UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying League A explained

Tourney Name:	UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying League A
Year:	2025
Dates:	5 April – 16 July 2024
Num Teams:	16
Relegated:
Matches:	48
Top Scorer:	Lea Schüller (6 goals)
Updated:	16 July 2024
Prevseason:	2022
Nextseason:	2029

League A of UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying was the top division of qualifying for UEFA Women's Euro 2025, the international football competition involving the women's national teams of the member associations of UEFA. The results were also used to determine the leagues for the 2025–26 UEFA Women's Nations League competition.

Format

League A consisted of the 16 top-ranked UEFA members in the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League ranking, split into four groups of four. Each team played six matches within their group, using the home-and-away round-robin format with double matchdays in April, May to June, and July 2024.

After the league phase, the top two teams of each group qualified automatically for the final tournament and the bottom two teams of each group advanced to the play-offs.

For the first play-off round the eight League A teams were seeded, and drawn against the eight best-ranked teams in League C. The winner of those ties will advance to the second round.

The competition also acted as the first phase for the 2025–26 UEFA Women's Nations League, which will use an identical league structure. The fourth-placed team from each group was relegated to League B.^[1] ^[2]

Seeding

Teams were allocated to League A after the conclusion of the promotion/relegation matches and Nations League Finals of the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League on 28 February 2024. Teams were split into four pots of four teams, ordered based on their overall ranking.

Team
+ Pot 1
	1
	2
	3
	4

Team
+ Pot 2
	5
	6
	7
	8

Team
+ Pot 3
	9
	10
	11
	12

Team
+ Pot 4
	17
	18
	19
	20

The draw took place in Nyon, Switzerland on 5 March 2024 at 13:00 CET.^[3] Each group contained one team from each pot. The draw started with Pot 1 and ended with Pot 4, with drawn teams assigned to the first available group in ascending order from A1 to A4.

Groups

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

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Group 2

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Group 3

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Group 4

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League ranking

The 16 League A teams were ranked 1st to 16th overall in the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying according to their league ranking.^[1]

The last-placed teams from each group were relegated to League B for the upcoming 2025–26 Women's Nations League.

Notes and References

Web site: Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Championship including UEFA Nations League and European Qualifiers . . 7 February 2023 . 7 February 2023 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230207171941/https://documents.uefa.com/api/khub/maps/ZZT5rg~97mziHwZJcgpxHA/attachments/ua8BbyEvGGF8Opxov~Zi9w/content?Ft-Calling-App=ft%2Fturnkey-portal&Ft-Calling-App-Version=4.1.6&filename=20230125_Regulations_WEURO_2025_EN.pdf . 7 February 2023.
Web site: 11 December 2023 . Women's European Qualifiers for EURO 2025: Who is in what league? . UEFA.com . Union of European Football Association.
Web site: Women's European Qualifiers league stage draw . uefa.com . UEFA . 5 March 2024.