2025 UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying League B
Tournament details
Dates3 April – 16 July 2024
Teams16

The UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying League B is the second division of the 2025 edition of qualifying for the UEFA Women's Championship, the international football competition involving the women's national teams of the member associations of UEFA. The results will also be used to determine the leagues for the 2025–26 UEFA Women's Nations League competition.

Format

League B consists of 16 UEFA members ranked 17th to 32nd among competition entrants in the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League ranking, 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 April, May to June, and July 2024.[1]

After the league phase, the best-ranked League B teams will advance to the play-offs to determine who qualifies for the final tournament.[2]

In principle, the four group winners and two best-ranked runners-up in League B will be drawn into six ties against the remaining two runners-up and four third-placed teams in League B. The six winners will progress to the second round.[2]

However Switzerland, as hosts, are guaranteed a spot in the final tournament and will not take part in the play-offs. Adjustments will be made where necessary to the play-off paths to accommodate this.[1][2]

The competition also acts as the first phase for the 2025–26 UEFA Women's Nations League, which will use an identical league structure. The winners of each group will be promoted to League A, while the fourth-placed team from each group and the worst-ranked third placed team will be relegated to League C.[1][2]

Seeding

Teams were allocated to League B according to their ranking after the conclusion of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League Promotion and relegation matches on 28 February 2024. Teams were split into four pots of four teams, ordered based on their UEFA Nations League ranking.[2]

Pot 1
Team Rank
 Portugal 13
 Switzerland 14
 Scotland 15
 Wales 16
Pot 2
Team Rank
TBD[lower-alpha 1] 9–24
TBD[lower-alpha 1] 9–24
TBD[lower-alpha 1] 9–24
TBD[lower-alpha 1] 9–24
Pot 3
Team Rank
TBD[lower-alpha 2] 25–40
TBD[lower-alpha 2] 25–40
TBD[lower-alpha 2] 25–40
 Turkey 33
Pot 4
Team Rank
 Malta 34
 Israel 35
 Kosovo 36
 Azerbaijan 37
  1. 1 2 3 4 Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Serbia and Sweden will participate in the League A vs League B promotion and relegation matches in February 2024 to determine the team to be promoted to League A or relegated to League B.
  2. 1 2 3 Bulgaria, Latvia, Montenegro, Northern Ireland, Slovakia and Ukraine will participate in the League B vs League C promotion and relegation matches in February 2024 to determine the team to be promoted to League B or relegated to League C.

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 B1-1 B1-2 B1-3 B1-4
1 B1-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs and promotion to League A — TBD TBD TBD
2 B1-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs TBD — TBD TBD
3 B1-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs and possible relegation to League C TBD TBD — TBD
4 B1-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to League C and possible qualification for play-offs[lower-alpha 1] TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played: April 2024. Source: [ UEFA]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
  1. ↑ If Switzerland (who qualify automatically as hosts) finish first, second, or third in their group, it is assumed that the best-ranked fourth-placed team will qualify for the play-offs. This has yet to be confirmed by UEFA.

Group 2

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification B2-1 B2-2 B2-3 B2-4
1 B2-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs and promotion to League A — TBD TBD TBD
2 B2-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs TBD — TBD TBD
3 B2-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs and possible relegation to League C TBD TBD — TBD
4 B2-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to League C and possible qualification for play-offs[lower-alpha 1] TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played: April 2024. Source: [ UEFA]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
  1. ↑ If Switzerland (who qualify automatically as hosts) finish first, second, or third in their group, it is assumed that the best-ranked fourth-placed team will qualify for the play-offs. This has yet to be confirmed by UEFA.

Group 3

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification B3-1 B3-2 B3-3 B3-4
1 B3-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs and promotion to League A — TBD TBD TBD
2 B3-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs TBD — TBD TBD
3 B3-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs and possible relegation to League C TBD TBD — TBD
4 B3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to League C and possible qualification for play-offs[lower-alpha 1] TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played: April 2024. Source: [ UEFA]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
  1. ↑ If Switzerland (who qualify automatically as hosts) finish first, second, or third in their group, it is assumed that the best-ranked fourth-placed team will qualify for the play-offs. This has yet to be confirmed by UEFA.

Group 4

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification B4-1 B4-2 B4-3 B4-4
1 B4-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs and promotion to League A — TBD TBD TBD
2 B4-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs TBD — TBD TBD
3 B4-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs and possible relegation to League C TBD TBD — TBD
4 B4-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to League C and possible qualification for play-offs[lower-alpha 1] TBD TBD TBD —
First match(es) will be played: April 2024. Source: [ UEFA]
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
  1. ↑ If Switzerland (who qualify automatically as hosts) finish first, second, or third in their group, it is assumed that the best-ranked fourth-placed team will qualify for the play-offs. This has yet to be confirmed by UEFA.

Qualification for playoffs

The twelve best-ranked teams will advance to the play-offs (excluding Switzerland who qualify automatically as hosts).[1][2] This implies that if Switzerland finish first, second, or third in their group, then the best-ranked fourth-placed team will advance to the play-offs instead of them.[note 1]

For the first round, the six higher-ranked League B teams will be seeded, and drawn against the six lower-ranked League B teams. The winner of those ties will advance to the second round.[1][2]

Rnk Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
17 Best group winner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs (seeded)
18 2nd best group winner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 3rd best group winner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 Worst group winner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Best group runner-up 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs (seeded)
22 2nd best group runner-up 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 3rd best group runner-up 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs (unseeded)
24 Worst group runner-up 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
25 Best 3rd-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to play-offs (unseeded)
26 2nd best 3rd-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
27 3rd best 3rd-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
28 Worst 3rd-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
29 Best 4th-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
30 2nd best 4th-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 3rd best 4th-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
32 Worst 4th-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: April 2024. Source: [ UEFA]
Rules for classification: Ranking criteria

League ranking

The 16 League B teams are ranked 17th to 32nd overall in the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying according to their league ranking.[1]

The four group winners will be promoted to League A for the upcoming 2025–26 UEFA Women's Nations League. The four last-placed teams in each group, along with the worst-ranked third-placed team, will be relegated to League C.[1][2]

Rnk Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
17 Best group winner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Promotion to League A
18 2nd best group winner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 3rd best group winner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20 Worst group winner 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Best group runner-up 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22 2nd best group runner-up 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 3rd best group runner-up 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
24 Worst group runner-up 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
25 Best 3rd-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
26 2nd best 3rd-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
27 3rd best 3rd-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
28 Worst 3rd-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to League C
29 Best 4th-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to League C
30 2nd best 4th-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
31 3rd best 4th-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
32 Worst 4th-placed team 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: April 2024. Source: [ UEFA]
Rules for classification: Ranking criteria

Notes

  1. ↑ The exact procedure to adjust the play-off paths to exclude the hosts has yet to be confirmed by UEFA.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Championship including UEFA Nations League and European Qualifiers". UEFA. 7 February 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UEFA.com (2023-12-11). "Women's European Qualifiers for EURO 2025: Who is in what league?". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
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