2025 UEFA Nations League Finals
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

The 2025 UEFA Nations League Finals will be the final tournament of the 2024–25 edition of the UEFA Nations League, the fourth season of the international
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of UEFA. The tournament will be held from 4 to 8 June 2025, and will be contested by the four quarter-final winners from Nations League A. The tournament will consist of two semi-finals, a third place play-off and final to determine the champions of the UEFA Nations League. Spain are the defending champions, having won the 2023 finals.


Format

The Nations League Finals will take place in June 2025 and will be contested by the four winners of the League A quarter-finals, the newly introduced round for the 2024–25 season. The Nations League Finals will take place over five days and be played in single-leg knockout matches, consisting of two semi-finals on 4 and 5 June (the first of which features the host team, if participating), and a third place play-off and final three days after the second semi-final on 8 June 2025. The semi-final pairings will be determined by means of an open draw. All matches in the tournament will utilize the goal-line technology and video assistant referee (VAR) systems. In the Nations League Finals, if the scores are level at the end of normal time: *In the semi-finals and final, 30 minutes of
extra time Overtime or extra time is an additional period of play specified under the rules of a sport to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played onl ...
will be played. If the score is still level after extra time, the winner will be determined by a penalty shoot-out. *In the third place play-off, extra time will not be played, and the winner will be determined by a penalty shoot-out.


Qualified teams

The four winners of the League A quarter-finals will qualify for the Nations League Finals.


Host selection

Following the introduction of the quarter-finals, the four participants of the Nations League Finals will not be known until March 2025, a little over two months prior to the tournament. As a result, UEFA revised the bidding process from previous tournament editions. All teams participating in League A which meet the stadium requirements must submit a proposal to host the Nations League Finals. Following the league phase, the UEFA Executive Committee will designate one pair of quarter-finalists capable of holding the tournament, with the winner automatically becoming the host. Additionally, associations from outside League A may also submit a bid to hold the tournament as a neutral host, with their bids to be considered only if no pairing of quarter-finalists can offer sufficient guarantees or satisfy the hosting requirements. UEFA requires the tournament to be played at two Category 4 stadiums, each with at least 30,000 net seating capacity (though there may be some flexibility regarding the second stadium). Ideally, the stadiums should not be located more than , or a two-hour bus drive, apart. If hosted by a participating team, the larger of the stadiums should hold the first semi-final (featuring the host team) and the final. The bidding timeline is as follows: *18 January 2024: Applications formally invited *15 May 2024, 12:00 CEST: Closing date for registering intention to bid (non-binding) and preferred stadiums *4 September 2024: Bid requirements made available to bidders *23 October 2024: Submission of bid documents *16 December 2024: Host appointment by the UEFA Executive Committee


Draw

The semi-finals pairings will be determined by means of an open draw. For scheduling purposes, a host team will be allocated to the first semi-final as the administrative home team. The administrative home team for both the third place play-off and final were predetermined as the teams which advanced from semi-final 1.


Squads

Each national team has to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom have to be goalkeepers, at least ten days before the opening match of the tournament. If a player becomes injured or ill severely enough to prevent his participation in the tournament before his team's first match, he will be replaced by another player.


Bracket


Semi-finals


Semi-final 1


Semi-final 2


Third place play-off


Final


Statistics


Discipline

A player will be automatically suspended for the next match for receiving a red card, which can be extended for serious offences. Yellow card suspensions did not apply in the Nations League Finals, including any pending suspensions from the league phase, while yellow cards issued were not carried forward to any other future international matches.


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Uefa Nations League Finals 2025 Finals
2025 Predicted and scheduled events *January 1 ** In the United States, books, films, and other works published in 1929 will enter the public domain, assuming there are no changes made to copyright law. ** The American FAA will have been imp ...
June 2025 sports events in Europe