2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group A

UEFA Group A of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification competition consists of five teams: Sweden, Finland, Republic of Ireland, Slovakia, and Georgia. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 30 April 2021,^[1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.^[2]

The group is played in home-and-away round-robin format between 17 September 2021 and 6 September 2022, with a pause for the Women's Euro 2022 in July. The group winners qualify for the final tournament, while the runners-up advance to the play-offs second round if they are one of the three best runners-up among all nine groups (counting results against the fifth-placed team).^[3]

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	8	7	1	0	32	2	+30	22	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup		—	1–1	2–1	3–0	4–0
2	Republic of Ireland	8	5	2	1	26	4	+22	17	Play-offs		0–1	—	1–0	1–1	11–0
3	Finland	8	3	1	4	14	12	+2	10			0–5	1–2	—	2–1	6–0
4	Slovakia	8	2	2	4	9	9	0	8			0–1	0–1	1–1	—	2–0
5	Georgia	8	0	0	8	0	54	−54	0			0–15	0–9	0–3	0–4	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

Times are CET/CEST,^{[note 1]} as listed by UEFA^{[citation needed]} (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

17 September 2021 (2021-09-17)

17:30

Slovakia	0–1	Sweden
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Rolfö   10'

NTC Senec, Senec

Referee: Shona Shukrula (Netherlands)

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21 September 2021 (2021-09-21)

17:15 (18:15 EEST)

Finland	2–1	Slovakia
Engman   37' Öling   68'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Mikolajová   63'

Veritas Stadion, Turku

Referee: Marta Frias Acedo (Spain)

21 September 2021 (2021-09-21)

18:30

Sweden	4–0	Georgia
Angeldal   40' Eriksson   45+4' Seger   84' (pen.), 90+3'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg

Referee: Lucie Šulcová (Czech Republic)

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21 October 2021 (2021-10-21)

17:00 (20:00 GET)

Georgia	0–3	Finland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Sällström   17' Franssi   68' Alanen   71' (pen.)

Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi

Referee: Liudmyla Telbukh (Ukraine)

21 October 2021 (2021-10-21)

20:00 (19:00 IST)

Republic of Ireland	0–1	Sweden
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Lo. Quinn   39' (o.g.)

Tallaght Stadium, Dublin

Attendance: 4,017

Referee: Deborah Anex (Switzerland)

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26 October 2021 (2021-10-26)

16:30

Slovakia	2–0	Georgia
Mikolajová   38' Šurnovská   40'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

NTC Poprad, Poprad

Referee: Lizzy Van Der Helm (Netherlands)

26 October 2021 (2021-10-26)

17:15 (18:15 EEST)

Finland	1–2	Republic of Ireland
Engman   52'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Connolly   10' D. O'Sullivan   56'

Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki

Referee: Alexandra Collin (France)

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25 November 2021 (2021-11-25)

18:30

Sweden	2–1	Finland
Rolfö   11' Hurtig   80'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Sällström   29'

Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg

Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)

25 November 2021 (2021-11-25)

20:00 (19:00 GMT)

Republic of Ireland	1–1	Slovakia
McCabe   65'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Šurnovská   47'

Tallaght Stadium, Dublin

Referee: Jelena Cvetković (Serbia)

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30 November 2021 (2021-11-30)

19:00

Sweden	3–0	Slovakia
Hurtig   19' Rolfö   59' Ilestedt   69'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Eleda Stadion, Malmö

Referee: Angelika Söder (Germany)

30 November 2021 (2021-11-30)

20:00 (19:00 GMT)

Republic of Ireland	11–0	Georgia
Bebia   4' (o.g.) Carusa   21' Lu. Quinn   37' O'Sullivan   45+4', 58', 62' McCabe   70' (pen.), 73' Noonan   82' Barrett   89' Caldwell   90+2'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Tallaght Stadium, Dublin

Referee: Jurgita Mačikunytė (Lithuania)

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7 April 2022 (2022-04-07)

18:00 (20:00 GET)

Georgia	0–15	Sweden
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Rolfö   3' Angeldal   8', 32', 39' Blackstenius   15', 21' Sembrant   18' Ilestedt   27' J. Andersson   29' Hurtig   35', 42' Blomqvist   67' Asllani   76', 81' (pen.) Schough   90+4'

Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium, Gori

Referee: Hristiyana Guteva (Bulgaria)

8 April 2022 (2022-04-08)

20:30

Slovakia	1–1	Finland
Šurnovská   16'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Hyyrynen   6'

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava

Referee: Monika Mularczyk (Poland)

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12 April 2022 (2022-04-12)

17:15 (18:15 EEST)

Finland	6–0	Georgia
Alanen   24' Summanen   35' (pen.), 65' Engman   39' Kalandadze   55' (o.g.) Danielsson   73'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Bolt Arena, Helsinki

Referee: Reelika Turi (Estonia)

12 April 2022 (2022-04-12)

18:30

Sweden	1–1	Republic of Ireland
Asllani   79'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	McCabe   44'

Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg

Attendance: 12,123

Referee: Iuliana Demetrescu (Romania)

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27 June 2022 (2022-06-27)^{[note 2]}

18:00 (20:00 GET)

Georgia	0–9	Republic of Ireland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	McCabe   6', 45+2', 75' Fahey   13' Connolly   19' Lo. Quinn   49', 73' Larkin   82' D. O'Sullivan   90+3'

Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium, Gori

Referee: Melis Özçiğdem (Turkey)

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1 September 2022 (2022-09-01)

18:00 (20:00 GET)

Georgia	0–4	Slovakia
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Hmírová   1' Fischerová   17' Šurnovská   63' Vojteková   79'

Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium, Gori

Referee: Viki De Cremer (Belgium)

1 September 2022 (2022-09-01)

20:00 (19:00 IST)

Republic of Ireland	1–0	Finland
Agg   54'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Tallaght Stadium, Dublin

Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

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6 September 2022 (2022-09-06)

18:00 (19:00 EEST)

Finland	0–5	Sweden
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Blackstenius   17' Hurtig   29' Sembrant   63' Blomqvist   68' Rolfö   90+2'

Tampere Stadium, Tampere

Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)

6 September 2022 (2022-09-06)

18:00

Slovakia	0–1	Republic of Ireland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	O'Sullivan   37'

NTC Senec, Senec

Referee: María Martínez (Spain)

Goalscorers

There were 81 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 4.05 goals per match.

7 goals

•   Katie McCabe

6 goals

•   Denise O'Sullivan

5 goals

•   Lina Hurtig
•   Fridolina Rolfö

4 goals

•   Martina Šurnovská
•   Filippa Angeldahl

3 goals

•   Adelina Engman
•   Kosovare Asllani
•   Stina Blackstenius

2 goals

•   Emmi Alanen
•   Linda Sällström
•   Eveliina Summanen
•   Megan Connolly
•   Louise Quinn
•   Mária Mikolajová
•   Rebecka Blomqvist
•   Amanda Ilestedt
•   Caroline Seger
•   Linda Sembrant

1 goal

•   Jenny Danielsson
•   Sanni Franssi
•   Tuija Hyyrynen
•   Ria Öling
•   Lily Agg
•   Amber Barrett
•   Diane Caldwell
•   Kyra Carusa
•   Niamh Fahey
•   Abbie Larkin
•   Saoirse Noonan
•   Lucy Quinn
•   Patrícia Fischerová
•   Patrícia Hmírová
•   Jana Vojteková
•   Jonna Andersson
•   Magdalena Eriksson
•   Olivia Schough

1 own goal

•   Maiko Bebia (against Republic of Ireland)
•   Mariam Kalandadze (against Finland)
•   Louise Quinn (against Sweden)

Notes

1. CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 28 March and 31 October 2021 and between 27 March and 30 October 2022, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.
2. Following a request from the FAI, the game was rescheduled from 17 September 2021.^[4]

References

1. "Women's World Cup qualifying group stage draw". UEFA.com. 30 April 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
2. "UEFA Women's National Team Coefficients Overview March 2021" (PDF). UEFA.com. 2 March 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
3. "Regulations of the UEFA European Qualifying Competition for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup". UEFA. 2 March 2021.
4. "New date set for Georgia v Republic of Ireland". FAI. Retrieved 2021-09-08.

External links

• FIFA Women's World Cup, UEFA.com