UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying

UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
Tournament details
Dates	3 April 2024 – 3 December 2024
Teams	51 (from 1 confederation)

The UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying competition will be a women's football competition that determines the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified host Switzerland in the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 final tournament.^[1]

Format

The European Qualifiers start in April 2024, following the conclusion of the 2023–24 Women's Nations League. The qualifiers are composed of a league stage and final tournament play-offs.^[2]^[3]

The league stage is played in the same format as the UEFA Women's Nations League, with teams split into three leagues: League A with 16 teams, League B with 16 teams and League C with 19 teams. Each team's starting league position is determined based on the results of the Women's Nations League, as described above. In February 2024, promotion and relegation matches will be played to determine the final composition of each league.

Again, teams compete in groups of four (Leagues A and B) and four or three teams (League C) and over six matchdays, with each team playing one home match and one away match against all the other teams in their group.

The goals for this competition are: to qualify for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025; and to be positioned as high as possible for the upcoming 2025–26 UEFA Women's Nations League.

The European Qualifiers ranking at the end of the league stage determines three main outcomes:

Who qualifies directly for Euro 2025
Who goes into the play-offs for Euro 2025
Which league each team will be placed in for the upcoming 2025–26 UEFA Women's Nations League. Depending on the league standings, teams will either stay in the same league, or be automatically promoted or relegated.

For qualifying itself, the top two teams in each League A group will qualify directly for the July 2025 finals alongside hosts Switzerland. The remaining seven spots will be decided by two rounds of play-offs in October and November/December 2024.^[3]

Tiebreakers

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:^[2]

Higher number of points obtained in the matches played among the teams in question;
Superior goal difference in matches played among the teams in question;
Higher number of goals scored in the matches played among the teams in question;
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.^{[lower-alpha 1]} If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 11 apply;
Superior goal difference in all group matches;
Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
Higher number of away goals scored in all group matches;
Higher number of wins in all group matches;
Higher number of away wins in all group matches;
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).
Position in the 2024–25 Women's European Qualifiers access list.

Notes

↑ When there are two or more teams tied on 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.

Criteria for league ranking

Individual league rankings are established according to the following criteria:^[2]

Position in the group;
Higher number of points;
Superior 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 2024–25 Women's European Qualifiers access list

In order to rank teams in League C, which may be composed of different sized groups, the results against the fourth-placed teams are not taken into account for the purposes of comparing teams placed first, second, and third in their respective groups.^[2]

Criteria for overall ranking

The overall UEFA Nations League rankings are established as follows:^[2]

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.

Promotion and relegation

Promotion and relegation will also be at stake ahead of the 2025–26 UEFA Women's Nations League:^[3]

The winners, runners-up and third-placed teams of League A stay in League A
The runners-up and three best-ranked third-placed teams in League B stay in League B
The runners-up, third-placed and fourth-placed teams in League C stay in League C
The winners of Leagues B and C will be promoted to the next higher league
All fourth-placed teams in Leagues A and B, as well as the lowest-ranked third-placed team of League B, will be relegated to the next lower league

Teams

All 55 UEFA national teams were able to submit an entry for the competition by 23 March 2023 at the latest.^[4] This involved participation in the qualifying competition for Euro 2025 as well as the preceding 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League.

In total, 51 teams entered the qualifying competition.^[3] Russia were not permitted to enter the competition, as Russian teams had been suspended indefinitely from UEFA and FIFA competitions in 28 February 2022 due to their country's invasion of Ukraine.^[5] In addition, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein and San Marino did not submit an entry.

Teams are split into leagues based on the 2023–24 Women's Nations League overall ranking, and on the 2023–24 Women's Nations League promotion/relegation matches.^[3] Teams are divided into four pots of four in Leagues A and B, and three pots of five and one pot of four in League C.^[2]

Key
	Promoted in 2023–24 UEFA Nations League
	Relegated in 2023–24 UEFA Nations League

League A
Pot	Team	Rank
1	France	1–4
	Spain	1–4
	Germany	1–4
	Netherlands	1–4
2	England	5
	Denmark	6
	Italy	7
	Austria	8
3	TBD^{[lower-alpha 1]}	9–24
	TBD^{[lower-alpha 1]}	9–24
	TBD^{[lower-alpha 1]}	9–24
	TBD^{[lower-alpha 1]}	9–24
4	Republic of Ireland	17
	Finland	18
	Poland	19
	Czech Republic	20

League B
Pot	Team	Rank
1	Portugal	13
	Switzerland	14
	Scotland	15
	Wales	16
2	TBD^{[lower-alpha 1]}	9–24
	TBD^{[lower-alpha 1]}	9–24
	TBD^{[lower-alpha 1]}	9–24
	TBD^{[lower-alpha 1]}	9–24
3	TBD^{[lower-alpha 2]}	25–40
	TBD^{[lower-alpha 2]}	25–40
	TBD^{[lower-alpha 2]}	25–40
	Turkey	33
4	Malta	34
	Israel	35
	Kosovo	36
	Azerbaijan	37

League C
Pot	Team	Rank
1	Slovenia	28
	Greece	29
	Belarus	30
	Romania	31
	Albania	32
2	TBD^{[lower-alpha 2]}	25–40
	TBD^{[lower-alpha 2]}	25–40
	TBD^{[lower-alpha 2]}	25–40
	Estonia	41
	Lithuania	42
3	Luxembourg	43
	Kazakhstan	44
	North Macedonia	45
	Cyprus	46
	Andorra	47
4	Georgia	48
	Moldova	49
	Faroe Islands	50
	Armenia	51

League A or B^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Team	Rank
Iceland	9
Belgium	10
Sweden	11
Norway	12
Bosnia and Herzegovina	21
Serbia	22
Croatia	23
Hungary	24

League B or C^{[lower-alpha 2]}
Team	Rank
Slovakia	25
Northern Ireland	26
Ukraine	27
Latvia	38
Montenegro	39
Bulgaria	40

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 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 teams to be promoted to League A or relegated to League B.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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 teams to be promoted to League B or relegated to League C.

Draw

The draw for the UEFA Women's European Qualifiers will take place on 5 March 2024.^[3]

Schedule

Below is the schedule of the UEFA Women's European Qualifiers 2025 campaign.^[3]

Stage	Matchday	Dates
Qualifying group stage	Matchday 1 & 2	3–9 April 2024
	Matchday 3 & 4	29 May – 4 June 2024
	Matchday 5 & 6	10–16 July 2024
Play-offs	Round 1	23–29 October 2024
Play-offs	Round 2	27 November–3 December 2024