2025 UEFA Women's Nations League B

League B is the second division of the 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League, the second season of 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 European qualifying competition for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup.

2025 UEFA Women's Nations League B

Tournament details
Dates	League phase: February – June 2025 Promotion/relegation matches: October 2025
Teams	16
← 2023–24 2027 →

Format

League B consists of the teams ranked 17th to 32nd, according to the Women’s European Qualifiers overall phase rankings (based on the Women's Euro 2025 qualifying overall ranking, taking into consideration promotion/relegation at the conclusion of that competition),^[1] 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 February, April, and May/June 2025.^[2][3]

The competition will also act as the first phase of the qualifying competition for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup, which will use an identical league structure. The four group winners will be promoted to League A, and the four last-placed teams, along with the two worst-ranked third-placed teams, will be relegated to League C for the 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying competition. In addition, the four runners-up and two best-ranked third-placed teams will advance to the promotion/relegation play-offs:^[2][3]

• The four runners-up of League B will advance to the promotion play-offs against the four third-placed teams of League A. The winners of the home-and-away ties will enter League A for the 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying competition, while the losers will enter League B.
• The two best-ranked third-placed teams of League B will advance to the relegation play-offs against the two best-ranked runners-up of League C. The winners of the home-and-away ties will enter League B for the 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying competition, while the losers will enter League C.

Seeding

Teams were allocated to League A according to the Women’s European Qualifiers overall phase rankings,^[1] and were seeded into four pots of four teams based on the same ranking.^[2][3]

The draw for the league phase took place at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on 7 November 2024 at 13:00 CET. For political reasons, Belarus and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group.^[2]

Pot 1 Team Rank  Finland 17  Czech Republic 18  Republic of Ireland 19  Poland 20

Pot 2 Team Rank  Serbia 21  Ukraine 22  Northern Ireland 23  Turkey 24

Pot 3 Team Rank  Croatia 25  Hungary 26  Bosnia and Herzegovina 27  Slovenia 28

Pot 4 Team Rank  Romania 29  Belarus 30  Greece 31  Albania 32

Groups

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Poland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Promotion to League A		—	TBD	TBD	TBD
2	Northern Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for promotion play-offs		TBD	—	TBD	TBD
3	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs or relegation to League C		TBD	TBD	—	TBD
4	Romania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League C		TBD	TBD	TBD	—

First match(es) will be played: February 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Republic of Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Promotion to League A		—	TBD	TBD	TBD
2	Turkey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for promotion play-offs		TBD	—	TBD	TBD
3	Slovenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs or relegation to League C		TBD	TBD	—	TBD
4	Greece	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League C		TBD	TBD	TBD	—

First match(es) will be played: February 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Finland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Promotion to League A		—	TBD	TBD	TBD
2	Serbia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for promotion play-offs		TBD	—	TBD	TBD
3	Hungary	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs or relegation to League C		TBD	TBD	—	TBD
4	Belarus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League C		TBD	TBD	TBD	—

First match(es) will be played: February 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Czech Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Promotion to League A		—	TBD	TBD	TBD
2	Ukraine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for promotion play-offs		TBD	—	TBD	TBD
3	Croatia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs or relegation to League C		TBD	TBD	—	TBD
4	Albania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League C		TBD	TBD	TBD	—

First match(es) will be played: February 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	B1	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification for relegation play-offs
2	B2	Slovenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	B3	Hungary	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to League C
4	B4	Croatia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: February 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

League ranking

The 16 League B teams are ranked 17th to 32nd overall in the 2025 Women's Nations League, according to the criteria for league ranking.^[3]

Rnk	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
17	B1	Poland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	B2	Republic of Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	B3	Finland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	B4	Czech Republic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	B1	Northern Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	B2	Turkey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	B3	Serbia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	B4	Ukraine	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
25	B1	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	B2	Slovenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	B3	Hungary	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	B4	Croatia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	B1	Romania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	B2	Greece	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	B3	Belarus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	B4	Albania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: February 2025. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Ranking criteria

Notes

References

1. "2024 Women's European Qualifiers overall phase rankings" (PDF). uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
2. "Women's Nations League: League stage draw". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
3. "Regulations of the 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League and 2026 Women's European Qualifiers for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 26 October 2024.

External links

• Official website