2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)

In the UEFA qualification for 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, 41 entrants were drawn into eight groups, from which the group winners advanced to a play-off round. The four winners of the play-off round advanced directly to join Germany (the hosts) in the finals tournament, while the four play-off losers played two further knock-out rounds to determine a nation to play-off with the third-placed CONCACAF nation for a finals place.

This scheme was a significant change from previous editions of qualification as all entrants had the ability to advance to the final tournament. In previous years only those nations belonging to the First Category of European women's football were able to qualify, with a system approximating promotion and relegation between qualification tournaments operating.

Qualifying round

The groups were drawn on 17 March 2009, with the matches held from 15 August 2009 to 25 August 2010. The eight group winners advanced to the play-off stages.

Seeding

Seeding was based on results in 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and UEFA Women's Euro 2009 qualifying. There were five seeding pots, each containing eight teams except for the fifth, Pot E, which had nine and provided two nations for Group 1.^[1]

Pot A	Pot B	Pot C	Pot D	Pot E
Sweden Norway Denmark England France Russia Ukraine Italy	Finland Iceland Spain Czech Republic Netherlands Scotland Republic of Ireland Poland	Switzerland Austria Serbia Belarus Belgium Greece Portugal Hungary	Slovenia Slovakia Israel Wales Romania Northern Ireland Turkey Bulgaria	Croatia Armenia Bosnia and Herzegovina Kazakhstan Azerbaijan Estonia Malta Macedonia Georgia

We report in bold the teams which actually qualified to the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Group 1

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
France	10	10	0	0	50	0	+50	30	—	2–0	6–0	12–0	7–0	3–0
Iceland	10	8	0	2	33	3	+30	24	0–1	—	2–0	12–0	5–0	3–0
Northern Ireland	10	3	2	5	8	16	−8	11	0–4	0–1	—	3–0	0–0	3–1
Estonia	10	3	1	6	7	44	−37	10	0–6	0–5	2–1	—	1–0	1–1
Serbia	10	2	3	5	7	19	−12	9	0–2	0–2	0–0	4–0	—	1–1
Croatia	10	0	2	8	4	27	−23	2	0–7	0–3	0–1	0–3	1–2	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 2

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Norway	8	7	1	0	39	2	+37	22	—	3–0	3–0	1–0	14–0
Netherlands	8	5	2	1	30	7	+23	17	2–2	—	1–1	2–0	13–1
Belarus	8	4	1	3	17	14	+3	13	0–5	0–4	—	2–0	6–0
Slovakia	8	2	0	6	15	13	+2	6	0–4	0–1	0–2	—	9–0
Macedonia	8	0	0	8	3	68	−65	0	0–7	0–7	1–6	1–6	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 3

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Denmark	8	6	2	0	45	0	+45	20	—	0–0	7–0	9–0	15–0
Scotland	8	6	1	1	24	5	+19	19	0–1	—	4–1	8–1	3–1
Greece	8	3	0	5	11	20	−9	9	0–6	0–1	—	1–2	5–0
Bulgaria	8	2	2	4	9	25	−16	8	0–0	0–5	0–1	—	5–0
Georgia	8	0	1	7	3	42	−39	1	0–7	1–3	0–3	1–1	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 4

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ukraine	8	5	2	1	24	9	+15	17	—	3–1	4–2	3–1	7–0
Poland	8	5	1	2	18	9	+9	16	4–1	—	0–0	2–0	1–0
Hungary	8	4	3	1	15	10	+5	15	1–1	4–2	—	1–1	2–0
Romania	8	2	2	4	14	13	+1	8	0–0	1–4	2–3	—	4–0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	8	0	0	8	0	30	−30	0	0–5	0–4	0–2	0–5	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 5

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
England	8	7	1	0	30	2	+28	22	—	1–0	3–0	3–0	8–0
Spain	8	6	1	1	37	4	+33	19	2–2	—	2–0	5–1	9–0
Austria	8	3	1	4	14	12	+2	10	0–4	0–1	—	4–0	6–0
Turkey	8	2	1	5	10	23	−13	7	0–3	0–5	2–2	—	5–1
Malta	8	0	0	8	1	51	−50	0	0–6	0–13	0–2	0–2	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 6

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Switzerland	8	7	0	1	28	6	+22	21	—	1–2	2–0	6–0	8–0
Russia	8	6	1	1	30	6	+24	19	0–3	—	3–0	4–0	8–0
Republic of Ireland	8	4	1	3	12	10	+2	13	1–2	1–1	—	3–0	2–1
Israel	8	2	0	6	4	24	−20	6	1–2	1–6	0–3	—	1–0
Kazakhstan	8	0	0	8	4	32	−28	0	2–4	0–6	1–2	0–1	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 7

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	8	7	1	0	38	3	+35	22	—	1–1	2–0	6–0	7–0
Finland	8	6	1	1	25	6	+19	19	1–3	—	4–1	4–1	7–0
Portugal	8	4	0	4	17	10	+7	12	1–3	0–1	—	1–0	7–0
Slovenia	8	2	0	6	7	27	−20	6	0–8	0–3	0–4	—	1–0
Armenia	8	0	0	8	1	42	−41	0	0–8	0–4	0–3	1–5	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group 8

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	8	7	1	0	36	3	+33	22	—	0–0	2–1	5–1	17–0
Czech Republic	8	4	1	3	19	6	+13	13	0–1	—	1–2	2–1	8–0
Belgium	8	3	1	4	18	13	+5	10	1–4	0–3	—	2–3	11–0
Wales	8	3	0	5	23	16	+7	9	0–4	2–0	0–1	—	15–0
Azerbaijan	8	1	1	6	2	60	−58	4	0–3	0–5	0–0	2–1	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Play-off stages

Seeding

The eight UEFA qualification group winners qualified for the play-offs. The play-off draw was seeded according to results in this qualifying competition and those for UEFA Women's EURO 2009.^[2]

Legend
Seeded teams
Unseeded teams

Group	Team	Seeding coefficient
8	Sweden	2.875
1	France	2.833
2	Norway	2.750
5	England	2.625
3	Denmark	2.563
7	Italy	2.500
4	Ukraine	2.250
6	Switzerland	2.000

Direct qualification

Each seeded team was drawn against an unseeded opponent to play a two-legged tie. The four winners advanced to the finals in Germany. The four losers advanced to the repechage rounds for a chance to qualify against a CONCACAF opponent.

Ties were drawn on 30 August with the first legs scheduled for 11–12 September and the return legs on 15–16 September.^[3]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
France	3–2	Italy	0–0	3–2
England	5–2	Switzerland	2–0	3–2
Ukraine	0–3	Norway	0–1	0–2
Sweden	4–3	Denmark	2–1	2–2

Repechage I

The four losers from the direct qualification play-offs met in two sets of two-legged ties on 2 and 6 October. The winners advanced to the second repechage round.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Denmark	1–3	Switzerland	1–3	0–0
Ukraine	0–3	Italy	0–3	0–0

Repechage II

The two winners from the first repechage round met in a two-legged tie on 23 and 27 October. The winner advanced to play the third-placed team from the CONCACAF qualification for a spot in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup finals.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Italy	5–2	Switzerland	1–0	4–2

Italy won 5–2 on aggregate and advanced to the UEFA-CONCACAF play-off.

References and notes

UEFA Site

^ Women's World Cup hopefuls await draw Archived 2010-10-25 at the Wayback Machine, from uefa.com, retrieved 26 August 2010
^ Play-off race reaches final stretch
^ Denmark and Ukraine complete play-off lineup

[1] Women's World Cup hopefuls await draw Archived 2010-10-25 at the Wayback Machine, from uefa.com, retrieved 26 August 2010

[2] Play-off race reaches final stretch

[3] Denmark and Ukraine complete play-off lineup

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