2022–23 UEFA Nations League C

League C consisted of 16 UEFA members ranked from 33–48 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 (quadruple matchdays) and September 2022 (double matchdays).^[1] The winners of each group were promoted to the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League B, and the two worst-ranked fourth-placed teams of each group advanced to the relegation play-outs.^[2][3]

As League C had four groups while League D had only two, the League C team that was to be relegated to the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League D was determined by play-outs in March 2024.

Originally, all four of the fourth-placed teams would have participated in the play-outs. Based on the Nations League overall ranking, the best-ranked team would have faced the fourth-ranked team, and the second-ranked team would have faced the third-ranked team. The two losing teams would have been relegated to League D, while the winners would have remained in League C.^[2]

However, due to the ongoing suspension of Russia from all UEFA competitions and to ensure that League C would still consist of 16 teams,^[4] the league allocation for the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League was changed so that only one team would be relegated to League D. Based on the Nations League overall ranking, the two lowest-ranked teams participated in the play-outs, while the other two fourth-placed teams remained in League C.^[3][5]

The play-out tie was played over two legs, with the higher-ranked team hosting the second leg. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs remained in League C while the loser was relegated to League D. If the aggregate score is level, extra time was played without applying the away goals rule. If still tied after extra time, a penalty shoot-out was used to decide the winner.^[2]

Team changes

The following were the team changes in League C from the 2020–21 season:

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.^[2]

Pot 1 Team Rank  Turkey 33  Slovakia 34  Bulgaria 35  Northern Ireland 36

Pot 2 Team Rank  Greece 37  Belarus 38  Luxembourg 39  North Macedonia 40

Pot 3 Team Rank  Lithuania 41  Georgia 42  Azerbaijan 43  Kosovo 44

Pot 4 Team Rank  Kazakhstan[a] 45  Cyprus[a] 46  Gibraltar 47  Faroe Islands 48

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. Due to restrictions of excessive travel, each group could contain a maximum of one of the following pairs: Northern Ireland and the winner of the Moldova v Kazakhstan play-out tie, Gibraltar and Azerbaijan.

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 17 December 2021, the day following the draw.^[10][11]

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	Promotion or qualification
1	Turkey (P)	6	4	1	1	18	5	+13	13	Promotion to League B		—	3–3	4–0	2–0
2	Luxembourg	6	3	2	1	9	7	+2	11			0–2	—	2–2	1–0
3	Faroe Islands	6	2	2	2	7	10	−3	8			2–1	0–1	—	2–1
4	Lithuania (O)	6	0	1	5	2	14	−12	1	Qualification for relegation play-outs		0–6	0–2	1–1	—

4 June 2022 (2022-06-04)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Lithuania	0–2	Luxembourg
	Report	Sinani 44', 78'

LFF Stadium, Vilnius

Attendance: 3,009^[12]

Referee: David Fuxman (Israel)

4 June 2022 (2022-06-04)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Turkey	4–0	Faroe Islands
Ünder 37' Dervişoğlu 47' Dursun 82' Demiral 85'	Report

Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 9,515^[13]

Referee: Trustin Farrugia Cann (Malta)

7 June 2022 (2022-06-07)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Faroe Islands	0–1	Luxembourg
	Report	Rodrigues 74' (pen.)

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn

Attendance: 2,313^[14]

Referee: Rob Hennessy (Republic of Ireland)

7 June 2022 (2022-06-07)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Lithuania	0–6	Turkey
	Report	Sinik 2', 14' Dursun 56' (pen.), 81' Akgün 89' Dervişoğlu 90+1'

LFF Stadium, Vilnius

Attendance: 2,843^[15]

Referee: Novak Simović (Serbia)

11 June 2022 (2022-06-11)

18:00 (17:00 UTC+1)

Faroe Islands	2–1	Lithuania
Davidsen 20' (pen.) Andreasen 45'	Report	Černych 6'

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn

Attendance: 2,278^[16]

Referee: Igor Pajac (Croatia)

11 June 2022 (2022-06-11)

20:45

Luxembourg	0–2	Turkey
	Report	Çalhanoğlu 37' (pen.) Dursun 76'

Stade de Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Attendance: 9,374^[17]

Referee: António Nobre (Portugal)

14 June 2022 (2022-06-14)

20:45

Luxembourg	2–2	Faroe Islands
Rodrigues 12' (pen.) Barreiro 49'	Report	Bjartalíð 57', 59'

Stade de Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Attendance: 5,325^[18]

Referee: Michael Fabbri (Italy)

14 June 2022 (2022-06-14)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Turkey	2–0	Lithuania
Ayhan 37' Çalhanoğlu 54' (pen.)	Report

Gürsel Aksel Stadium, İzmir

Attendance: 14,694^[19]

Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

22 September 2022 (2022-09-22)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Lithuania	1–1	Faroe Islands
Slivka 41'	Report	Andreasen 22'

LFF Stadium, Vilnius

Attendance: 2,376^[20]

Referee: Vilhjálmur Alvar Þórarinsson (Iceland)

22 September 2022 (2022-09-22)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Turkey	3–3	Luxembourg
Ünder 16' (pen.) Chanot 39' (o.g.) Yüksek 87'	Report	Da Graça 8' Sinani 37' Rodrigues 69'

Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 12,708^[21]

Referee: Tobias Stieler (Germany)

25 September 2022 (2022-09-25)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Faroe Islands	2–1	Turkey
Davidsen 51' Edmundsson 59'	Report	Gürler 89'

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn

Attendance: 2,056^[22]

Referee: Serhiy Boyko (Ukraine)

25 September 2022 (2022-09-25)

20:45

Luxembourg	1–0	Lithuania
Rodrigues 89'	Report

Stade de Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Attendance: 5,340^[23]

Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)

Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Greece (P)	6	5	0	1	10	2	+8	15	Promotion to League B		—	2–0	3–1	3–0
2	Kosovo	6	3	0	3	11	8	+3	9			0–1	—	3–2	5–1
3	Northern Ireland	6	1	2	3	7	10	−3	5[a]			0–1	2–1	—	2–2
4	Cyprus	6	1	2	3	4	12	−8	5[a]			1–0	0–2	0–0	—

2 June 2022 (2022-06-02)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Cyprus	0–2	Kosovo
	Report	Berisha 65' Zhegrova 78'

AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca

Attendance: 1,550^[24]

Referee: Jérôme Brisard (France)

2 June 2022 (2022-06-02)

20:45 (19:45 UTC+1)

Northern Ireland	0–1	Greece
	Report	Bakasetas 39'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 16,977^[25]

Referee: Erik Lambrechts (Belgium)

5 June 2022 (2022-06-05)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+3)

Cyprus	0–0	Northern Ireland
	Report

AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca

Attendance: 1,663^[26]

Referee: Enea Jorgji (Albania)

5 June 2022 (2022-06-05)

20:45

Kosovo	0–1	Greece
	Report	Bakasetas 36'

Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina

Attendance: 12,300^[27]

Referee: John Beaton (Scotland)

9 June 2022 (2022-06-09)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Greece	3–0	Cyprus
Bakasetas 8' Pavlidis 20' Limnios 48'	Report

Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos

Attendance: 12,418^[28]

Referee: Tamás Bognár (Hungary)

9 June 2022 (2022-06-09)

20:45

Kosovo	3–2	Northern Ireland
Muriqi 9' (pen.), 52' Bytyqi 19'	Report	Lavery 44' Ballard 83'

Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina

Attendance: 11,700^[29]

Referee: Jakob Kehlet (Denmark)

12 June 2022 (2022-06-12)

15:00 (14:00 UTC+1)

Northern Ireland	2–2	Cyprus
McNair 71' J. Evans 90+4'	Report	Kakoullis 32', 51'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 16,454^[30]

Referee: Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea (Spain)

12 June 2022 (2022-06-12)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Greece	2–0	Kosovo
Giakoumakis 71' Mantalos 90+8'	Report

Panthessaliko Stadium, Volos

Attendance: 15,367^[31]

Referee: Julian Weinberger (Austria)

24 September 2022 (2022-09-24)

18:00 (17:00 UTC+1)

Northern Ireland	2–1	Kosovo
Whyte 82' Magennis 90+3'	Report	Muriqi 58'

Windsor Park, Belfast

Attendance: 17,148^[32]

Referee: Glenn Nyberg (Sweden)

24 September 2022 (2022-09-24)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Cyprus	1–0	Greece
Tzionis 18'	Report

AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca

Attendance: 4,548^[33]

Referee: Aleksei Kulbakov (Belarus)

27 September 2022 (2022-09-27)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Greece	3–1	Northern Ireland
Pelkas 14' Masouras 55' Mantalos 80'	Report	Lavery 18'

Georgios Kamaras Stadium, Athens

Attendance: 5,871^[34]

Referee: Filip Glova (Slovakia)

27 September 2022 (2022-09-27)

20:45

Kosovo	5–1	Cyprus
Muslija 22' Rrudhani 45+1' Rashani 47' Muriqi 52', 84'	Report	Roberge 81'

Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina

Attendance: 10,400^[35]

Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)

Group 3

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Kazakhstan (P)	6	4	1	1	8	6	+2	13	Promotion to League B		—	2–0	2–1	2–1
2	Azerbaijan	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10			3–0	—	0–1	2–0
3	Slovakia	6	2	1	3	5	6	−1	7			0–1	1–2	—	1–1
4	Belarus	6	0	3	3	3	7	−4	3			1–1	0–0	0–1	—

3 June 2022 (2022-06-03)

16:00 (20:00 UTC+6)

Kazakhstan	2–0	Azerbaijan
Aymbetov 50', 60'	Report

Astana Arena, Nur-Sultan

Attendance: 19,823^[36]

Referee: István Vad (Hungary)

3 June 2022 (2022-06-03)

20:45

Belarus	0–1	Slovakia
	Report	Suslov 61'

Karađorđe Stadium, Novi Sad (Serbia)^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 0^{[38][note 1]}

Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

6 June 2022 (2022-06-06)

20:45

Belarus	0–0	Azerbaijan
	Report

Karađorđe Stadium, Novi Sad (Serbia)^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 0^{[39][note 1]}

Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (Sweden)

6 June 2022 (2022-06-06)

20:45

Slovakia	0–1	Kazakhstan
	Report	Darabayev 26'

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava

Attendance: 4,146^[40]

Referee: Kristo Tohver (Estonia)

10 June 2022 (2022-06-10)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Azerbaijan	0–1	Slovakia
	Report	Weiss 81'

Dalga Arena, Baku

Attendance: 2,967^[41]

Referee: Donatas Rumšas (Lithuania)

10 June 2022 (2022-06-10)

20:45

Belarus	1–1	Kazakhstan
Malkevich 84'	Report	Aymbetov 13'

Karađorđe Stadium, Novi Sad (Serbia)^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 0^{[42][note 1]}

Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber (Austria)

13 June 2022 (2022-06-13)

16:00 (20:00 UTC+6)

Kazakhstan	2–1	Slovakia
Vorogovsky 18' Astanov 39'	Report	Bero 51'

Astana Arena, Nur-Sultan

Attendance: 28,745^[43]

Referee: Bram Van Driessche (Belgium)

13 June 2022 (2022-06-13)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Azerbaijan	2–0	Belarus
Emreli 76' Sheydayev 90+3'	Report

Dalga Arena, Baku

Attendance: 2,330^[44]

Referee: Anastasios Papapetrou (Greece)

22 September 2022 (2022-09-22)

16:00 (20:00 UTC+6)

Kazakhstan	2–1	Belarus
Gabyshev 29' Zaynutdinov 79'	Report	Savitsky 45+3'

Astana Arena, Astana

Attendance: 29,637^[45]

Referee: Horatiu Fesnic (Romania)

22 September 2022 (2022-09-22)

20:45

Slovakia	1–2	Azerbaijan
Jirka 90+3' (pen.)	Report	Dadashov 44' Haghverdi 90+5'

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava

Attendance: 2,875^[46]

Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)

25 September 2022 (2022-09-25)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Azerbaijan	3–0	Kazakhstan
Marochkin 66' (o.g.) Ozobić 74' Nuriyev 90+1'	Report

Dalga Arena, Baku

Attendance: 2,950^[47]

Referee: Harm Osmers (Germany)

25 September 2022 (2022-09-25)

18:00

Slovakia	1–1	Belarus
Zreľák 65'	Report	Bakhar 45'

TSC Arena, Bačka Topola (Serbia)^{[note 2]}

Attendance: 524^[48]

Referee: Nikola Dabanović (Montenegro)

Group 4

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Georgia (P)	6	5	1	0	16	3	+13	16	Promotion to League B		—	0–0	2–0	4–0
2	Bulgaria	6	2	3	1	10	8	+2	9			2–5	—	1–1	5–1
3	North Macedonia	6	2	1	3	7	7	0	7			0–3	0–1	—	4–0
4	Gibraltar (R)	6	0	1	5	3	18	−15	1	Qualification for relegation play-outs		1–2	1–1	0–2	—

2 June 2022 (2022-06-02)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Georgia	4–0	Gibraltar
Kvaratskhelia 12' Kashia 33' Mikautadze 87' Qazaishvili 88'	Report

Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi

Attendance: 43,412^[49]

Referee: Morten Krøgh (Denmark)

2 June 2022 (2022-06-02)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Bulgaria	1–1	North Macedonia
Despodov 13'	Report	M. Ristovski 50'

Huvepharma Arena, Razgrad

Attendance: 8,275^[50]

Referee: Jérémie Pignard (France)

5 June 2022 (2022-06-05)

18:00

Gibraltar	0–2	North Macedonia
	Report	Bardhi 21' Nikolov 84'

Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar

Attendance: 703^[51]

Referee: Alain Durieux (Luxembourg)

5 June 2022 (2022-06-05)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Bulgaria	2–5	Georgia
A. Iliev 50' Stefanov 83'	Report	Davitashvili 4' A. Hristov 31' (o.g.) Zivzivadze 52' Kvaratskhelia 58' (pen.) Qazaishvili 69'

Huvepharma Arena, Razgrad

Attendance: 3,600^[52]

Referee: Fabio Maresca (Italy)

9 June 2022 (2022-06-09)

20:45

Gibraltar	1–1	Bulgaria
Walker 61' (pen.)	Report	G. Minchev 45+1'

Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar

Attendance: 1,427^[53]

Referee: Petri Viljanen (Finland)

9 June 2022 (2022-06-09)

20:45

North Macedonia	0–3	Georgia
	Report	Zivzivadze 52' Kvaratskhelia 62' Kiteishvili 84'

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 10,775^[54]

Referee: Roi Reinshreiber (Israel)

12 June 2022 (2022-06-12)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Georgia	0–0	Bulgaria
	Report

Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi

Attendance: 54,200^[55]

Referee: Espen Eskås (Norway)

12 June 2022 (2022-06-12)

18:00

North Macedonia	4–0	Gibraltar
Bardhi 4' Torrilla 14' (o.g.) Miovski 16' Churlinov 31'	Report

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 4,750^[56]

Referee: Dumitri Muntean (Moldova)

23 September 2022 (2022-09-23)

18:00 (20:00 UTC+4)

Georgia	2–0	North Macedonia
Miovski 35' (o.g.) Kvaratskhelia 64'	Report

Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena, Tbilisi

Attendance: 54,200^[57]

Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia)

23 September 2022 (2022-09-23)

20:45 (21:45 UTC+3)

Bulgaria	5–1	Gibraltar
Antov 23' Despodov 36' Kirilov 52' Stefanov 55' Petkov 81'	Report	R. Chipolina 26'

Huvepharma Arena, Razgrad

Attendance: 1,540^[58]

Referee: Pavel Orel (Czech Republic)

26 September 2022 (2022-09-26)

20:45

Gibraltar	1–2	Georgia
Annesley 75'	Report	Kvaratskhelia 19' (pen.) Tsitaishvili 48'

Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar

Attendance: 1,199^[59]

Referee: Rob Harvey (Republic of Ireland)

26 September 2022 (2022-09-26)

20:45

North Macedonia	0–1	Bulgaria
	Report	Despodov 50'

Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje

Attendance: 20,173^[60]

Referee: Julian Weinberger (Austria)

The two worst-ranked fourth-placed teams of League C participated in the relegation play-outs to determine the team which would be relegated to League D. The relegation play-outs were scheduled on the same dates as the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying play-offs. If at least one of the teams due to participate in the relegation play-outs had also qualified for the Euro qualifying play-offs, the relegation play-outs would have been cancelled, and the worst-ranked team in League C in the Nations League overall ranking would have been automatically relegated.^[2] However, this scenario did not occur, and the relegation play-outs progressed as scheduled.

The play-out tie was as follows, with the higher-ranked team hosting the second leg:^[2][3]

Times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Summary

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gibraltar	0–2	Lithuania	0–1	0–1

Matches

21 March 2024 (2024-03-21)

20:45

Gibraltar	0–1	Lithuania
	Report	Kučys 60'

Estádio Algarve, Faro/Loulé (Portugal)^{[note 3]}

Attendance: 207^[62]

Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili (Georgia)

26 March 2024 (2024-03-26)

18:00 (19:00 UTC+2)

Lithuania	1–0	Gibraltar
Černych 51'	Report

Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas

Attendance: 6,102^[63]

Referee: Duje Strukan (Croatia)

Lithuania won 2–0 on aggregate and remained in League C, while Gibraltar were relegated to League D.

There were 129 goals scored in 50 matches, for an average of 2.58 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

The 16 League C teams were ranked 33rd to 48th overall in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League according to the following rules:^[2][64]

• The teams finishing first in the groups were ranked 33rd to 36th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing second in the groups were ranked 37th to 40th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing third in the groups were ranked 41st to 44th according to the results of the league phase.
• The teams finishing fourth in the groups were ranked 45th to 48th according to the results of the league phase.

Rnk	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
33	C4	Georgia	6	5	1	0	16	3	+13	16
34	C2	Greece	6	5	0	1	10	2	+8	15
35	C1	Turkey	6	4	1	1	18	5	+13	13
36	C3	Kazakhstan	6	4	1	1	8	6	+2	13
37	C1	Luxembourg	6	3	2	1	9	7	+2	11
38	C3	Azerbaijan	6	3	1	2	7	4	+3	10
39	C2	Kosovo	6	3	0	3	11	8	+3	9
40	C4	Bulgaria	6	2	3	1	10	8	+2	9
41	C1	Faroe Islands	6	2	2	2	7	10	−3	8
42	C4	North Macedonia	6	2	1	3	7	7	0	7
43	C3	Slovakia	6	2	1	3	5	6	−1	7
44	C2	Northern Ireland	6	1	2	3	7	10	−3	5
45	C2	Cyprus	6	1	2	3	4	12	−8	5
46	C3	Belarus	6	0	3	3	3	7	−4	3
47	C1	Lithuania	6	0	1	5	2	14	−12	1
48	C4	Gibraltar	6	0	1	5	3	18	−15	1

The four best teams in League C according to the overall ranking that did not qualify for UEFA Euro 2024 through the qualifying group stage competed in the play-offs, with the winners qualifying for the final tournament.^[65]

League C

Rank	Team
33 GW	Georgia
34 GW	Greece
35 GW	Turkey
36 GW	Kazakhstan
37	Luxembourg
38	Azerbaijan
39	Kosovo
40	Bulgaria
41	Faroe Islands
42	North Macedonia
43	Slovakia
44	Northern Ireland
45	Cyprus
46	Belarus
47	Lithuania
48	Gibraltar

Key

• ^GW Group winner from Nations League C
•   Team qualified directly to final tournament
•   Team in bold advanced to play-offs

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