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2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League

{{Short description|2023–2024 edition of the UEFA Women's Nations League}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}

{{Infobox international football competition

| tourney_name = UEFA Women's Nations League

| year = 2023–24

| image =

| size =160px

| caption =

| dates = {{nowrap|League phase:
22 September – 5 December 2023
Nations League Finals and
promotion/relegation matches
23–28 February 2024}}

| num_teams = 51

| champion_other = {{fbw|ESP}}

| count = 1

| second_other = {{fbw|FRA}}

| third_other = {{fbw|GER}}

| fourth_other = {{fbw|NED}}

| matches = 150

| goals = 424

| attendance = {{#expr: + 3694 + 41947 + 24000 + 7058 + 28321 + 10850 + 7235 + 5186 + 4730 + 71632 + 12031 + 15320 + 7011 + 18377 + 10051 + 6132 + 4800 + 9062 + 3598 + 13121 + 2383 + 26453 + 1300 + 5337 + 4210 + 2014 + 14998 + 8607 + 20107 + 1712 + 2227 + 1245 + 5275 + 19180 + 4453 + 5982 + 16114 + 6452 + 2483 + 14194 + 4694 + 13123 + 11376 + 8515 + 3938 + 9212 + 3500 + 15896 + 1210 + 35944 + 1513 + 1597 + 332 + 0 + 120 + 948 + 600 + 6752 + 613 + 9038 + 5062 + 300 + 3176 + 536 + 7052 + 2347 + 419 + 235 + 1342 + 347 + 1094 + 274 + 173 + 262 + 4962 + 800 + 2500 + 3840 + 2001 + 823 + 1050 + 1944 + 3694 + 500 + 233 + 0 + 598 + 0 + 230 + 0 + 7488 + 342 + 488 + 0 + 423 + 1001 + 311 + 200 + 813 + 674 + 137 + 682 + 300 + 603 + 69 + 353 + 156 + 1008 + 470 + 800 + 6700 + 546 + 83 + 686 + 793 + 12130 + 375 + 50 + 283 + 4837 + 165 + 963 + 220 + 250 + 430 + 200 + 145 + 530 + 75 + 283 + 200 + 90 + 334 + 350 + 337 + 120 + 342 + 0 + 20 + 150 + 386 + 110 + 3 + 237 + 200 + 223 + 170 + 300 + 120 + 252}}

| top_scorer = {{fbwicon|ISR}} Sharon Beck
(9 goals)

| season_text = Women's European Qualifiers

| nextseason = 2025

| season_text2 = Women's Nations League

| nextseason2 = 2025

}}

{{Qualification for women's championships (UEFA)|expanded=Olympics}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/027b-16802fa89740-23355efda63f-1000/ |title=New women's national team competition system |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=3 November 2022 |access-date=3 November 2022}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://documents.uefa.com/r/Regulations-of-the-UEFA-European-Women-s-Championship-including-UEFA-Nations-League-and-European-Qualifiers-2023-25-Online |title=Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Championship including UEFA Nations League and European Qualifiers |publisher=UEFA |date=7 February 2023 |access-date=7 February 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207171941/https://documents.uefa.com/api/khub/maps/ZZT5rg~97mziHwZJcgpxHA/attachments/ua8BbyEvGGF8Opxov~Zi9w/content?Ft-Calling-App=ft%2Fturnkey-portal&Ft-Calling-App-Version=4.1.6&filename=20230125_Regulations_WEURO_2025_EN.pdf |archive-date=7 February 2023}}

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.{{efn|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.}} 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

{{Notelist}}

=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.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/womensnationsleague/news/0280-17ce58583a8f-04a5021a2076-1000/ |title=2023/24 UEFA Women's Nations League: How it works |publisher=UEFA |date=18 April 2023 |access-date=1 May 2023}} It began with the league phase and ended with the Nations League Finals and promotion/relegation matches played in parallel.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/027b-16801d340bab-79ffda8126a8-1000/ |title=How will the new UEFA women's national team competition system work? |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=3 November 2022 |access-date=3 November 2022}} Below is the schedule of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/027c-16dee2d0b98f-a5040858c501-1000/ |title=2023 European football calendar: Match and draw dates for all UEFA competitions |publisher=UEFA |date=20 December 2022 |access-date=1 January 2023}}

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! Stage

! Round

! Match dates

rowspan="6" | League phase

| Matchday 1

| 21–22 September 2023

Matchday 2

| 26 September 2023

Matchday 3

| 26–27 October 2023

Matchday 4

| 31 October 2023

Matchday 5

| 30 November – 1 December 2023

Matchday 6

| 5 December 2023

rowspan="3" | Finals

| Semi-finals

| 23 February 2024

Third-place play-off

| rowspan="2" | 28 February 2024

Final
rowspan="2" | Promotion/relegation matches

| First leg

| 23 February 2024

Second leg

| 27–28 February 2024

Seeding

File:2024-25 UEFA Women's Nations League Teams.png

All 55 UEFA national teams were able to submit an entry for the competition by 23 March 2023 at the latest,{{cite magazine |url=https://editorial.uefa.com/resources/027e-17412aaa0375-32f1de1b43a1-1000/20230206_circular_2023_07_en.zip |title=UEFA European Women’s Championship 2023–25, including UEFA Nations League and European Qualifiers – competition regulations, entry form and league stage draw for the UEFA Nations League phase |number=07/2023 |magazine=UEFA Circular Letter |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=6 February 2023 |access-date=7 February 2023}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0272-148df1faf082-6e50b5ea1f84-1000/ |title=FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions |website=UEFA |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=28 February 2022 |access-date=27 September 2022}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/womensnationsleague/draws/2025/2001831/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230501142236/https://www.uefa.com/womensnationsleague/draws/2025/2001831/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 May 2023 |title=2023/24 UEFA Women's Nations League: League Phase Draw |publisher=UEFA |access-date=1 May 2023}} Teams were split into leagues based on their UEFA Women's national team coefficient ranking.{{cite web |url=https://editorial.uefa.com/resources/0280-17b4683163c2-f1b73cc29d05-1000/enc_womens_national_teams_coefficient_ranking_06.09.22.pdf |title=Women's National Teams Coefficients Overview: Matches considered up to 06/09/2022 |publisher=UEFA |access-date=2 May 2023}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/womensnationsleague/news/0280-17ce57fb75ef-2b083425f52a-1000/ |title=2023/24 UEFA Women's Nations League: League stage draw on Tuesday |publisher=UEFA |date=1 May 2023 |access-date=1 May 2023}} 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.

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|

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ League A

Pot

! style="width:190px" | Team

! {{Tooltip|Coeff|UEFA women's national team coefficient}}

! {{Tooltip|Rank|Ranking (all UEFA teams)}}

rowspan="4" | 1

| style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|ENG}}

| 46,178

| 1

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|GER}}

| 43,043

| 2

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|FRA}}

| 42,584

| 3

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|SWE}}

| 40,823

| 4

rowspan="4" | 2

| style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|ESP}}

| 40,472

| 5

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|NED}}

| 39,910

| 6

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|NOR}}

| 38,715

| 7

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|DEN}}

| 37,535

| 8

rowspan="4" | 3

| style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|ITA}}

| 36,455

| 9

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|BEL}}

| 34,794

| 10

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|AUT}}

| 33,963

| 11

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|ISL}}

| 33,348

| 12

rowspan="4" | 4

| style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|SUI}}

| 33,101

| 13

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|WAL}}

| 29,942

| 15

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|POR}}

| 29,744

| 16

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|SCO}}

| 29,335

| 17

|

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ League B

Pot

! style="width:190px" | Team

! {{Tooltip|Coeff|UEFA women's national team coefficient}}

! {{Tooltip|Rank|Ranking (all UEFA teams)}}

rowspan="4" | 1

| style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|IRL}}

| 28,877

| 18

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|POL}}

| 28,458

| 19

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|CZE}}

| 27,508

| 20

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|FIN}}

| 26,757

| 21

rowspan="4" | 2

| style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|SRB}}

| 26,517

| 22

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|SVN}}

| 26,445

| 23

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|NIR}}

| 25,711

| 24

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|ROU}}

| 24,877

| 25

rowspan="4" | 3

| style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|UKR}}

| 24,359

| 26

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|BIH}}

| 23,091

| 27

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|SVK}}

| 19,213

| 28

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|HUN}}

| 18,552

| 29

rowspan="4" | 4

| style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|GRE}}

| 17,556

| 30

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|CRO}}

| 17,523

| 31

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|BLR}}

| 16,890

| 32

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|ALB}}

| 16,826

| 33

|

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ League C

Pot

! style="width:190px" | Team

! {{Tooltip|Coeff|UEFA women's national team coefficient}}

! {{Tooltip|Rank|Ranking (all UEFA teams)}}

rowspan="5" | 1

| style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|MLT}}

| 16,021

| 34

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|ISR}}

| 15,543

| 35

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|AZE}}

| 14,876

| 36

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|TUR}}

| 14,865

| 37

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|MKD}}

| 14,483

| 38

rowspan="5" | 2

| style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|KOS}}

| 14,226

| 39

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|MNE}}

| 12,668

| 40

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|LUX}}

| 12,051

| 41

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|EST}}

| 9,750

| 42

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|MDA}}

| 9,654

| 43

rowspan="5" | 3

| style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|LTU}}

| 9,649

| 44

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|KAZ}}

| 8,662

| 45

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|LVA}}

| 8,543

| 46

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|BUL}}

| 8,200

| 47

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|CYP}}

| 8,032

| 48

rowspan="4" | 4

| style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|FRO}}

| 7,020

| 49

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|GEO}}

| 6,977

| 50

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|ARM}}

| 6,500

| 51

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|AND}}

| 1,958

| 52

|}

style="vertical-align:top"

|

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Did not enter

style="width:190px" | Team

! {{Tooltip|Coeff|UEFA women's national team coefficient}}

! {{Tooltip|Rank|Ranking (all UEFA teams)}}

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|GIB}}

| 0

| —

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|LIE}}

| 0

| —

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|SMR}}

| 0

| —

|

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

|+ Banned from entering the competition

style="width:190px" | Team

! {{Tooltip|Coeff|UEFA women's national team coefficient}}

! {{Tooltip|Rank|Ranking (all UEFA teams)}}

style="text-align:left" | {{fbw|RUS}}

| 32,203

| 14

|}

League A

{{Main|2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League A}}

=Group A1=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League A|transcludesection=Group A1|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=Group A2=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League A|transcludesection=Group A2|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=Group A3=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League A|transcludesection=Group A3|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=Group A4=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League A|transcludesection=Group A4|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=Nations League Finals=

{{Main|2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals}}

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

==Bracket==

{{:2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals|transcludesection=Bracket}}

==Semi-finals==

{{:2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals|transcludesection=Semi-final 1}}

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{{:2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals|transcludesection=Semi-final 2}}

==Third-place play-off==

Because France, who qualified automatically as hosts of the Olympics reached the final, the third place playoff determined the second team to qualify for the Olympics alongside Spain.

{{:2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals|transcludesection=Third place play-off}}

==Final==

{{Main|2024 UEFA Women's Nations League final}}

{{#lst:2024 UEFA Women's Nations League final|Final}}

League B

{{Main|2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League B}}

=Group B1=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League B|transcludesection=Group B1|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=Group B2=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League B|transcludesection=Group B2|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=Group B3=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League B|transcludesection=Group B3|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=Group B4=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League B|transcludesection=Group B4|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=Ranking of third-placed teams=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League B|transcludesection=League B 3rd|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

League C

{{Main|2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League C}}

=Group C1=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League C|transcludesection=Group C1|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=Group C2=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League C|transcludesection=Group C2|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=Group C3=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League C|transcludesection=Group C3|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=Group C4=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League C|transcludesection=Group C4|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=Group C5=

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League C|transcludesection=Group C5|show_matches=yes|only_pld_pts=no_hide_class_rules}}

=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.

{{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League C|transcludesection=League C 2nd|only_pld_pts=no}}

Promotion/relegation matches

{{main|2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League promotion/relegation matches}}

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

=League A vs League B=

{{#section:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League promotion/relegation matches|League A vs League B}}

=League B vs League C=

{{#section:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League promotion/relegation matches|League B vs League C}}

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.

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! League A

! League B

! League C{{efn|group=overall tables|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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| {{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League A|transcludesection=Overall ranking table|only_pld_pts=yes|stack_footer=yes}}

| {{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League B|transcludesection=Overall ranking table|only_pld_pts=yes|stack_footer=yes}}

| {{:2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League C|transcludesection=Overall ranking table|only_pld_pts=yes|stack_footer=yes}}

{{notelist|group=overall tables}}

References

{{reflist}}

External links

  • {{Official website|https://www.uefa.com/womensnationsleague/}}

{{UEFA Women's Nations League}}

{{2023–24 in European women's football (UEFA)}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Uefa Women's Nations League 2023-24}}

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