST (UTC+2) for matchdays 1–4 (September and October 2024), CET (UTC+1) for matchdays 5–6 (November 2024).
2. Due to the Gaza war protests, the Belgium v Israel match was played at a neutral venue and behind closed doors.
3. Due to the Gaza war, Israel were required to play their home matches at neutral venues until further notice.^[32]
4. The Germany v Portugal match, originally scheduled for 21:00, was delayed by ten minutes due to adverse weather conditions impacting the teams' warm-ups.^[82]