2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)

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2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)

Tournament details
Dates	16 September 2021 – 11 October 2022
Teams	51 (from 1 confederation)
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The European qualifying competition for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup will be a women's football competition that determines the eleven UEFA teams which directly qualify for the final tournament in Australia and New Zealand, and the one team which advance to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Fifty-one of the 55 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition, with Cyprus making their World Cup qualifying debut and Luxembourg appearing in a group stage for the first time ever.

Format

The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:

• Group stage: The 51 teams are drawn into nine groups of five or six teams, where each group is played in a home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners qualify directly for the final tournament, while the nine runners-up advance to the play-offs.
• Play-offs: The nine teams play two knockout rounds of single-leg matches, with the best three runners-up entering in the second round, to determine the two additional qualified teams and one inter-continental play-offs entrant from UEFA, based on combined records in both the group stage and play-offs.

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 13.01):

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
5. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
6. Goal difference in all group matches;
7. Goals scored in all group matches;
8. Away goals scored in all group matches;
9. Wins in all group matches;
10. Away wins in all group matches;
11. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
12. UEFA coefficient for the group stage draw.

To determine the best three runners-up, the group standings are used, not taking into account any matches against sixth-placed teams. If teams are tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied (Regulations Article 14.04):

1. Goal difference in all group matches;
2. Goals scored in all group matches;
3. Away goals scored in all group matches;
4. Wins in all group matches;
5. Away wins in all group matches;
6. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
7. UEFA coefficient for the group stage draw.

In the play-offs, the team that scores more goals in the second round match qualifies for the final tournament. If the score is level, extra time is played. If the score is remains level after extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article 15.01).

To determine the two best play-off winners, the results of the group stage as used for runner-up determination above (eight matches), and the second round of the play-offs (one match) are added. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 14.05):

1. Points;
2. Goal difference;
3. Goals scored;
4. Away goals scored;
5. Wins;
6. Away wins;
7. Disciplinary points;
8. UEFA coefficient for the group stage draw.

Schedule

The qualifying matches are played on dates that fall within the FIFA Women's International Match Calendar.

Stage	FIFA international dates
Group stage	13–21 September 2021
	18–26 October 2021
	22–30 November 2021
	4–12 April 2022
Pause for UEFA Women's Euro 2022	6–31 July 2022
Group stage	29 August – 6 September 2022
Play-offs	3–11 October 2022

Since the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 tournament has been moved from summer 2021 to summer 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, for the first time the series of matches for UEFA's World Cup qualification will be interrupted by a continental championship. In July 2022, in fact, sixteen UEFA national teams will participate in the Women's Euro tournament in England.

Entrants

The teams were ranked according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following (Regulations Annex B.1.2.a):

• UEFA Women's Euro 2017 final tournament and qualifying competition (20%)
• 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament and qualifying competition (40%)
• UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying competition (group stage only, excluding play-offs) (40%)

One entrant, Russia, was initially given a four-year ban from all major sporting events by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on 9 December 2019 after Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) was found non-compliant for handing over manipulated laboratory data to investigators. However, the Russian women's team could still enter qualification. The decision was appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which ruled in WADA's favour but reduced the ban to two years. The CAS ruling also allowed the name "Russia" to be displayed on uniforms if the words "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team" have equal prominence. If Russia qualifies for the tournament, its female players will be able to use their country's name, flag or anthem at the Women's World Cup, unlike their male counterparts, as the ban will expire on 16 December 2022.

On 20 April 2021, it was announced 51 teams from the 55 eligible would enter the qualifying round.

Pot 1 Team Coeff Rank Netherlands 43,961 1 Germany 41,924 2 England 41,443 3 France 40,898 4 Sweden 39,714 5 Spain 38,913 6 Norway 38,758 7 Italy 36,399 8 Denmark 35,265 9	Pot 2 Team Coeff Rank Belgium 34,951 10 Switzerland 34,066 11 Austria 33,693 12 Iceland 33,458 13 Scotland 30,700 14 Russia 30,117 15 Finland 29,765 16 Portugal 28,937 17 Wales 28,677 18	Pot 3 Team Coeff Rank Czech Republic 28,115 19 Ukraine 27,127 20 Republic of Ireland 25,414 21 Poland 25,302 22 Slovenia 22,582 23 Romania 22,156 24 Serbia 21,889 25 Bosnia and Herzegovina 20,479 26 Northern Ireland 19,526 27
Pot 4 Team Coeff Rank Slovakia 17,951 28 Hungary 16,676 29 Belarus 16,540 30 Croatia 15,988 31 Greece 13,602 32 Albania 13,292 33 North Macedonia 12,730 34 Israel 12,518 35 Azerbaijan 11,688 36	Pot 5 Team Coeff Rank Turkey 11,526 37 Malta 11,480 38 Kosovo 10,489 39 Kazakhstan 10,198 40 Moldova 9,510 41 Cyprus 7,688 42 Faroe Islands 7,478 43 Georgia 7,085 44 Latvia 6,977 45	Pot 6 Team Coeff Rank Montenegro 6,772 46 Lithuania 6,359 47 Estonia 6,108 48 Luxembourg 2,779 49 Armenia 0 — Bulgaria 0 — Did not enter Team Coeff Rank Andorra 1,903 50 Gibraltar 0 — Liechtenstein 0 — San Marino 0 —

Group stage

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 30 April 2021, 13:30 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The 51 teams were drawn into 9 groups:

• 3 groups (Groups A, B, C) of 5 teams, containing one team each from Pots 1–5. Each team of these groups will play 8 matches in total.
• 6 groups (Groups D, E, F, G, H, I) of 6 teams, containing one team each from Pots 1–6. Each team of these groups will play 10 matches in total.

Based on the UEFA Executive Committee decisions due to political conflicts, the following teams cannot be drawn into the same group:

• Armenia & Azerbaijan
• Kosovo & Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Kosovo & Serbia
• Kosovo & Russia
• Ukraine & Russia

Initialy Armenia was drawn into group E, together with Azerbaijan. Armenia was forwarded to group F and Montenegro was then drawn into group E.

The calendar of the matches has not been communicated yet.

Groups

  The nine group winners qualify directly for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

  The nine group runners-up advance to the play-offs.

Group A

Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
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Group B

Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group B

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Group C

Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
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Group D

Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
England (Q)	10	10	0	0	80	0	+80	30	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
Austria (Q)	10	7	1	2	50	7	+43	22	Play-offs
Northern Ireland (E)	10	6	1	3	36	16	+20	19
Luxembourg (E)	10	3	0	7	9	45	−36	9
North Macedonia (E)	10	2	0	8	10	62	−52	6
Latvia (E)	10	1	0	9	8	63	−55	3

Group E

Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
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Group F

Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group F

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Group G

Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group G

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
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Group H

Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group H

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Group I

Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group I

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
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Ranking of second-placed teams

To determine the three best second-placed teams from the qualifying group stage which advance to the play-offs second round, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first, third, fourth and fifth-placed teams in their group are taken into account, while results against the sixth-placed team are discarded. As a result, eight matches played by each second-placed team are counted for the purposes of determining the ranking.

Template:2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA second-placed table

Play-offs

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

Ranking of play-off winners

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2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

AFC

2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup (Qualification)

CAF

2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations (Qualification)

CONCACAF

2022 CONCACAF Women's Championship (Qualification)

CONMEBOL

2022 Copa América Femenina

OFC

2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup (Qualification)

UEFA

UEFA qualification (Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D, Group E, Group F, Group G, Group H, Group I, Play-offs)

Play-offs

Inter-confederation play-offs