2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA preliminary round

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The preliminary round of the European qualifying for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup consisted of the 16 lowest-ranked teams among the 46 entrants.

The European qualifying competition for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup was a women's football competition that determined the eight UEFA teams joining the automatically qualified hosts France in the final tournament.

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The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. Each group was played in single round-robin format, where one of the teams was pre-selected as hosts, between 6 and 11 April 2017. The four group winners and the best runner-up (not counting results against the fourth-placed team) advanced to the qualifying group stage to join the 30 direct entrants. [1]

Kazakhstan, Albania, Israel and the Faroe Islands advanced as group winners, and Moldova advanced as the best runner-up. [2]

Kazakhstan women's national football team represent Kazakhstan in international football.

The Albania women's national football team represents the country of Albania in international football and is controlled by the Albanian Football Association which is headquartered in the city of Tirana. The team is affiliated with UEFA and competes in the two major professional tournaments, the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship.

Israel womens national football team womens national association football team representing Israel

The Israel women's national football team represents Israel in international women's football. The Israel women's national football team was established in 1997. Women's Football in Israel was developed as an upside down pyramid by first opening the national team and then after 2 years opening the first women's football league in Israel. Women's Football in Israel is struggling to develop because it is lacking investment.

Draw

The draw for the preliminary round was held on 19 January 2017, 13:30 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. [3] [4]

Central European Time standard time (UTC+01:00)

Central European Time (CET), used in most parts of Europe and a few North African countries, is a standard time which is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time offset from UTC can be written as UTC+01:00. The same standard time, UTC+01:00, is also known as Middle European Time and under other names like Berlin Time, Warsaw Time and Romance Standard Time (RST), Paris Time or Rome Time.

UTC+01:00 Identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00

UTC+01:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +01:00. This time is used in:

Nyon Place in Vaud, Switzerland

Nyon[njɔ̃] is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located some 25 kilometers north east of Geneva's city centre, and since the 1970s it has become part of the Geneva metropolitan area. It lies on the shores of Lake Geneva and is the seat of the district of Nyon. The town has a population of 20,533 and is famous in the sporting world for being the headquarters of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and the European Club Association (ECA). It is connected to the rest of Switzerland by way of the Route Suisse, the A1 Motorway and the railways of the Arc Lémanique.

The 16 teams were allocated into four seeding positions according to their coefficient ranking. [5] They were drawn into four groups of four containing one team from each of the four seeding positions. First, the four teams which were pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their own designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions. Next, the remaining 12 teams were drawn from their respective pot which were allocated according to their seeding positions. [6]

Seeding position 1Seeding position 2Seeding position 3Seeding position 4

Groups

The matches were played on 6, 8 and 11 April 2017.

Preliminary round schedule
MatchdayDateMatches
Matchday 16 April 20171 v 3, 2 v 4
Matchday 28 April 20171 v 4, 3 v 2
Matchday 311 April 20172 v 1, 4 v 3

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

Central European Summer Time daylight savings time in the central european time zone

Central European Summer Time (CEST), sometime referred also as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (UTC+01:00) during the other part of the year. It corresponds to UTC+02:00, which makes it the same as Central Africa Time, South African Standard Time and Kaliningrad Time in Russia.

UTC+02:00 Identifier for a time offset from UTC of +2

UTC+02:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +02:00. In ISO 8601 the associated time would be written as 2019-02-07T23:28:34+02:00. This time is used in:

Group 1

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualificationFlag of Kazakhstan.svgFlag of Latvia.svgFlag of Georgia.svgFlag of Estonia.svg
1Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 321042+27 Qualifying group stage 2–2 1–0
2Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 312073+45 1–1
3Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia (H)31113304 2–1
4Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 30031760 0–1 0–4
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Host.
Estonia  Flag of Estonia.svg0–4Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia
Report
Attendance: 100
Referee: Zuzana Kováčová (Slovakia)
Kazakhstan  Flag of Kazakhstan.svg1–0Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia
Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Eleni Lampadariou (Greece)

Kazakhstan  Flag of Kazakhstan.svg2–2Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia
Report
Attendance: 70
Referee: Ivana Projkovska (Macedonia)
Georgia  Flag of Georgia.svg2–1Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia
Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Zuzana Kováčová (Slovakia)

Estonia  Flag of Estonia.svg0–1Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan
Report
Attendance: 50
Referee: Eleni Lampadariou (Greece)
Latvia  Flag of Latvia.svg1–1Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia
Report
Attendance: 100
Referee: Ivana Projkovska (Macedonia)

Group 2

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualificationFlag of Albania.svgFlag of Greece.svgFlag of Malta.svgFlag of Kosovo.svg
1Flag of Albania.svg  Albania (H)321053+27 Qualifying group stage 2–1 3–2
2Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 320182+66 1–0 6–0
3Flag of Malta.svg  Malta 311132+14 0–0
4Flag of Kosovo.svg  Kosovo 300331290 1–3
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Host.
Albania  Flag of Albania.svg3–2Flag of Kosovo.svg  Kosovo
Report
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Lorraine Clark (Scotland)
Greece  Flag of Greece.svg1–0Flag of Malta.svg  Malta
Report
Attendance: 100
Referee: Lina Lehtovaara (Finland)

Greece  Flag of Greece.svg6–0Flag of Kosovo.svg  Kosovo
Report
Malta  Flag of Malta.svg0–0Flag of Albania.svg  Albania
Report
Attendance: 300
Referee: Lorraine Clark (Scotland)

Albania  Flag of Albania.svg2–1Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
Report
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Lina Lehtovaara (Finland)
Kosovo  Flag of Kosovo.svg1–3Flag of Malta.svg  Malta
Report

Group 3

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualificationFlag of Israel.svgFlag of Moldova.svgFlag of Lithuania.svgFlag of Andorra.svg
1Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 321090+97 Qualifying group stage 2–0 7–0
2Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova 321060+67 0–0 4–0
3Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania (H)31022423 0–2
4Flag of Andorra.svg  Andorra 3003013130 0–2
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Host.
Moldova  Flag of Moldova.svg4–0Flag of Andorra.svg  Andorra
Report
Attendance: 20
Referee: Marte Sørø (Norway)
Israel  Flag of Israel.svg2–0Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
Report
Attendance: 350
Referee: Sofia Karagiorgi (Cyprus)

Lithuania  Flag of Lithuania.svg0–2Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova
Report
Attendance: 200
Referee: Marte Sørø (Norway)
Israel  Flag of Israel.svg7–0Flag of Andorra.svg  Andorra
Report
Attendance: 10
Referee: Barbara Poxhofer (Austria)

Moldova  Flag of Moldova.svg0–0Flag of Israel.svg  Israel
Report
Attendance: 10
Referee: Sofia Karagiorgi (Cyprus)
Andorra  Flag of Andorra.svg0–2Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
Report
Attendance: 108
Referee: Barbara Poxhofer (Austria)

Group 4

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualificationFlag of the Faroe Islands.svgFlag of Turkey.svgFlag of Montenegro.svgFlag of Luxembourg.svg
1Flag of the Faroe Islands.svg  Faroe Islands (H)330093+69 Qualifying group stage 2–1 5–1
2Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 3201133+106 3–0 9–1
3Flag of Montenegro.svg  Montenegro 310286+23 1–2
4Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 3003321180 1–7
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
(H) Host.
Turkey  Flag of Turkey.svg3–0Flag of Montenegro.svg  Montenegro
Report
Attendance: 55
Referee: Eszter Urban (Hungary)
Faroe Islands  Flag of the Faroe Islands.svg5–1Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg
Report
Attendance: 195
Referee: Petra Chudá (Slovakia)

Montenegro  Flag of Montenegro.svg1–2Flag of the Faroe Islands.svg  Faroe Islands
Report
Attendance: 210
Referee: Petra Chudá (Slovakia)
Turkey  Flag of Turkey.svg9–1Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg
Report
Attendance: 45

Faroe Islands  Flag of the Faroe Islands.svg2–1Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
Report
Attendance: 1,450
Referee: Eszter Urban (Hungary)
Luxembourg  Flag of Luxembourg.svg1–7Flag of Montenegro.svg  Montenegro
Report
Attendance: 10

Ranking of second-placed teams

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

PosGrpTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 3 Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova 211020+24 Qualifying group stage
2 4 Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 210142+23
3 2 Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 21012203
4 1 Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 20203302
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) disciplinary points; 5) coefficient.

Goalscorers

There were 84 goals scored in 24 matches, for an average of 3.5 goals per match.

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

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