2026–27 UEFA Nations League A

Tournament details
Dates	League phase: 24 September – 17 November 2026 Quarter-finals: 25–30 March 2027 Nations League Finals: 9–13 June 2027
Teams	16
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The 2026–27 UEFA Nations League A is the top division of the 2026–27 edition of the UEFA Nations League, the fifth season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA. League A will begin with the league phase in September 2026, and will culminate with the Nations League Finals in June 2027 to determine the champions of the competition.

Portugal are the defending champions, having won the 2025 finals.

League A consists of the 16 top-ranked UEFA members from the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League final overall ranking, split into four groups of four. Each team will play six matches within their group, using the home-and-away round-robin format on matchdays in September, October and November 2026.^[1]

Following the league phase, the top two teams of each group will advance to the quarter-finals, played home-and-away over two legs in March 2027. In each tie, group winners will face a runner-up from a different group, with the group winner hosting the second leg. The four quarter-final winners will advance to the 2027 UEFA Nations League Finals. The last-placed teams of each group will be relegated directly to League B, while the third-placed teams will compete against the runners-up of League B to determine their permanence in League A for the next season or their relegation to 2028–29 UEFA Nations League B. The relegation play-offs will be played home-and-away over two legs in March 2027, with the League A third-placed teams hosting the second leg. 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 without the away goals rule. If the score remains level after extra time, a penalty shoot-out will be used to decide the winner.^[2]

The Nations League Finals will be played in a knockout format in June 2027, consisting of the semi-finals, third place play-off and final. The semi-final pairings will be determined using an open draw. The host country will be 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.^[2]

League A includes sixteen teams based on the results of the 2024–25 season: the top eight teams (group winners and runners-up) from League A, the four winners of the League A/B play-offs and the four group winners from League B.

The following were the team changes in League A from the 2024–25 season:^[3][4]

Incoming Promoted from Nations League B  Czech Republic  England  Greece  Norway  Turkey  Wales

Outgoing Relegated to Nations League B  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Hungary  Israel  Poland  Scotland   Switzerland

The teams were seeded for the league phase based on the 2024–25 Nations League final overall ranking, considering promotion and relegation between the leagues and the results of the League A knockout stage.^[5][6]

Pot 1 Team Rank  Portugal (title holders) 1  Spain 2  France 3  Germany 4

Pot 2 Team Rank  Italy 5  Netherlands 6  Denmark 7  Croatia 8

Pot 3 Team Rank  Serbia 9  Belgium 10  England 11  Norway 12

Pot 4 Team Rank  Wales 13  Czech Republic 14  Greece 15  Turkey 16

The draw for the league phase took place in Brussels, Belgium, on 12 February 2026, 18:00 CET.^[7][8] Groups were drawn to contain one team from each pot.^[9]

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 13 February 2026, the day following the draw.^[10][11]

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	France	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to quarter-finals		—	2 Oct	5 Oct	15 Nov
2	Italy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			12 Nov	—	25 Sep	5 Oct
3	Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs		28 Sep	15 Nov	—	2 Oct
4	Turkey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League B		25 Sep	28 Sep	12 Nov	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Germany	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to quarter-finals		—	16 Nov	1 Oct	27 Sep
2	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			24 Sep	—	4 Oct	13 Nov
3	Serbia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs		13 Nov	27 Sep	—	24 Sep
4	Greece	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League B		4 Oct	1 Oct	16 Nov	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Spain	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to quarter-finals		—	29 Sep	15 Nov	3 Oct
2	Croatia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			6 Oct	—	3 Oct	15 Nov
3	England	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs		26 Sep	12 Nov	—	6 Oct
4	Czech Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League B		12 Nov	26 Sep	29 Sep	—

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Portugal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to quarter-finals		—	14 Nov	4 Oct	24 Sep
2	Denmark	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			1 Oct	—	17 Nov	27 Sep
3	Norway	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs		27 Sep	24 Sep	—	14 Nov
4	Wales	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League B		17 Nov	4 Oct	1 Oct	—

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The draw for the quarter-finals will be held after the completion of the league phase. In the draw, teams from the same group cannot be drawn against each other.^[2]

The group winners will be seeded in the draw, while the runners-up will be unseeded.^[2]

Quarter-final draw pots

Group	Winners (seeded in Pot 1)	Runners-up (unseeded in Pot 2)
A1
A2
A3
A4

The first legs will be played on 25–27 March, and the second legs will be played on 28–30 March 2027.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Group runner-up	1	Group winner	25–27 Mar '27	28–30 Mar '27
Group runner-up	2	Group winner	25–27 Mar '27	28–30 Mar '27
Group runner-up	3	Group winner	25–27 Mar '27	28–30 Mar '27
Group runner-up	4	Group winner	25–27 Mar '27	28–30 Mar '27

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

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The host of the Nations League Finals will preferably be selected from the four qualified teams. The semi-finals pairings will be determined by means of an open draw. For scheduling purposes, the host team will be allocated to semi-final 1 as the administrative home team.^[2]

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

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Following the league phase, the 16 League A teams will be ordered 1st to 16th in an interim overall ranking for the 2026–27 UEFA Nations League according to the following rules:^[2]

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

Rnk	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1		1st-ranked group winner	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2		2nd-ranked group winner	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3		3rd-ranked group winner	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4		4th-ranked group winner	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5		1st-ranked group runner-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6		2nd-ranked group runner-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7		3rd-ranked group runner-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8		4th-ranked group runner-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9		1st-ranked group 3rd place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10		2nd-ranked group 3rd place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11		3rd-ranked group 3rd place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12		4th-ranked group 3rd place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13		1st-ranked group 4th place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14		2nd-ranked group 4th place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15		3rd-ranked group 4th place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16		4th-ranked group 4th place	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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]

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