UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying Group C

Group C of the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying competition consisted of five teams: Norway, Wales, Belarus, Northern Ireland, and Faroe Islands. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 21 February 2019, 13:30 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. ^[1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.

The group was played in home-and-away round-robin format between August 2019 and December 2020. The group winners and the three best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) qualified directly for the final tournament, while the remaining six runners-up advanced to the play-offs. ^[2]

On 17 March 2020, all matches were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^{[3] [4]}

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Norway	6	6	0	0	34	1	+33	18	Final tournament		—	6–0	1–0	Canc.	Canc.
2	Northern Ireland	8	4	2	2	17	17	0	14 [a]	Play-offs		0–6	—	0–0	3–2	5–1
3	Wales	8	4	2	2	16	4	+12	14 [a]			0–1	2–2	—	3–0	4–0
4	Belarus	7	2	0	5	11	15	−4	6			1–7	0–1	0–1	—	6–0
5	Faroe Islands	7	0	0	7	1	42	−41	0			0–13	0–6	0–6	0–2	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Notes:

1. Ranked on head-to-head away goals: Northern Ireland 2; Wales 0.

Matches

Times are CET/CEST, ^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

29 August 2019 (2019-8-29)

18:00 (17:00 WEST)

Faroe Islands	0–6	Wales
	Report	Harding 4', 58' (pen.), 79' Jones 6' Arge 67' (o.g.) Roberts 90+3'

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn

Attendance: 733 ^[5]

Referee: Jelena Pejković (Croatia)

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30 August 2019 (2019-8-30)

20:45 (19:45 BST)

Northern Ireland	0–6	Norway
	Report	Reiten 4' Hansen 16', 63', 72' Eikeland 82', 90'

Seaview, Belfast

Attendance: 1,046

Referee: Veronika Kovarova (Czech Republic)

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3 September 2019 (2019-9-3)

19:00 (20:00 FET)

Belarus	6–0	Faroe Islands
Olkhovik 6', 74' Shcherbachenia 24', 54' Kharlanova 77' (pen.), 82'	Report

Borisov Arena, Barysaw

Attendance: 2,350

Referee: Jelena Jermolajeva (Latvia)

3 September 2019 (2019-9-3)

20:05 (19:05 BST)

Wales	2–2	Northern Ireland
James 22' K. Green 69'	Report	Magill 11' Hutton 90+4'

Rodney Parade, Newport

Attendance: 1,676

Referee: Ainara Andrea Acevedo Dudley (Spain)

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4 October 2019 (2019-10-4)

17:45 (18:45 FET)

Belarus	1–7	Norway
Shcherbachenia 18'	Report	Herlovsen 36', 40' Thorisdottir 45' Reiten 60' Hansen 71', 89' Utland 87'

Borisov Arena, Barysaw

Attendance: 500

Referee: Simona Ghisletta (Switzerland)

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8 October 2019 (2019-10-8)

18:00 (17:00 WEST)

Faroe Islands	0–13	Norway
	Report	Utland 8' Hansen 23' (pen.), 40', 52' Eikeland 36' Herlovsen 53', 66', 77' Sævik 60' Engen 63', 76' Maanum 65' Thorsnes 87'

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn

Attendance: 361

Referee: Galiya Echeva (Bulgaria)

8 October 2019 (2019-10-8)

18:00 (19:00 FET)

Belarus	0–1	Wales
	Report	Rowe 82'

Borisov Arena, Barysaw

Attendance: 300

Referee: Tanja Subotič (Slovenia)

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8 November 2019 (2019-11-8)

18:00

Norway	6–0	Northern Ireland
Utland 3', 12' Reiten 51' Engen 53' Hansen 70', 90+2'	Report

Viking Stadion, Stavanger

Attendance: 6,709

Referee: Melis Özçiğdem (Turkey)

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12 November 2019 (2019-11-12)

20:45 (19:45 GMT)

Northern Ireland	0–0	Wales
	Report

Seaview, Belfast

Attendance: 1,177

Referee: Karoline Wacker (Germany)

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18 September 2020 (2020-9-18)

18:00 (17:00 WEST)

Faroe Islands	0–6	Northern Ireland
	Report	Furness 19' Magill 24', 90' Wade 27', 56' K. McGuinness 38'

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn

Attendance: 0

Referee: Graziella Pirriatore (Italy)

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22 September 2020 (2020-9-22)

18:00

Norway	1–0	Wales
Reiten 29'	Report

Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo

Attendance: 0

Referee: Petra Pavlíková (Slovakia)

22 September 2020 (2020-9-22)

18:00 (17:00 WEST)

Faroe Islands	0–2	Belarus
	Report	Shlapakova 56' Olkhovik 79'

Tórsvøllur, Tórshavn

Attendance: 0

Referee: Abigail Marriott (England)

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22 October 2020 (2020-10-22) ^{[note 2]}

17:30 (16:30 BST)

Wales	4–0	Faroe Islands
Ward 33' Harding 58', 61' Woodham 67'	Report

Rodney Parade, Newport

Attendance: 0

Referee: Bríet Bragadóttir (Iceland)

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27 October 2020 (2020-10-27) ^{[note 2]}

17:30 (16:30 GMT)

Wales	0–1	Norway
	Report	Maanum 61'

Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff

Attendance: 0

Referee: Marta Frías Acedo (Spain)

27 October 2020 (2020-10-27) ^{[note 2]}

18:00 (19:00 FET)

Belarus	0–1	Northern Ireland
	Report	Furness 42'

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Attendance: 362

Referee: Zulema González González (Spain)

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26 November 2020 (2020-11-26) ^{[note 2]}

20:00

Norway	Cancelled [6] [7]	Faroe Islands
	Report

Marienlyst Stadion, Drammen

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27 November 2020 (2020-11-27) ^{[note 2]}

20:00 (19:00 GMT)

Northern Ireland	3–2	Belarus
K. McGuinness 2' Furness 61' (pen.) Voskobovich 70' (o.g.)	Report	Shcherbachenia 16', 67'

Seaview, Belfast

Attendance: 0

Referee: Silvia Domingos (Portugal)

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1 December 2020 (2020-12-1) ^{[note 2]}

20:00 (19:00 GMT)

Northern Ireland	5–1	Faroe Islands
Furness 6' K. McGuinness 27' McCarron 56' C. McGuinness 77' Langgaard 88' (o.g.)	Report	Tórolvsdóttir 4'

Seaview, Belfast

Attendance: 0

Referee: Hristiyana Guteva (Bulgaria)

1 December 2020 (2020-12-1) ^{[note 2]}

20:10 (19:10 GMT)

Wales	3–0	Belarus
Harding 15' Rowe 34' Fishlock 72' (pen.)	Report

Rodney Parade, Newport

Attendance: 0

Referee: Désirée Grundbacher (Switzerland)

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February 2021 (2021-2) ^{[8] [9]}

Norway	Cancelled [7]	Belarus
	Report

Goalscorers

There were 70 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 4.38 goals per match (as of 27 November 2020).

10 goals

• Caroline Graham Hansen

6 goals

• Natasha Harding

5 goals

• Anastasia Shcherbachenia
• Isabell Herlovsen

4 goals

• Rachel Furness
• Lisa-Marie Karlseng Utland
• Guro Reiten

3 goals

• Karina Olkhovik
• Simone Magill
• Kirsty McGuinness
• Amalie Eikeland
• Ingrid Syrstad Engen

2 goals

• Anastasiya Kharlanova
• Lauren Wade
• Frida Maanum
• Rachel Rowe

1 goal

• Anastasiya Shlapakova
• Jensa Kannuberg Tórolvsdóttir
• Ashley Hutton
• Chloe McCarron
• Caitlin McGuinness
• Karina Sævik
• Maria Thorisdottir
• Elise Thorsnes
• Jess Fishlock
• Kayleigh Green
• Angharad James
• Emma Jones
• Rhiannon Roberts
• Helen Ward
• Lily Woodham

1 own goal

• Natalia Voskobovich (against Northern Ireland)
• Lív Arge (against Wales)
• Jacoba Langgaard (against Northern Ireland)

Notes

1. CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 31 March and 26 October 2019 and between 29 March and 24 October 2020, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.
2. All matches originally scheduled to be played in April and June 2020 were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. ^[3] These matches were subsequently rescheduled to be played between October and December 2020.

References

1. "Women's EURO 2021 qualifying draw". UEFA.
2. "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Championship, 2019–21" (PDF). UEFA .
3. "COVID-19: latest updates on UEFA competitions". UEFA . 17 March 2020.
4. "UEFA postpones all June national team matches". UEFA. 1 April 2020.
5. "FI women suffer heavy home defeat to Wales". local.fo. 30 August 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
6. "Útidysturin móti Norra avlýstur". fsf.fo (in Faroese). 13 November 2020.
7. "Who has qualified for Women's EURO, who can join them?". UEFA . 1 December 2020.
8. Fotballforbund, Norges. "Norge – Hviterussland blir utsatt". fotball.no – Norges Fotballforbund.
9. Fotballforbund, Norges. "NFF søker om utsettelse av Norge-Hviterussland". fotball.no – Norges Fotballforbund.

External links

• Women's Euro Matches: 2021 Qualifying, UEFA.com