UEFA Nations League 2025 Quarter-Finals: Fixtures, Results & Key Highlights

Introduction

The UEFA Nations League 2025 quarter-finals were held in March 2025, in which every team played 2 matches, one at home ground and one away. The battle to go from the quarterfinals to the semi-finals began among the top teams in Europe, and one got to see better performance than the other. Now the dates of the semi-finals and finals are out, whichever 2 teams out of the 4 teams crack the semi-finals will contest for the finals in Germany, Munich on 8 June.

UEFA Nations League 2025 Quarter-Finals

Today, in this blog post, we will look at all the matches held in the UEFA Nations League 2025 quarter-finals, their stats, best performances, fixtures, and highlights. So, if you're a football fan, read through to the finish.

Quarter-Finals Format

There have been some changes in the UEFA rules from 2018 to 2024. In this, the UEFA Nations League 2025 Quarter-Finals format has been changed. This time according to the new format, every team has to play 2 matches, out of which 1 match is on the team's home ground and the other on the opponent team's ground.

Groups A1, A2,...A4 make up League A. The victorious team from each group matches up with the other groups' runners-up. Due to this, every team got the advantage that they could play one match (leg) on ​​their home ground.

Aside from this, the "away goals" rule was the most significant format modification. Earlier, whenever the scores of both the teams were the same in the Quarterfinals, then the match used to be a draw, and in draw matches, the winner was declared on the basis of away goals. Like, if any team among the two teams had scored more goals in the away match, i.e. on the opponent's home ground, then it was declared the winner. But now these rules have been changed and the rule of 'Penalty shots' has been updated in the UEFA Nations League 2025 Quarter-Finals. 

Now, whenever the matches are drawn, both teams are given 5 extra penalty shots, and the one who scores more goals in these 5 shots is declared the winner.

Qualified Teams

A total of 8 teams were selected for the UEFA Nations League 2025 Quarter-Finals. The complete list is given below.

• France
• Germany
• Portugal
• Spain
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Croatia
• Denmark

All these teams performed the best in the League A group stage, which is why they were selected. Now the UEFA Nations Leagues Semi Finals are also going to happen, in which 4 out of these 8 teams have been eliminated from the game. The 4 semi-finalists include Spain, France, Germany and Portugal.

Quarter-Final Fixtures, Results

All the matches of UEFA Nations League 2025 Quarter-Finals were held in March 2025. Its fixtures and results are something like this.

Table

Matchup	Leg 1 (20 Mar)	Leg 2 (23 Mar)	Aggregate	Outcome
Netherlands vs Spain	Netherlands 2–2 Spain	Spain 3–3 Netherlands	5–5	Spain won 5–4 on penalties
Croatia vs France	Croatia 2–0 France	France 2–0 Croatia	2–2	France won 5–4 on penalties
Denmark vs Portugal	Denmark 1–0 Portugal	Portugal 5–2 Denmark	5–3	Portugal advanced
Italy vs Germany	Italy 1–2 Germany	Germany 3–3 Italy	5–4	Germany advanced

UEFA Nations League Quarter Finals 2025 Match Highlights

Overall, the most interesting match in the quarterfinals was between Netherlands and Spain, the match was drawn, but a penalty shootout gave Spain (5 -4) a place directly in the semifinals.

The match between Croatia and France was also drawn, where France (5-4) got the benefit of the penalty shootout.

In the match between Denmark and Portugal, Portugal was at zero goals in the first leg while Denmark scored 1 goal, but as soon as Leg 2 started, Portugal gave its best and scored 5 goals. And reached the semifinals with an aggregate of 5-3.

In Germany vs Italy, in Leg 1 Germany scored 2 goals and Italy scored 1, but in Leg 2 Italy gave its best, both teams scored a draw (3-3) but in aggregate, Germany qualified for the semifinals with 1 goal.

Now these 4 teams will face each other in the Semi-Finals on 5th and 6th June. Out of these 2 teams will play in the Finals. If Germany wins this season then this will be their first UEFA Nations League title.

The players who showed the best game

1) Kylian Mbappé (France): He is one of the star players of the France football team. His performance was the best in both matches of the quarterfinals. Everyone was weak in leg 1, but he put pressure on the opposition, then the team performed well in leg 2. When the match was drawn, he scored a goal in the penalty shootout.

2) Joshua Kimmich (Germany): This German team player gave the best assist. He gave 2 assists in the matches. His game was completely decided, he did everything precisely and with perfect intelligence. Just like a leader does.

3) Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal): The team scored zero goals in Leg 1, if they had missed even a little in this match they would have been straight out of the tournament. But in Leg 2 Cristiano scored the most important goals and led the team's attack. His experience took the team to the semi-finals.

4) Álvaro Morata (Spain): This player scored consecutive goals in both Leg 1 and Leg 2. Due to this Spain won. He was the key player in Spain for this match.

Semi-Final Line-Up

The matches of UEFA Nations League 2025 Quarter-Finals have been completed and 4 teams have been selected for the Semifinals. There will be 2 matches in the Semifinals, where the first match Germany vs Portugal will take place on 4 June 2025 at 21.00 CET at Munich Football Arena in Germany. The second match Spain vs France will take place on 5 June 2025, at 21.00 CET in Stuttgart Arena.

The final match of the winning teams will be hosted by Germany on 8 June 2025. And the teams which lose in the semifinals will play a match for third place on the same day. The losing team will get a promotion due to this.