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2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League A

Tournament details
Dates	League phase: 22 September – 5 December 2023 Nations League Finals: 21–28 February 2024
Teams	16
Relegated	Portugal  Scotland  Switzerland  Wales
Tournament statistics
Matches played	48
Goals scored	142 (2.96 per match)
Attendance	539,136 (11,232 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lineth Beerensteyn (6 goals)
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The 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League A was the top 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. League A culminated with the Nations League Finals in February 2024 to determine the champions of the competition, and which two teams (in addition to hosts France) would qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The results were also used to determine the leagues for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying competition.

Format

League A consisted of the 16 top-ranked UEFA members in the UEFA women's national team coefficient ranking, 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 winners of each group advanced to the 2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals. 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 fourth-placed team from each group were relegated to League B, taking effect in UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying. In addition, the third-placed teams of League A advanced to the relegation play-offs against the runners-up of League B. The winners of the home-and-away ties entered League A for UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying, while the losers entered League B.

The Nations League Finals took place in February 2024 and were played in a knockout format, consisting of single-leg semi-finals, a third-place play-off, and a final. An open draw determined the pairings and home teams for the semi-final matches and which semi-final would 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 Olympic football tournament, while the winners of the final was crowned as the champions of the UEFA Women's Nations League. England, Scotland, and Wales are not members of the IOC, thus are ineligible to participate in the Olympics, but the results of the England team, by agreement of the Home Nations and FIFA were taken to represent Great Britain's qualification bid for that tournament. As England did not reach the Nations League Finals, Great Britain would not be represented at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Seeding

Teams were allocated to League A 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 on 2 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 A1 to A4. Due to winter venue restrictions, a group could contain a maximum of two of Sweden, Norway and Iceland.

Pot 1 Team Coeff Rank  England 46,178 1  Germany 43,043 2  France 42,584 3  Sweden 40,823 4

Pot 2 Team Coeff Rank  Spain 40,472 5  Netherlands 39,910 6  Norway 38,715 7  Denmark 37,535 8

Pot 3 Team Coeff Rank  Italy 36,455 9  Belgium 34,794 10  Austria 33,963 11  Iceland 33,348 12

Pot 4 Team Coeff Rank  Switzerland 33,101 13  Wales 29,942 15  Portugal 29,744 16  Scotland 29,335 17

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	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

Belgium	2–1	Netherlands
Detruyer 61' Blom 90+3'	Report	Roord 60'

England	2–1	Scotland
Bronze 39' Hemp 45'	Report	Hanson 45+2'

Netherlands	2–1	England
Martens 34' Jansen 90'	Report	Russo 64'

Scotland	1–1	Belgium
Howard 90+3'	Report	Missipo 52'

England	1–0	Belgium
Hemp 13'	Report

Netherlands	4–0	Scotland
Van de Donk 12' Brugts 32' Beerensteyn 52', 71'	Report

Belgium	3–2	England
De Neve 9' Wullaert 45+6', 85' (pen.)	Report	Bronze 38' Kirby 44'

Scotland	0–1	Netherlands
	Report	Brugts 60'

Belgium	1–1	Scotland
Detruyer 31'	Report	Cuthbert 34'

England	3–2	Netherlands
Stanway 59' Hemp 61' Toone 90+1'	Report	Beerensteyn 12', 35'

Netherlands	4–0	Belgium
Beerensteyn 34', 54' Egurrola 90+1', 90+5'	Report

Scotland	0–6	England
	Report	Greenwood 13' James 38', 39' Mead 45+1' Kirby 49' Bronze 90+3'

Group 2

Pos	Team	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	—

Norway	1–1	Austria
Sævik 26'	Report	Campbell 72'

France	2–0	Portugal
Geyoro 27' Bacha 89'	Report

Austria	0–1	France
	Report	Renard 5'

Portugal	3–2	Norway
Jacinto 38' Costa 44' (pen.), 69' (pen.)	Report	Maanum 32' Terland 58'

Austria	2–1	Portugal
Amado 63' (o.g.) Dunst 69'	Report	T. Pinto 90+6'

Norway	1–2	France
Lund 60'	Report	Mjelde 23' (o.g.) Renard 69'

Portugal	1–2	Austria
Capeta 75'	Report	Pinther 72' Campbell 77'

France	0–0	Norway
	Report

Norway	4–0	Portugal
Hegerberg 3', 8' (pen.), 49' Román Haug 90+4'	Report

France	3–0	Austria
Henry 5' Le Sommer 57' Katoto 84'	Report

Austria	2–1	Norway
Campbell 10' Schiechtl 89'	Report	Sævik 90+4'

Portugal	0–1	France
	Report	Geyoro 90+4'

Group 3

Pos	Team	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	—

Denmark	2–0	Germany
Vangsgaard 23', 64'	Report

Iceland	1–0	Wales
Viggósdóttir 18'	Report

Germany	4–0	Iceland
Bühl 19', 78' Gwinn 35' (pen.) Schüller 68'	Report

Wales	1–5	Denmark
Fishlock 51'	Report	Harder 6' (pen.), 11', 90+1' Thøgersen 60' S. Troelsgaard 87'

Germany	5–1	Wales
Schüller 25', 47' Gwinn 80' (pen.) Roberts 86' (o.g.) Anyomi 88'	Report	Holland 42'

Iceland	0–1	Denmark
	Report	Vangsgaard 71'

Denmark	2–1	Wales
Vangsgaard 28' Bredgaard 39'	Report	Fishlock 72'

Iceland	0–2	Germany
	Report	Gwinn 65' (pen.) Bühl 90+4'

Wales	1–2	Iceland
Hughes 90+4'	Report	Ladd 29' (o.g.) Zomers 79'

Germany	3–0	Denmark
Popp 14' Hegering 26' Bühl 90+3'	Report

Denmark	0–1	Iceland
	Report	Vilhjálmsdóttir 77'

Wales	0–0	Germany
	Report

Group 4

Pos	Team	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	—

Sweden	2–3	Spain
Eriksson 23' Hurtig 82'	Report	Del Castillo 38' Navarro 77' Caldentey 90+6' (pen.)

Switzerland	0–1	Italy
	Report	Caruso 64'

Italy	0–1	Sweden
	Report	Kaneryd 14'

Spain	5–0	Switzerland
García 15' Bonmatí 45+1', 49' Gabarro 57' Oroz 87'	Report

Italy	0–1	Spain
	Report	Hermoso 89'

Sweden	1–0	Switzerland
Eriksson 44'	Report

Sweden	1–1	Italy
Sembrant 90+6'	Report	Giacinti 57'

Switzerland	1–7	Spain
Pilgrim 69'	Report	Hernández 4' Putellas 11', 62' (pen.) Méndez 56' Del Castillo 72', 89' Oroz 90+3'

Switzerland	1–0	Sweden
Crnogorčević 6'	Report

Spain	2–3	Italy
Del Castillo 12' González 76'	Report	Giacinti 46' Cambiaghi 57' Linari 64'

Italy	3–0	Switzerland
Giugliano 31' Salvai 48' Caruso 85'	Report

Spain	5–3	Sweden
Paralluelo 11' Del Castillo 51' Caldentey 78', 89' Fiamma 81'	Report	Zigiotti Olme 1' Asllani 14' Blackstenius 29'

Nations League Finals

The draw for the Nations League Finals was held on 11 December 2023. Spain hosted Netherlands and France hosted Germany in the semi-final matches, and the winner and loser of the Spain–Netherlands match hosted the final and third place play-off, respectively.

Times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

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

Netherlands	0–2	Germany
	Report	Bühl 66' Schüller 78'

Final

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

Qualified teams for 2024 Summer Olympics

The following three teams from UEFA qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympic women's football tournament, including France, who qualified as the hosts.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in Summer Olympics
France	Host	13 September 2017	2 (2012, 2016)
Spain	Nations League finalist	23 February 2024	0 (Debut)
Germany	Nations League third place match winner	28 February 2024	5 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016)

1. Italics indicates host for that year, Bold indicates champions
2. The two Nations League finalists would qualify for the Olympics. As France was one of the finalists, the other spot was awarded to the winner of the third place play-off.

League ranking

The 16 League A teams were ranked 1st to 16th overall in the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League according to the following rules:

• The teams finishing first in their groups were ranked 1st to 4th according to their finish in the Nations League Finals.
• The teams finishing second in their groups were ranked 5th to 8th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing third in their groups were ranked 9th to 12th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing fourth in their groups were ranked 13th to 16th according to the results of the league phase.

Rnk	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	A4	Spain	6	5	0	1	23	9	+14	15
2	A2	France	6	5	1	0	9	1	+8	16
3	A3	Germany	6	4	1	1	14	3	+11	13
4	A1	Netherlands	6	4	0	2	14	6	+8	12
5	A1	England	6	4	0	2	15	8	+7	12
6	A3	Denmark	6	4	0	2	10	6	+4	12
7	A4	Italy	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3	10
8	A2	Austria	6	3	1	2	7	8	−1	10
9	A3	Iceland	6	3	0	3	4	8	−4	9
10	A1	Belgium	6	2	2	2	7	10	−3	8
11	A4	Sweden	6	2	1	3	8	10	−2	7
12	A2	Norway	6	1	2	3	9	8	+1	5
13	A2	Portugal	6	1	0	5	5	13	−8	3
14	A4	Switzerland	6	1	0	5	2	17	−15	3
15	A1	Scotland	6	0	2	4	3	15	−12	2
16	A3	Wales	6	0	1	5	4	15	−11	1

Goalscorers

There were 142 goals scored in 48 matches, for an average of 2.96 goals per match.

6 goals

• Lineth Beerensteyn

5 goals

• Athenea del Castillo

4 goals

• Amalie Vangsgaard
• Klara Bühl

3 goals

• Eileen Campbell
• Pernille Harder
• Lucy Bronze
• Lauren Hemp
• Giulia Gwinn
• Lea Schüller
• Ada Hegerberg
• Mariona Caldentey

2 goals

• Marie Detruyer
• Tessa Wullaert
• Lauren James
• Fran Kirby
• Grace Geyoro
• Wendie Renard
• Arianna Caruso
• Valentina Giacinti
• Esmee Brugts
• Damaris Egurrola
• Karina Sævik
• Carole Costa
• Aitana Bonmatí
• Maite Oroz
• Alexia Putellas
• Magdalena Eriksson
• Jess Fishlock

1 goal

• Barbara Dunst
• Viktoria Pinther
• Katharina Schiechtl
• Jassina Blom
• Laura De Neve
• Kassandra Missipo
• Sofie Bredgaard
• Frederikke Thøgersen
• Sanne Troelsgaard
• Alex Greenwood
• Beth Mead
• Alessia Russo
• Georgia Stanway
• Ella Toone
• Selma Bacha
• Amandine Henry
• Marie-Antoinette Katoto
• Eugénie Le Sommer
• Nicole Anyomi
• Marina Hegering
• Alexandra Popp
• Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir
• Karólína Lea Vilhjálmsdóttir
• Dilja Zomers
• Michela Cambiaghi
• Manuela Giugliano
• Elena Linari
• Cecilia Salvai
• Daniëlle van de Donk
• Renate Jansen
• Lieke Martens
• Jill Roord
• Sophie Román Haug
• Marit Bratberg Lund
• Frida Maanum
• Elisabeth Terland
• Ana Capeta
• Andreia Jacinto
• Tatiana Pinto
• Erin Cuthbert
• Kirsty Hanson
• Sophie Howard
• Fiamma Benítez
• Inma Gabarro
• Lucía García
• Esther González
• Jenni Hermoso
• Oihane Hernández
• María Méndez
• Eva Navarro
• Salma Paralluelo
• Kosovare Asllani
• Stina Blackstenius
• Lina Hurtig
• Johanna Rytting Kaneryd
• Linda Sembrant
• Julia Zigiotti Olme
• Ana-Maria Crnogorčević
• Alayah Pilgrim
• Ceri Holland
• Elise Hughes

1 own goal

• Maren Mjelde (against France)
• Catarina Amado (against Austria)
• Hayley Ladd (against Iceland)
• Rhiannon Roberts (against Germany)

Notes

1. CEST (UTC+2) for times up to 28 October 2023, CET (UTC+1) for times from 29 October 2023.

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External links

• Official website

• 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League
• Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification