UEFA Women's Euro 2025 qualifying play-offs
Tournament details | |
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Dates | 23 October 2024 | – 3 December 2024
Teams | 28 (from 1 confederation) |
Tournament statistics | |
Goals scored | 0 |
Attendance | 0 |
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]The following teams qualified for the first round of the play-offs, and were seeded as shown.[5]
Round 1: Path 1
Seeded | Unseeded | ||
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Team | Rnk | Team | Rnk |
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9 | ![]() |
33 |
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10 | ![]() |
34 |
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11 | ![]() |
35 |
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12 | ![]() |
36 |
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13 | ![]() |
37 |
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14 | ![]() |
38 |
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15 | ![]() |
39 |
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16 | ![]() |
40 |
Round 1: Path 2
Seeded | Unseeded | ||
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Team | Rnk | Team | Rnk |
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17 | ![]() |
24 |
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18 | ![]() |
25 |
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20 | ![]() |
26 |
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21 | ![]() |
27 |
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22 | ![]() |
28 |
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23 | ![]() |
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 |
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Winner of path 1 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 1 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 1 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 2 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 1 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 2 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 1 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 2 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 1 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 2 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 1 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 2 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 1 tie involving ![]() |
Winner of path 2 tie involving ![]() |
Summary
[edit]First round
[edit]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. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Romania ![]() |
1 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Greece ![]() |
2 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Montenegro ![]() |
3 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Georgia ![]() |
4 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Slovenia ![]() |
5 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Luxembourg ![]() |
6 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Belarus ![]() |
7 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Albania ![]() |
8 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Round 1: Path 2
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Turkey ![]() |
9 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Croatia ![]() |
10 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Bosnia and Herzegovina ![]() |
11 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Azerbaijan ![]() |
12 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Hungary ![]() |
13 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Slovakia ![]() |
14 | ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Second round
[edit]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. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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AZE ![]() ![]() |
15 | ![]() ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
HUN ![]() ![]() |
16 | ![]() ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
TUR ![]() ![]() |
17 | ![]() ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
SVK ![]() ![]() |
18 | ![]() ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
ROU ![]() ![]() |
19 | ![]() ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
CRO ![]() ![]() |
20 | ![]() ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
BIH ![]() ![]() |
21 | ![]() ![]() |
TBD | TBD |
Matches
[edit]Times are CEST (UTC+2) or CET (UTC+1),[note 2] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
First round
[edit]Round 1: Path 1
Belarus ![]() | v | ![]() |
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Round 1: Path 2
Second round
[edit]Azerbaijan ![]() ![]() | v | ![]() ![]() |
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Belarus ![]() ![]() | v | ![]() ![]() |
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Hungary ![]() ![]() | v | ![]() ![]() |
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Montenegro ![]() ![]() | v | ![]() ![]() |
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Slovakia ![]() ![]() | v | ![]() ![]() |
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Georgia ![]() ![]() | v | ![]() ![]() |
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Croatia ![]() ![]() | v | ![]() ![]() |
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Albania ![]() ![]() | v | ![]() ![]() |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina ![]() ![]() | v | ![]() ![]() |
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Luxembourg ![]() ![]() | v | ![]() ![]() |
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Notes
[edit]- ^ a b 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]
- ^ CEST for matches before 27 October 2024, CET for all matches thereafter.
- ^ 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]
- ^ Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine are required to play their home matches at neutral venues until further notice.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "New women's national team competition system". UEFA. 3 November 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e "Women's European Qualifiers for Euro 2025: Who is in what league?". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Association.
- ^ a b "Women's European Qualifiers league stage draw". uefa.com. UEFA. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Belarus teams to play on neutral ground in UEFA competitions". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ "Decisions from today's extraordinary UEFA Executive Committee meeting". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 25 February 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2022.