2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs
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The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification UEFA play-offs were a series of two-legged ties determining qualification for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. They involved the eight group winners from the first stage of European qualification.
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Format
The play-offs consisted of two sections.
The first section was the direct qualification to the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup finals. The eight group winners were paired for four two-legged ties - the winner of each tie qualified for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany.
The second section was the repechage qualification to the UEFA-CONCACAF play-off. The four losers from the direct qualifiers were paired for two two-legged ties, with the two winners playing off over two legs for the right to play against the third-placed CONCACAF nation for a place in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Qualification and seeding
The eight UEFA qualification group winners qualified for the play-offs. The play-off draw seeding according to results in this qualifying competition and those for UEFA Women's EURO 2009.[1]
| 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
The four winners qualified for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany. The draw was held on 30 August 2010. Ties were held on 11–12 September and 15–16 September.[2]
Matches
France won 3–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. Italy advanced to the repechage qualification.
| Switzerland |
2 – 3 | England |
|---|---|---|
Bachmann  41'Zumbühl 65' |
Report | K. Smith 32' Eniola Aluko 34'Williams 50' (pen.) |
England won 5–2 on aggregate and qualified for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. Switzerland advanced to the repechage qualification.
Norway won 3–0 on aggregate and qualified for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. Ukraine advanced to the repechage qualification.
Sweden won 4–3 on aggregate and qualified for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. Denmark advanced to the repechage qualification.
Repechage qualification
The four losing teams from the qualification play-offs played-off for the right to play against the third-placed CONCACAF nation for a place in the World Cup finals.
The first round of repechage ties was played on 2 and 6 October and the second round on 23 and 27 October.
Knock-out map
| Repechage I | Repechage II | |||||||||||
| Ukraine |
0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Italy |
3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| Italy |
1 | 4 | 5 | |||||||||
| Switzerland |
0 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Denmark |
1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| Switzerland |
3 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
Repechage I
Switzerland won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round of repechage qualification.
Italy won 3–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round of repechage qualification.
Repechage II
Italy won 5–2 on aggregate and advanced to the UEFA-CONCACAF play-off.
References
External links
- 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)
- 2010 in women's association football
- Sweden at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
- 2010 in Swedish women's football
- Norway at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
- 2010 in Norwegian women's football
- France at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
- England at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
- 2010–11 in Italian women's football
- 2010–11 in Swiss football
- 2010–11 in Ukrainian football
- 2010–11 in Danish women's football
