UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying

In the qualifying group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 14.01):[3]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
5. 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;
6. Goal difference in all group matches;
7. Goals scored in all group matches;
8. Away goals scored in all group matches;
9. Wins in all group matches;
10. Away wins in all group matches;
11. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
12. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying group stage draw.

To determine the three best runners-up from the qualifying group stage, the results against the teams in sixth place are discarded. The following criteria are applied (Regulations Article 14.02):[3]

1. Points;
2. Goal difference;
3. Goals scored;
4. Away goals scored;
5. Wins;
6. Away wins;
7. Disciplinary points;
8. UEFA coefficient ranking for the qualifying group stage draw.

In the play-offs, the team that scores more goals on aggregate over the two legs qualifies for the final tournament. If the aggregate score is level, the away goals rule is applied, i.e., the team that scores more goals away from home over the two legs advances. If away goals are also equal, extra time is played. The away goals rule is again applied after extra time, i.e., if there are goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score is still level, the visiting team advances by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article 19.01).[3]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, the UEFA Executive Committee approved on 28 August 2020 the following principles for the qualifying phase of UEFA Women's Euro 2022:[4]

• If a team cannot field the minimum required number of players (at least 13 players including at least one goalkeeper) due to positive SARS-2 coronavirus tests and the match cannot be rescheduled, the team responsible for the match not taking place are considered to have forfeited the match and lost 0–3.
• If UEFA comes to the conclusion that both or none of the teams are responsible for the match not taking place, the outcome of the match will be decided by drawing of lots, either home win 1–0, home loss 0–1 or draw 0–0, carried out by the UEFA administration.

On 24 September 2020, UEFA announced that five substitutions would be permitted for the remainder of the Women's Euro 2022 qualifying competition, with a sixth allowed in extra time during the play-offs. However, each team is only given three opportunities to make substitutions during matches, with a fourth opportunity in extra time, excluding substitutions made at half-time, before the start of extra time and at half-time in extra time.[5]

The draw for the qualifying group stage was held on 21 February 2019, 13:30 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.[2][13]

The teams were seeded according to their coefficient ranking, calculated based on the following:[14][15]

• 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament and qualifying competition (20%)
• UEFA Women's Euro 2017 final tournament and qualifying competition (40%)
• 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying competition (40%)

Each group contained one team from each of Pots A–E (two teams from Pot E for six-team group). Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, Kosovo would not be drawn in the same group as Bosnia and Herzegovina or Serbia.

Final tournament hosts

Team	Coeff.[14]	Rank
England	41,819	1

Teams entering qualifying group stage

Pot 1 Team Coeff.[14] Rank  France 40,775 2  Germany 40,405 3  Netherlands 40,003 4  Spain 39,181 5  Sweden 36,608 6  Norway 36,060 7   Switzerland 35,481 8  Scotland 35,237 9  Italy 34,741 10	Pot 2 Team Coeff.[14] Rank  Austria 33,503 11  Denmark 32,935 12  Iceland 32,012 13  Belgium 32,007 14  Russia 28,187 15  Wales 28,042 16  Ukraine 27,260 17  Finland 25,907 18  Czech Republic 25,007 19	Pot 3 Team Coeff.[14] Rank  Portugal 25,002 20  Republic of Ireland 24,617 21  Poland 23,712 22  Romania 22,432 23  Serbia 19,846 24  Slovenia 18,207 25  Hungary 17,601 26  Bosnia and Herzegovina 17,056 27  Belarus 16,361 28
Pot 4 Team Coeff.[14] Rank  Turkey 16,142 29  Slovakia 16,046 30  Croatia 15,921 31  Northern Ireland 14,966 32  Greece 14,868 33  Israel 12,771 34  Kazakhstan 12,453 35  Albania 10,899 36  Moldova 8,237 37	Pot 5 Team Coeff.[14] Rank  Faroe Islands 7,777 39  Malta 7,556 40  North Macedonia 7,242 41  Estonia 7,225 42  Montenegro 7,106 43  Georgia 6,500 44  Latvia 5,702 45  Lithuania 4,973 46  Azerbaijan 0 —  Cyprus 0 —  Kosovo 0 —

Notes

• Teams marked in bold qualified for the final tournament.

Did not enter

Team	Coeff.[14]	Rank
Bulgaria	8,050	38
Luxembourg	4,237	47
Andorra	1,793	48
Armenia	0	—
Gibraltar	0	—
Liechtenstein	0	—
San Marino	0	—

To determine the three best second-placed teams from the qualifying group stage which advance directly to the final tournament, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first, third, fourth and fifth-placed teams in their group are taken into account; in Groups A and B, results against the sixth-placed team are discounted. As a result, eight matches played by each second-placed team are counted for the purposes of determining the ranking.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	F	Iceland (Q)	8	6	1	1	25	5	+20	19	Final tournament
2	G	Austria (X)	8	6	1	1	22	3	+19	19
3	H	Switzerland (X)	8	6	1	1	20	6	+14	19
4	A	Russia (A)	8	6	0	2	16	6	+10	18	Play-offs
5	D	Czech Republic (Z)	8	5	1	2	24	9	+15	16
6	B	Italy (X)	7	5	1	1	18	5	+13	16
7	E	Portugal (X)	6	5	1	0	8	1	+7	16
8	I	Ukraine (A)	8	5	0	3	16	21	−5	15
9	C	Northern Ireland (A)	8	4	2	2	17	17	0	14

The draw for the play-offs will be held on 5 March 2021 (originally 25 September 2020, but had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic) at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, to decide the matchups and the order of legs.[16]

Qualified teams

•  Northern Ireland
•  Russia
•  Ukraine

The three play-off winners qualify for the final tournament.