2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League C


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The 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League C was the third and lowest division of the 2023–24 edition of the UEFA Women's Nations League, the inaugural season of the international football competition involving the women's national teams of the member associations of UEFA. The results were used to determine the leagues for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying competition.

2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League C
Tournament details
Dates22 September – 5 December 2023
Teams19
Promoted Azerbaijan
 Israel
 Kosovo
 Malta
 Turkey
Tournament statistics
Matches played54
Goals scored154 (2.85 per match)
Attendance40,264 (746 per match)
Top scorer(s)Israel Sharon Beck
(9 goals)

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League C consisted of the bottom 19 UEFA members ranked 33rd to 51st among competition entrants in the UEFA women's national team coefficient ranking. Teams were split into four groups of four (Groups 1 to 4) and one group of three (Group 5). Each team played four (three-team group) or six (four-team groups) matches within their group, using the home-and-away round-robin format with double matchdays in September, October and November to December 2023.[1] The competition also acted as the first phase of the preliminary competition for UEFA Women's Euro 2025, which uses an identical league structure. The group winners were promoted to League B, taking effect in UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying. In addition, the three best-ranked League C runners-up advanced to the promotion play-offs against the three best-ranked third-placed teams in League B. The winners of these home-and-away ties entered League B for UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying, while the losers entered League C.[2]

Teams were allocated to League C according to their UEFA women's national team coefficient after the conclusion of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying group stage on 6 September 2022. Teams were split into three pots of five teams (Pots 1 to 4) and one pot of four teams (Pot 5), ordered based on their UEFA national team coefficient.[3]

The draw for the league phase took place at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland in May 2023, 13:00 CEST.[4] 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. Due to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Armenia and Azerbaijan could not be drawn in the same group. Due to winter venue restrictions, a group could contain a maximum of two of Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Latvia and Lithuania. Due to excessive travel restrictions, only one of Andorra, the Faroe Islands and Malta could be drawn with Kazakhstan.[5]

Pot 1
Team Coeff Rank
  Malta 16,021 34
  Israel 15,543 35
  Azerbaijan 14,876 36
  Turkey 14,865 37
  North Macedonia 14,483 38
Pot 2
Team Coeff Rank
  Kosovo 14,226 39
  Montenegro 12,668 40
  Luxembourg 12,051 41
  Estonia 9,750 42
  Moldova 9,654 43
Pot 3
Team Coeff Rank
  Lithuania 9,649 44
  Kazakhstan 8,662 45
  Latvia 8,543 46
  Bulgaria 8,200 47
  Cyprus 8,032 48
Pot 4
Team Coeff Rank
  Faroe Islands 7,020 49
  Georgia 6,977 50
  Armenia 6,500 51
  Andorra 1,958 52

Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or qualification        
1   Malta (P) 6 5 1 0 13 1 +12 16 Promotion to League B — 2–1 5–0 2–0
2   Latvia 6 3 1 2 17 6 +11 10 Qualification for promotion play-offs 0–1 — 4–0 5–0
3   Andorra 6 1 1 4 2 17 −15 4 0–3 0–4 — 0–0
4   Moldova 6 0 3 3 4 12 −8 3 0–0 3–3 1–2 —

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(P) Promoted

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or qualification        
1   Turkey (P) 6 6 0 0 16 0 +16 18 Promotion to League B — 2–0 1–0 2–0
2   Lithuania 6 1 2 3 4 9 −5 5[a] 0–4 — 0–2 0–0
3   Luxembourg 6 1 2 3 6 11 −5 5[a] 0–4 1–1 — 1–1
4   Georgia 6 1 2 3 5 11 −6 5[a] 0–3 0–3 4–2 —

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(P) Promoted
Notes:

  1. ^ a b c Ranked on head-to-head goal difference: Lithuania +1, Luxembourg 0, Georgia −1
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or qualification        
1   Azerbaijan (P) 6 5 1 0 9 2 +7 16 Promotion to League B — 3–0 1–1 1–0
2   Montenegro 6 4 0 2 14 4 +10 12 Qualification for promotion play-offs 0–1 — 2–0 9–0
3   Cyprus 6 2 1 3 3 6 −3 7 0–1 0–2 — 1–0
4   Faroe Islands 6 0 0 6 1 15 −14 0 1–2 0–1 0–1 —

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(P) Promoted

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or qualification        
1   Israel (P) 6 5 1 0 21 2 +19 16 Promotion to League B — 4–1 0–0 6–1
2   Estonia 6 3 1 2 11 11 0 10 0–5 — 0–0 5–1
3   Kazakhstan 6 2 2 2 6 5 +1 8 0–2 0–1 — 4–1
4   Armenia 6 0 0 6 5 25 −20 0 0–4 1–4 1–2 —

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(P) Promoted

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or qualification      
1   Kosovo (P) 4 3 1 0 10 2 +8 10 Promotion to League B — 5–1 3–1
2   Bulgaria 4 1 2 1 4 7 −3 5 Qualification for promotion play-offs 0–0 — 2–2
3   North Macedonia 4 0 1 3 3 8 −5 1 0–2 0–1 —

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(P) Promoted

Ranking of second-placed teams

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Due to differing group sizes in League C, results against fourth-placed teams were disregarded when ranking second-placed teams.

Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 C1   Latvia 4 2 0 2 9 3 +6 6 Qualification for promotion play-offs
2 C3   Montenegro 4 2 0 2 4 4 0 6
3 C5   Bulgaria 4 1 2 1 4 7 −3 5
4 C4   Estonia 4 1 1 2 2 9 −7 4
5 C2   Lithuania 4 0 1 3 1 9 −8 1

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers - not considering results against teams ranked fourth in each group

The 19 League C teams were ranked 33rd to 51st overall in the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League according to the following rules:[2]

  • The teams finishing first in their groups were ranked 33rd to 37th according to the results of the league phase.
  • The teams finishing second in their groups were ranked 38th to 42nd according to the results of the league phase.
  • The teams finishing third in their groups were ranked 43rd to 47th according to the results of the league phase.
  • The teams finishing fourth in their groups were ranked 48th to 51st according to the results of the league phase.

Due to League C being composed of different sized groups, the results against the fourth-placed teams were not taken into account when comparing teams finishing first, second, and third in their groups.[2]

Rnk Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
33 C2   Turkey 4 4 0 0 11 0 +11 12
34 C1   Malta 4 4 0 0 11 1 +10 12
35 C4   Israel 4 3 1 0 11 1 +10 10
36 C5   Kosovo 4 3 1 0 10 2 +8 10
37 C3   Azerbaijan 4 3 1 0 6 1 +5 10
38 C1   Latvia 4 2 0 2 9 3 +6 6
39 C3   Montenegro 4 2 0 2 4 4 0 6
40 C5   Bulgaria 4 1 2 1 4 7 −3 5
41 C4   Estonia 4 1 1 2 2 9 −7 4
42 C2   Lithuania 4 0 1 3 1 9 −8 1
43 C2   Luxembourg 4 1 1 2 3 6 −3 4
44 C4   Kazakhstan 4 0 2 2 0 3 −3 2
45 C5   North Macedonia 4 0 1 3 3 8 −5 1
46 C3   Cyprus 4 0 1 3 1 6 −5 1
47 C1   Andorra 4 0 0 4 0 16 −16 0
48 C2   Georgia 6 1 2 3 5 11 −6 5
49 C1   Moldova 6 0 3 3 4 12 −8 3
50 C3   Faroe Islands 6 0 0 6 1 15 −14 0
51 C4   Armenia 6 0 0 6 5 25 −20 0

There were 154 goals scored in 54 matches, for an average of 2.85 goals per match.

9 goals

8 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

  1. ^ CEST (UTC+2) for times up to 28 October 2023, CET (UTC+1) for times from 29 October 2023.
  2. ^ Match originally scheduled for 26 October 2023.
  3. ^ a b Both Kazakhstan-Israel matches were moved to a neutral venue in Hungary.
  4. ^ Match originally scheduled for 31 October 2023.
  5. ^ Match originally scheduled for 30 November 2023.
  6. ^ Match originally scheduled for 21 September 2023.
  7. ^ a b Due to the war in Israel, Israel played their "home" matches outside of Israel.
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