2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs

The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification UEFA play-offs decided the eighth and final UEFA qualifier for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Format

After conclusion of the group stage the four runners-up with the best record against the sides first, third, fourth and fifth in their groups played home and away matches, to determine the last participant in the FIFA World Cup.

For each play-off tie, the team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs qualified for the final tournament. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule applied, i.e., the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then thirty minutes of extra time would be played, divided into two fifteen-minutes halves. The away goals rule was again applied after extra time, i.e., if there are goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score was still level, the visiting team advanced by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals were scored during extra time, the tie would be decided by penalty shoot-out.[1]

Ranking of second-placed teams

Matches against the sixth-placed team in each group are not included in this ranking. As a result, eight matches played by each team counted for the purposes of the second-placed table.

The ranking of the runners-up is determined by the following parameters in this order:[1]

  1. Highest number of points
  2. Goal difference
  3. Highest number of goals scored
  4. Highest number of away goals scored
  5. Position in the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system;
Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 5  Netherlands 8 6 1 1 29 5 +24 19 Play-offs
2 2  Italy 8 6 1 1 22 5 +17 19
3 4  Scotland 8 6 0 2 21 6 +15 18
4 6  Ukraine 8 5 1 2 23 8 +15 16
5 1  Russia 8 5 1 2 14 17 3 16
6 7  Austria 8 5 0 3 21 13 +8 15
7 3  Iceland 8 4 1 3 16 9 +7 13
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) National team coefficient.

Draw

The draw was held on 23 September 2014 at 14:00 local time at Nyon, Switzerland.[2]

Seeding

In the play-off draw, teams were seeded according to their UEFA Women's National Team Coefficient Ranking (shown in brackets).[3]

Seeded Unseeded

 Italy (6)
 Netherlands (8)

 Scotland (12)
 Ukraine (15)

Bracket

  Semifinals Final
                         
  Scotland 1 0 1  
  Netherlands 2 2 4  
      Netherlands 1 2 3
    Italy 1 1 2
  Italy 2 2 4
  Ukraine 1 2 3  

All times are CEST (UTC+02:00) during summer and CET (UTC+01:00) during winter.

Semifinals

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Scotland  1–4  Netherlands 1–2 0–2
Italy  4–3  Ukraine 2–1 2–2

25 October 2014
18:30
Scotland  1–2  Netherlands
Little  49' (pen.) Report Martens  10'
Melis  23' (pen.)
Tynecastle Stadium, Edinburgh
Attendance: 2,098
Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)

30 October 2014
19:00
Netherlands  2–0  Scotland
Martens  51'
Melis  77'
Report
Sparta Stadion, Rotterdam
Attendance: 7,600
Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)

Netherlands won 4–1 on aggregate and advanced to final.


25 October 2014
15:00
Italy  2–1  Ukraine
Cernoia  1'
Gabbiadini  45+1'
Report Apanaschenko  34'
Stadio Centro d'Italia, Rieti
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Jana Adámková (Czech Republic)

29 October 2014
17:00
Ukraine  2–2  Italy
Dyatel  26', 47' Report Gabbiadini  55'
Panico  79'
Arena Lviv, Lviv
Attendance: 1,936
Referee: Efthalia Mitsi (Greece)

Italy won 4–3 on aggregate and advanced to final.

Final

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Netherlands  3–2  Italy 1–1 2–1

22 November 2014
18:30
Netherlands  1–1  Italy
Miedema  54' Report Gabbiadini  19'
Kyocera Stadion, The Hague
Attendance: 13,109
Referee: Teodora Albon (Romania)

27 November 2014
20:30
Italy  1–2  Netherlands
Van der Gragt  53' (o.g.) Report Miedema  9', 43'

Netherlands won 3–2 on aggregate and qualified for 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Goalscorers

3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Own goal

References

External links

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