2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League promotion/relegation matches

The 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League promotion/relegation matches were the promotion and relegation play-offs of the 2023–24 edition of the UEFA Women's Nations League, the inaugural season of the international football competition involving the women's national teams of the member associations of UEFA. The play-offs determined which teams would be promoted, relegated, or remain in their respective leagues for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying competition.

2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League promotion/relegation matches

Tournament details
Dates	23–28 February 2024
Teams	14
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	55 (3.93 per match)
Attendance	31,944 (2,282 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tessa Wullaert (5 goals)
2025 → All statistics correct as of 28 February 2024.

At the end of play-offs, all team from the higher league had won the team from the lower league they faced, so no promotion and relegation through play-offs took place.

Format

The promotion/relegation matches determined the composition of the leagues for UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying, which used an identical league structure to the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League. The matches were played home-and-away over two legs. If the team from the higher league was the winner, both teams would remain in their respective leagues, whereas if the team from the lower league won, they would be promoted to the higher league, with the losers relegated to the lower league.

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Draw

The draws for the promotion/relegation matches (for League A vs League B and League B vs League C) were held on 11 December 2023, 13:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. They were held in tandem with the draw for the 2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals. In the draws, the teams from the higher leagues were seeded, while the teams from the lower leagues were unseeded. First a team was drawn from the unseeded pot, with their opponents then drawn from the seeded pot.^[3]

League A vs League B

League A (seeded) Group Third place A1  Belgium A2  Norway A3  Iceland A4  Sweden

League B (unseeded) Group Runners-up B1  Hungary B2  Croatia B3  Serbia B4  Bosnia and Herzegovina

League B vs League C

League B (seeded) Group Third place (best three qualify) B1  Northern Ireland B2  Slovakia B3  Ukraine B4 —

League C (unseeded) Group Runners-up (best three qualify) C1  Latvia C2 — C3  Montenegro C4 — C5  Bulgaria

Schedule

The first legs were played on 23 February, while the second legs were played on 27 and 28 February 2024.^[4]

Times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

League A vs League B

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Serbia	2–3	Iceland	1–1	1–2
Hungary	2–10	Belgium	1–5	1–5
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0–10	Sweden	0–5	0–5
Croatia	0–8	Norway	0–3	0–5

Matches

Serbia	1–1	Iceland
Filipović 19'	Report	Eiríksdóttir 24'

23 February 2024 (2024-02-23)

16:00

Serbian FA Sports Center, Stara Pazova

Attendance: 321

Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)

Iceland	2–1	Serbia
Jónsdóttir 75' Níelsdóttir 86'	Report	Poljak 6'

27 February 2024 (2024-02-27)

15:30 (14:30 WET)

Kópavogsvöllur, Kópavogur

Attendance: 798

Referee: Marta Huerta de Aza (Spain)

Iceland won 3–2 on aggregate, and therefore both teams remained in their respective leagues.

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Hungary	1–5	Belgium
Turányi 7'	Report	Kees 10', 81' Wullaert 20', 74' Vanhaevermaet 65'

23 February 2024 (2024-02-23)

17:45

Pancho Aréna, Felcsút

Attendance: 1,113

Referee: Alina Peşu (Romania)

Belgium	5–1	Hungary
Wullaert 44', 54' (pen.), 57' Janssens 74', 80'	Report	Kaján 26'

27 February 2024 (2024-02-27)

20:00

Den Dreef, Leuven

Attendance: 3,794

Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)

Belgium won 10–2 on aggregate, and therefore both teams remained in their respective leagues.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina	0–5	Sweden
	Report	Janogy 6', 41' Angeldahl 76' Hammarlund 80' Gvozderac 86' (o.g.)

23 February 2024 (2024-02-23)

13:00

Bosnia and Herzegovina FA Training Centre, Zenica

Attendance: 366

Referee: Olatz Rivera Olmedo (Spain)

Sweden	5–0	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vinberg 26' Blackstenius 45' Kafaji 45+1' Angeldal 82' Hammarlund 90'	Report

28 February 2024 (2024-02-28)

18:30

Tele2 Arena, Stockholm

Attendance: 11,463

Referee: Silvia Gasperotti (Italy)

Sweden won 10–0 on aggregate, and therefore both teams remained in their respective leagues.

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Croatia	0–3	Norway
	Report	Hegerberg 16' Graham Hansen 49' Bizet Ildhusøy 62'

23 February 2024 (2024-02-23)

18:00

Opus Arena, Osijek

Attendance: 3,132

Referee: Abigail Byrne (England)

Norway	5–0	Croatia
Terland 9' Román Haug 32', 40' Maanum 66', 78'	Report

27 February 2024 (2024-02-27)

18:00

Viking Stadion, Stavanger

Attendance: 5,315

Referee: Veronika Kovářová (Czech Republic)

Norway won 8–0 on aggregate, and therefore both teams remained in their respective leagues.

League B vs League C

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Latvia	0–9	Slovakia	0–3	0–6
Montenegro	1–3	Northern Ireland	0–2	1–1
Bulgaria	0–7	Ukraine	0–4	0–3

Matches

Latvia	0–3	Slovakia
	Report	Škorvánková 62' Morávková 72' Hmírová 88' (pen.)

23 February 2024 (2024-02-23)

15:30 (16:30 EET)

LNK Sporta Parks, Riga

Attendance: 207

Referee: Fabienne Michel (Germany)

Slovakia	6–0	Latvia
Morávková 2' Rybanská 6' Lemešová 36' Mikolajová 83' Vredíková 87' Kaláberová 90+4'	Report

27 February 2024 (2024-02-27)

18:00

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava

Attendance: 604

Referee: Shona Shukrula (Netherlands)

Slovakia won 9–0 on aggregate, and therefore both teams remained in their respective leagues.

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Montenegro	0–2	Northern Ireland
	Report	Wade 70' Vance 90+1'

23 February 2024 (2024-02-23)

14:00

Podgorica City Stadium, Podgorica

Attendance: 187

Referee: Michèle Schmölzer (Switzerland)

Northern Ireland	1–1	Montenegro
Magill 73'	Report	Dešić 66'

27 February 2024 (2024-02-27)

20:00 (19:00 GMT)

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 4,085

Referee: Hristiyana Guteva (Bulgaria)

Northern Ireland won 3–1 on aggregate, and therefore both teams remained in their respective leagues.

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Bulgaria	0–4	Ukraine
	Report	Kravchuk 6' Andrukhiv 24' Hlushchenko 82' Kotyk 90'

23 February 2024 (2024-02-23)

15:00 (16:00 EET)

Arena Arda, Kardzhali

Attendance: 459

Referee: Minka Vekkeli (Finland)

Ukraine	3–0	Bulgaria
Ovdiychuk 15' Hlushchenko 18' Shmatko 81'	Report

27 February 2024 (2024-02-27)

14:00 (16:00 TRT)

Mardan Sports Complex, Antalya (Turkey)^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 100

Referee: Zuzana Valentová (Slovakia)

Ukraine won 7–0 on aggregate, and therefore both teams remained in their respective leagues.

Goalscorers

There were 55 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 3.93 goals per match.

5 goals

• Tessa Wullaert

2 goals

• Jill Janssens
• Sari Kees
• Sophie Román Haug
• Frida Maanum
• Tamara Morávková
• Filippa Angeldahl
• Pauline Hammarlund
• Madelen Janogy
• Inna Hlushchenko

1 goal

• Justine Vanhaevermaet
• Zsanett Kaján
• Lilla Turányi
• Hlín Eiríksdóttir
• Sveindís Jane Jónsdóttir
• Bryndís Arna Níelsdóttir
• Medina Dešić
• Simone Magill
• Demi Vance
• Lauren Wade
• Celin Bizet Ildhusøy
• Caroline Graham Hansen
• Ada Hegerberg
• Elisabeth Terland
• Tijana Filipović
• Allegra Poljak
• Patrícia Hmírová
• Victoria Kaláberová
• Diana Lemešová
• Mária Mikolajová
• Nikola Rybanská
• Dominika Škorvánková
• Katarína Vredíková
• Stina Blackstenius
• Rosa Kafaji
• Matilda Vinberg
• Veronika Andrukhiv
• Yana Kotyk
• Roksolana Kravchuk
• Olha Ovdiychuk
• Lyubov Shmatko

1 own goal

• Jelena Gvozderac (against Sweden)

Notes

1. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine were required to play their home matches at neutral venues until further notice.^[5]