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Nations League 2024/25 fixtures, results, table, schedule, teams, venues: All you need to know about tournament

The Nations League's group stage has finished with promotion, relegation and play-offs all settled.

The competition was created to remove the unpopular friendlies from the calendar by replacing them with meaningful fixtures - and as before, it will be partially linked with European qualification for the next World Cup in 2026.

Sky Sports takes a look at UEFA's newest competition and everything you need to know about the latest edition...

Qualified for finals: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Croatia, Spain, Denmark

Relegation from League A to League B: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Poland, Switzerland

League A/B play-offs: Belgium, Hungary, Scotland, Serbia, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine

Promotion from League B to League A: England, Norway, Wales, Czech Republic

League B/C play-offs: Georgia, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Slovenia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Slovakia

Relegation from League B to League C: Finland, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Albania

Promotion from League C to League B: North Macedonia, Sweden, Romania, Northern Ireland

Relegation from League C to D: Lithuania, Azerbaijan

League C/D play-offs: Latvia, Luxembourg, Gibraltar, Malta

Promotion from League D to League C: Moldova, San Marino

The Nations League has been expanded with an additional knockout round to be played in March 2025.

The League A group winners and runners-up will participate in home-and-away quarter-finals between March 20-25, with the winners of these ties qualifying for the finals next June.

Furthermore, the third-ranked teams of League A and the runners-up of League B, as well as the third-ranked teams of League B and the runners-up of League C, will play a home-and-away promotion/relegation play-off.

There will also be play-offs between the two best-ranked fourth-placed teams from League C and the two runners-up from League D.

The finals - to be staged by one of the four nations that qualify - are set to take place in June 2025.

The semi-finals will take place on June 4/5. The winners progress to the final on June 8, while the two beaten semi-finalists will face off for third place earlier on the same day.

The draw for the promotion/relegation play-offs will be held on November 22, 2024 along with the draw for the League A quarter-finals.

The road to Canada, Mexico and the United States technically starts here. When it comes to the draw for World Cup Qualification, each national team involved will also be placed in a ranked table, based on the performance in the 2024/25 Nations League.

Essentially, the four highest-ranked teams who do not then secure an automatic place at the 2026 World Cup will be granted a play-off safety net.

For 2026 World Cup Qualifying, there will be 12 groups of either four or five teams. Only the group winners will qualify automatically for the tournament.

The 12 group runners-up and four best Nations League group winners, based on the Nations League overall ranking, will be drawn into four play-off paths, playing two rounds of single-match play-offs (semi-finals with the seeded teams to host, followed by finals, with the home teams to be drawn).

The four path winners will qualify for the World Cup finals.

League A

League B

League C

League D

Scotland 2-3 Poland
Portugal 2-1 Scotland

Croatia 2-1 Scotland
Scotland 0-0 Portugal
Scotland 1-0 Croatia
Poland 1-2 Scotland

Republic of Ireland 0-2 England
England 2-0 Finland
England 1-2 Greece
Finland 1-3 England
Greece 0-3 England
England 5-0 Republic of Ireland

Republic of Ireland 0-2 England
Republic of Ireland 0-2 Greece
Finland 1-2 Republic of Ireland
Greece 2-0 Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland 1-0 Finland
England 5-0 Republic of Ireland

Wales 0-0 Turkey
Montenegro 1-2 Wales
Iceland 2-2 Wales
Wales 1-0 Montenegro
Turkey 0-0 Wales
Wales 4-1 Iceland

Northern Ireland 2-0 Luxembourg
Bulgaria 1-0 Northern Ireland
Belarus 0-0 Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland 5-0 Bulgaria
Northern Ireland 2-0 Belarus
Luxembourg 2-2 Northern Ireland