Group A of the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying competition consists of six teams: Netherlands, Russia, Slovenia, Turkey, Kosovo, and Estonia. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 21 February 2019, 13:30 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.
The group is played in home-and-away round-robin format between August 2019 and December 2020. The group winners and the three best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining six runners-up advance to the play-offs.[2]
On 17 March 2020, all matches were put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][4]
Standings edit
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | 
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| 1 | Netherlands
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10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 3 | +45 | 30 | Final tournament | — | 2–0 | 4–1 | 6–0 | 3–0 | 7–0 | |
| 2 | Russia
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10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 23 | 6 | +17 | 24 | Play-offs | 0–1 | — | 1–0 | 3–0 | 4–2 | 4–0 | |
| 3 | Slovenia
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10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 31 | 12 | +19 | 18 | 2–4 | 0–1 | — | 5–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 | ||
| 4 | Kosovo
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10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 29 | −23 | 10 | 0–6 | 0–5 | 0–3 | — | 2–0 | 2–0 | ||
| 5 | Turkey
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10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 28 | −19 | 5 | 0–8 | 1–2 | 1–6 | 0–0 | — | 0–0 | ||
| 6 | Estonia
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10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 40 | −39 | 1 | 0–7 | 0–3 | 0–9 | 1–2 | 0–4 | — |
Matches edit
Times are CET/CEST,[note 1] as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
| Estonia | 0–7 | Netherlands |
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| Slovenia | 0–1 | Russia |
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| Netherlands | 3–0 | Turkey |
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| Slovenia | 2–4 | Netherlands |
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| Netherlands | 2–0 | Russia |
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| Turkey | 0–8 | Netherlands |
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| Netherlands | 4–1 | Slovenia |
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| Russia | 0–1 | Netherlands |
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| Netherlands | 7–0 | Estonia |
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| Russia | 4–2 | Turkey |
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| Kosovo | 0–6 | Netherlands |
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| Netherlands | 6–0 | Kosovo |
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Goalscorers edit
There were 118 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 3.93 goals per match.
10 goals
9 goals
8 goals
7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Katrin Loo
Liridona Syla
Lineth Beerensteyn- Dominique Bloodworth
- Stefanie van der Gragt
- Ellen Jansen
- Aniek Nouwen
- Shanice van de Sanden
Alsu Abdullina- Anna Belomyttseva
- Alina Myagkova
- Darya Yakovleva
Pamela Begič- Dominika Čonč
- Kaja Eržen
- Kaja Korošec
- Lara Klopčič
- Barbara Kralj
- Nina Predanič
- Špela Rozmarič
İlayda Civelek- Fatma Kara
- Didem Karagenç
- Ece Türkoğlu
- Yağmur Uraz
1 own goal
- Karina Kork (against Slovenia)
- Fjolla Shala (against Russia)
Notes edit
- ^ CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 31 March and 26 October 2019 and between 29 March and 24 October 2020, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.
- ^ a b c The Kosovo v Russia match, originally scheduled for 4 October 2019, 18:00 CEST, at the Fadil Vokrri Stadium, Pristina, was postponed on 28 September 2019 due to security issues.[5] The match was later rescheduled to 6 March 2020. On 18 October 2019, UEFA announced that both matches between Kosovo and Russia will be played on neutral venues.[6]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i All matches originally scheduled to be played in April and June 2020 were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.[3] These matches were subsequently rescheduled to be played between September and December 2020.
- ^ The match between Estonia and Russia was played in Latvia due to travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic between Estonia and Russia.[7]
- ^ a b c Matches originally scheduled to be played on 22 September 2020 were rearranged following postponements to other matches due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe.
References edit
- ^ "Women's EURO 2021 qualifying draw". UEFA.com.
- ^ "Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Championship, 2019–21" (PDF). UEFA.com.
- ^ a b "COVID-19: latest updates on UEFA competitions". UEFA.com. 17 March 2020.
- ^ "UEFA postpones all June national team matches". UEFA.com. 1 April 2020.
- ^ "Shtyhet ndeshja mes Kosovës dhe Rusisë". Albinfo.ch. 2 October 2019.
- ^ "UEFA Emergency Panel decision on Kosovo/Russia". UEFA.com. 18 October 2019.
- ^ "Eesti koondis peab EM-valiksarjas kodumängu Lätis". Eesti Jalgpalli Liit. 16 September 2020.
- ^ "Eesti - Sloveenia EM-valikmängu teisipäeval ei toimu".
External links edit
- Women's Euro Matches: 2021 Qualifying, UEFA.com