2025 UEFA Women's Nations League

The 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League is the second season of the UEFA Women's Nations League, an international women's football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the member associations of UEFA. The league phase of the competition is being played between February and June, with the finals tournament taking place between October and December. The results also determine the leagues for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2027 qualifying competition.

2025 UEFA Women's Nations League

Tournament details
Dates	League phase: 21 February – 3 June 2025 Nations League Finals and promotion/relegation matches October – December 2025
Teams	53
Tournament statistics
Matches played	150
Goals scored	453 (3.02 per match)
Attendance	171,459 (1,143 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Amy Thompson Tamara Morávková (6 goals each)
Women's European Qualifiers ← 2025 2027 → Women's Nations League ← 2023–24 2027 → All statistics correct as of 3 June 2025.

Spain are the defending champions, having won the 2024 finals.

Format

The competition will begin with the league stage, featuring the national teams split into three leagues (A, B, and C) according to the Women’s European Qualifiers overall phase rankings (based on the Women's Euro 2025 qualifying overall ranking, taking into consideration promotion/relegation at the conclusion of that competition).^[1] Leagues A and B feature 16 teams in four groups of four teams, while League C consists of the remaining competition entrants split into groups of three or four teams. The teams in each group play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.

The four group winners of League A advance to the Nations League Finals, consisting of two semi-finals, a third place play-off, and a final, all played over two legs (this differs to the previous edition where all the Nations Leagues Finals matches were single-legged).^[2] An open draw will determine the pairings and order of legs for the semi-final matches, as well as which semi-final pairing will have its teams host the first leg of the third-place play-off and final.^[2]

In addition, the competition features promotion and relegation, taking effect in Women's World Cup 2027 qualifying (which uses an identical league structure). The group winners of Leagues B and C are automatically promoted, while the fourth-placed teams in Leagues A and B, as well as the two lowest-ranked third-placed teams in League B, are automatically relegated. Promotion/relegation play-offs will also be held on a home-and-away basis, taking place in parallel with the Nations League semi-finals, to determine which of the other teams will be promoted, relegated or remain in their respective leagues. The third-placed teams of League A play the runners-up of League B, while the two best-ranked third-placed teams in League B play the two best-ranked League C runners-up. The teams from the higher leagues are seeded, and play the second leg at home.

In all two-legged ties, the team that scores more goals on aggregate is the winner. If the aggregate score is level, extra time will be played (the away goals rule will not apply). If the score remains level after extra time, a penalty shoot-out will be used to decide the winner.^[2]

Tiebreakers

Tiebreakers for group ranking

If two or more teams in the same group are equal on points on completion of the league phase, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied:^[2]

1. Points obtained in matches played among the teams in question;
2. Goal difference in matches played among the teams in question;
3. Number of goals scored in the matches played among the teams in question;
4. If two or more teams are still tied after applying criteria a–c, those criteria are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question. If teams are still tied, then criteria e–k are applied;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Number of goals scored in all group matches;
7. Number of away goals scored in all group matches;
8. Number of wins in all group matches;
9. Number of away wins in all group matches;
10. Lower total of disciplinary points received by players and team officials in all group matches:
    • 1 point for a yellow card;
    • 3 points for a second yellow card in the same match (indirect red card);
    • 3 points for a direct red card;
11. Position in the Women's European Qualifiers overall phase ranking.^[1]

Criteria for league ranking

Individual league rankings are established according to the following criteria:^[2]

1. Position in the group;
2. Higher number of points;
3. Higher goal difference;
4. Higher number of goals scored;
5. Higher number of goals scored away from home;
6. Higher number of wins;
7. Higher number of wins away from home;
8. Lower disciplinary points total (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card, 4 points for a yellow card followed by a direct red card).
9. Position in the Women's European Qualifiers overall phase ranking.^[1]

When ranking teams in League C, due to differing group sizes, the results against the fourth-placed teams are not considered when comparing teams placed first, second, and third in their respective groups.^[2]

Criteria for overall ranking

After the conclusion of all group matches, the overall league rankings are established as follows:^[2]

1. The 16 League A teams are ranked 1st to 16th according to their league rankings.
2. The 16 League B teams are ranked 17th to 32nd according to their league rankings.
3. The League C teams are ranked 33rd onwards according to their league rankings.

The UEFA Women's Nations League overall phase rankings are established after the conclusion of the promotion/relegation play-offs, and are used to determine the starting positions and seeding of the teams in Women's World Cup 2027 qualifying. The order of the teams in the overall phase rankings is based on the overall league rankings, with the following modifications:^[2]

1. The automatically promoted teams are ranked above teams from lower leagues that were promoted after their promotion/relegation matches
2. The automatically relegated teams are ranked below teams from higher leagues that were relegated after their promotion/relegation matches

Schedule

Below is the schedule for the 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League.^[3]

Stage	Round	Dates
League phase	Draw	7 November 2024
	Matchday 1	21 February 2025
	Matchday 2	25–26 February 2025
	Matchday 3	4 April 2025
	Matchday 4	8 April 2025
	Matchday 5	30 May 2025
	Matchday 6	3 June 2025
Promotion/relegation matches	Draw	6 June 2025
	First leg	22–28 October 2025
	Second leg
Finals	Draw	6 June 2025
	Semi-finals (two legs)	20–28 October 2025
	Third-place playoff (two legs)	26 November – 2 December 2025
	Final (two legs)

Seeding

Teams league positions:
  League A
  League B
  League C
  Did not enter
  Suspended by UEFA

The leagues were formed according to the Women's European Qualifiers overall phase rankings,^[1] and were seeded into pots based on the same rankings.^[3][2]

Gibraltar and Liechtenstein entered the tournament for the first time, having not entered in the previous edition. This will be both women's teams' first official competitive international tournament.^[4][5][6]

Russia were suspended indefinitely from all UEFA and FIFA competitions on 28 February 2022 due to their country's invasion of Ukraine.^[7] On 30 September 2024, UEFA confirmed they would not be permitted to enter this edition of the Women's Nations League, or to enter 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying.^[8]

San Marino did not submit an entry into the competition.

Key

	Promoted after UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
	Relegated after UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying

League A Pot Team Prv Rank 1  Spain 1  Germany 2  France 3  Italy 4 2  Iceland 5  Denmark 6  England 7  Netherlands 8 3  Sweden 9  Norway 10  Austria 11  Belgium 12 4  Portugal 13  Scotland 14  Switzerland 15  Wales 16

League B Pot Team Prv Rank 1  Finland 17  Czech Republic 18  Republic of Ireland 19  Poland 20 2  Serbia 21  Ukraine 22  Northern Ireland 23  Turkey 24 3  Croatia 25  Hungary 26  Bosnia and Herzegovina 27  Slovenia 28 4  Romania 29  Belarus 30  Greece 31  Albania 32

League C Pot Team Prv Rank 1  Slovakia 33  Azerbaijan 34  Malta 35  Israel 36  Kosovo 37  Luxembourg 38 2  Montenegro 39  Georgia 40  Bulgaria 41  Latvia 42  Faroe Islands 43  Armenia 44 3  North Macedonia 45  Estonia 46  Lithuania 47  Kazakhstan 48  Moldova 49  Cyprus 50 4  Andorra 51  Gibraltar 52  Liechtenstein 53

Did not enter Team Rank  San Marino —

Banned from entering Team Rank  Russia –

Draw

The draw took place on 7 November 2024 at 13:00 CET in Nyon, Switzerland.^[3]

Teams were drawn from their seeding pots into groups for each league, starting with League C, then League B, and finally League A. In each league, all teams were drawn from Pot 1 and assigned to groups in ascending order until the pot was empty, then the draw continued with Pot 2 and so on.^[3]

For political reasons, Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as Belarus and Ukraine, could not be drawn in the same group. Due to excessive travel restrictions, Kazakhstan could not be drawn into a group containing more than one of Andorra, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, or Malta.^[3]

League A

Main article: 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League A

Group A1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Germany	6	5	1	0	26	4	+22	16	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	4–0	4–1	6–1
2	Netherlands	6	3	2	1	11	10	+1	11			2–2	—	3–1	1–1
3	Austria	6	2	0	4	5	16	−11	6	Qualification for relegation play-offs		0–6	1–3	—	1–0
4	Scotland (R)	6	0	1	5	3	15	−12	1	Relegation to League B		0–4	1–2	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
(R) Relegated

Group A2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	France	6	6	0	0	14	2	+12	18	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	1–0	3–2	4–0
2	Norway	6	2	2	2	4	5	−1	8			0–2	—	1–1	2–1
3	Iceland	6	0	4	2	6	9	−3	4	Qualification for relegation play-offs		0–2	0–0	—	3–3
4	Switzerland (R)	6	0	2	4	4	12	−8	2	Relegation to League B		0–2	0–1	0–0	—

Source: UEFA
(R) Relegated

Group A3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Spain	6	5	0	1	21	8	+13	15	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	2–1	3–2	7–1
2	England	6	3	1	2	16	6	+10	10			1–0	—	5–0	6–0
3	Belgium	6	2	0	4	9	16	−7	6	Qualification for relegation play-offs		1–5	3–2	—	0–1
4	Portugal (R)	6	1	1	4	5	21	−16	4	Relegation to League B		2–4	1–1	0–3	—

Source: UEFA
(R) Relegated

Group A4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sweden	6	3	3	0	13	6	+7	12	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	3–2	6–1	1–1
2	Italy	6	3	1	2	11	7	+4	10			0–0	—	1–3	1–0
3	Denmark	6	3	0	3	8	13	−5	9	Qualification for relegation play-offs		1–2	0–3	—	1–0
4	Wales (R)	6	0	2	4	4	10	−6	2	Relegation to League B		1–1	1–4	1–2	—

Source: UEFA
(R) Relegated

Nations League Finals

Main article: 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals

The pairings and order of legs were determined via an open draw on 6 June 2025.^[9]

Bracket

	Semi-finals						Final
	22–28 Oct 2025
	Germany			—
							26 Nov – 2 Dec 2025
	France			—
										—
	22–28 Oct 2025
										—
	Sweden			—
	Spain			—
							Third place play-off
							26 Nov – 2 Dec 2025
										—
										—

League B

Main article: 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League B

Group B1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Poland (P)	6	5	1	0	16	2	+14	16	Promotion to League A		—	2–0	5–1	3–0
2	Northern Ireland	6	2	2	2	6	10	−4	8	Qualification for promotion play-offs		0–4	—	3–2	1–0
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina (R)	6	1	2	3	9	12	−3	5	Relegation to League C		1–1	1–1	—	4–0
4	Romania (R)	6	1	1	4	3	10	−7	4			0–1	1–1	2–0	—

Source: UEFA
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Group B2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Slovenia (P)	6	5	0	1	12	2	+10	15[a]	Promotion to League A		—	4–0	3–0	2–0
2	Republic of Ireland	6	5	0	1	10	6	+4	15[a]	Qualification for promotion play-offs		1–0	—	1–0	2–1
3	Turkey	6	2	0	4	3	7	−4	6	Qualification for relegation play-offs		0–1	1–2	—	1–0
4	Greece (R)	6	0	0	6	2	12	−10	0	Relegation to League C		1–2	0–4	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Head-to-head goal difference: Slovenia +3, Republic of Ireland –3.

Group B3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Serbia (P)	6	4	2	0	7	1	+6	14	Promotion to League A		—	1–0	1–0	0–0
2	Finland	6	3	2	1	8	2	+6	11	Qualification for promotion play-offs		1–1	—	3–0	0–0
3	Hungary (R)	6	1	1	4	2	6	−4	4	Relegation to League C		0–1	0–1	—	0–0
4	Belarus (R)	6	0	3	3	0	8	−8	3			0–3	0–3	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Group B4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Ukraine (P)	6	4	1	1	8	6	+2	13[a]	Promotion to League A		—	1–0	2–1	2–1
2	Czech Republic	6	4	1	1	17	4	+13	13[a]	Qualification for promotion play-offs		1–1	—	5–1	5–0
3	Albania	6	2	0	4	10	12	−2	6	Qualification for relegation play-offs		1–2	1–2	—	4–0
4	Croatia (R)	6	1	0	5	4	17	−13	3	Relegation to League C		2–0	0–4	1–2	—

Source: UEFA
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Ukraine 4, Czech Republic 1.

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	B4	Albania	6	2	0	4	10	12	−2	6	Qualification for relegation play-offs
2	B2	Turkey	6	2	0	4	3	7	−4	6
3	B1	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6	1	2	3	9	12	−3	5	Relegation to League C
4	B3	Hungary	6	1	1	4	2	6	−4	4

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

League C

Main article: 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League C

Group C1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Slovakia (P)	6	6	0	0	27	1	+26	18	Promotion to League B		—	3–0	1–0	11–0
2	Faroe Islands	6	3	1	2	10	6	+4	10			1–2	—	2–0	5–0
3	Moldova	6	2	1	3	6	6	0	7			0–2	1–1	—	1–0
4	Gibraltar	6	0	0	6	0	30	−30	0			0–8	0–1	0–4	—

Source: UEFA
(P) Promoted

Group C2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Malta (P)	6	4	1	1	8	5	+3	13	Promotion to League B		—	1–0	2–1	1–0
2	Cyprus	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	10	Qualification for promotion play-offs		2–1	—	2–1	2–2
3	Georgia	6	2	0	4	9	11	−2	6			2–3	1–2	—	2–1
4	Andorra	6	1	2	3	6	8	−2	5			0–0	2–1	1–2	—

Source: UEFA
(P) Promoted

Group C3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Luxembourg (P)	6	5	1	0	20	6	+14	16	Promotion to League B		—	2–2	2–0	7–0
2	Kazakhstan	6	3	1	2	14	9	+5	10			1–3	—	3–2	4–0
3	Armenia	6	2	1	3	13	11	+2	7			1–3	2–0	—	6–1
4	Liechtenstein	6	0	1	5	5	26	−21	1			2–3	0–4	2–2	—

Source: UEFA
(P) Promoted

Group C4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Montenegro (P)	4	2	2	0	5	2	+3	8	Promotion to League B		—	1–1	3–1
2	Azerbaijan	4	1	2	1	3	6	−3	5			0–0	—	0–5
3	Lithuania	4	1	0	3	6	6	0	3			0–1	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
(P) Promoted

Group C5

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Israel (P)	4	3	1	0	12	5	+7	10	Promotion to League B		—	3–1	3–3
2	Estonia	4	1	1	2	2	6	−4	4			0–3	—	0–0
3	Bulgaria	4	0	2	2	4	7	−3	2			1–3	0–1	—

Source: UEFA
(P) Promoted

Group C6

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Latvia (P)	4	2	2	0	6	4	+2	8	Promotion to League B		—	2–2	1–1
2	Kosovo	4	2	1	1	9	3	+6	7	Qualification for promotion play-offs		0–1	—	3–0
3	North Macedonia	4	0	1	3	2	10	−8	1			1–2	0–4	—

Source: UEFA
(P) Promoted

Ranking of second-placed teams

Due to differing group sizes in League C, results against fourth-placed teams are not considered when comparing second-placed teams.^[2]

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C2	Cyprus	4	3	0	1	6	4	+2	9	Qualification for promotion play-offs
2	C6	Kosovo	4	2	1	1	9	3	+6	7
3	C4	Azerbaijan	4	1	2	1	3	6	−3	5
4	C1	Faroe Islands	4	1	1	2	4	6	−2	4
5	C3	Kazakhstan	4	1	1	2	6	9	−3	4
6	C5	Estonia	4	1	1	2	2	6	−4	4

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Promotion/relegation matches

Main article: 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League promotion/relegation matches

The pairings for the promotion/relegation matches were determined via a draw on 6 June 2025.^[10]

League A vs League B

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Northern Ireland		Iceland	24 Oct	28 Oct
Finland		Denmark	24 Oct	28 Oct
Republic of Ireland		Belgium	24 Oct	28 Oct
Czech Republic		Austria	24 Oct	28 Oct

League B vs League C

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cyprus		Albania	24 Oct	28 Oct
Kosovo		Turkey	24 Oct	28 Oct

Overall ranking

The results of each team's league rankings will used to calculate the overall league rankings using the ranking criteria. These rankings, taking promotion and relegation into consideration, will be used to establish the overall phase rankings which will determine the leagues and seeding for the upcoming 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying competition.^[2]

Key

	Promotion to higher league for 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying
	Relegation to lower league for 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying

League A	League B	League C[a]
Rnk Team v t e Pld Pts 1  France 6 18 2  Germany 6 16 3  Spain 6 15 4  Sweden 6 12 5  Netherlands 6 11 6  England 6 10 7  Italy 6 10 8  Norway 6 8 9  Denmark 6 9 10  Belgium 6 6 11  Austria 6 6 12  Iceland 6 4 13  Portugal 6 4 14  Wales 6 2 15  Switzerland 6 2 16  Scotland 6 1 Source: UEFA	Rnk Team v t e Pld Pts 17  Poland 6 16 18  Slovenia 6 15 19  Serbia 6 14 20  Ukraine 6 13 21  Republic of Ireland 6 15 22  Czech Republic 6 13 23  Finland 6 11 24  Northern Ireland 6 8 25  Albania 6 6 26  Turkey 6 6 27  Bosnia and Herzegovina 6 5 28  Hungary 6 4 29  Romania 6 4 30  Belarus 6 3 31  Croatia 6 3 32  Greece 6 0 Source: UEFA	Rnk Team v t e Pld Pts 33  Slovakia 4 12 34  Israel 4 10 35  Luxembourg 4 10 36  Malta 4 9 37  Montenegro 4 8 38  Latvia 4 8 39  Cyprus 4 9 40  Kosovo 4 7 41  Azerbaijan 4 5 42  Faroe Islands 4 4 43  Kazakhstan 4 4 44  Estonia 4 4 45  Lithuania 4 3 46  Armenia 4 3 47  Bulgaria 4 2 48  Moldova 4 1 49  North Macedonia 4 1 50  Georgia 4 0 51  Andorra 6 5 52  Liechtenstein 6 1 53  Gibraltar 6 0 Source: UEFA

1. Due to differing group sizes in League C, results against fourth-placed teams are not considered when comparing teams placed first, second, and third in their respective groups.^[2]

Top goalscorers

There were 453 goals scored in 150 matches, for an average of 3.02 goals per match.

6 goals

• Amy Thompson
• Tamara Morávková

5 goals

• Fortesa Berisha
• Tessa Wullaert
• Antri Violari
• Kateřina Svitková
• Sandy Baltimore
• Lea Schüller
• Nikola Rybanská
• Zara Kramžar

4 goals

• Teresa Morató
• Sofija Krajšumović
• Aggie Beever-Jones
• Ásla Johannesen
• Selina Cerci
• Karólína Vilhjálmsdóttir
• Kaltrina Biqkaj
• Ewa Pajor
• Patrícia Hmírová
• Lara Prašnikar
• Esther González
• Clàudia Pina

3 goals

• Narine Davtyan
• Lara Kazanchian
• Eva Bartoňová
• Michaela Khýrová
• Andrea Stašková
• Heidi Sevdal
• Linda Sällström
• Laura Freigang
• Giovanna Hoffmann
• Talia Sommer
• Cristiana Girelli
• Karina Berikova
• Amina Bibossynova
• Karlīna Miksone
• Caroline Jorge
• Laura Miller
• Haley Bugeja
• Armisa Kuč
• Lineth Beerensteyn
• Simone Magill
• Adriana Achcińska
• Paulina Tomasiak
• Nina Matejić
• Klaudia Fabová
• Filippa Angeldahl
• Stina Blackstenius
• Olha Ovdiychuk

Below are goalscorer lists for all leagues:

• League A
• League B
• League C