Article 33 Match dates and fixtures

Article 33 Match dates and fixtures - Women's EURO

Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Championship including UEFA Nations League and European Qualifiers

Content Type

Competition Regulations

Category

National teams

Subject

WEURO

Edition

2023-25

Language

English

Enforcement Date

2 December 2023

33.01

All matches are played on the dates listed in the 2023-25 Women's National Team Match Calendar (see Annex A). Changes to these dates are not allowed unless so decided by the UEFA administration.

33.02

The associations in each group are responsible for agreeing on a fixture list. Fixture list guidelines, according to standard sporting principles, are indicated in Paragraph 33.03. In order to facilitate this process, the UEFA administration provides a provisional fixture list, including the match dates. Associations are subsequently requested to confirm, within a given deadline, the final fixture list for their group. If the associations within a group are unable to reach a unanimous agreement, the UEFA administration takes the final decision.

33.03

The league stage provisional fixture lists are compiled according to the following guidelines.

a.	Matches are played on the following days:
		Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue
	League stages MD1 to MD6
b.	At least two rest days are provided between each team's matches (i.e. a team that plays on Thursday cannot play again until Sunday at the earliest).
c.	As much consideration as possible is given to ensuring a fair distribution of weekday and weekend matches and a regular sequence of home and away matches for each team. In principle, a team should not play more than two home or two away matches in a row and each team should play one home match and one away match on the first and last two matchdays.
d.	Teams play all other teams in their group once before MD4.
e.	For MD6 of the league stages, teams in the same group play on the same day.
f.	Deviations from these guidelines are possible and additional conditions may be applied, as decided by the UEFA administration.

33.04

For MD6 of the league stages, for reasons of sporting fairness, the UEFA administration reserves the right to order the last matches across certain groups to be played on the same day. This will be communicated prior to the respective league stage draw.

33.05

Following the draws for the UEFA Nations League promotion and relegation matches and for rounds 1 and 2 of the play-offs for the final tournament, the associations concerned are responsible for agreeing on the fixtures, which must comply with the principles indicated in Paragraph 33.06. In order to facilitate this process, the UEFA administration provides a provisional fixture list. Associations are subsequently requested to confirm, within a given deadline, the final fixtures. If no agreement can be reached, the UEFA administration takes the final decision.

33.06

The UEFA Nations League promotion and relegation matches and the play-offs for the final tournament must be played according to the following principles.

a.	Matches are played on the following days:
		Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed
	Promotion and relegation matches
	Play-offs for the final tournament								n/a
b.	At least two rest days are provided between each team's matches (i.e. a team that plays on Thursday cannot play again until Sunday at the earliest).
c.	Additional conditions may be applied, subject to approval by the UEFA Executive Committee.

33.07

UEFA decides on the match dates for the UEFA Nations League finals, in cooperation with the participating national associations.

33.08

UEFA compiles the match schedule for the UEFA Women's EURO 2025, which takes place during the summer of 2025. Each team will have at least three rest days between matches.