UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying play-offs

UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying play-offs

Tournament details
Dates	23 October 2024 (2024-10-23) – 3 December 2024 (2024-12-03)
Teams	28 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Goals scored	0
Attendance	0
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The play-offs of the UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying competition will determine the final seven participants of the Women's Euro 2025 final tournament, who will join the eight directly qualified teams and hosts Switzerland. ^[1]

Format

The play-offs determine the final seven teams that qualify for the final tournament and are played over two rounds. ^{[2] [3]}

In the first round, the eight teams finishing third and fourth in League A were seeded, and drawn into ties against the five group winners and three best-ranked runners-up in League C. The eight winners progress to the second round.

In addition the group winners, runners-up and third-placed teams in League B (except Switzerland) will participate in the first round (i.e. the 12 best-ranked League B teams). The six higher-ranked of those teams were seeded and drawn into ties against the six lower-ranked teams. The six winners progress to the next round. ^{[3] [4]}

Switzerland, competing in League B, are guaranteed a spot in the final tournament as hosts, and therefore will not participate in the play-offs. Since they finished in the top three places in their group, then the best-ranked fourth-placed team (i.e. the team ranked 13th in League B) also qualified for the first round. ^[4]

In the second round, the teams from both paths come together and were drawn into seven ties. The winners of the first round ties involving the seven highest-ranked teams, according to the 2024–25 European Qualifiers overall ranking, were seeded in the second round draw ^{[note 1]} and drawn against the seven remaining winners from the first round. ^[2]

The seven winners of these ties will progress to the final tournament in Switzerland.

Both rounds of the play-offs are played over two legs, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. The team that scores more goals on aggregate is the winner. If the aggregate score is level, extra time is played (the away goals rule is not applied). If the score remains level after extra time, a penalty shoot-out is used to decide the winner. ^[2]

Draw

The play-off draw for both rounds took place on 19 July 2024 at 13:00 CEST in Nyon, Switzerland. ^[5]

For the first round draw, the League A teams were seeded and drawn into eight ties against the League C teams to form Path 1, and the six best-ranked League B teams were seeded and drawn against the six lower-ranked League B teams to form Path 2. ^{[2] [3] [5]}

For the second round draw, teams from both paths came together. The draw took place before the winners of the first round were known, and the first round pairings involving the seven highest-ranked teams, according to the 2024–25 European Qualifiers overall ranking, were seeded ^{[note 1]} and drawn against the seven remaining pairings from the first round. ^{[2] [5]}

For all three draws, a team from the unseeded pot was drawn first, and placed into the home position in the first tie, followed by a team drawn from the seeded pot placed into the away position, and then repeated until each pot was empty. This ensured that all seeded teams will play their second leg ties at home. ^[5]

Belarus and Ukraine could not be drawn together, due to Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the second round draw procedure was adjusted as required to ensure this prohibited clash could not occur. ^[5]

Seeding

The following teams qualified for the first round of the play-offs, and were seeded as shown. ^[5]

Round 1: Path 1

Seeded		Unseeded
Team	Rnk	Team	Rnk
Sweden	9	Slovenia	33
Norway	10	Romania	34
Austria	11	Belarus	35
Belgium	12	Greece	36
Finland	13	Albania	37
Czech Republic	14	Luxembourg	38
Republic of Ireland	15	Montenegro	39
Poland	16	Georgia	40

Round 1: Path 2

Seeded		Unseeded
Team	Rnk	Team	Rnk
Portugal	17	Turkey	24
Scotland	18	Croatia	25
Wales	20	Hungary	26
Serbia	21	Bosnia and Herzegovina	27
Ukraine	22	Slovakia	28
Northern Ireland	23	Azerbaijan	29

Round 2

The ties for the second round were drawn before the winners of round 1 were known, and were seeded as follows. ^[5]

Seeded	Unseeded
Winner of path 1 tie involving   Sweden	Winner of path 1 tie involving   Poland
Winner of path 1 tie involving   Norway	Winner of path 2 tie involving   Portugal
Winner of path 1 tie involving   Austria	Winner of path 2 tie involving   Scotland
Winner of path 1 tie involving   Belgium	Winner of path 2 tie involving   Wales
Winner of path 1 tie involving   Finland	Winner of path 2 tie involving   Serbia
Winner of path 1 tie involving   Czech Republic	Winner of path 2 tie involving   Ukraine
Winner of path 1 tie involving   Republic of Ireland	Winner of path 2 tie involving   Northern Ireland

Summary

First round

The first round matches will take place from 23 to 29 October 2024. Each tie will be played over two legs, with the seeded teams playing the second leg at home. ^[3]

Round 1: Path 1

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Romania	1	Poland	TBD	TBD
Greece	2	Belgium	TBD	TBD
Montenegro	3	Finland	TBD	TBD
Georgia	4	Republic of Ireland	TBD	TBD
Slovenia	5	Austria	TBD	TBD
Luxembourg	6	Sweden	TBD	TBD
Belarus	7	Czech Republic	TBD	TBD
Albania	8	Norway	TBD	TBD

Round 1: Path 2

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Turkey	9	Ukraine	TBD	TBD
Croatia	10	Northern Ireland	TBD	TBD
Bosnia and Herzegovina	11	Serbia	TBD	TBD
Azerbaijan	12	Portugal	TBD	TBD
Hungary	13	Scotland	TBD	TBD
Slovakia	14	Wales	TBD	TBD

Second round

The second round matches will take place from 22 November to 3 December 2024. Each tie will be played over two legs, with the seeded teams playing the second leg at home. ^[3]

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AZE   or POR	15	BLR or   CZE	TBD	TBD
HUN   or SCO	16	MNE or   FIN	TBD	TBD
TUR   or UKR	17	GRE or   BEL	TBD	TBD
SVK   or WAL	18	GEO or   IRL	TBD	TBD
ROU   or POL	19	SVN or   AUT	TBD	TBD
CRO   or NIR	20	ALB or   NOR	TBD	TBD
BIH   or SRB	21	LUX or   SWE	TBD	TBD

Matches

Times are CEST (UTC+2) or CET (UTC+1), ^{[note 2]} as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

First round

Round 1: Path 1

TBD

Romania	v	Poland

TBD

Poland	v	Romania

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TBD

Greece	v	Belgium

TBD

Belgium	v	Greece

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TBD

Montenegro	v	Finland

TBD

Finland	v	Montenegro

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TBD

Georgia	v	Republic of Ireland

TBD

Republic of Ireland	v	Georgia

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TBD

Slovenia	v	Austria

TBD

Austria	v	Slovenia

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TBD

Luxembourg	v	Sweden

TBD

Sweden	v	Luxembourg

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TBD

Belarus	v	Czech Republic

TBD ^{[note 3]}

Attendance: 0 (behind closed doors) ^{[note 3]}

TBD

Czech Republic	v	Belarus

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TBD

Albania	v	Norway

TBD

Norway	v	Albania

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Round 1: Path 2

TBD

Turkey	v	Ukraine

TBD

Ukraine	v	Turkey

TBD ^{[note 4]}

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TBD

Croatia	v	Northern Ireland

TBD

Northern Ireland	v	Croatia

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TBD

Bosnia and Herzegovina	v	Serbia

TBD

Serbia	v	Bosnia and Herzegovina

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TBD

Azerbaijan	v	Portugal

TBD

Portugal	v	Azerbaijan

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TBD

Hungary	v	Scotland

TBD

Scotland	v	Hungary

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TBD

Slovakia	v	Wales

TBD

Wales	v	Slovakia

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Second round

TBD

Azerbaijan   or Portugal	v	Belarus or   Czech Republic

TBD

Belarus   or Czech Republic	v	Azerbaijan or   Portugal

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TBD

Hungary   or Scotland	v	Montenegro or   Finland

TBD

Montenegro   or Finland	v	Hungary or   Scotland

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TBD

Turkey   or Ukraine	v	Greece or   Belgium

TBD

Greece   or Belgium	v	Turkey or   Ukraine

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TBD

Slovakia   or Wales	v	Georgia or   Republic of Ireland

TBD

Georgia   or Republic of Ireland	v	Slovakia or   Wales

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TBD

Romania   or Poland	v	Slovenia or   Austria

TBD

Slovenia   or Austria	v	Romania or   Poland

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TBD

Croatia   or Northern Ireland	v	Albania or   Norway

TBD

Albania   or Norway	v	Croatia or   Northern Ireland

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TBD

Bosnia and Herzegovina   or Serbia	v	Luxembourg or   Sweden

TBD

Luxembourg   or Sweden	v	Bosnia and Herzegovina or   Serbia

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Notes

1. The seven highest-ranked teams in the playoffs were all from League A. If one of those teams loses to a League C team in the first round, that League C team will be seeded in the second round, as the winner of the first round tie involving one of the top seven teams. (Regulations Article 27.05b) ^[2]
2. CEST for matches before 27 October 2024, CET for all matches thereafter.
3. Due to Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Belarus is required to play its home matches at neutral venues, and behind closed doors, until further notice. ^[6]
4. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine are required to play their home matches at neutral venues until further notice. ^[7]

References

1. "New women's national team competition system". UEFA. 3 November 2022.
2. "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Championship including UEFA Nations League and European Qualifiers". UEFA. 7 February 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
3. "Women's European Qualifiers for Euro 2025: Who is in what league?". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Association.
4. "Women's European Qualifiers league stage draw". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
5. UEFA.com (17 July 2024). "Women's European Qualifiers play-off draw". UEFA.com. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
6. "Belarus teams to play on neutral ground in UEFA competitions". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
7. "Decisions from today's extraordinary UEFA Executive Committee meeting". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 25 February 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2022.