2024–25 UEFA Nations League D

The 2024–25 UEFA Nations League D was the fourth and lowest 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.

2024–25 UEFA Nations League D

Tournament details
Dates	5 September – 19 November 2024
Teams	6
Promoted	Moldova  San Marino
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12
Goals scored	19 (1.58 per match)
Attendance	29,539 (2,462 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Liam Walker Nicola Nanni (2 goals each)
← 2022–23 2026–27 →

Format

League D consisted of the six lowest-ranked UEFA members from 49–54 in the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League access list, split into two groups of three. Each team played four matches within their group, using the home-and-away round-robin on double matchdays in September, October, and November 2024.^[1] The winners of both groups were automatically promoted to the 2026–27 UEFA Nations League C. In addition, the second-placed team of both groups advanced to the promotion play-offs against the two best-ranked fourth-placed teams from League C, to play home-and-away over two legs in March 2026, with the League C teams hosting the second leg. The winner of the tie will participate in the 2026–27 UEFA Nations League C, while the losers will enter League D.^[2]

As Russia were banned from participation in the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League due to their country's invasion of Ukraine,^[3] the size of the competition was reduced from 55 to 54 teams. Therefore, as the lowest division, League D was reduced from seven to six teams for the 2024–25 season.^[2]

Teams

Team changes

The following were the team changes in League D from the 2022–23 season:

Incoming Relegated from Nations League C  Gibraltar

Outgoing Promoted to Nations League C  Estonia  Latvia

Seeding

In the 2024–25 access list, UEFA ranked teams based on the 2022–23 Nations League overall ranking.^[4] The seeding pots for the league phase were confirmed on 2 December 2023,^[5] and were based on the access list ranking.^[2]

Pot 1 Team Rank  Gibraltar[a] 49  Moldova 50

Pot 2 Team Rank  Malta 51  Andorra 52  San Marino 53  Liechtenstein 54

1. The identity of the play-out loser was not known at the time of the draw.

The draw for the league phase took place at the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris, France, on 8 February 2024, 18:00 CET.^[6][7] Each group contained one team from pot 1 and two teams from pot 2.

Groups

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 9 February 2024, the day following the draw.^[8][9][10]

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	Promotion or qualification
1	San Marino (P)	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	7	Promotion to League C		—	1–1	1–0
2	Gibraltar	4	1	3	0	4	3	+1	6	Qualification for promotion play-offs		1–0	—	2–2
3	Liechtenstein	4	0	2	2	3	6	−3	2			1–3	0–0	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(P) Promoted

5 September 2024 (2024-09-05)

20:45

San Marino	1–0	Liechtenstein
Sensoli 53'	Report

San Marino Stadium, Serravalle

Attendance: 914^[11]

Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)

---

8 September 2024 (2024-09-08)

18:00

Gibraltar	2–2	Liechtenstein
Walker 8' Scanlon 90+7'	Report	Saglam 53' N. Hasler 90+14' (pen.)

Europa Sports Park, Europa Point

Attendance: 681^[12]

Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)

---

10 October 2024 (2024-10-10)

20:45

Gibraltar	1–0	San Marino
Britto 62'	Report

Europa Sports Park, Europa Point

Attendance: 677^[13]

Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

---

13 October 2024 (2024-10-13)

18:00

Liechtenstein	0–0	Gibraltar
	Report

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

Attendance: 1,510^[14]

Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (Romania)

---

15 November 2024 (2024-11-15)

20:45

San Marino	1–1	Gibraltar
Nanni 90+2' (pen.)	Report	Walker 11' (pen.)

San Marino Stadium, Serravalle

Attendance: 1,324^[15]

Referee: Igor Pajac (Croatia)

---

18 November 2024 (2024-11-18)

20:45

Liechtenstein	1–3	San Marino
Sele 40'	Report	Lazzari 46' Nanni 66' (pen.) A. Golinucci 76'

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

Attendance: 1,157^[16]

Referee: Jérémie Pignard (France)

Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Moldova (P)	4	3	0	1	5	1	+4	9	Promotion to League C		—	2–0	2–0
2	Malta	4	2	1	1	2	2	0	7	Qualification for promotion play-offs		1–0	—	0–0
3	Andorra	4	0	1	3	0	4	−4	1			0–1	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(P) Promoted

7 September 2024 (2024-09-07)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Moldova	2–0	Malta
Caimacov 32' Nicolaescu 45+4' (pen.)	Report

Stadionul Zimbru, Chișinău

Attendance: 6,142^[17]

Referee: Mykola Balakin (Ukraine)

---

10 September 2024 (2024-09-10)

20:45

Andorra	0–1	Malta
	Report	Camenzuli 45'

Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 812^[18]

Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (Sweden)

---

10 October 2024 (2024-10-10)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Moldova	2–0	Andorra
Ioniță 31' Cojocaru 90+5'	Report

Stadionul Zimbru, Chișinău

Attendance: 6,442^[19]

Referee: Miloš Milanović (Serbia)

---

13 October 2024 (2024-10-13)

18:00

Malta	1–0	Moldova
Teuma 87' (pen.)	Report

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 5,754^[20]

Referee: John Brooks (England)

---

16 November 2024 (2024-11-16)

18:00

Andorra	0–1	Moldova
	Report	Postolachi 90+2'

Estadi Nacional, Andorra la Vella

Attendance: 984^[21]

Referee: Bulat Sariyev (Kazakhstan)

---

19 November 2024 (2024-11-19)

20:45

Malta	0–0	Andorra
	Report

National Stadium, Ta' Qali

Attendance: 3,142^[22]

Referee: Luka Bilbija (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Goalscorers

There were 19 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 1.58 goals per match.

2 goals

• Liam Walker
• Nicola Nanni

1 goal

• Ethan Britto
• James Scanlon
• Nicolas Hasler
• Ferhat Saglam
• Aron Sele
• Ryan Camenzuli
• Teddy Teuma
• Mihail Caimacov
• Maxim Cojocaru
• Artur Ioniță
• Ion Nicolaescu
• Virgiliu Postolachi
• Alessandro Golinucci
• Lorenzo Lazzari
• Nicko Sensoli

Overall ranking

Following the league phase, the six League D teams were ordered 49th to 54th in an interim overall ranking for the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League according to the following rules:^[2][23]

• The teams finishing first in the groups were ranked 49th to 50th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing second in the groups were ranked 51st to 52nd according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing third in the groups were ranked 53rd to 54th according to the results of the league phase.

Rnk	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
49	D2	Moldova	4	3	0	1	5	1	+4	9
50	D1	San Marino	4	2	1	1	5	3	+2	7
51	D2	Malta	4	2	1	1	2	2	0	7
52	D1	Gibraltar	4	1	3	0	4	3	+1	6
53	D1	Liechtenstein	4	0	2	2	3	6	−3	2
54	D2	Andorra	4	0	1	3	0	4	−4	1

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Ranking criteria

A final overall ranking will also be compiled, though this is only used to rank teams within their new leagues for the following edition of the competition.^[2]

Notes

1. CEST (UTC+2) for matchdays 1–4 (September and October 2024), CET (UTC+1) for matchdays 5–6 (November 2024).