Women's World Cup 2023/Qualification

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The qualification for the Women’s World Cup 2023 was held from 2021 to 2023. The reported selection teams played for 30 free places alongside the automatically qualified Australian and New Zealand women as hosts. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there were some delays. The Russian team was excluded because of the raid during the current qualification. For the first time, three places were awarded at an intercontinental play-off tournament held in February 2023 in New Zealand.

Teams qualified for the World Cup

The ones in the FIFA rankings of 9. June 2023 best placed non-qualified team is Iceland in 15th place.

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To participate in the qualifying matches, the record number of 51 of UEFA’s 55 member associations have reported their national team. Armenia and Azerbaijan (last attendance in 2011), Bulgaria and North Macedonia (last attendance in 2015) and France (automatically qualified hosts in 2019) will participate again, while Cyprus will participate for the first time. Andorra, who participated in the qualification for the 2019 World Cup, did not participate this time. Furthermore, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein and San Marino did not participate again.

A first ranking was created for the reported teams, based on the UEFA Women’s National Team Coefficient Ranking, which was published after completion of qualifying for the European Women’s Championship 2022, divided into six pots. The teams were drawn in three groups of five (A–C) and six groups of six (D–I).

Pot 1: Netherlands, Germany, England, France, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Italy, Denmark
Pot 2: Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Iceland, Scotland, Russia, Finland, Portugal, Wales
Pot 3: Czech Republic, Ukraine, Ireland, Poland, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Northern Ireland
Pot 4: Slovakia, Hungary, Belarus, Croatia, Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Israel, Azerbaijan
Pot 5: Turkey, Malta, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Latvia
Pot 6: Montenegro, Lithuania, Estonia, Luxembourg, Armenia, Bulgaria

The draw took place on 30 April from 1:30 p.m. The following teams could not be drawn into the same group: Armenia & Azerbaijan, Kosovo & Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo & Serbia, Kosovo & Russia, Ukraine & Russia. As the only case, the draw from Armenia to group E with Azerbaijan occurred, so that Armenia was assigned to group F and then Montenegro was drawn to group E.

The nine group winners qualified directly for the final round. Group runners took part in the UEFA play-offs in October 2022. The three best group runners of the qualification were set directly for the second round of play-offs. The other six groups