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2022–23 UEFA Nations League D

Tournament details
Dates	2 June – 26 September 2022
Teams	7
Promoted	Estonia  Latvia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	44 (2.44 per match)
Attendance	55,229 (3,068 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Vladislavs Gutkovskis (5 goals)
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The 2022–23 UEFA Nations League D was the fourth and lowest division of the 2022–23 edition of the UEFA Nations League, the third season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of UEFA.

Format

League D consisted of the seven lowest-ranked UEFA members (ranked from 49 to 55) in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League access list, split into two groups (one group of four teams and one group of three teams). Each team played four or six matches within their group, using the home-and-away round-robin format in June (quadruple matchdays) and September 2022 (double matchdays). The winners of both groups were promoted to the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League C.

Teams

Team changes

The following were the team changes in League D from the 2020–21 season:

Seeding

In the 2022–23 access list, UEFA ranked teams based on the 2020–21 Nations League overall ranking. The seeding pots for the league phase were confirmed on 22 September 2021, and were based on the access list ranking.

Pot 1 Team Rank  Estonia 49  Moldova 50  Liechtenstein 51  Malta 52

Pot 2 Team Rank  Latvia 53  San Marino 54  Andorra 55

1. ^ The identity of the play-out losers was not known at the time of the draw.

The draw for the league phase took place at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on 16 December 2021, 18:00 CET. Group D1 contained two teams from Pot 1 and two teams from Pot 2, while Group D2 contained two teams from Pot 1 and one team from Pot 2. Due to restrictions of excessive travel, only one of Andorra or Malta could be drawn with the winner of the Moldova v Kazakhstan play-out tie.

Groups

The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA on 17 December 2021, the day following the draw.

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Latvia (P)	6	4	1	1	12	5	+7	13	Promotion to League C		—	1–2	3–0	1–0
2	Moldova	6	4	1	1	10	6	+4	13			2–4	—	2–1	2–0
3	Andorra	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	8			1–1	0–0	—	2–1
4	Liechtenstein	6	0	0	6	1	11	−10	0			0–2	0–2	0–2	—

1. ^ Tied on head-to-head points (3). Head-to-head goal difference: Latvia +1, Moldova −1.

Latvia	3–0	Andorra
Uldriķis 9', 77' J. Ikaunieks 85' (pen.)	Report

Liechtenstein	0–2	Moldova
	Report	Nicolaescu 5' (pen.) Bolohan 90+1'

Latvia	1–0	Liechtenstein
Zjuzins 73'	Report

Andorra	0–0	Moldova
	Report

Moldova	2–4	Latvia
Nicolaescu 5' (pen.) Moțpan 64'	Report	Gutkovskis 19', 60' J. Ikaunieks 26', 75'

Andorra	2–1	Liechtenstein
Aláez 78' (pen.) Rubio 82'	Report	Meier 90+3'

Moldova	2–1	Andorra
Caimacov 26' (pen.) Nicolaescu 50' (pen.)	Report	M. Vieira 45+4'

Liechtenstein	0–2	Latvia
	Report	Gutkovskis 20', 28'

Latvia	1–2	Moldova
J. Ikaunieks 55'	Report	Revenco 26' Nicolaescu 45'

Liechtenstein	0–2	Andorra
	Report	Rosas 4' Cervós 80'

Andorra	1–1	Latvia
Rosas 88'	Report	Gutkovskis 50'

Moldova	2–0	Liechtenstein
Stînă 90+2', 90+4'	Report

Group 2

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Estonia (P)	4	4	0	0	10	2	+8	12	Promotion to League C		—	2–1	2–0
2	Malta	4	2	0	2	5	4	+1	6			1–2	—	1–0
3	San Marino	4	0	0	4	0	9	−9	0			0–4	0–2	—

Estonia	2–0	San Marino
Kirss 24' Tamm 32'	Report

San Marino	0–2	Malta
	Report	Busuttil 59' Guillaumier 75'

Malta	1–2	Estonia
Hein 56' (o.g.)	Report	Vassiljev 21' Anier 90+4'

Malta	1–0	San Marino
Z. Muscat 50'	Report

Estonia	2–1	Malta
Sappinen 45+6' (pen.) Anier 86'	Report	Teuma 51' (pen.)

San Marino	0–4	Estonia
	Report	Anier 38', 77' Teniste 56' Sappinen 66'

Goalscorers

There were 44 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 2.44 goals per match.

5 goals

• Vladislavs Gutkovskis

4 goals

• Henri Anier
• Jānis Ikaunieks
• Ion Nicolaescu

2 goals

• Albert Rosas
• Rauno Sappinen
• Roberts Uldriķis
• Victor Stînă

1 goal

• Jordi Aláez
• Joan Cervós
• Jesús Rubio
• Márcio Vieira
• Robert Kirss
• Joonas Tamm
• Taijo Teniste
• Konstantin Vassiljev
• Artūrs Zjuzins
• Livio Meier
• Jan Busuttil
• Matthew Guillaumier
• Zach Muscat
• Teddy Teuma
• Vadim Bolohan
• Mihail Caimacov
• Nichita Moțpan
• Ioan-Călin Revenco

1 own goal

• Karl Hein (against Malta)

Overall ranking

The seven League D teams were ranked 49th to 55th overall in the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League according to the following rules:

• The teams finishing first in the groups were ranked 49th to 50th according to the results of the league phase, not considering the results against the fourth-placed team.
• The teams finishing second in the groups were ranked 51st to 52nd according to the results of the league phase, not considering the results against the fourth-placed team.
• The teams finishing third in the groups were ranked 53rd to 54th according to the results of the league phase, not considering the results against the fourth-placed team.
• The team finishing fourth in Group D1 was ranked 55th.

Rnk	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
49	D2	Estonia	4	4	0	0	10	2	+8	12
50	D1	Latvia	4	2	1	1	9	5	+4	7
51	D1	Moldova	4	2	1	1	6	6	0	7
52	D2	Malta	4	2	0	2	5	4	+1	6
53	D1	Andorra	4	0	2	2	2	6	−4	2
54	D2	San Marino	4	0	0	4	0	9	−9	0
55	D1	Liechtenstein	6	0	0	6	1	11	−10	0

Euro 2024 qualifying play-offs

Unlike the UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying play-offs, the now-downsized League D did not have its own play-off path. Instead, if any of Leagues A, B, or C had fewer than four teams that did not qualify directly for Euro 2024, the best-ranked group winner of League D would advance to the play-offs (unless that team already qualified for Euro 2024). Any remaining spots were allocated based on the Nations League overall ranking, subject to the restriction that group winners from Leagues A, B, and C could not face teams from a higher league. Therefore, additional teams from League D could only advance to the playoffs if enough teams from League C qualified directly for the tournament.

As only two teams from League A failed to qualify for Euro 2024 directly, the best-ranked group winner of League D, Estonia, advanced to Path A of the play-offs.

League D

Rank	Team
49	Estonia
50	Latvia
51	Moldova
52	Malta
53	Andorra
54	San Marino
55	Liechtenstein

Key

• Best group winner from Nations League D
•   Team in bold advanced to play-offs

References

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External links

• Official website

• 2022–23 UEFA Nations League