UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying

The Qualifying rounds for the UEFA Women's Euro 2013 determined which 11 teams joined Sweden, the hosts of the 2013 tournament, to play for the UEFA Women's Championship.

Tie breakers edit

If two or more teams are tied in points the tie breakers are in ascending order:[1]

  1. Points in matches between tied teams
  2. superior goal difference in matches between tied teams
  3. higher number of goals scored in matches between tied teams
  4. higher number of goals scored away from home in matches between tied teams (not to be used in preliminary round ties)

If the number of tied teams is reduced now, tie breakers 1 to 4 are applied again to the still tied teams. Only then the next tie breakers are used

  1. superior goal difference in all matches
  2. higher number of goals scored in all matches
  3. position in the UEFA women’s national team coefficient ranking used for the group stage draw
  4. higher number of goals scored away from home in all matches (not to be used in preliminary round ties)

Preliminary round edit

Eight teams were divided into two groups of four. The two group winners qualified for the actual qualification round. The draw took place on 3 December 2010.[2] The games were played from 3 to 8 March 2011. The hosts of the two one-venue preliminary round groups are indicated below in italics.

Group 1 edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Macedonia 3 2 1 0 7 2 +5 7
  Lithuania 3 1 1 1 5 3 +2 4
  Luxembourg 3 1 0 2 4 9 −5 3
  Latvia 3 1 0 2 1 3 −2 3

Source: UEFA.com

Lithuania  1–1  Macedonia
Budrytė   71' Report Andonova   21'
Attendance: 70
Referee: Simona Ghisletta (Switzerland)
Luxembourg  2–0  Latvia
Settanni   60' (pen.)
Berscheid   70'
Report
Attendance: 15
Referee: Marija Margareta Damjanovic (Croatia)

Luxembourg  1–5  Macedonia
Settanni   82' Report Andonova   21', 62'
Brahimi   24'
Salihi   59'
Rochi   90+3'
Attendance: 75
Referee: Simona Ghisletta (Switzerland)
Latvia  1–0  Lithuania
Sokolova   13' Report
Attendance: 30
Referee: Ivana Projkovska (Macedonia)

Lithuania  4–1  Luxembourg
Imanalijeva   45+2', 85'
Vanagaitė   48'
Stasiulytė   59'
Report Thompson   65'
Attendance: 20
Referee: Marija Margareta Damjanovic (Croatia)
Macedonia  1–0  Latvia
Rochi   31' Report
Attendance: 100
Referee: Sabine Bonnin (France)

Group 2 edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Armenia 3 1 2 0 2 1 +1 5
  Malta 3 1 1 1 2 3 −1 4
  Georgia 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 4
  Faroe Islands 3 1 0 2 2 2 0 3

Source: UEFA.com

Georgia  0–1  Malta
Report D'Agostino   90+1'
Attendance: 220
Referee: Pernilla Larsson (Sweden)
Faroe Islands  0–1  Armenia
Report Kostanyan   8'
Attendance: 30
Referee: Sjoukje de Jong (Netherlands)

Armenia  0–0  Georgia
Report
Attendance: 30
Referee: Pernilla Larsson (Sweden)
Faroe Islands  2–0  Malta
Josephsen   26'
O. Hansen   86'
Report
Attendance: 250
Referee: Lilach Asulin (Israel)

Georgia  1–0  Faroe Islands
Chichinadze   90+5' Report
Attendance: 20
Referee: Lilach Asulin (Israel)
Malta  1–1  Armenia
Cuschieri   14' Report Mangasaryan   64'
Attendance: 250
Referee: Sjoukje de Jong (Netherlands)

Qualification round edit

The two winners of the preliminary round will join the 36 top ranked nations, with the exception of already qualified Sweden, and play in four groups of five teams and three of six teams. The group winners and the best ranked runner-up qualified for the final tournament. The other six runners-up will play three two-legged playoffs with those winners also advancing to the final tournament. This stage will run from September 2011 to September 2012.

Seeding edit

Pot A Pot B Pot C Pot D Pot E

  Germany (Holder)
  Norway
  England
  France
  Italy
  Denmark
  Finland

  Russia
  Netherlands
  Iceland
  Spain
  Ukraine
  Scotland
  Czech Republic

  Switzerland
  Poland
  Republic of Ireland
  Austria
  Belgium
  Belarus
  Slovenia

  Hungary
  Serbia
  Portugal
  Greece
  Slovakia
  Romania
  Wales

  Bulgaria
  Northern Ireland
  Turkey
  Israel
  Estonia
  Croatia
  Kazakhstan
  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Armenia
  Macedonia

Due to the risk of suspension by FIFA of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Federation (NFSBiH), Bosnia and Herzegovina have automatically been drawn in sixth position in Group 1 in order to avoid the possibility of a five-team group being reduced to four.[3] The draw was made on March 14, 2011.[4]

Group 1 edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Italy 10 9 1 0 35 0 +35 28
  Russia 10 7 1 2 31 6 +25 22
  Poland 10 5 2 3 17 11 +6 17
  Bosnia and Herzegovina 10 3 1 6 12 21 −9 10
  Greece 10 0 5 5 7 20 −13 5
  Macedonia 10 0 2 8 5 49 −44 2
Source: UEFA.com
           
Bosnia and Herzegovina   1–1 0–1 1–0 0–2 0–1
Greece   2–3 0–0 2–2 1–1 0–4
Italy   4–0 2–0 9–0 1–0 2–0
Macedonia   2–6 1–1 0–9 0–3 0–6
Poland   4–0 2–0 0–5 4–0 0–3
Russia   4–1 4–0 0–2 8–0 1–1
  • The Poland–Russia match ended 0–2 originally but was awarded a 3–0 win for Russia by the UEFA.

Group 2 edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Germany 10 9 1 0 64 3 +61 28
  Spain 10 6 2 2 43 14 +29 20
  Romania 10 5 1 4 20 20 0 16
  Switzerland 10 5 0 5 29 24 +5 15
  Kazakhstan 10 2 1 7 4 55 −51 7
  Turkey 10 0 1 9 4 48 −44 1
Source: UEFA.com
           
Germany   17–0 5–0 5–0 4–1 10–0
Kazakhstan   0–7 0–3 0–4 1–0 2–0
Romania   0–3 3–0 0–4 4–2 7–1
Spain   2–2 13–0 0–0 3–2 4–0
Switzerland   0–6 8–1 4–1 4–3 5–0
Turkey   0–5 0–0 1–2 1–10 1–3

Spain's María Paz Vilas set a new competition record when she scored seven goals against Kazakhstan.[5]

Group 3 edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Norway 10 8 0 2 35 9 +26 24
  Iceland 10 7 1 2 28 4 +24 22
  Belgium 10 6 2 2 18 8 +10 20
  Northern Ireland 10 3 2 5 12 15 −3 11
  Hungary 10 3 1 6 18 22 −4 10
  Bulgaria 10 0 0 10 1 54 −53 0
Source: UEFA.com
           
Belgium   5–0 2–1 1–0 2–2 0–1
Bulgaria   0–1 0–4 0–10 0–1 0–3
Hungary   1–3 9–0 0–1 2–2 0–5
Iceland   0–0 6–0 3–0 2–0 3–1
Northern Ireland   0–2 4–1 0–1 0–2 3–1
Norway   3–2 11–0 6–0 2–1 2–0

Group 4 edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  France 8 8 0 0 32 2 +30 24
  Scotland 8 5 1 2 21 12 +9 16
  Wales 8 3 1 4 12 14 −2 10
  Republic of Ireland 8 3 0 5 8 11 −3 9
  Israel 8 0 0 8 1 35 −34 0
Source: UEFA.com
         
France   5–0 4–0 2–0 4–0
Israel   0–5 0–2 1–6 0–2
Republic of Ireland   1–3 2–0 0–1 0–1
Scotland   0–5 8–0 2–1 2–2
Wales   1–4 5–0 0–2 1–2

Group 5 edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Finland 8 6 1 1 22 4 +18 19
  Ukraine 8 5 1 2 18 4 +14 16
  Belarus 8 4 1 3 10 17 −7 13
  Slovakia 8 3 1 4 8 7 +1 10
  Estonia 8 0 0 8 5 31 −26 0
Source: UEFA.com
         
Belarus   2–1 2–2 1–0 0–5
Estonia   2–4 0–5 0–2 1–4
Finland   4–0 6–0 2–0 0–1
Slovakia   3–0 3–1 0–1 0–2
Ukraine   0–1 5–0 1–2 0–0

Group 6 edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  England 8 6 2 0 22 2 +20 20
  Netherlands 8 6 1 1 20 2 +18 19
  Serbia 8 4 1 3 15 18 −3 13
  Slovenia 8 1 1 6 6 21 −15 4
  Croatia 8 0 1 7 6 26 −20 1
Source: UEFA.com
         
Croatia   0–6 0–3 1–4 3–3
England   3–0 1–0 2–0 4–0
Netherlands   2–0 0–0 6–0 3–1
Serbia   4–2 2–2 0–4 3–0
Slovenia   1–0 0–4 0–2 1–2

Group 7 edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Denmark 8 7 0 1 28 3 +25 21
  Austria 8 6 1 1 16 9 +7 19
  Czech Republic 8 4 1 3 16 9 +7 13
  Portugal 8 2 0 6 16 13 +3 6
  Armenia 8 0 0 8 2 44 −42 0
Source: UEFA.com
         
Armenia   2–4 0–2 0–5 0–8
Austria   3–0 1–1 3–1 1–0
Czech Republic   5–0 2–3 0–2 1–0
Denmark   11–0 3–0 1–0 2–0
Portugal   6–0 0–1 2–5 0–3

Ranking of second-placed teams edit

The highest ranked second placed team from the groups qualify automatically for the tournament, while the remainder will enter the play-offs. As some groups contain six teams and some five, matches against the sixth-placed team in each group will not be included in this ranking. As a result, a total of eight matches played by each team will count toward the purpose of the second-placed ranking table. The Netherlands finished as best runners-up.

Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
6   Netherlands 8 6 1 1 20 2 +18 19
7   Austria 8 6 1 1 16 9 +7 19
5   Ukraine 8 5 1 2 18 4 +14 16
1   Russia 8 5 1 2 17 6 +11 16
4   Scotland 8 5 1 2 21 12 +9 16
3   Iceland 8 5 1 2 12 4 +8 16
2   Spain 8 4 2 2 29 13 +16 14

Play-off round edit

The six teams advancing as runners-up were drawn against each other to qualify three team through a two legged play-off. The three nations with the highest UEFA coefficients were seeded and played their second leg at home. The draw took place on Friday, 21 September 2012, at 12:45 local time at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[6]

The seeded teams were Iceland, Russia and Spain.[7]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Scotland   3–4   Spain 1–1 2–3 (a.e.t.)
Ukraine   4–6   Iceland 2–3 2–3
Austria   1–3   Russia 0–2 1–1

First leg edit

Scotland  1–1  Spain
Little   26' (pen.) Report Adriana   30'
Attendance: 4,058
Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)

Ukraine  2–3  Iceland
Romanenko   39'
Chorna   51'
Report Ómarsdóttir   5'
Magnúsdóttir   25'
Viðarsdóttir   64'
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Kirsi Heikkinen (Finland)

Austria  0–2  Russia
Report Savchenkova   25'
Shlyapina   43'
Attendance: 3,600

Second leg edit

Spain  3–2 (a.e.t.)  Scotland
Adriana   74'
Meseguer   113'
Boquete   120+2'
Report Mitchell   62'
Little   98'

Spain won 4–3 on aggregate.


Russia  1–1  Austria
Kostyukova   30' Report Puntigam   75'
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Efthalia Mitsi (Greece)

Russia won 3–1 on aggregate.


Iceland  3–2  Ukraine
Viðarsdóttir   8'
Ómarsdóttir   12'
Brynjarsdóttir   76'
Report Dyatel   36'
Apanaschenko   72'
Attendance: 6,647
Referee: Teodora Albon (Romania)

Iceland won 6–4 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers edit

The top scorers in UEFA Women's Euro 2013 qualifying are as follows:[8]

Rank Name Goals Minutes played
1   Célia Šašić 17 532'
2   Ramona Bachmann 11 848'
3   María Paz Vilas 10 269'
  Verónica Boquete 10 799'
5   Patrizia Panico 9 593'
  Isabell Herlovsen 9 630'
  Pernille Harder 9 720'
  Margrét Lára Viðarsdóttir 9 824'
9   Alexandra Popp 8 473'
  Manon Melis 8 540'
  Anna Żelazko 8 627'

References edit

  1. ^ uefa.com; EURO 2013 Regulations
  2. ^ uefa.com; Preliminary round draw made
  3. ^ UEFA (9 March 2011). "Women's EURO group stage draw to be made".
  4. ^ UEFA (14 March 2011). "UEFA Women's EURO 2013 qualifying draw".
  5. ^ "Germany and Spain in the goals, Finland ahead". UEFA. 5 April 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
  6. ^ "Iceland and Ukraine meet in play-offs". UEFA. 21 September 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
  7. ^ "Iceland, Russia, Spain are play-off seeds". UEFA. 20 September 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
  8. ^ "Statistics". UEFA.com. 5 April 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2012.

External links edit