Here are the results and group standings for the Luxembourg national team in the 2026–27 UEFA Nations League (League C, Group 4):
Luxembourg Match Results
Date
Match
Result
Status
Sep 26, 2026
Bulgaria 🇧🇬 vs. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
1 – 2
Completed
Sep 29, 2026
Luxembourg 🇱🇺 vs. Iceland 🇮🇸
0 – 3
Completed
Oct 3, 2026
Estonia 🇪🇪 vs. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
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17:00 GMT
Oct 6, 2026
Luxembourg 🇱🇺 vs. Bulgaria 🇧🇬
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19:45 GMT
Nov 13, 2026
Luxembourg 🇱🇺 vs. Estonia 🇪🇪
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19:45 GMT
Nov 16, 2026
Iceland 🇮🇸 vs. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
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17:00 GMT
UEFA Nations League 2026/27 – League C Group 4 Standings
Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF:GA
GD
Pts
1
Iceland 🇮🇸
2
2
0
0
6:0
+6
6
2
Luxembourg 🇱🇺
2
1
0
1
2:4
-2
3
3
Bulgaria 🇧🇬
2
0
1
1
1:2
-1
1
4
Estonia 🇪🇪
2
0
1
1
0:3
-3
1
The UEFA Nations League is a biennial international soccer tournament featuring the senior men’s national teams of UEFA’s member associations. Introduced in 2018, it replaced meaningless international friendly matches with competitive, meaningful fixtures against similarly ranked opponents.
Key Objectives
Eliminate Uncompetitive Friendlies: Replaces filler international friendly dates with competitive matches.
Balanced Competition: Teams face opponents of similar stature, ensuring more competitive matches across all tiers.
Tournament Stakes: Serves as a path to major international tournaments by providing direct or indirect qualification opportunities for the UEFA European Championship (Euros) and the FIFA World Cup.
Tournament Structure & League Tiers
European nations are divided into four tiered leagues based on their UEFA ranking and performance:
League Tier
Teams & Composition
Stakes
League A
Top 16 European nations divided into four groups of four.
Group winners and runners-up advance to the knockout phase to compete for the Nations League trophy. Bottom-ranked teams face relegation.
League B
16 middle-tier nations across four groups of four.
Group winners gain direct promotion to League A. Bottom teams face relegation.
League C
16 lower-middle-tier nations across four groups of four.
Group winners earn promotion to League B. Bottom teams enter play-outs to avoid relegation to League D.
League D
Lowest-ranked nations split into two smaller groups.
Group winners gain promotion to League C.
Promotion, Relegation, and Knockouts
Group Stage (Autumn): Teams play home-and-away matches within their respective groups between September and November.
League A Knockout Finals (Spring/Summer): The top two teams from each group in League A enter a two-legged quarter-final stage, followed by the semi-finals and final held in a centralized host country.
Promotion & Relegation Play-Offs: Two-legged play-offs occur between 3rd-place teams of a higher league and 2nd-place teams of the league below (e.g., 3rd in League A vs. 2nd in League B) to determine movement between tiers.
Major Championship Linkage
Performance in the Nations League directly impacts major qualifying campaigns:
Seeding: Overall standings establish seeded pots for World Cup and European Championship qualifying draws.
Play-Off Safety Net: Teams that fail to qualify for the Euro or World Cup via traditional group qualifying can earn play-off spots based on their Nations League ranking.
Nations League Champions
Edition
Winner
Runner-up
2018–19
Portugal 🇵🇹
Netherlands 🇳🇱
2020–21
France 🇫🇷
Spain 🇪🇸
2022–23
Spain 🇪🇸
Croatia 🇭🇷
2024–25
Defending Champion
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History
Here are the results and the final group standings for the Luxembourg national team in the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League (League C, Group 3):
Luxembourg Match Results
Date
Match
Result
Sep 5, 2024
Northern Ireland 🇬🇧 vs. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
2 – 0
Sep 8, 2024
Luxembourg 🇱🇺 vs. Belarus 🇧🇾
0 – 1
Oct 12, 2024
Bulgaria 🇧🇬 vs. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
0 – 0
Oct 15, 2024
Belarus 🇧🇾 vs. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
1 – 1
Nov 15, 2024
Luxembourg 🇱🇺 vs. Bulgaria 🇧🇬
0 – 1
Nov 18, 2024
Luxembourg 🇱🇺 vs. Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
2 – 2
UEFA Nations League 2024/25 – League C Group 3 Standings
