2025 UEFA Women's Nations League A

2025 UEFA Women's Nations League A

Tournament details
Dates	League phase: February – June 2025 Nations League Finals and promotion/relegation matches: October – December 2025
Teams	16
← 2023–24 2027 →

League A is the top division of the 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League, the second season of the international football competition involving the women's national teams of the member associations of UEFA. League A will culminate with the Nations League Finals in October – December 2025 to determine the champions of the competition. The results will also be used to determine the leagues for the European qualifying competition for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Format

League A consists of the 16 top-ranked UEFA members 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), split into four groups of four. Each team will play six matches within their group, using the home-and-away round-robin format with double matchdays in February, April, and May/June 2025. The winners of each group will advance to the Nations League Finals.

The competition will also act as the first phase of the qualifying competition for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup, which will use an identical league structure. The four last-placed teams from each group will be relegated to League B for the 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying competition. In addition, the four third-placed teams of League A will advance to the relegation play-offs against the four runners-up of League B. The winners of the home-and-away ties will enter League A for the 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying competition, while the losers will enter League B.

The Nations League Finals will take place in October to December 2025 and will be played in a knockout format, consisting of two-legged semi-finals, a third-place play-off over two legs, and a two-legged final. An open draw will determine the pairings and the hosts of the first legs of the semi-final matches, as well as which semi-final pairings will host the first tie of the third place play-off and final matches.

Seeding

Teams were allocated to League A according to the Women’s European Qualifiers overall phase rankings, and were seeded into four pots of four teams based on the same ranking.

The draw for the league phase will take place at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on 7 November 2024.

Pot 1 Team Rank Spain 1 Germany 2 France 3 Italy 4

Pot 2 Team Rank Iceland 5 Denmark 6 England 7 Netherlands 8

Pot 3 Team Rank Sweden 9 Norway 10 Austria 11 Belgium 12

Pot 4 Team Rank Portugal 13 Scotland 14 Switzerland 15 Wales 16

Groups

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		A1-1	A1-2	A1-3	A1-4
1	A1-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	TBD	TBD	TBD
2	A1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			TBD	—	TBD	TBD
3	A1-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs		TBD	TBD	—	TBD
4	A1-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League B		TBD	TBD	TBD	—

First match(es) will be played: February 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		A2-1	A2-2	A2-3	A2-4
1	A2-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	TBD	TBD	TBD
2	A2-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			TBD	—	TBD	TBD
3	A2-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs		TBD	TBD	—	TBD
4	A2-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League B		TBD	TBD	TBD	—

First match(es) will be played: February 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		A3-1	A3-2	A3-3	A3-4
1	A3-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	TBD	TBD	TBD
2	A3-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			TBD	—	TBD	TBD
3	A3-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs		TBD	TBD	—	TBD
4	A3-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League B		TBD	TBD	TBD	—

First match(es) will be played: February 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		A4-1	A4-2	A4-3	A4-4
1	A4-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	TBD	TBD	TBD
2	A4-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			TBD	—	TBD	TBD
3	A4-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs		TBD	TBD	—	TBD
4	A4-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League B		TBD	TBD	TBD	—

First match(es) will be played: February 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

League ranking

The 16 League A teams are ranked 1st to 16th overall in the 2025 Women's Nations League, according to the criteria for league ranking.

Rnk	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	A1	A1-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	A2	A2-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	A3	A3-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	A4	A4-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	A1	A1-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	A2	A2-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	A3	A3-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	A4	A4-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	A1	A1-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	A2	A2-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	A3	A3-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	A4	A4-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	A1	A1-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	A2	A2-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	A3	A3-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	A4	A4-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: February 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Ranking criteria

External links

• Official website