2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs

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The UEFA play-offs of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification competition involve the four runners-up with the best records among all seven groups in the qualifying group stage.

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Ranking of second-placed teams

To determine the four best second-placed teams from the qualifying group stage which advance to the play-offs, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first, third and fourth-placed teams in their group are taken into account, while results against the fifth-placed team are not included. As a result, six matches played by each second-placed team will count for the purposes of determining the ranking.

PosGrpTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 3 Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 6411162+1413 Play-offs
2 2 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 6411135+813
3 6 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 641196+313
4 4 Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 6402177+1012
5 5 Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland 632196+311
6 1 Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales 632153+211
7 7 Flag of Austria.svg  Austria 6312117+410
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) disciplinary points; 6) coefficient.

Draw

The draw for the play-offs was held on 7 September 2018, 14:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. [1] The four teams were drawn into two knockout rounds (semi-finals and final) of home-and-away two-legged format.

For the semi-finals, two teams were seeded and two teams were unseeded, based on their latest coefficient ranking after the completion of the qualifying group stage, calculated based on the following: [2]

Seeded
TeamCoeffRank
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 39,4304
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 37,0316
Unseeded
TeamCoeffRank
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 34,18511
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 32,73813

For each semi-final, a seeded team was drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs decided by draw. A draw was also held for the final between the two winners of the semi-finals to decide the order of legs.

Bracket

The play-off final winner qualifies for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Play-off semi-finals Play-off final
        
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 2 2 4
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 0 1 1
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 3 1 4
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 0 1 1
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 2 1 3
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland (a) 2 1 3

Play-off semi-finals

Overview

All times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA.

Team 1 Agg. Team 21st leg2nd leg
Netherlands  Flag of the Netherlands.svg4–1Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark 2–0 2–1
Belgium  Flag of Belgium (civil).svg3–3 (a)Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 2–2 1–1

Matches

Netherlands  Flag of the Netherlands.svg2–0Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark
Report
Rat Verlegh Stadion, Breda
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)
Denmark  Flag of Denmark.svg1–2Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Report
Viborg Stadium, Viborg
Attendance: 5,374
Referee: Sara Persson (Sweden)

Netherlands won 4–1 on aggregate.


Belgium  Flag of Belgium (civil).svg2–2Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Report
Den Dreef, Leuven
Attendance: 7,300
Referee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia)
Switzerland  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg1–1Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Report
Tissot Arena, Biel/Bienne
Attendance: 2,650
Referee: Jana Adámková (Czech Republic)

3–3 on aggregate. Switzerland won on away goals.

Play-off final

Overview

The winner Netherlands qualifies for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. All times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA.

Team 1 Agg. Team 21st leg2nd leg
Netherlands  Flag of the Netherlands.svg4–1Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland 3–0 1–1

Matches

Netherlands  Flag of the Netherlands.svg3–0Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg  Switzerland
Report
Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht
Attendance: 23,750
Referee: Pernilla Larsson (Sweden)
Switzerland  Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg1–1Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Report
LIPO Park, Schaffhausen
Attendance: 5,148
Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

Netherlands won 4–1 on aggregate.

Goalscorers

There were 16 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 2.67 goals per match.

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

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References

  1. "Women's World Cup play-off draw". UEFA.com.
  2. "Women's national team coefficients: September 2018" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.