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

UEFA Group C of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification competition consists of five teams: Netherlands, Iceland, Czech Republic, Belarus, and Cyprus. 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]

Due to the Belarus' involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country is required to play its home matches at neutral venues behind closed doors until further notice.^[4] The Dutch Football Association has announced that the representative teams of the Netherlands will not play against national teams of Russia and Belarus until further notice.^[5] However on 6 May 2022, they announced the Netherlands would play the match against Belarus behind closed doors on 28 June 2022.

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	8	6	2	0	31	3	+28	20	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup		—	1–0	1–1	3–0	12–0
2	Iceland	8	6	0	2	25	3	+22	18	Play-offs		0–2	—	4–0	6–0	5–0
3	Czech Republic	8	3	2	3	25	10	+15	11			2–2	0–1	—	7–0	8–0
4	Belarus	8	2	1	5	7	26	−19	7			0–2	0–5	2–1	—	4–1
5	Cyprus	8	0	1	7	2	48	−46	1			0–8	0–4	0–6	1–1	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

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

17 September 2021 (2021-09-17)

17:00 (18:00 EEST)

Belarus	4–1	Cyprus
Kozyupa   6' Shuppo   45+4' (pen.) Pilipenko   51' Shlapakova   59'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Violari   57'

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Referee: Marina Krupskaya (Russia)

17 September 2021 (2021-09-17)

20:45

Netherlands	1–1	Czech Republic
Miedema   83'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Stašková   47'

Euroborg, Groningen

Attendance: 10,600

Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)

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21 September 2021 (2021-09-21)

17:30

Czech Republic	8–0	Cyprus
Stašková   10', 63' Charalambous   12' (o.g.) K. Dubcová   26' Krejčiříková   42' L. Martínková   56', 65' Cvrčková   90+3'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Stadion u Nisy, Liberec

Referee: Henrikke Nervik (Norway)

21 September 2021 (2021-09-21)

20:45 (18:45 WET)

Iceland	0–2	Netherlands
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Van de Donk   23' Groenen   65'

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Referee: Rebecca Welch (England)

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22 October 2021 (2021-10-22)

20:45 (21:45 EEST)

Cyprus	0–8	Netherlands
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Miedema   3' Van de Donk   11' Roord   19', 49', 53' Charalambous   51' (o.g.) Smits   81' Van Dongen   87'

AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca

Referee: Triinu Laos (Estonia)

22 October 2021 (2021-10-22)

20:45 (18:45 WET)

Iceland	4–0	Czech Republic
Votíková   12' (o.g.) Brynjarsdóttir   59' Guðmundsdóttir   81' G. Jónsdóttir   83'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Referee: Lina Lehtovaara (Finland)

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26 October 2021 (2021-10-26)

Belarus	0–2	Netherlands
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Martens   71' Van de Donk   75'

Dinamo Stadium, Minsk

Referee: Araksya Saribekyan (Armenia)

26 October 2021 (2021-10-26)

20:45 (18:45 WET)

Iceland	5–0	Cyprus
Brynjarsdóttir   14' S. Jónsdóttir   21', 55' Vilhjálmsdóttir   45+1' Jóhannsdóttir   64'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Referee: Anastasiya Romanyuk (Ukraine)

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26 November 2021 (2021-11-26)

18:00 (19:00 EET)

Cyprus	1–1	Belarus
Savva   60'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Pilipenko   24'

AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca

Referee: Irena Velevačkoska (North Macedonia)

27 November 2021 (2021-11-27) ^{[note 2]}

12:00

Czech Republic	2–2	Netherlands
Svitková   11' Necidová   60'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Van de Donk   51' Van der Gragt   90+3'

Městský station, Ostrava

Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)

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30 November 2021 (2021-11-30)

18:00 (19:00 EET)

Cyprus	0–4	Iceland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Vilhjálmsdóttir   7' Thorvaldsdóttir   16' (pen.) S. Jónsdóttir   37' Gudr. Arnardóttir   61'

AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca

Referee: Louise Thompson (Northern Ireland)

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7 April 2022 (2022-04-07)

18:00

Belarus	0–5	Iceland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Brynjarsdóttir   16' G. Jónsdóttir   24' Thorvaldsdóttir   25' Vilhjálmsdóttir   48', 57'

Voždovac Stadium, Belgrade (Serbia) ^{[note 3]}

Attendance: 0^{[note 3]}

Referee: Jelena Pejković (Croatia)

8 April 2022 (2022-04-08)

20:45

Netherlands	12–0	Cyprus
Miedema   23', 41', 44', 54', 69', 76' Roord   26', 34', 56' Beerensteyn   52' Spitse   60' Brugts   77'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Euroborg, Groningen

Referee: Alexandra Collin (France)

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12 April 2022 (2022-04-12)

17:30

Czech Republic	0–1	Iceland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	G. Jónsdóttir   36'

Na Stínadlech, Teplice

Referee: Lorraine Watson (Scotland)

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24 June 2022 (2022-06-24)

19:00

Belarus	2–1	Czech Republic
Valiuk   8', 19'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Szewieczková   29'

Čukarički Stadium, Belgrade (Serbia)^{[note 3]}

Attendance: 0^{[note 3]}

Referee: Kristina Georgieva (Bulgaria)

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28 June 2022 (2022-06-28)^{[note 4]}

20:45

Netherlands	3–0	Belarus
Roord   13' Nouwen   59' Beerensteyn   85'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

FC Twente Stadion, Enschede

Attendance: 0

Referee: Simona Ghisletta (Switzerland)

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1 September 2022 (2022-09-01)

19:00 (20:00 EEST)

Cyprus	0–6	Czech Republic
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Martínková   10' Dubcová   18' Khýrová   21' Szewieczková   45' Svitková   78' Stašková   80'

AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca

Referee: Zulema Gonzalez Gonzalez (Spain)

2 September 2022 (2022-09-02)

19:30 (17:30 WET)

Iceland	6–0	Belarus
Gunnarsdóttir   12' (pen.), 15' Brynjarsdóttir   47', 81' Viggósdóttir   71' Magnúsdóttir   82'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavík

Referee: Karoline Wacker (Germany)

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6 September 2022 (2022-09-06) ^{[note 5]}

18:00 (19:00 EEST)

Czech Republic	7–0	Belarus
Svitková   28', 31' Dubcová   41' Khýrová   50' Sonntagová   68' Mrázová   90+1' Dlasková   90+3'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium, Larnaca (Cyprus)

Referee: Victoria Beyer (France)

6 September 2022 (2022-09-06)

20:45

Netherlands	1–0	Iceland
Brugts   90+3'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Stadion Galgenwaard, Utrecht

Referee: Rebecca Welch (England)

Goalscorers

There were 90 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 4.5 goals per match.

8 goals

•   Vivianne Miedema

7 goals

•   Jill Roord

5 goals

•   Dagný Brynjarsdóttir

4 goals

•   Andrea Stašková
•   Kateřina Svitková
•   Karólína Lea Vilhjálmsdóttir
•   Daniëlle van de Donk

3 goals

•   Kamila Dubcová
•   Lucie Martínková
•   Gunnhildur Yrsa Jónsdóttir
•   Sveindís Jane Jónsdóttir

2 goals

•   Anna Pilipenko
•   Viktoryia Valiuk
•   Michaela Khýrová
•   Tereza Szewieczková
•   Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir
•   Berglind Björg Þorvaldsdóttir
•   Lineth Beerensteyn
•   Esmee Brugts

1 goal

•   Anna Kozyupa
•   Anastasiya Shlapakova
•   Anastasia Shuppo
•   Filippa Savva
•   Antri Violari
•   Klára Cvrčková
•   Anna Dlasková
•   Tereza Krejčiříková
•   Miroslava Mrázová
•   Simona Necidová
•   Eliška Sonntagová
•   Gudrún Arnardóttir
•   Svava Rós Guðmundsdóttir
•   Alexandra Jóhannsdóttir
•   Selma Sól Magnúsdóttir
•   Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir
•   Merel van Dongen
•   Stefanie van der Gragt
•   Jackie Groenen
•   Lieke Martens
•   Aniek Nouwen
•   Joëlle Smits
•   Sherida Spitse

1 own goal

•   Barbora Votíková (against Iceland)

2 own goals

•   Chara Charalambous (against Czech Republic and Netherlands)

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. Postponed one day due to snow.
3. Due to the country's involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Belarus is required to play its home matches at neutral venues behind closed doors until further notice.^[4]
4. The Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) initially announced that it would boycott the match against Belarus because of Belarus' involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[6] On 6 May 2022, the KNVB announced in a statement that it still wanted to play the match against Belarus on 28 June 2022.^[7]
5. The match was originally scheduled for 30 November 2021, but was postponed until 6 September 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

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. "Belarus teams to play on neutral ground in UEFA competitions". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
5. "NO GAMES AGAINST RUSSIA AND BELARUS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE". knvb.com.
6. "KNVB: Tot nader order geen wedstrijden tegen Rusland en Belarus". OnsOranje (in Dutch). Royal Dutch Football Association. 28 February 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
7. "Statement KNVB over WK-kwalificatiewedstrijd OranjeLeeuwinnen". KNVB Media (in Dutch). Royal Dutch Football Association. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.

External links

• FIFA Women's World Cup, UEFA.com