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2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League B

Tournament details
Dates	22 September – 5 December 2023
Teams	16
Promoted	Czech Republic  Finland  Poland  Republic of Ireland
Relegated	Albania  Belarus  Greece  Romania  Slovenia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	48
Goals scored	128 (2.67 per match)
Attendance	114,203 (2,379 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ewa Pajor Kyra Carusa Katie McCabe (5 goals each)
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The 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League B was the second division of the 2023–24 edition of the UEFA Women's Nations League, the inaugural season of the international football competition involving the women's national teams of the member associations of UEFA. The results were used to determine the leagues for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying competition.

Format

League B consisted of 16 UEFA members ranked 17th to 32nd among competition entrants in the UEFA women's national team coefficient ranking. Teams were split into four groups of four. Each team played six matches within their group, using the home-and-away round-robin format with double matchdays in September, October and November to December 2023. The competition also acted as the first phase of the preliminary competition for UEFA Women's Euro 2025, which uses an identical league structure. The group winners were promoted to League A, while the fourth-placed team from each group, as well as the lowest-ranked third-placed team, were relegated to League C, taking effect in UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying. In addition, the group runners-up of League B advanced to the promotion play-offs against the third-placed teams of League A. The winners of these home-and-away ties entered League A for UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying, while the losers entered League B. Meanwhile, the three best-ranked third-placed teams in League B advanced to the relegation play-offs against the three best-ranked League C runners-up. The winners of these home-and-away ties entered League B for UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying, while the losers entered League C.

Seeding

Teams were allocated to League B according to their UEFA women's national team coefficient after the conclusion of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying group stage on 6 September 2022. Teams were split into four pots of four teams, ordered based on their UEFA national team coefficient.

The draw for the league phase took place at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland in May 2023, 13:00 CEST. Each group contained one team from each pot. The draw started with Pot 1 and ended with Pot 4, with drawn teams assigned to the first available group in ascending order from B1 to B4. Due to the Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Belarus and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group.

Pot 1 Team Coeff Rank  Republic of Ireland 28,877 18  Poland 28,458 19  Czech Republic 27,508 20  Finland 26,757 21

Pot 2 Team Coeff Rank  Serbia 26,517 22  Slovenia 26,445 23  Northern Ireland 25,711 24  Romania 24,877 25

Pot 3 Team Coeff Rank  Ukraine 24,359 26  Bosnia and Herzegovina 23,091 27  Slovakia 19,213 28  Hungary 18,552 29

Pot 4 Team Coeff Rank  Greece 17,556 30  Croatia 17,523 31  Belarus 16,890 32  Albania 16,826 33

Groups

Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

Pos	Team	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	—

Albania	1–1	Hungary
Krasniqi 27'	Report	Fenyvesi 74'

Republic of Ireland	3–0	Northern Ireland
Lu. Quinn 31' Carusa 70' Agg 85'	Report

Hungary	0–4	Republic of Ireland
	Report	Hayes 18' McCabe 42' Carusa 49' O'Sullivan 70'

Northern Ireland	1–0	Albania
Wade 57'	Report

Hungary	3–2	Northern Ireland
Szabó 18' Süle 83' Németh 90+4'	Report	Hamilton 81' Magill 89' (pen.)

Republic of Ireland	5–1	Albania
McCabe 4', 26', 81' Carusa 56', 59'	Report	Doçi 7'

Albania	0–1	Republic of Ireland
	Report	O'Sullivan 88'

Northern Ireland	1–1	Hungary
Maxwell 80'	Report	Zeller 56'

Albania	0–4	Northern Ireland
	Report	Magill 43', 47' Maxwell 58' Bell 85'

Republic of Ireland	1–0	Hungary
Csiszár 66' (o.g.)	Report

Hungary	6–0	Albania
Csiszár 10', 43', 81' Kaján 11' Turányi 18' Zeller 88'	Report

Northern Ireland	1–6	Republic of Ireland
Beattie 75'	Report	Lu. Quinn 37' Payne 39' Carusa 47' McCabe 50' Lo. Quinn 61' Hayes 86'

Group 2

Pos	Team	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	—

Finland	4–0	Slovakia
Sällström 5' Rantala 23' Kosola 45', 75'	Report

Croatia	2–1	Romania
Rudelić 45+1' Pezelj 54'	Report	Carp 31'

Romania	0–1	Finland
	Report	Summanen 17' (pen.)

Slovakia	4–0	Croatia
Hmírová 24', 60', 73' Morávková 34'	Report

Finland	3–0	Croatia
Sällström 6' Kunštek 65' (o.g.) Franssi 90+3'	Report

Romania	0–0	Slovakia
	Report

Slovakia	1–0	Romania
Mikolajová 64'	Report

Croatia	0–2	Finland
	Report	Summanen 5', 12'

Finland	6–0	Romania
Sällström 30', 41' Öling 36' Koivisto 72' Sevenius 84' Hartikainen 86'	Report

Croatia	2–0	Slovakia
Krajinović 53' Dordić 60'	Report

Romania	0–1	Croatia
	Report	Rudelić 81'

Slovakia	2–2	Finland
Lemešová 32' Mikolajová 61'	Report	Pikkujämsä 2' Peuhkurinen 70'

Group 3

Pos	Team	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	—

Ukraine	1–2	Serbia
Ovdiychuk 20'	Report	Čanković 64' Damjanović 79'

Greece	1–3	Poland
Markou 24'	Report	Pajor 1' Padilla 40' Pawollek 84'

Poland	2–1	Ukraine
Pajor 22', 67'	Report	Shmatko 80'

Serbia	4–0	Greece
Ivanović 16', 44' Damnjanović 32', 52'	Report

Greece	2–1	Ukraine
Markou 36' Spyridonidou 72'	Report	Kalinina 3'

Poland	2–1	Serbia
Frajtović 17' (o.g.) Pajor 42'	Report	Damnjanović 76'

Ukraine	1–0	Greece
Apanashchenko 32'	Report

Serbia	1–1	Poland
Blagojević 52'	Report	Padilla 43'

Greece	0–2	Serbia
	Report	Mijatović 45' Poljak 89'

Ukraine	0–1	Poland
	Report	Achcińska 10'

Poland	2–0	Greece
Pajor 37' Kozak 59'	Report

Serbia	0–1	Ukraine
	Report	Hiryn 55'

Group 4

Pos	Team	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	—

Slovenia	0–2	Czech Republic
	Report	Pochmanová 38' Cahynová 86'

Belarus	1–2	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Linnik 14'	Report	Jelčić 6' Gavrić 87'

Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–1	Slovenia
Nikolić 40'	Report	Zver 59'

Czech Republic	2–1	Belarus
Kotrčová 28' Cahynová 33'	Report	Valiuk 55'

Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–0	Czech Republic
Krajnić 88'	Report

Belarus	1–1	Slovenia
Linnik 90+3'	Report	Kubichnaya 16' (o.g.)

Czech Republic	2–2	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dubcová 31' Černá 67'	Report	Nikolić 6', 51'

Slovenia	0–0	Belarus
	Report

Slovenia	2–1	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kuštrin 74', 77'	Report	Jelčić 19'

Belarus	0–1	Czech Republic
	Report	Dubcová 45'

Bosnia and Herzegovina	1–0	Belarus
Gačanica 17'	Report

Czech Republic	4–0	Slovenia
Dubcová 12' Černá 30' Stašková 59' Khýrová 69'	Report

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	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 ranking

The 16 League B teams were ranked 17th to 32nd overall in the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League according to the following rules:

• The teams finishing first in their groups were ranked 17th to 20th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing second in their groups were ranked 21st to 24th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing third in their groups were ranked 25th to 28th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing fourth in their groups were ranked 29th to 32nd according to the results of the league phase.

Rnk	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
17	B1	Republic of Ireland	6	6	0	0	20	2	+18	18
18	B2	Finland	6	5	1	0	18	2	+16	16
19	B3	Poland	6	5	1	0	11	4	+7	16
20	B4	Czech Republic	6	4	1	1	11	4	+7	13
21	B4	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6	3	2	1	8	6	+2	11
22	B3	Serbia	6	3	1	2	10	5	+5	10
23	B2	Croatia	6	3	0	3	5	10	−5	9
24	B1	Hungary	6	2	2	2	11	9	+2	8
25	B2	Slovakia	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	8
26	B1	Northern Ireland	6	2	1	3	9	13	−4	7
27	B3	Ukraine	6	2	0	4	5	7	−2	6
28	B4	Slovenia	6	1	3	2	4	9	−5	6
29	B3	Greece	6	1	0	5	3	13	−10	3
30	B4	Belarus	6	0	2	4	3	7	−4	2
31	B2	Romania	6	0	1	5	1	11	−10	1
32	B1	Albania	6	0	1	5	2	18	−16	1

Goalscorers

There were 128 goals scored in 48 matches, for an average of 2.67 goals per match.

5 goals

• Ewa Pajor
• Kyra Carusa
• Katie McCabe

4 goals

• Linda Sällström

3 goals

• Milena Nikolić
• Kamila Dubcová
• Eveliina Summanen
• Henrietta Csiszár
• Simone Magill
• Jovana Damnjanović
• Patrícia Hmírová

2 goals

• Anastasia Linnik
• Maja Jelčić
• Ivana Rudelić
• Klára Cahynová
• Franny Černá
• Katariina Kosola
• Eleni Markou
• Dóra Zeller
• Danielle Maxwell
• Natalia Padilla
• Caitlin Hayes
• Denise O'Sullivan
• Lucy Quinn
• Miljana Ivanović
• Mária Mikolajová
• Zala Kuštrin

1 goal

• Megi Doçi
• Qendresa Krasniqi
• Viktoryia Valiuk
• Minela Gačanica
• Andrea Gavrić
• Alma Krajnić
• Jelena Dordić
• Ružica Krajinović
• Petra Pezelj
• Michaela Khýrová
• Kateřina Kotrčová
• Aneta Pochmanová
• Andrea Stašková
• Sanni Franssi
• Anni Hartikainen
• Emma Koivisto
• Ria Öling
• Emma Peuhkurinen
• Elli Pikkujämsä
• Jutta Rantala
• Oona Sevenius
• Anastasia Spyridonidou
• Evelin Fenyvesi
• Zsanett Kaján
• Hanna Németh
• Dóra Süle
• Viktória Szabó
• Lilla Turányi
• Kerry Beattie
• Megan Bell
• Caragh Hamilton
• Lauren Wade
• Adriana Achcińska
• Kinga Kozak
• Tanja Pawollek
• Lily Agg
• Heather Payne
• Louise Quinn
• Cristina Carp
• Dina Blagojević
• Jelena Čanković
• Nevena Damjanović
• Milica Mijatović
• Allegra Poljak
• Diana Lemešová
• Tamara Morávková
• Mateja Zver
• Daryna Apanashchenko
• Viktoriya Hiryn
• Yana Kalinina
• Olha Ovdiychuk
• Lyubov Shmatko

1 own goal

• Ksenia Kubichnaya (against Slovenia)
• Maria Kunštek (against Finland)
• Henrietta Csiszár (against Republic of Ireland)
• Anđela Frajtović (against Poland)

Notes

1. CEST (UTC+2) for times up to 28 October 2023, CET (UTC+1) for times from 29 October 2023.
2. ^ Due to the country's involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Belarus was required to play its home matches at neutral venues behind closed doors until further notice.
3. Due to the country's involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Belarus were not allowed to enter Czech Republic by local authorities. As a result, the match was played at a neutral venue.

References

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External links

• Official website

• 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League