2025 UEFA Nations League Finals

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 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 in Germany, 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, and the only team from the previous Nations League Finals to return.

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.^[1]

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 were determined by means of an open draw. All matches in the tournament will utilise the goal-line technology and video assistant referee (VAR) systems.^[2]

In the Nations League Finals, if the scores are level at the end of normal time:^[2]

• In the semi-finals and final, 30 minutes of extra time 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.

The four winners of the League A quarter-finals qualified for the Nations League Finals.^[3] The three previous champions all managed to qualify for the tournament. They are joined by hosts Germany, who are making their first appearance in the tournament.

Quarter-final winners	Date of qualification	Previous UNL Finals appearances[A]	Previous best UNL performance	UNL Rankings November 2024	FIFA Rankings April 2025
Spain	23 March 2025	2 (2021, 2023)	Winners (2022–23)	1	2
France	23 March 2025	1 (2021)	Winners (2020–21)	4	3
Portugal	23 March 2025	1 (2019)	Winners (2018–19)	3	7
Germany (host)	23 March 2025	0 (debut)	Eighth place (2020–21)	2	10

Following the introduction of the quarter-finals, the four participants of the Nations League Finals would not be known until 23 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 whose stadiums met the stadium requirements had to submit a proposal to host the Nations League Finals. Following the league phase, the UEFA Executive Committee would designate one pair of quarter-finalists capable of holding the tournament, with the winner automatically becoming the host. Additionally, associations from outside League A could 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 could offer sufficient guarantees or satisfy the hosting requirements.

UEFA required 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 150 kilometres (93 mi), 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 was as follows:^[4]

• 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

On 16 December 2024, the UEFA Executive Committee appointed the winner of quarter-final 4, between Italy and Germany, as the provisional hosts for the final tournament.^[5][6] On 23 March 2025, Germany became hosts of the tournament after winning their quarter-final tie.^[7]

The matches will be played at the Allianz Arena in Munich (Germany's semi-final and the final) and the MHPArena in Stuttgart (the other semi-final and the third place play-off).^[8]

Should Italy have hosted the tournament, the matches would have been played at the Juventus Stadium (both semi-finals and final) and Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino (third place play-off), both in Turin.^[9]

Munich	Munich Stuttgart class=notpageimage| Location of the host cities of the 2025 UEFA Nations League Finals.
Allianz Arena
Capacity: 66,000
Stuttgart
MHPArena
Capacity: 51,000

The semi-final pairings were determined by means of an open draw on 22 November 2024, 12:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, along with the draw for the League A quarter-finals and promotion/relegation play-offs.^[10][11] As the winners of the quarter-finals were not known at the time of the draw, they were represented by placeholders for the winners of quarter-finals 1 to 4. The first two balls drawn were allocated as the administrative home teams for each semi-final pairing, with the next two balls drawn allocated as their opponents. For scheduling purposes, the host team was allocated to semi-final 1 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.^[12][13]

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.^[2]

	Semi-finals				Final
	4 June – Munich
	Germany
					8 June – Munich
	Portugal
					Winner Match 1
	5 June – Stuttgart
					Winner Match 2
	Spain
	France
					Third place play-off
					8 June – Stuttgart
					Loser Match 1
					Loser Match 2

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

4 June 2025 (2025-6-4)

20:45

Germany	Match 1	Portugal
	Report

Allianz Arena, Munich

5 June 2025 (2025-6-5)

20:45

Spain	Match 2	France
	Report

MHPArena, Stuttgart

A player or coach will be automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:^[2]

• Receiving a red card (red card suspensions can be extended for serious offences)
• From the league phase and quarter-finals, receiving two yellow cards in two different matches, as well as any subsequent even-numbered yellow card (yellow card suspensions are carried forward to the Nations League Finals, but not any other future international matches)

Cautions that did not result in a suspension expired on completion of the quarter-finals, and will not be carried forward to the Nations League Finals.^[2]

The following suspensions will be served during the tournament:

Player	Offence(s)	Suspension(s)
Randal Kolo Muani	in Group A2 vs Italy (matchday 6; 17 November 2024) in quarter-finals vs Croatia (second leg; 23 March 2025)	vs Spain (5 June 2025)
Rúben Dias	in Group A1 vs Scotland (matchday 4; 15 October 2024) in quarter-finals vs Denmark (second leg; 23 March 2025)	vs Germany (4 June 2025)
Robin Le Normand	in Group A4 vs Serbia (matchday 1; 5 September 2024) in quarter-finals vs Netherlands (second leg; 23 March 2025)	vs France (5 June 2025)

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