The2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League A was the top division of the2023–24 edition of theUEFA Women's Nations League, the inaugural season of the internationalfootball competition involving the women's national teams of the member associations ofUEFA. League A culminated with theNations League Finals in February 2024 to determine the champions of the competition, and which two teams (in addition to hosts France) would qualify for the2024 Summer Olympics. The results were also used to determine the leagues for theUEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying competition.
League A consisted of the 16 top-ranked UEFA members in theUEFA women's national team coefficient ranking, split into four groups of four. Each team played six matches within their group, using the home-and-awayround-robin format with double matchdays in September, October, and November to December 2023.[1] The winners of each group advanced to the2024 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals. The competition also acted as the first phase of the preliminary competition forUEFA Women's Euro 2025, which uses an identical league structure. The fourth-placed team from each group were relegated to League B, taking effect inUEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying. In addition, the third-placed teams of League A advanced to therelegation play-offs against the runners-up of League B. The winners of the home-and-away ties entered League A for UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying, while the losers entered League B.[2]
The Nations League Finals took place in February 2024 and were played in a knockout format, consisting of single-leg semi-finals, a third-place play-off, and a final. An open draw determined the pairings and home teams for the semi-final matches and which semi-final would have its teams host the third-place play-off and final. The two best-ranked teams in the Nations League Finals (excludingFrance) qualified for the2024 Olympic football tournament, while the winners of the final was crowned as the champions of the UEFA Women's Nations League.[2]England,Scotland, andWales are not members of theIOC, thus are ineligible to participate in the Olympics, but the results of the England team, by agreement of theHome Nations andFIFA were taken to representGreat Britain's qualification bid for that tournament.[3] As England did not reach the Nations League Finals, Great Britain would not be represented at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
The draw for the league phase took place at the UEFA headquarters inNyon, Switzerland on 2 May 2023, 13:00CEST.[5] 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. Due to winter venue restrictions, a group could contain a maximum of two of Sweden, Norway and Iceland.[6]
The draw for the Nations League Finals was held on 11 December 2023.[49] Spain hosted Netherlands and France hosted Germany in the semi-final matches, and the winner and loser of the Spain–Netherlands match hosted the final and third place play-off, respectively.
Times areCET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
^Italics indicates host for that year,Bold indicates champions
^The two Nations League finalists would qualify for the Olympics. As France was one of the finalists, the other spot was awarded to the winner of the third place play-off.[2]
Portugal
Scotland
Switzerland
Wales
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