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Background
The UEFA Nations League was unanimously adopted at the XXXVIII Ordinary UEFA Congress in Astana on 27 March 2014.

The format for the fourth UEFA Nations League will again feature promotion and relegation. The 54 European national teams—Russia are still suspended from all UEFA activity—have been divided into four leagues in accordance with UEFA's first Nations League project.

For the first time, England will not participate in League A and therefore, will not feature in the Finals in June 2025. England will participate in League B.

The UEFA Nations League will be expanded with a new knockout round to be played in March 2025, thereby creating continuity between the league phase ending in November and the finals played in June. The League A group winners and runners-up will participate in home-and-away quarter-finals, with the winners of these ties qualifying for the final tournament. The remaining group winners are automatically promoted. 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 draw took place on Thursday, 8 February 2024 at the headquarters of UEFA at the Maison de la Mutualité, 24 Rue Saint-Victor, Paris, France. League B was drawn by Serbia's Aleksandr Kolarov.

League B
Group two

Team P W D L F A GD Pts
Greece 3 3 0 0 7 1 +6 9
 
England 3 2 0 1 5 2 +3 6
Republic of Ireland 3 1 0 2 2 5 -3 3
 
Finland 3 0 0 3 1 7 -6 0


Matches
7 September 2024
Republic of Ireland 0 England 2 [0-2]
The Aviva Stadium, Dublin
(50,359)
Rice, Grealish
Greece 3 Finland 0 [2-0]
Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus (17,293)
Ioannidis (2), Källman OG
10 September 2024
England 2 Finland 0 [0-0]
The National Stadium, Wembley (70,221)
Kane (2)
Republic of Ireland 0 Greece 2 [0-0]
The Aviva Stadium, Dublin
(37,274)
Ioannidis, Tzolis
10 October 2024
England 1 Greece 2 [0-0]
The National Stadium, Wembley (79,012)
Bellingham
Pavlidis (2)
Finland 1 Republic of Ireland 2 [1-0]
Olympiastadion, Helsinki (16,105)
Pohjanpalo
Scales, Brady
13 October 2024
Finland vs. England [ - ]
Olympiastadion, Helsinki (tbc)
 
Greece vs. Republic of Ireland [ - ]
Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus (tbc)
 
14 November 2024
Greece vs. England [ - ]
Olympiakó Stádio Spiros Louis, Athína (tbc)
 
Republic of Ireland vs. Finland [ - ]
The Aviva Stadium, Dublin
(tbc)
 
17 November 2024
England vs. Republic of Ireland [ - ]
The National Stadium, Wembley (tbc)
 
Finland vs. Greece [ - ]
Olympiastadion, Helsinki (tbc)
 

other B groups
Group 1

Team P W D L F A GD Pts
Czech Republic                
 
Ukraine                
Albania                
 
Georgia                

 


Group 3

Team P W D L F A GD Pts
Austria                
 
Norway                
Slovenia                
 
Kazakhstan                

 


Group 4

Team P W D L F A GD Pts
Wales                
 
Iceland                
Montenegro                
 
Turkey                

 




Notes  

 
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