UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying play-offs

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UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying play-offs
Tournament details
Dates23 October 2024 (2024-10-23) – 3 December 2024 (2024-12-03)
Teams28 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Goals scored0
Attendance0
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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 will be 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 will be 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 will finish in the top three places in their group, then the best-ranked fourth-placed team (i.e. the team ranked 13th in League B) will also qualify for the first round.[4]

In the second round, the teams from both paths come together and are 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, will be seeded in the second round[note 1] and drawn against the seven remaining winners from the first round.[2]

The seven winners of these ties 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 will take place on 19 July 2024 at 13:00 CEST in Nyon, Switzerland.[5]

For the first round draw, the League A teams will be seeded and drawn into eight ties against the League C teams to form Path 1, and the six best-ranked League B teams will be 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 come together. The draw will take place before the winners of the first round are known, and the first round pairings involving the seven highest-ranked teams, according to the 2024–25 European Qualifiers overall ranking, will be seeded[note 1] and drawn against the seven remaining pairings from the first round.[2][5]

For both rounds, a team from the unseeded pot will be 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. This will ensure that all seeded teams play their second leg ties at home.[5]

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

Seeding

The following teams have qualified for the first round of the play-offs, and will be 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 will be drawn before the winners of round 1 are known, and will be 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

Romania v Poland
Poland v Romania
Greece v Belgium
Belgium v Greece
Slovenia v Austria
Austria v Slovenia
Luxembourg v Sweden
Sweden v Luxembourg
Albania v Norway
Norway v Albania

Round 1: Path 2

Turkey v Ukraine
Ukraine v Turkey
Hungary v Scotland
Scotland v Hungary
Slovakia v Wales
Wales v Slovakia

Second round

Hungary  or Scotland v Montenegro or  Finland
Montenegro  or Finland v Hungary or  Scotland
Turkey  or Ukraine v Greece or  Belgium
Greece  or Belgium v Turkey or  Ukraine
Romania  or Poland v Slovenia or  Austria
Slovenia  or Austria v Romania or  Poland

Notes

  1. ^ a b The seven highest-ranked teams in the playoffs will all be 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c d e f "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. ^ a b c d e "Women's European Qualifiers for Euro 2025: Who is in what league?". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Association.
  4. ^ a b "Women's European Qualifiers league stage draw". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g 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.
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