Women’s World Cup qualifying: how it stands

The FIFA Women’s World Cup subordinate organisation theatre has begun with a likes of England, Norway, Germany, Iceland and Austria in goalscoring form. Here is a story so far.

• Qualifying schedule: all a matches
• The 7 groups
• Matches will be played home and divided until 4 Sep 2018.
• The seven organisation winners will validate to join France in a finals from  June–7 Jul 2019.
• The four runners-up with a best annals opposite a sides first, third and fourth in their groups will allege to a play-offs, that will include of dual rounds of two-legged knockout ties in Oct and Nov 2018 to confirm Europe’s final qualifier.

Group 1
England strike a belligerent using with a 6-0 better of second seeds Russia including dual goals from Barcelona signing Toni Duggan. Wales, who revisit Russia on 24 October, won 1-0 divided opposite Kazakhstan, who will horde Bosnia and Herzegovina for their initial diversion on 21 October.

Group 2
Switzerland, uninformed from their entrance UEFA Women’s EURO, started good as they won 4-1 in Albania and kick Poland 2-1 in Biel. Poland had non-stop with a 4-1 feat opposite Belarus, who afterwards saw off Albania 1-0. Scotland start subsequent month with a revisit to Belarus and home diversion with Albania.

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Group 3
Norway did not collect adult a indicate or measure a idea during UEFA Women’s EURO 2017 though this week saw off Northern Ireland 4-1 and Slovakia 6-1 as they ready for their 24 Oct outing to new European champions a Netherlands. The Republic of Ireland are also off to a winning start, 2-0 in Northern Ireland.

Group 4
UEFA Women’s EURO 2017 runners-up Denmark triumphed 6-1 in Hungary while Sweden won 2-0 in Croatia as, underneath new manager Peter Gerhardsson, they ready to horde their Scandinavian neighbours on 20 October. Croatia also drew 1-1 in Ukraine with a last-gasp Ivana Rudelic equaliser notwithstanding Monika Conjar’s first-half sending-off.

Group 5
Germany, anticipating to retrieve a World Cup after losing their hold on a European title, kick Slovenia 6-0 before a 1-0 feat in a Czech Republic interjection to an possess goal. The Czech Republic had won 8-0 opposite a Faroe Islands, who mislaid divided to Germany’s subsequent visitors Iceland by a same scoreline.

Group 6
Italy, underneath new manager Milena Bertolini, have won both their games so far, saying off Moldova 5-0 and circumference to a 1-0 feat in Romania with a late possess goal. Belgium degraded Moldova 12-0, Janice Cayman scoring 4 and Tessa Wullaert handling a 13-minute first-half hat-trick, and subsequent month revisit associate UEFA Women’s EURO qualifiers Portugal before travelling to face Romania.

Group 7
Just a one diversion played so distant as warn UEFA Women’s EURO semi-finalists Austria won 4-0 in Serbia with a Nina Burger hat-trick. In October, Serbia revisit Finland while Israel horde Spain, who on 28 Nov horde their UEFA Women’s EURO quarter-final nemeses Austria.