League C of
UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
The UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying competition was a women's Association football, football competition that determined the 15 teams joining the automatically qualified host Switzerland in the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 final tournament.
Format
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was the third and lowest division of qualifying for
UEFA Women's Euro 2025
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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 were also used to determine the leagues for the
2025 UEFA Women's Nations League competition.
Format
League C consists of 19 UEFA members ranked 33rd to 51st among competition entrants in the
2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League ranking, split into four groups of four (Groups 1 to 4) and one group of three (Group 5). Each team played six matches (in four-team groups) or four matches (in three-team group) 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 five group winners and the three best group runners-up advanced to the
play-offs
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to determine who qualifies for the
final tournament
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.
For the first play-off round the eight League C teams were unseeded, and drawn against the eight lowest-ranked teams in
League A. The winner of those ties will advance to the second round.
The competition also acted as the first phase for the
2025 UEFA Women's Nations League, which will use an identical league structure. The five group winners were promoted to League B.
Seeding
Teams were allocated to League C after the conclusion of the
2023–24 Women's Nations League promotion/relegation matches on 27 February 2024. Teams were split into three pots of five teams and one pot of four teams, ordered based on their
overall ranking.
The draw took place in
Nyon
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,
Switzerland
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on 5 March 2024 at 13:00 CET.
Groups 1 to 4 contained one team from each pot, while Group 5 contained one team from Pots 1 to 3. The draw started with Pot 1 and ended with Pot 4, with drawn teams assigned to the first available group in ascending order from C1 to C5. The teams that previously played in three-team groups in the
2023-24 Women's Nations League (Bulgaria and North Macedonia), were drawn into four-team groups for this competition.
Groups
Times are
CEST (
UTC+2
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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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Group 5
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Ranking of second-placed teams
The three best-ranked group runners-up advanced to the
play-offs
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along with the five group winners.
Due to unequal group sizes in League C, results against fourth-placed teams were not considered when comparing teams finishing first, second, or third in their groups.
League ranking
The 19 League C teams were ranked 33rd to 51st overall in the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying according to their
league ranking.
The five group winners were promoted to League B for the upcoming
2025 UEFA Women's Nations League.
Due to unequal group sizes in League C, results against fourth-placed teams were not considered when comparing teams finishing first, second, or third in their groups.
Top goalscorers
Notes
References
External links
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{{UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying
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