2018–19 UEFA Nations League C

2018–19 UEFA Nations League C

Tournament details
Dates	6 September – 20 November 2018
Teams	15
Promoted	Bulgaria Finland Hungary Israel Norway Romania Scotland Serbia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	42
Goals scored	92 (2.19 per match)
Attendance	338,393 (8,057 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Aleksandar Mitrović (6 goals)

The 2018–19 UEFA Nations League C was the third division of the 2018–19 edition of the UEFA Nations League, the inaugural season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of UEFA.

Format

League C consisted of 15 UEFA members ranked from 25 to 39, which were split into four groups (one group of three and three groups of four). The top two teams of each group were promoted to the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League B, and the bottom four ranked teams were initially relegated to the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League D (the bottom teams of Group 2, 3, and 4, along with the lowest ranked third-placed team of League C). However, following UEFA announcement of format changes for the next edition's groups in September 2019, none of the 2018–19 League C teams were relegated to League D.

In addition, League C was allocated one of the four remaining UEFA Euro 2020 places. The play-off berths were first allocated to each Nations League group winner, and if any of the group winners had already qualified for the European Championship finals, then to the next best-ranked team of the league, etc. As Finland already qualified for the European Championship finals through regular qualifiers and 11 teams in League A did the same, the seven best-ranked teams from League C competed in the play-offs, played in October and November 2020.

Seeding

Teams were allocated to League C according to their UEFA national team coefficients after the conclusion of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying group stage on 11 October 2017. Teams were split into four pots (three pots of four teams and one pot of the three lowest teams), ordered based on their UEFA national team coefficient. The group with three teams contained teams only from pots 1, 2, and 3. The seeding pots for the draw were announced on 7 December 2017.

Pot 1 Team Coeff Rank Hungary 26,486 25 Romania 26,057 26 Scotland 25,662 27 Slovenia 25,148 28

Pot 2 Team Coeff Rank Greece 24,931 29 Serbia 24,847 30 Albania 24,430 31 Norway 24,208 32

Pot 3 Team Coeff Rank Montenegro 23,912 33 Israel 22,792 34 Bulgaria 22,091 35 Finland 20,501 36

Pot 4 Team Coeff Rank Cyprus 19,491 37 Estonia 19,441 38 Lithuania 18,101 39

The group draw took place at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne, Switzerland on 24 January 2018, 12:00 CET. Due to winter venue restrictions, a group could only contain a maximum of two of the following teams: Norway, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania.

Groups

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 24 January 2018 following the draw.

Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Scotland	4	3	0	1	10	4	+6	9	Promotion to League B		—	3–2	2–0
2	Israel	4	2	0	2	6	5	+1	6			2–1	—	2–0
3	Albania	4	1	0	3	1	8	−7	3			0–4	1–0	—

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Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Finland	6	4	0	2	5	3	+2	12	Promotion to League B		—	1–0	2–0	1–0
2	Hungary	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10			2–0	—	2–1	2–0
3	Greece	6	3	0	3	4	5	−1	9			1–0	1–0	—	0–1
4	Estonia	6	1	1	4	4	8	−4	4			0–1	3–3	0–1	—

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Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Norway	6	4	1	1	7	2	+5	13	Promotion to League B		—	1–0	2–0	1–0
2	Bulgaria	6	3	2	1	7	5	+2	11			1–0	—	2–1	1–1
3	Cyprus	6	1	2	3	5	9	−4	5			0–2	1–1	—	2–1
4	Slovenia	6	0	3	3	5	8	−3	3			1–1	1–2	1–1	—

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Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Serbia	6	4	2	0	11	4	+7	14	Promotion to League B		—	2–2	2–1	4–1
2	Romania	6	3	3	0	8	3	+5	12			0–0	—	0–0	3–0
3	Montenegro	6	2	1	3	7	6	+1	7			0–2	0–1	—	2–0
4	Lithuania	6	0	0	6	3	16	−13	0			0–1	1–2	1–4	—

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Goalscorers

There were 92 goals scored in 42 matches, for an average of 2.19 goals per match.

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Overall ranking

The 15 League C teams were ranked 25th to 39th overall in the 2018–19 UEFA Nations League according to the following rules:

• The teams finishing first in the groups will be ranked 25th to 28th according to the results of the league phase, not considering results against the fourth-placed teams.
• The teams finishing second in the groups will be ranked 29th to 32nd according to the results of the league phase, not considering results against the fourth-placed teams.
• The teams finishing third in the groups will be ranked 33rd to 36th according to the results of the league phase, not considering results against the fourth-placed teams.
• The teams finishing fourth in the groups will be ranked 37th to 39th according to the results of the league phase, considering all results.

Rnk	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
25	C1	Scotland	4	3	0	1	10	4	+6	9
26	C3	Norway	4	3	0	1	5	1	+4	9
27	C4	Serbia	4	2	2	0	6	3	+3	8
28	C2	Finland	4	2	0	2	3	3	0	6
29	C3	Bulgaria	4	2	1	1	4	3	+1	7
30	C1	Israel	4	2	0	2	6	5	+1	6
31	C2	Hungary	4	2	0	2	4	3	+1	6
32	C4	Romania	4	1	3	0	3	2	+1	6
33	C2	Greece	4	2	0	2	3	4	−1	6
34	C1	Albania	4	1	0	3	1	8	−7	3
35	C4	Montenegro	4	0	1	3	1	5	−4	1
36	C3	Cyprus	4	0	1	3	2	7	−5	1
37	C2	Estonia	6	1	1	4	4	8	−4	4
38	C3	Slovenia	6	0	3	3	5	8	−3	3
39	C4	Lithuania	6	0	0	6	3	16	−13	0

Prize money

The prize money to be distributed was announced in March 2018. Each team in League C received a solidarity fee of €750,000. In addition, the four group winners received double this amount with a €750,000 bonus fee. This meant that the maximum amount of solidarity and bonus fees for a team from League C was €1.5 million.

Euro 2020 qualifying play-offs

The seven best teams in League C according to the overall ranking that did not qualify for UEFA Euro 2020 through the qualifying group stage competed in the play-offs, with the winners qualifying for the final tournament.

League C

Rank	Team
25 GW	Scotland
26 GW	Norway
27 GW	Serbia
28 GW	Finland
29	Bulgaria
30	Israel
31	Hungary
32	Romania
33	Greece
34	Albania
35	Montenegro
36	Cyprus
37	Estonia
38	Slovenia
39	Lithuania

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