UEFA NATIONS LEAGUE
UEFA Nations League Final Four: teams, dates, venues, prize money...
The Netherlands will host the Nations League semi-finals, 3rd/4th place game and showpiece final as Italy, Spain, Croatia and Holland vie for the trophy.
The Netherlands is set to host the third edition of the UEFA Nations League Final Four. The new international competition was conceived by European football’s governing body as a means of European national teams engaging in more frequent competitive matches against other national teams of comparable level.
The four participating finalists are the winners of each of the League A groups and will feature Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Croatia.
The previous two editions of the competition were won by Portugal and France in 2019 and 2012 respectively.
Final four matchups
An open draw held last January in Nyon (UEFA HQ) saw the following pairings in the semifinals:
Venues
Two venues in the Netherlands will be used to stage the four games with Feyenoord’s De Kuip Stadium and the Grolsch Veste, home to Eredivisie side FC Twente Enschede.
The ground in Rotterdam is the bigger venue with a capacity of 51,177 with the Enschede stadium holding just over 30,000 spectators.
Nations League: prize money
The victorious squad will be awarded with the sterling silver 71cm tall trophy on Sunday night plus the small matter of €10.5 million heading to the winning federation. The second placed side will pocket a total amount of nine million euro, while the third and fourth will take eight and seven million euro, respectively.
In addition to the monetary reward, the team that manages to win the trophy will have a boost in the qualifying phase for the 2026 World Cup getting placed in a group of five teams, instead of the usual six.