2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs
# 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs

The UEFA play-offs of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification competition involve the four runners-up with the best records among all seven groups in the qualifying group stage.

## Ranking of second-placed teams

To determine the four best second-placed teams from the qualifying group stage which advance to the play-offs, only the results of the second-placed teams against the first, third and fourth-placed teams in their group are taken into account, while results against the fifth-placed team are not included. As a result, six matches played by each second-placed team will count for the purposes of determining the ranking.

| Pos | Grp | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 3 | Netherlands | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 2 | +14 | 13 | Play-offs |
| 2 | 2 | Switzerland | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 13 | Play-offs |
| 3 | 6 | Belgium | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 13 | Play-offs |
| 4 | 4 | Denmark | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 7 | +10 | 12 | Play-offs |
| 5 | 5 | Iceland | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 11 | |
| 6 | 1 | Wales | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 11 | |
| 7 | 7 | Austria | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 10 | |

## Draw

The draw for the play-offs was held on 7 September 2018, 14:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The four teams were drawn into two knockout rounds (semi-finals and final) of home-and-away two-legged format.

For the semi-finals, two teams were seeded and two teams were unseeded, based on their latest coefficient ranking after the completion of the qualifying group stage, calculated based on the following:

* 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament and qualifying competition (20%)
* UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying competition (40%)
* 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying competition (preliminary round and group stage) (40%)

Seeded :

| Team | Coeff | Rank |
| - | - | - |
| Netherlands | 39,430 | 4 |
| Switzerland | 37,031 | 6 |

Unseeded :

| Team | Coeff | Rank |
| - | - | - |
| Denmark | 34,185 | 11 |
| Belgium | 32,738 | 13 |

For each semi-final, a seeded team was drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs decided by draw. A draw was also held for the final between the two winners of the semi-finals to decide the order of legs.

## Bracket

The play-off final winner qualifies for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.

| Play-off semi-finals | Play-off semi-finals | Play-off semi-finals | Play-off semi-finals | Play-off final | Play-off final | Play-off final | Play-off final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 4 | | | | |
| Denmark | 0 | 1 | 1 | | | | |
| Denmark | 0 | 1 | 1 | Netherlands | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| | | | | Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Belgium | 2 | 1 | 3 | Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Switzerland (a) | 2 | 1 | 3 | | | | |

## Play-off semi-finals

### Overview

All times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA.

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Netherlands | 4–1 | Denmark | 2–0 | 2–1 |
| Belgium | 3–3 (a) | Switzerland | 2–2 | 1–1 |

### Matches

Netherlands won 4–1 on aggregate.

3–3 on aggregate. Switzerland won on away goals.

## Play-off final

### Overview

The winner Netherlands qualifies for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.

All times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA.

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Netherlands | 4–1 | Switzerland | 3–0 | 1–1 |

### Matches

Netherlands won 4–1 on aggregate.

## Goalscorers

There were 16 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 2.67 goals per match.

3 goals

* Lineth Beerensteyn

2 goals

* Vivianne Miedema
* Alisha Lehmann

1 goal

* Janice Cayman
* Tine De Caigny
* Laura De Neve
* Nadia Nadim
* Lieke Martens
* Shanice van de Sanden
* Sherida Spitse
* Géraldine Reuteler
* Coumba Sow
