The 2024–25 UEFA Nations League C was the third division of the 2024–25 edition of the

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, the fourth season of the international

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competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of

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Format

League C consisted of 16 UEFA members ranked from 33–48 in the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League access list, split into four groups of four. Each team played six matches within their group, using the home-and-away round-robin format on double matchdays in September, October, and November 2024. The winners of each group were promoted to the 2026–27 UEFA Nations League B, and the two worst-ranked fourth-placed teams were relegated to the 2026–27 UEFA Nations League D. In addition, the second-placed teams of each group and the two best-ranked fourth-placed teams advanced to the promotion/relegation play-offs, played home-and-away over two legs. The League C second-placed teams participated in promotion play-offs against the third-placed teams from League B in March 2025, while the two best-ranked League C fourth-placed teams will participate in relegation play-offs against the second-placed teams from

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in March 2026. In the play-offs, teams from the higher leagues will host the second leg, with the winners of each tie participating in the higher league for the next Nations League season, while the losers will enter the lower league.

Teams

Team changes

The following were the team changes in League C from the 2022–23 season: On 2 May 2022,

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were suspended and automatically relegated from League B due to their country's invasion of Ukraine. Russia were due to participate in League C for the 2024–25 season, but they were instead banned from the Nations League because the suspension was still active at the time of UEFA's entry deadline. Therefore, only one team (

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) was relegated to League D and two teams (

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and

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) were promoted from League D, so that the 2024–25 League C season would still have 16 teams.

Seeding

In the 2024–25 access list, UEFA ranked teams based on the 2022–23 Nations League overall ranking. The seeding pots for the league phase were confirmed on 2 December 2023, and were based on the access list ranking. The draw for the league phase took place at the

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, France, on 8 February 2024, 18:00

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. Each group contained one team from each pot. For political reasons, Armenia and Azerbaijan (due to the

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) could not be drawn in the same group.

Groups

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 9 February 2024, the day following the draw. Times are

/ CEST, 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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Ranking of fourth-placed teams

Goalscorers

Overall ranking

Following the league phase, the 16 League C teams were ordered 33rd to 48th in an interim overall ranking for the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League according to the following rules: *The teams finishing first in the groups were ranked 33rd to 36th according to the results of the league phase. *The teams finishing second in the groups were ranked 37th to 40th according to the results of the league phase. *The teams finishing third in the groups were ranked 41st to 44th according to the results of the league phase. *The teams finishing fourth in the groups were ranked 45th to 48th according to the results of the league phase. A final overall ranking will also be compiled, though this is only used to rank teams within their new leagues for the following edition of the competition.

Notes

References

External links

* {{2024–25 in European football (UEFA) League C