2022–23 UEFA Nations League A

League A consisted of the 16 top-ranked UEFA members in the 2022–23 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 in June (four matchdays) and September 2022 (two matchdays).^[3] The winners of each group advanced to the 2023 UEFA Nations League Finals, and the fourth-placed team from each group was relegated to the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League B.^[4]

The Nations League Finals took place in June 2023 and was played in a knockout format, consisting of the semi-finals, third place play-off and final. The semi-final pairings were determined by means of an open draw. The host country was selected among the four qualified teams by the UEFA Executive Committee, with the winners of the final crowned as the champions of the UEFA Nations League.

The four group winners were drawn into groups of five teams for UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying (in order to accommodate for the Nations League Finals).

Team changes

The following were the team changes in League A from the 2020–21 season:^[5]

Seeding

In the 2022–23 access list, UEFA ranked teams based on the 2020–21 Nations League overall ranking.^[6] The seeding pots for the league phase were confirmed on 22 September 2021,^[7] and were based on the access list ranking.^[4]

Pot 1 Team Rank  France (title holders) 1  Spain 2  Italy 3  Belgium 4

Pot 2 Team Rank  Portugal 5  Netherlands 6  Denmark 7  Germany 8

Pot 3 Team Rank  England 9  Poland 10   Switzerland 11  Croatia 12

Pot 4 Team Rank  Wales 13  Austria 14  Czech Republic 15  Hungary 16

The draw for the league phase took place at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on 16 December 2021, 18:00 CET.^[8][9] Each group contained one team from each pot.

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 17 December 2021, the day following the draw.^[10][11] The fixture list for Group 4 was amended due to the postponement of Path A of UEFA qualifying for the World Cup.^[12]

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Croatia	6	4	1	1	8	6	+2	13	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	2–1	1–1	0–3
2	Denmark	6	4	0	2	9	5	+4	12			0–1	—	2–0	2–0
3	France	6	1	2	3	5	7	−2	5			0–1	1–2	—	2–0
4	Austria (R)	6	1	1	4	6	10	−4	4	Relegation to League B		1–3	1–2	1–1	—

3 June 2022 (2022-06-03)

20:45

Croatia	0–3	Austria
	Report	Arnautović 41' Gregoritsch 54' Sabitzer 57'

Gradski Vrt Stadium, Osijek

Attendance: 13,994^[13]

Referee: Chris Kavanagh (England)

3 June 2022 (2022-06-03)

20:45

France	1–2	Denmark
Benzema 51'	Report	Cornelius 68', 88'

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Attendance: 75,833^[14]

Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

6 June 2022 (2022-06-06)

20:45

Croatia	1–1	France
Kramarić 83' (pen.)	Report	Rabiot 52'

Stadion Poljud, Split

Attendance: 30,000^[15]

Referee: Marco Guida (Italy)

6 June 2022 (2022-06-06)

22:15^{[note 1]}

Austria	1–2	Denmark
Schlager 67'	Report	Højbjerg 28' Stryger Larsen 84'

Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 18,700^[16]

Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)

10 June 2022 (2022-06-10)

20:45

Austria	1–1	France
Weimann 37'	Report	Mbappé 83'

Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 44,800^[17]

Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (Greece)

10 June 2022 (2022-06-10)

20:45

Denmark	0–1	Croatia
	Report	Pašalić 69'

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen

Attendance: 35,862^[18]

Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland)

13 June 2022 (2022-06-13)

20:45

Denmark	2–0	Austria
Wind 21' Skov Olsen 37'	Report

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen

Attendance: 35,230^[19]

Referee: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Spain)

13 June 2022 (2022-06-13)

20:45

France	0–1	Croatia
	Report	Modrić 5' (pen.)

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Attendance: 77,410^[20]

Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

22 September 2022 (2022-09-22)

20:45

Croatia	2–1	Denmark
Sosa 49' Majer 79'	Report	Eriksen 77'

Stadion Maksimir, Zagreb

Attendance: 22,715^[21]

Referee: Davide Massa (Italy)

22 September 2022 (2022-09-22)

20:45

France	2–0	Austria
Mbappé 56' Giroud 65'	Report

Stade de France, Saint-Denis

Attendance: 70,188^[22]

Referee: Andreas Ekberg (Sweden)

25 September 2022 (2022-09-25)

20:45

Austria	1–3	Croatia
Baumgartner 9'	Report	Modrić 6' Livaja 69' Lovren 72'

Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna

Attendance: 45,700^[23]

Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

25 September 2022 (2022-09-25)

20:45

Denmark	2–0	France
Dolberg 34' Skov Olsen 39'	Report

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen

Attendance: 36,064^[24]

Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Spain	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3	11	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	1–1	1–2	2–0
2	Portugal	6	3	1	2	11	3	+8	10			0–1	—	4–0	2–0
3	Switzerland	6	3	0	3	6	9	−3	9			0–1	1–0	—	2–1
4	Czech Republic (R)	6	1	1	4	5	13	−8	4	Relegation to League B		2–2	0–4	2–1	—

2 June 2022 (2022-06-02)

20:45

Czech Republic	2–1	Switzerland
Kuchta 11' Sow 58' (o.g.)	Report	Okafor 44'

Sinobo Stadium, Prague

Attendance: 12,236^[25]

Referee: Daniel Siebert (Germany)^{[note 2]}

2 June 2022 (2022-06-02)

20:45

Spain	1–1	Portugal
Morata 25'	Report	Horta 82'

Benito Villamarín, Seville

Attendance: 41,236^[26]

Referee: Michael Oliver (England)

5 June 2022 (2022-06-05)

20:45

Czech Republic	2–2	Spain
Pešek 4' Kuchta 66'	Report	Gavi 45+3' Martínez 90'

Sinobo Stadium, Prague

Attendance: 18,245^[27]

Referee: François Letexier (France)

5 June 2022 (2022-06-05)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Portugal	4–0	Switzerland
Carvalho 15' Ronaldo 35', 39' Cancelo 68'	Report

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 42,325^[28]

Referee: Orel Grinfeld (Israel)

9 June 2022 (2022-06-09)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Portugal	2–0	Czech Republic
Cancelo 33' Guedes 38'	Report

Estádio José Alvalade, Lisbon

Attendance: 44,100^[29]

Referee: Matej Jug (Slovenia)

9 June 2022 (2022-06-09)

20:45

Switzerland	0–1	Spain
	Report	Sarabia 13'

Stade de Genève, Geneva

Attendance: 25,875^[30]

Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

12 June 2022 (2022-06-12)

20:45

Spain	2–0	Czech Republic
Soler 24' Sarabia 75'	Report

La Rosaleda, Málaga

Attendance: 30,389^[31]

Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (Turkey)

12 June 2022 (2022-06-12)

20:45

Switzerland	1–0	Portugal
Seferovic 1'	Report

Stade de Genève, Geneva

Attendance: 26,300^[32]

Referee: Fran Jović (Croatia)

24 September 2022 (2022-09-24)

20:45

Czech Republic	0–4	Portugal
	Report	Dalot 33', 52' Fernandes 45+2' Jota 82'

Fortuna Arena, Prague

Attendance: 19,322^[33]

Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

24 September 2022 (2022-09-24)

20:45

Spain	1–2	Switzerland
Alba 55'	Report	Akanji 21' Embolo 59'

La Romareda, Zaragoza

Attendance: 31,809^[34]

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

27 September 2022 (2022-09-27)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Portugal	0–1	Spain
	Report	Morata 88'

Estádio Municipal, Braga

Attendance: 28,196^[35]

Referee: Daniele Orsato (Italy)

27 September 2022 (2022-09-27)

20:45

Switzerland	2–1	Czech Republic
Freuler 29' Embolo 30'	Report	Schick 45'

Kybunpark, St. Gallen

Attendance: 13,353^[36]

Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Group 3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Italy	6	3	2	1	8	7	+1	11	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	2–1	1–1	1–0
2	Hungary	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3	10			0–2	—	1–1	1–0
3	Germany	6	1	4	1	11	9	+2	7			5–2	0–1	—	1–1
4	England (R)	6	0	3	3	4	10	−6	3	Relegation to League B		0–0	0–4	3–3	—

4 June 2022 (2022-06-04)

18:00

Hungary	1–0	England
Szoboszlai 66' (pen.)	Report

Puskás Aréna, Budapest

Attendance: 26,935^{[37][note 3]}

Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

4 June 2022 (2022-06-04)

20:45

Italy	1–1	Germany
Pellegrini 70'	Report	Kimmich 73'

Stadio Renato Dall'Ara, Bologna

Attendance: 23,754^[39]

Referee: Srđan Jovanović (Serbia)

7 June 2022 (2022-06-07)

20:45

Germany	1–1	England
Hofmann 50'	Report	Kane 88' (pen.)

Allianz Arena, Munich

Attendance: 66,289^[40]

Referee: Carlos del Cerro Grande (Spain)

7 June 2022 (2022-06-07)

20:45

Italy	2–1	Hungary
Barella 30' Pellegrini 45'	Report	Mancini 61' (o.g.)

Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena

Attendance: 14,942^[41]

Referee: Sandro Schärer (Switzerland)

11 June 2022 (2022-06-11)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

England	0–0	Italy
	Report

Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton

Attendance: 1,782^{[42][note 4]}

Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

11 June 2022 (2022-06-11)

20:45

Hungary	1–1	Germany
Zs. Nagy 6'	Report	Hofmann 9'

Puskás Aréna, Budapest

Attendance: 55,948^[44]

Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez (Spain)

14 June 2022 (2022-06-14)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

England	0–4	Hungary
	Report	Sallai 16', 70' Zs. Nagy 80' Gazdag 89'

Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton

Attendance: 28,839^[45]

Referee: Clément Turpin (France)

14 June 2022 (2022-06-14)

20:45

Germany	5–2	Italy
Kimmich 10' Gündoğan 45+4' (pen.) Müller 51' Werner 68', 69'	Report	Gnonto 78' Bastoni 90+4'

Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach

Attendance: 44,144^[46]

Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

23 September 2022 (2022-09-23)

20:45

Germany	0–1	Hungary
	Report	Szalai 17'

Red Bull Arena, Leipzig

Attendance: 39,513^[47]

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

23 September 2022 (2022-09-23)

20:45

Italy	1–0	England
Raspadori 68'	Report

San Siro, Milan

Attendance: 50,640^[48]

Referee: Jesús Gil Manzano (Spain)

26 September 2022 (2022-09-26)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

England	3–3	Germany
Shaw 72' Mount 75' Kane 83' (pen.)	Report	Gündoğan 52' (pen.) Havertz 67', 87'

Wembley Stadium, London

Attendance: 78,949^[49]

Referee: Danny Makkelie (Netherlands)

26 September 2022 (2022-09-26)

20:45

Hungary	0–2	Italy
	Report	Raspadori 27' Dimarco 52'

Puskás Aréna, Budapest

Attendance: 57,300^[50]

Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)

Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Netherlands	6	5	1	0	14	6	+8	16	Qualification for Nations League Finals		—	1–0	2–2	3–2
2	Belgium	6	3	1	2	11	8	+3	10			1–4	—	6–1	2–1
3	Poland	6	2	1	3	6	12	−6	7			0–2	0–1	—	2–1
4	Wales (R)	6	0	1	5	6	11	−5	1	Relegation to League B		1–2	1–1	0–1	—

1 June 2022 (2022-06-01)

18:00

Poland	2–1	Wales
Kamiński 72' Świderski 85'	Report	J. Williams 52'

Stadion Wrocław, Wrocław

Attendance: 35,214^[51]

Referee: Rade Obrenovič (Slovenia)

3 June 2022 (2022-06-03)

20:45

Belgium	1–4	Netherlands
Batshuayi 90+3'	Report	Bergwijn 40' Depay 51', 65' Dumfries 61'

King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 38,327^[52]

Referee: José María Sánchez Martínez (Spain)

8 June 2022 (2022-06-08)

20:45

Belgium	6–1	Poland
Witsel 42' De Bruyne 59' Trossard 73', 80' Dendoncker 83' Openda 90+3'	Report	Lewandowski 28'

King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 27,409^[53]

Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

8 June 2022 (2022-06-08)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Wales	1–2	Netherlands
Norrington-Davies 90+2'	Report	Koopmeiners 50' Weghorst 90+4'

Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff

Attendance: 23,395^[54]

Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

11 June 2022 (2022-06-11)

20:45

Netherlands	2–2	Poland
Klaassen 51' Dumfries 54'	Report	Cash 18' Zieliński 49'

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 39,382^[55]

Referee: Halil Umut Meler (Turkey)

11 June 2022 (2022-06-11)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Wales	1–1	Belgium
Johnson 86'	Report	Tielemans 51'

Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff

Attendance: 27,188^[56]

Referee: Benoît Bastien (France)

14 June 2022 (2022-06-14)

20:45

Netherlands	3–2	Wales
Lang 17' Gakpo 23' Depay 90+3'	Report	Johnson 26' Bale 90+2' (pen.)

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 37,247^[57]

Referee: Horațiu Feșnic (Romania)

14 June 2022 (2022-06-14)

20:45

Poland	0–1	Belgium
	Report	Batshuayi 16'

Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw

Attendance: 56,803^[58]

Referee: Irfan Peljto (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

22 September 2022 (2022-09-22)

20:45

Belgium	2–1	Wales
De Bruyne 10' Batshuayi 37'	Report	Moore 50'

King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels

Attendance: 28,463^[59]

Referee: Ali Palabıyık (Turkey)

22 September 2022 (2022-09-22)

20:45

Poland	0–2	Netherlands
	Report	Gakpo 13' Bergwijn 60'

Stadion Narodowy, Warsaw

Attendance: 56,673^[60]

Referee: Alejandro Hernández Hernández (Spain)

25 September 2022 (2022-09-25)

20:45

Netherlands	1–0	Belgium
Van Dijk 73'	Report

Johan Cruyff Arena, Amsterdam

Attendance: 52,314^[61]

Referee: Anthony Taylor (England)

25 September 2022 (2022-09-25)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Wales	0–1	Poland
	Report	Świderski 58'

Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff

Attendance: 31,520^[62]

Referee: Andris Treimanis (Latvia)

The four nations from Group A4 (Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Wales) bid to host the Nations League Finals.^[63] As the nation that qualified for the finals, the Netherlands was granted hosting rights.^[64] The semi-final pairings were determined by means of an open draw on 25 January 2023, 11:00 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. For scheduling purposes, the host team was allocated to semi-final 1 as the administrative home team.^[65]

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	14 June – Rotterdam
	Netherlands	2
					18 June – Rotterdam
	Croatia (a.e.t.)	4
					Croatia	0 (4)
	15 June – Enschede
					Spain (p)	0 (5)
	Spain	2
	Italy	1
					Third place play-off
					18 June – Enschede
					Netherlands	2
					Italy	3

Semi-finals

14 June 2023 (2023-06-14)

20:45

Netherlands	2–4 (a.e.t.)	Croatia
Malen 34' Lang 90+6'	Report	Kramarić 55' (pen.) Pašalić 72' Petković 98' Modrić 116' (pen.)

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 39,359^[66]

Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

15 June 2023 (2023-06-15)

20:45

Spain	2–1	Italy
Pino 3' Joselu 88'	Report	Immobile 11' (pen.)

De Grolsch Veste, Enschede

Attendance: 24,558^[67]

Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

Third-place play-off

18 June 2023 (2023-06-18)

15:00

Netherlands	2–3	Italy
Bergwijn 68' Wijnaldum 89'	Report	Dimarco 6' Frattesi 20' Chiesa 72'

De Grolsch Veste, Enschede

Attendance: 21,292^[68]

Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

Final

18 June 2023 (2023-06-18)

20:45

Croatia	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Spain
	Report
Penalties
Vlašić Brozović Modrić Majer Perišić Petković	4–5	Joselu Rodri Merino Asensio Laporte Carvajal

De Kuip, Rotterdam

Attendance: 41,110^[69]

Referee: Felix Zwayer (Germany)

There were 140 goals scored in 52 matches, for an average of 2.69 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

The 16 League A teams were ranked 1st to 16th overall in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League according to the following rules:^[4][70]

• The teams finishing first in the groups were ranked 1st to 4th according to the results of the Nations League Finals.
• The teams finishing second in the groups were ranked 5th to 8th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing third in the groups were ranked 9th to 12th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing fourth in the groups were ranked 13th to 16th according to the results of the league phase.

Rnk	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	A2	Spain	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3	11
2	A1	Croatia	6	4	1	1	8	6	+2	13
3	A3	Italy	6	3	2	1	8	7	+1	11
4	A4	Netherlands	6	5	1	0	14	6	+8	16
5	A1	Denmark	6	4	0	2	9	5	+4	12
6	A2	Portugal	6	3	1	2	11	3	+8	10
7	A4	Belgium	6	3	1	2	11	8	+3	10
8	A3	Hungary	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3	10
9	A2	Switzerland	6	3	0	3	6	9	−3	9
10	A3	Germany	6	1	4	1	11	9	+2	7
11	A4	Poland	6	2	1	3	6	12	−6	7
12	A1	France	6	1	2	3	5	7	−2	5
13	A1	Austria	6	1	1	4	6	10	−4	4
14	A2	Czech Republic	6	1	1	4	5	13	−8	4
15	A3	England	6	0	3	3	4	10	−6	3
16	A4	Wales	6	0	1	5	6	11	−5	1

The four best teams in League A according to the overall ranking that failed to qualify for UEFA Euro 2024 through the qualifying group stage were set to compete against each other to win one extra qualification spot through the path A play-offs. As Poland and Wales were the only unqualified teams from League A, the first available slot for the teams participating in the Path A play-off was allocated to the best-ranked group winner of League D, Estonia, as they had not already qualified in the qualifying group stage. The remaining available slot was allocated to the best ranked un-qualified team from league B (excluding group winners of league B and teams previously chosen to participate in the path B play-offs), Finland.^[71]

League A

Rank	Team
1 GW	Spain
2 GW	Croatia
3 GW	Italy
4 GW	Netherlands
5	Denmark
6	Portugal
7	Belgium
8	Hungary
9	Switzerland
10	Germany †
11	Poland
12	France
13	Austria
14	Czech Republic
15	England
16	Wales

Key

• ^GW Group winner from Nations League A
•   Team qualified directly to final tournament
•   Team in bold advanced to play-offs
•  †  UEFA Euro 2024 host, qualified automatically

The path A play-offs were previously held similarly to decide one extra qualification spot for UEFA Euro 2020.

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