The 2024–25 UEFA Nations League promotion/relegation play-offs will be the promotion and relegation play-offs of the 2024–25 season of the UEFA Nations League, the fourth season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA. The play-offs, newly added for this season, will determine some of the teams that will be promoted, relegated or remain in their respective leagues for the 2026–27 season.
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2024–25 UEFA Nations League promotion/relegation play-offs|
| Dates | League A/B and B/C play-offs:
20–23 March 2025
League C/D play-offs:
26–31 March 2026 |
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| Teams | 20 |
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On 25 January 2023, the UEFA Executive Committee confirmed an altered format for the 2024–25 Nations League, including the addition of the promotion/relegation play-offs.[1][2] In addition to the automatic promotion and relegation decided by the league phase, the promotion/relegation play-offs will determine the final composition of the leagues for the 2026–27 UEFA Nations League.[3] The matches will be played home-and-away over two legs. If the team from the higher league is the winner, both teams will remain in their respective leagues, whereas if the team from the lower league wins, they will be promoted to the higher league, with the losers relegated to the lower league.[4]
The match-ups in the promotion/relegation play-offs are as follows:
The teams from the higher leagues will be seeded, and will play the second leg at home. In the two-legged ties, the team that scores more goals on aggregate is the winner. If the aggregate score is level, extra time is played (the away goals rule is not applied). If the score remains level after extra time, a penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner.[5]
The draw for the promotion/relegation play-offs will be held on 22 November 2024 at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, along with the draw for the League A quarter-finals.[6] In the draw, the teams from the higher leagues will be seeded and drawn to host the second leg, while the teams from the lower leagues will be unseeded and drawn to host the first leg. First a team will be drawn from the unseeded pot, with their opponents then randomly drawn from the seeded pot.
For the League A/B and B/C play-offs, the first legs will be played on 20 March, and the second legs will be played on 23 March 2025. For the League C/D play-offs, the first legs will be played on 26 March, and the second legs will be played on 31 March 2026.[5][6]
The League C/D play-offs take place at a later date so as to allow for enough teams to be begin playing in World Cup qualification in March 2025.[4]
Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
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| League B runner-up | | League A third place | 20 Mar | 23 Mar |
| League B runner-up | | League A third place | 20 Mar | 23 Mar |
| League B runner-up | | League A third place | 20 Mar | 23 Mar |
| League B runner-up | | League A third place | 20 Mar | 23 Mar |
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| League B runner-up | v | League A third place |
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| League C runner-up | | League B third place | 20 Mar | 23 Mar |
| League C runner-up | | League B third place | 20 Mar | 23 Mar |
| League C runner-up | | League B third place | 20 Mar | 23 Mar |
| League C runner-up | | League B third place | 20 Mar | 23 Mar |
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| League D runner-up | | League C best fourth place | 26 Mar '26 | 31 Mar '26 |
| League D runner-up | | League C second-best fourth place | 26 Mar '26 | 31 Mar '26 |
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CET (UTC+1) for the matches in March 2025 and on 26 March 2026, and CEST (UTC+2) for the matches on 31 March 2026.
