2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)
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.
Apart from France, 46 of the remaining 54 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition, with Andorra making their World Cup debut and Kosovo making their competitive debut.
Format
The qualifying competition consists of three rounds:- Preliminary round: The 16 lowest-ranked teams are drawn into four groups of four teams. Each group is played in single round-robin format at one of the teams which are pre-selected as hosts. The four group winners and the best runners-up advance to the qualifying group stage.
- Qualifying group stage: The 35 teams are drawn into seven groups of five teams. Each group is played in home-and-away round-robin format. The seven group winners qualify directly for the final tournament, while the four best runners-up advance to the play-offs.
- Play-offs: The four teams play two knockout rounds of home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last qualified team from UEFA.
Tiebreakers
- Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- ' Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
- If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
- Goal difference in all group matches;
- Goals scored in all group matches;
- ' Away goals scored in all group matches;
- ' Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above ;
- Disciplinary points ;
- UEFA coefficient for the preliminary round or qualifying group stage draw.
- Points;
- Goal difference;
- Goals scored;
- ' Away goals scored;
- Disciplinary points;
- UEFA coefficient for the preliminary round or qualifying group stage draw.
Schedule
The qualifying matches are played on dates that fall within the FIFA Women's International Match Calendar.| Stage | FIFA International Dates |
| Preliminary round | 6–11 April 2017 |
| Qualifying group stage | 11–19 September 2017 |
| Qualifying group stage | 16–24 October 2017 |
| Qualifying group stage | 20–28 November 2017 |
| Qualifying group stage | 15–23 January 2018 |
| Qualifying group stage | 26 February – 6 March 2018 |
| Qualifying group stage | 2–10 April 2018 |
| Qualifying group stage | 4–12 June 2018 |
| Qualifying group stage | 27 August – 4 September 2018 |
| Play-offs | 1–9 October 2018 |
| Play-offs | 5–13 November 2018 |
Entrants
The teams were ranked according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:- UEFA Women's Euro 2013 final tournament and qualifying competition
- 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament and qualifying competition
- UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying competition
| Team | ||
| 42,355 | 2 |
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- Teams marked in bold qualified for the World Cup.
| Team | ||
| 7,817 | 40 | |
| 7,768 | 41 | |
| 7,194 | 43 | |
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Preliminary round
Draw
The draw for the preliminary round was held on 19 January 2017, 13:30 CET, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.The 16 teams were allocated into four seeding positions according to their coefficient ranking. 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.
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Group [|1]Group 2Group 3Group 4Ranking of second-placed teamsTo 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 are counted for the purposes of determining the ranking.Qualifying group stageDrawThe draw for the qualifying group stage was held on 25 April 2017, 13:30 CEST, at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.The 35 teams were allocated into five seeding pots according to their coefficient ranking, with the five preliminary round qualifiers placed in Pot E. They were drawn into seven groups of five containing one team from each of the five seeding pots. For political reasons, Russia and Ukraine would not be drawn in the same group.
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