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2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League

Tournament details
Dates	League phase: 22 September – 5 December 2023 Nations League Finals and promotion/relegation matches 23–28 February 2024
Teams	51
Final positions
Champions	Spain (1st title)
Runners-up	France
Third place	Germany
Fourth place	Netherlands
Tournament statistics
Matches played	150
Goals scored	424 (2.83 per match)
Attendance	693,603 (4,624 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sharon Beck (9 goals)
Women's European Qualifiers ← 20252025 → Women's Nations League ← 20252025 → All statistics correct as of 5 December 2023.

The 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League was the inaugural 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 September and December 2023, with the finals tournament taking place in February 2024. The results also determined the leagues for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying competition, and which two teams (in addition to hosts France) qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Format

The competition began with the league stage, featuring the national teams split into three leagues (A, B, and C) based on their UEFA Women's national team coefficient. 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, which featured single-leg semi-finals, a third-place play-off, and final. An open draw determined the pairings and home teams for the semi-final matches, as well as which semi-final will have its teams host the third-place play-off and final. The two best-ranked teams in the Nations League Finals (excluding France) qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

In addition, the competition featured promotion and relegation, taking effect in UEFA Women's Euro 2025 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 lowest-ranked third-placed team in League B, were automatically relegated. Promotion/relegation matches were also held on a home-and-away basis, taking place in parallel with the Nations League Finals, to determine which teams would be promoted, relegated or remain in their respective leagues. The third-placed teams of League A played the runners-up of League B, while the three best-ranked third-placed teams in League B played the three best-ranked League C runners-up. The teams from the higher leagues were seeded, and played the second leg at home. In the two-legged ties, the team that scored more goals on aggregate was the winner. If the aggregate score was level, extra time was played (the away goals rule was not applied). If the score remained level after extra time, a penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner.

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:

1. Higher number of points obtained in the matches played among the teams in question;
2. Superior goal difference in matches played among the teams in question;
3. Higher number of goals scored in the matches played among the teams in question;
4. If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 11 apply;
5. Superior goal difference in all group matches;
6. Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
7. Higher number of away goals scored in all group matches;
8. Higher number of wins in all group matches;
9. Higher number of away wins in all group matches;
10. Lower disciplinary points total in all group matches (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).
11. Position in the UEFA Women's national team coefficient ranking.

Notes

1. When there are two or more teams tied in points, criteria 1 to 3 are applied. After these criteria are applied, they may define the position of some of the teams involved, but not all of them. For example, if there is a three-way tie on points, the application of the first three criteria may only break the tie for one of the teams, leaving the other two teams still tied. In this case, the tiebreaking procedure is resumed, from the beginning, for those teams that are still tied.

Criteria for league ranking

Individual league rankings are established according to the following criteria:

1. Position in the group;
2. Higher number of points;
3. Superior 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 UEFA Women's national team coefficient ranking.

To rank teams in League C, which may be composed of different-sized groups, the results against the fourth-placed teams in these leagues are not taken into account to compare teams placed first, second, and third in their respective groups.

The ranking of the top four teams in League A is determined by their finish in the Nations League Finals.

Criteria for overall ranking

The overall UEFA Nations League rankings are established as follows:

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.

Schedule

The competition was played from September 2023 to February 2024. It began with the league phase and ended with the Nations League Finals and promotion/relegation matches played in parallel. Below is the schedule of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League.

Seeding

All 55 UEFA national teams were able to submit an entry for the competition by 23 March 2023 at the latest, which also acted as entry for UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying. In total, 51 teams entered the competition. Russia were not permitted to enter the competition, as Russian teams were suspended indefinitely from UEFA and FIFA competitions since 28 February 2022 due to their country's invasion of Ukraine.

In addition, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein and San Marino did not submit an entry, which meant that they could not qualify for UEFA Women's Euro 2025.

The draw for the league phase took place on 2 May 2023, 13:00 CEST, at the House of European Football in Nyon, Switzerland. Teams were split into leagues based on their UEFA Women's national team coefficient ranking. Teams were divided into four pots of four in Leagues A and B, and three pots of five and one pot of 4 in League C. For political reasons, Armenia and Azerbaijan (due to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict), as well as Belarus and Ukraine (due to the Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine), could not be drawn in the same group. Due to winter venue restrictions, a group could contain a maximum of two of Sweden, Norway, and Iceland in League A, and two of Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Latvia, and Lithuania in League C. Due to excessive travel restrictions, only one of Andorra, the Faroe Islands, and Malta could be drawn with Kazakhstan.

League A Pot Team Coeff Rank 1  England 46,178 1  Germany 43,043 2  France 42,584 3  Sweden 40,823 4 2  Spain 40,472 5  Netherlands 39,910 6  Norway 38,715 7  Denmark 37,535 8 3  Italy 36,455 9  Belgium 34,794 10  Austria 33,963 11  Iceland 33,348 12 4  Switzerland 33,101 13  Wales 29,942 15  Portugal 29,744 16  Scotland 29,335 17

League B Pot Team Coeff Rank 1  Republic of Ireland 28,877 18  Poland 28,458 19  Czech Republic 27,508 20  Finland 26,757 21 2  Serbia 26,517 22  Slovenia 26,445 23  Northern Ireland 25,711 24  Romania 24,877 25 3  Ukraine 24,359 26  Bosnia and Herzegovina 23,091 27  Slovakia 19,213 28  Hungary 18,552 29 4  Greece 17,556 30  Croatia 17,523 31  Belarus 16,890 32  Albania 16,826 33

League C Pot Team Coeff Rank 1  Malta 16,021 34  Israel 15,543 35  Azerbaijan 14,876 36  Turkey 14,865 37  North Macedonia 14,483 38 2  Kosovo 14,226 39  Montenegro 12,668 40  Luxembourg 12,051 41  Estonia 9,750 42  Moldova 9,654 43 3  Lithuania 9,649 44  Kazakhstan 8,662 45  Latvia 8,543 46  Bulgaria 8,200 47  Cyprus 8,032 48 4  Faroe Islands 7,020 49  Georgia 6,977 50  Armenia 6,500 51  Andorra 1,958 52

Did not enter Team Coeff Rank  Gibraltar 0 —  Liechtenstein 0 —  San Marino 0 —

Banned from entering the competition Team Coeff Rank  Russia 32,203 14

League A

Group A1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Netherlands	6	4	0	2	14	6	+8	12	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	2–1	4–0	4–0
2	England	6	4	0	2	15	8	+7	12			3–2	—	1–0	2–1
3	Belgium (O)	6	2	2	2	7	10	−3	8	Qualification for relegation play-offs		2–1	3–2	—	1–1
4	Scotland (R)	6	0	2	4	3	15	−12	2	Relegation to League B		0–1	0–6	1–1	—

1. ^ Tied on head-to-head results. Ranked on overall goal difference: Netherlands +8, England +7

Group A2

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

Group A3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Germany	6	4	1	1	14	3	+11	13	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	3–0	4–0	5–1
2	Denmark	6	4	0	2	10	6	+4	12			2–0	—	0–1	2–1
3	Iceland (O)	6	3	0	3	4	8	−4	9	Qualification for relegation play-offs		0–2	0–1	—	1–0
4	Wales (R)	6	0	1	5	4	15	−11	1	Relegation to League B		0–0	1–5	1–2	—

Group A4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Spain	6	5	0	1	23	9	+14	15	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	2–3	5–3	5–0
2	Italy	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3	10			0–1	—	0–1	3–0
3	Sweden (O)	6	2	1	3	8	10	−2	7	Qualification for relegation play-offs		2–3	1–1	—	1–0
4	Switzerland (R)	6	1	0	5	2	17	−15	3	Relegation to League B		1–7	0–1	1–0	—

Nations League Finals

The pairings and home teams were determined via an open draw on 11 December 2023.

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	23 February 2024 – Seville
	Spain	3
					28 February 2024 – Seville
	Netherlands	0
					Spain	2
	23 February 2024 – Décines-Charpieu
					France	0
	France	2
	Germany	1
					Third place play-off
					28 February 2024 – Heerenveen
					Netherlands	0
					Germany	2

Semi-finals

Spain	3–0	Netherlands
Hermoso 41' Bonmatí 45' Batlle 77'	Report

France	2–1	Germany
Diani 41' Karchaoui 45+4' (pen.)	Report	Gwinn 82' (pen.)

Third-place play-off

Final

Spain	2–0	France
Bonmatí 32' Caldentey 53'	Report

League B

Group B1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Republic of Ireland (P)	6	6	0	0	20	2	+18	18	Promotion to League A		—	1–0	3–0	5–1
2	Hungary	6	2	2	2	11	9	+2	8	Qualification for promotion play-offs		0–4	—	3–2	6–0
3	Northern Ireland (O)	6	2	1	3	9	13	−4	7	Qualification for relegation play-offs		1–6	1–1	—	1–0
4	Albania (R)	6	0	1	5	2	18	−16	1	Relegation to League C		0–1	1–1	0–4	—

Group B2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Finland (P)	6	5	1	0	18	2	+16	16	Promotion to League A		—	3–0	4–0	6–0
2	Croatia	6	3	0	3	5	10	−5	9	Qualification for promotion play-offs		0–2	—	2–0	2–1
3	Slovakia (O)	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	8	Qualification for relegation play-offs		2–2	4–0	—	1–0
4	Romania (R)	6	0	1	5	1	11	−10	1	Relegation to League C		0–1	0–1	0–0	—

Group B3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Poland (P)	6	5	1	0	11	4	+7	16	Promotion to League A		—	2–1	2–1	2–0
2	Serbia	6	3	1	2	10	5	+5	10	Qualification for promotion play-offs		1–1	—	0–1	4–0
3	Ukraine (O)	6	2	0	4	5	7	−2	6	Qualification for relegation play-offs		0–1	1–2	—	1–0
4	Greece (R)	6	1	0	5	3	13	−10	3	Relegation to League C		1–3	0–2	2–1	—

Group B4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Czech Republic (P)	6	4	1	1	11	4	+7	13	Promotion to League A		—	2–2	4–0	2–1
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11	Qualification for promotion play-offs		1–0	—	1–1	1–0
3	Slovenia (R)	6	1	3	2	4	9	−5	6	Relegation to League C		0–2	2–1	—	0–0
4	Belarus (R)	6	0	2	4	3	7	−4	2			0–1	1–2	1–1	—

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	B2	Slovakia	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	8	Qualification for relegation play-offs
2	B1	Northern Ireland	6	2	1	3	9	13	−4	7
3	B3	Ukraine	6	2	0	4	5	7	−2	6
4	B4	Slovenia	6	1	3	2	4	9	−5	6	Relegation to League C

League C

Group C1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Malta (P)	6	5	1	0	13	1	+12	16	Promotion to League B		—	2–1	5–0	2–0
2	Latvia	6	3	1	2	17	6	+11	10	Qualification for promotion play-offs		0–1	—	4–0	5–0
3	Andorra	6	1	1	4	2	17	−15	4			0–3	0–4	—	0–0
4	Moldova	6	0	3	3	4	12	−8	3			0–0	3–3	1–2	—

Group C2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Turkey (P)	6	6	0	0	16	0	+16	18	Promotion to League B		—	2–0	1–0	2–0
2	Lithuania	6	1	2	3	4	9	−5	5			0–4	—	0–2	0–0
3	Luxembourg	6	1	2	3	6	11	−5	5			0–4	1–1	—	1–1
4	Georgia	6	1	2	3	5	11	−6	5			0–3	0–3	4–2	—

1. ^ Ranked on head-to-head goal difference: Lithuania +1, Luxembourg 0, Georgia −1

Group C3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Azerbaijan (P)	6	5	1	0	9	2	+7	16	Promotion to League B		—	3–0	1–1	1–0
2	Montenegro	6	4	0	2	14	4	+10	12	Qualification for promotion play-offs		0–1	—	2–0	9–0
3	Cyprus	6	2	1	3	3	6	−3	7			0–1	0–2	—	1–0
4	Faroe Islands	6	0	0	6	1	15	−14	0			1–2	0–1	0–1	—

Group C4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Israel (P)	6	5	1	0	21	2	+19	16	Promotion to League B		—	4–1	0–0	6–1
2	Estonia	6	3	1	2	11	11	0	10			0–5	—	0–0	5–1
3	Kazakhstan	6	2	2	2	6	5	+1	8			0–2	0–1	—	4–1
4	Armenia	6	0	0	6	5	25	−20	0			0–4	1–4	1–2	—

Group C5

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Kosovo (P)	4	3	1	0	10	2	+8	10	Promotion to League B		—	5–1	3–1
2	Bulgaria	4	1	2	1	4	7	−3	5	Qualification for promotion play-offs		0–0	—	2–2
3	North Macedonia	4	0	1	3	3	8	−5	1			0–2	0–1	—

Ranking of second-placed teams

Due to differing group sizes in League C, results against fourth-placed teams were disregarded when ranking second-placed teams.

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C1	Latvia	4	2	0	2	9	3	+6	6	Qualification for promotion play-offs
2	C3	Montenegro	4	2	0	2	4	4	0	6
3	C5	Bulgaria	4	1	2	1	4	7	−3	5
4	C4	Estonia	4	1	1	2	2	9	−7	4
5	C2	Lithuania	4	0	1	3	1	9	−8	1

Promotion/relegation matches

The pairings for the promotion/relegation matches were determined using a draw on 11 December 2023.

League A vs League B

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Serbia	2–3	Iceland	1–1	1–2
Hungary	2–10	Belgium	1–5	1–5
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0–10	Sweden	0–5	0–5
Croatia	0–8	Norway	0–3	0–5

League B vs League C

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Latvia	0–9	Slovakia	0–3	0–6
Montenegro	1–3	Northern Ireland	0–2	1–1
Bulgaria	0–7	Ukraine	0–4	0–3

Overall ranking

The results of each team's league rankings were used to calculate the overall ranking of the competition, using the ranking criteria, and were used for seeding in the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying draw.

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

1. Due to unequal group sizes, matches against fourth-placed teams were not considered when ranking teams finishing first, second, or third.

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