The UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying League A is the top division of the
2025 edition of qualifying for the
UEFA Women's Championship
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, the international
football
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competition involving the women's national teams of the member associations of
UEFA
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. The results will also be used to determine the leagues for the
2025–26 UEFA Women's Nations League competition.
Format
League A consists of the 16 top-ranked UEFA members in the
2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League
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ranking, 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 April, May to June, and July 2024.
After the league phase, the top two teams of each group will qualify automatically for the
final tournament
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and the bottom two teams of each group will advance to the
play-offs
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.
For the first play-off round the eight League A teams will be seeded, and drawn against the eight best-ranked teams in
League C
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. The winner of those ties will advance to the second round.
The competition also acts 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 will be relegated to League B.
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
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on 28 February 2024. Teams were split into four pots of four teams, ordered based on their
overall ranking.
The draw took place in
Nyon,
Switzerland
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on 5 March 2024 at 13:00 CET.
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
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As standard time (year-round)
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), 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 are ranked 1st to 16th overall in the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying according to their
league ranking.
The last-placed teams from each group will be relegated to League B for the upcoming
2025–26 Women's Nations League.
Top goalscorers
References
External links
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{{UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
League A
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* ''The League'', an American sitcom broadcast on FX and FXX about fantasy football
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