2025 UEFA Nations League Finals

For the women's competition, see 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League Finals.

2025 UEFA Nations League FinalsEndrunde der UEFA Nations League 2024/25 (in German)

Tournament details
Host country| Germany
Dates| 4–8 June
Teams| 4
Venue(s)| 2 (in 2 host cities)

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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.

## Format

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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.

## Qualified teams

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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

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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

1. ^ Italic indicates host for that year.

## Host selection

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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]

## Venues

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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

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Location of the host cities of the 2025 UEFA Nations League Finals.

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Allianz Arena
Capacity: 66,000
Stuttgart
MHPArena
Capacity: 51,000

## Draw

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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]

## Squads

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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]

## Bracket

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| Semi-finals| | Final

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| 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).

## Semi-finals

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### Germany vs Portugal

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4 June 2025 (2025-6-4)

20:45

Germany | Match 1|  Portugal

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Allianz Arena, Munich

### Spain vs France

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5 June 2025 (2025-6-5)

20:45

Spain | Match 2|  France

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MHPArena, Stuttgart

## Third place play-off

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8 June 2025 (2025-6-8)

15:00

Loser Match 1| Match 3| Loser Match 2

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MHPArena, Stuttgart

## Final

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8 June 2025 (2025-6-8)

20:45

Winner Match 1| Match 4| Winner Match 2

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Allianz Arena, Munich

## Statistics

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### Discipline

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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)

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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)

## References

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1. ^ "Nations League set to expand with new knockout round from 2024/25". UEFA. 25 January 2023. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
2. ^ a b c d e "Regulations of the UEFA Nations League, 2024/25". UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 11 December 2023. Archived from the original on 8 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
3. ^ "2024/25 UEFA Nations League finals line-up complete: All you need to know". UEFA. 23 March 2025. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
4. ^ "UEFA Nations League Finals 2025 – invitation to bid" (ZIP). UEFA Circular Letter. No. 3/2024. Union of European Football Associations. 19 January 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
5. ^ "Record Women's EURO 2025 prize money approved". UEFA. 16 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
6. ^ "Italy or Germany to stage 2025 Nations League finals". UEFA. 16 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
7. ^ "UEFA Nations League finals to be held in Germany". UEFA. 23 March 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
8. ^ "Austragung der Nations-League-Endrunde: Deutschland und Italien Favoriten" [Hosting of the Nations League Finals: Germany and Italy favorites]. kicker (in German). 11 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
9. ^ "La vincente di Italia-Germania ospiterà a giugno le Finals di Nations League, Torino la sede prescelta" [The winner of Italy–Germany will host the Nations League Finals in June, Turin the chosen venue] (in Italian). Italian Football Federation. 16 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
10. ^ "2024/25 UEFA Nations League knockout stage and play-off draws". UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
11. ^ "Nations League knockout stage and play-off draw: Italy vs Germany among quarter-final ties". UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 22 November 2024. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
12. ^ "UNL 2024/25 – Knock-out stage and play-off draw – Draw procedure" (PDF). UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 14 November 2024. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
13. ^ "2024/25 UEFA Nations League knockout stage and play-off draws". UEFA. Union of European Football Associations. 14 November 2024. Retrieved 14 November 2024.

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