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2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs

The UEFA play-offs of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification competition involved the runners-up from all nine groups in the group stage.

The play-offs consisted of two rounds of single-leg ties. The two best play-off winners, the Republic of Ireland and Switzerland, qualified for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, while the third winner, Portugal, advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.[1][2]

Ranking of second-placed teams

Because some groups had six teams and others had five, matches against the sixth place team in each group are discounted. As a result, eight matches played by each team are counted for the purposes of determining the ranking.

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Counting only matches against teams ranked first to fifth in the group, 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Wins; 6) Away wins; 7) Lower disciplinary points total; 8) UEFA national team coefficient ranking.

Draw

The draw took place on 9 September 2022 at 13:30 CEST.[3][4] The nine teams were drawn into six ties without any seeding, with the first team drawn in each tie to be the home team of the single-leg matches.

Bracket

Round 1

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

Summary

The single-leg matches were played on 6 October 2022.

Matches

Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 10,182[5]
Referee: Jana Adámková (Czech Republic)
Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff
Attendance: 15,200[6]
Referee: Marta Huerta de Aza (Spain)
Estádio do FC Vizela, Vizela
Attendance: 2,645[7]
Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)

Round 2

Summary

The single-leg matches were played on 11 October 2022.

Matches

Estádio da Mata Real, Paços de Ferreira
Attendance: 5,595[8]
Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)
Hampden Park, Glasgow
Attendance: 10,708[9]
Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)
Letzigrund, Zürich
Attendance: 7,803[10]
Referee: Tess Olofsson (Sweden)

Ranking of play-off winners

To rank the three play-off winners, their results in their respective groups and round 2 of the play-offs were combined. As some groups had five teams and others had six, any group matches against teams who finished sixth in their groups were discounted; also, as not all teams played in both play-off rounds, results in round 1 of play-offs were not counted either. As a result, nine matches played by each team (eight in the group stage and one in round 2 of the play-offs) were counted for the purposes of determining the ranking. The two higher-placed winners qualified for the Women's World Cup and the lowest-placed winner advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.[1][2]

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Counting only matches against teams ranked first to fifth in the group and in play-offs round 2, 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Wins; 6) Away wins; 7) Lower disciplinary points total; 8) UEFA national team coefficient ranking.

Goalscorers

There were 14 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 2.33 goals per match.

2 goals

1 goal

References

  1. ^ a b "Women's World Cup qualifying group stage draw". UEFA.com. UEFA. 20 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Regulations of the UEFA European Qualifying Competition for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup". UEFA. 2 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Women's World Cup play-off draw live on Friday". UEFA. 9 September 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Women's World Cup play-off draw live". UEFA. 9 September 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Scotland vs. Austria" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 6 October 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Wales vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 6 October 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Portugal vs. Belgium" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 6 October 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  8. ^ Laezza, Miguel (11 October 2022). "Portugal goleia Islândia no prolongamento e está no play-off intercontinental de acesso ao Mundial" [Portugal thrashes Iceland in extra time and is in the intercontinental play-off to access the World Cup]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  9. ^ "Scotland vs. Republic of Ireland" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 11 October 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  10. ^ "Switzerland vs. Wales" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 11 October 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.

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