2025 UEFA Women's Nations League

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). 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). ==Tiebreakers==

Tiebreakers for group ranking 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: {{ordered list|list_style_type=lower-alpha {{unordered list Criteria for league ranking Individual league rankings were established according to the following criteria: • Position in the group; • Higher number of points; • Higher goal difference; • Higher number of goals scored; • Higher number of goals scored away from home; • Higher number of wins; • Higher number of wins away from home; • 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). • Position in the Women's European Qualifiers overall phase ranking. 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. Criteria for overall ranking After the conclusion of all group matches, the overall league rankings were established as follows: • The 16 League A teams are ranked 1st to 16th according to their league rankings. • The 16 League B teams are ranked 17th to 32nd according to their league rankings. • 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: • The automatically promoted teams are ranked above teams from lower leagues that were promoted after their promotion/relegation matches • The automatically relegated teams are ranked below teams from higher leagues that were relegated after their promotion/relegation matches == Schedule ==

Below is the schedule for the 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League. == Seeding ==

League B League C Did not enter Suspended by UEFA The leagues were formed according to the Women's European Qualifiers overall phase rankings, Russia were suspended indefinitely from all UEFA and FIFA competitions on 28 February 2022 due to their country's invasion of Ukraine. 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. San Marino did not submit an entry into the competition. == Draw ==

The draw took place on 7 November 2024 at 13:00 CET in Nyon, Switzerland. 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. 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. == League A ==

Group A1 Group A2 Group A3 Group A4 Nations League Finals The pairings and order of legs were determined via an open draw on 6 June 2025. Bracket == League B ==

Group B1 Group B2 Group B3 Group B4 Ranking of third-placed teams == League C ==

Group C1 Group C2 Group C3 Group C4 Group C5 Group C6 Ranking of second-placed teams Due to differing group sizes in League C, results against fourth-placed teams were not considered when comparing second-placed teams. == Promotion/relegation matches ==

The pairings for the promotion/relegation matches were determined via a draw on 6 June 2025. League A vs League B League B vs League C == Overall ranking ==

Overall league rankings 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. Overall phase rankings 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. ==Top goalscorers==

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