The 2023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League B is the second 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 will be used to determine the leagues for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying competition.
Format
League B consists of 16 UEFA members ranked 17th to 32nd among competition entrants in the UEFA women's national team coefficient ranking. Teams were split into four groups of four. Each team will play six 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 acts as the first phase of the preliminary competition for UEFA Women's Euro 2025, which will use an identical league structure. The group winners will be promoted to League A, while the fourth-placed team from each group, as well as the lowest-ranked third-placed team, will be relegated to League C, taking effect in UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying. In addition, the group runners-up of League B will advance to the promotion play-offs against the third-placed teams of League A. The winners of these home-and-away ties will enter League A for UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying, while the losers will enter League B. Meanwhile, the three best-ranked third-placed teams in League B will advance to the relegation play-offs against the three best-ranked League C runners-up. The winners of these home-and-away ties will enter League B for UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying, while the losers will enter League C.[2]
The draw for the league phase took place at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on May 2023, 13:00 CEST.[4] Each group contains one team from each pot. The draw started with Pot 1 and ended with Pot 4, with drawn teams assigned to the first available group in ascending order from B1 to B4. Due to the Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Belarus and Ukraine cannot be drawn in the same group.[5]
First match(es) will be played: 22 September 2023. Source: UEFA Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Wins; 6) Away wins; 7) Disciplinary points; 8) UEFA national team coefficient.
Notes
^CEST (UTC+2) for times up to 28 October 2023, CET (UTC+1) for times from 29 October 2023.