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

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.

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.

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	3	Netherlands	6	4	1	1	16	2	+14	13	Play-offs
2	2	Switzerland	6	4	1	1	13	5	+8	13
3	6	Belgium	6	4	1	1	9	6	+3	13
4	4	Denmark	6	4	0	2	17	7	+10	12
5	5	Iceland	6	3	2	1	9	6	+3	11
6	1	Wales	6	3	2	1	5	3	+2	11
7	7	Austria	6	3	1	2	11	7	+4	10

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]

• 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament and qualifying competition (20%)
• UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying competition (40%)
• 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying competition (preliminary round and group stage) (40%)

Seeded Team Coeff Rank   Netherlands 39,430 4   Switzerland 37,031 6

Unseeded Team Coeff Rank   Denmark 34,185 11   Belgium 32,738 13

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
	Netherlands	2	2	4
	Denmark	0	1	1
							Netherlands	3	1	4
							Switzerland	0	1	1
	Belgium	2	1	3
	Switzerland (a)	2	1	3

Play-off semi-finals

Overview

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

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Netherlands	4–1	Denmark	2–0	2–1
Belgium	3–3 (a)	Switzerland	2–2	1–1

Matches

5 October 2018 (2018-10-5)

20:00

Netherlands	2–0	Denmark
Beerensteyn 21' Van de Sanden 42'	Report

Rat Verlegh Stadion, Breda

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)

9 October 2018 (2018-10-9)

18:00

Denmark	1–2	Netherlands
Nadim 5' (pen.)	Report	Beerensteyn 7', 90+2'

Viborg Stadium, Viborg

Attendance: 5,374

Referee: Sara Persson (Sweden)

Netherlands won 4–1 on aggregate.

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5 October 2018 (2018-10-5)

20:30

Belgium	2–2	Switzerland
Cayman 5' De Neve 60'	Report	Lehmann 55', 87'

Den Dreef, Leuven

Attendance: 7,300

Referee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia)

9 October 2018 (2018-10-9)

19:00

Switzerland	1–1	Belgium
Reuteler 23'	Report	De Caigny 77'

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. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Netherlands	4–1	Switzerland	3–0	1–1

Matches

9 November 2018 (2018-11-9)

20:00

Netherlands	3–0	Switzerland
Spitse 49' Martens 71' Miedema 80'	Report

Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht

Attendance: 23,750

Referee: Pernilla Larsson (Sweden)

13 November 2018 (2018-11-13)

19:00

Switzerland	1–1	Netherlands
Sow 71'	Report	Miedema 52'

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

• Lineth Beerensteyn

2 goals

• Vivianne Miedema
• Alisha Lehmann

1 goal

• Janice Cayman
• Tine De Caigny
• Laura De Neve
• Nadia Nadim
• Lieke Martens
• Shanice van de Sanden
• Sherida Spitse
• Géraldine Reuteler
• Coumba Sow

References

1. "Women's World Cup play-off draw". UEFA. Archived from the original on September 23, 2017.
2. "Women's national team coefficients: September 2018" (PDF). UEFA . Union of European Football Associations. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.

External links

• FIFA Women's World Cup Matches: 2017–19 qualifying, UEFA.com