2025 UEFA Women's Nations League

Tournament details
Dates	League phase: 21 February – 3 June 2025 Promotion/relegation matches: 24–29 October 2025 Nations League Finals: 24 October – 2 December
Teams	53
Final positions
Champions	Spain (2nd title)
Runners-up	Germany
Third place	France
Fourth place	Sweden
Tournament statistics
Matches played	170
Goals scored	514 (3.02 per match)
Attendance	839,370 (4,937 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tessa Wullaert (8 goals)
Women's European Qualifiers ← 2025 (Euro) 2027 (World Cup) → Women's Nations League ← 2023–24 2027 →

The 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League was 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 was played between February and June, with the finals tournament took place between October and December. The results also determined the leagues for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2027 qualifying competition.

Spain, the defending champions, successfully defended the title after beating Germany 3–0 on aggregate in the 2025 finals.

The competition began 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 featured 16 teams in four groups of four teams, while League C consisted of the remaining competition entrants split into groups of three or four teams. The teams in each group played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format.

The four group winners of League A advanced to the Nations League Finals, consisting of two semi-finals, a third place play-off, and a final, all played over two legs (this differed to the previous edition where all the Nations Leagues Finals matches were single-legged).^[2] An open draw determined 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 featured 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 were 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, were automatically relegated. Promotion/relegation play-offs were also held on a home-and-away basis, taking place in parallel with the Nations League semi-finals, to determine which of the other teams were promoted, relegated or remain in their respective leagues. The third-placed teams of League A played the runners-up of League B, while the two best-ranked third-placed teams in League B played the two best-ranked League C runners-up. The teams from the higher leagues were seeded, and played the second leg at home.

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

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

Individual league rankings were 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]

After the conclusion of all group matches, the overall league rankings were 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 were established after the conclusion of the promotion/relegation play-offs, and were 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

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)

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 was 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 –

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]

Pos	Team	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 (O)	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	—

Pos	Team	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 (O)	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	—

Pos	Team	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 (R)	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	—

Pos	Team	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 (O)	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	—

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

	Semi-finals						Final
	24–28 October
	Germany	1	2	3
							28 November – 2 December
	France	0	2	2
							Germany	0	0	0
	24–28 October
							Spain	0	3	3
	Sweden	0	0	0
	Spain	4	1	5
							Third place play-off
							28 November – 2 December
							France	2	2	4
							Sweden	1	2	3

Pos	Team	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	—

Pos	Team	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 (O, P)	6	5	0	1	10	6	+4	15[a]	Qualification for promotion play-offs		1–0	—	1–0	2–1
3	Turkey (O)	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	—

Pos	Team	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	—

Pos	Team	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 (O)	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	—

Pos	Grp	Team	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

Pos	Team	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	—

Pos	Team	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	—

Pos	Team	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	—

Pos	Team	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	—

Pos	Team	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	—

Pos	Team	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	—

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

Pos	Grp	Team	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

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

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Northern Ireland	0–5	Iceland	0–2	0–3
Finland	1–8	Denmark	1–6	0–2
Republic of Ireland	5–4	Belgium	4–2	1–2
Czech Republic	1–2	Austria	1–0	0–2

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Cyprus	3–5	Albania	3–2	0–3
Kosovo	0–7	Turkey	0–4	0–3

At the conclusion of the league phase, the results of each team's league rankings were used to calculate the overall league rankings, according to the ranking criteria.^[2]

Key

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

Promotion playoff for higher league for 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying

Relegation playoff for lower league for 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying

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

League A Rnk Team 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

League B Rnk Team 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

League C[a] Rnk Team 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

After the conclusion of the promotion/relegation play-offs, the overall league rankings were adjusted according to the ranking criteria to establish the UEFA Women's Nations League overall phase rankings, which were used to determine the starting positions and seeding of the teams in Women's World Cup 2027 qualifying.^[2]

Key

	Promoted after the season
	Relegated after the season
*	Participated in promotion/relegation play-offs

2027 League A participants	2027 League B participants	2027 League C participants
Rnk Team P 1  France    2  Germany    3  Spain    4  Sweden    5  Netherlands    6  England    7  Italy    8  Norway    9  Denmark * 10  Austria * 11  Iceland * 12  Poland 13  Slovenia 14  Serbia 15  Ukraine 16  Republic of Ireland * Source: UEFA	Rnk Team P/R 17  Belgium * 18  Portugal 19  Wales 20  Switzerland 21  Scotland 22  Czech Republic * 23  Finland * 24  Northern Ireland * 25  Albania * 26  Turkey * 27  Slovakia 28  Israel 29  Luxembourg 30  Malta 31  Montenegro 32  Latvia Source: UEFA	Rnk Team R 33  Bosnia and Herzegovina 34  Hungary 35  Romania 36  Belarus 37  Croatia 38  Greece 39  Cyprus * 40  Kosovo * 41  Azerbaijan    42  Faroe Islands    43  Kazakhstan    44  Estonia    45  Lithuania    46  Armenia    47  Bulgaria    48  Moldova    49  North Macedonia    50  Georgia    51  Andorra    52  Liechtenstein    53  Gibraltar    Source: UEFA

There were 514 goals scored in 166 matches, for an average of 3.1 goals per match.

8 goals

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

Below are goalscorers lists for all leagues, promotion/relegation matches, and finals: