UEFA Women’s EURO 2025, Switzerland - qualifiers

[Jackson Harrison]

Voting rounds according to Rich Laverty. A decisive win for Switzerland in the final round

Euro 2025 Voting:

Round 1

Nordics - 4
Poland - 4
Switzerland - 4
France - 1

Round 2

Switzerland - 6
Nordics - 4
Poland - 3

Round 3

Switzerland - 9
Nordics - 4

These votes are weird. So what made someone ditch Poland between Rounds 1 and 2? Unless they didn't but some sort of tiebreaker came in.

...I think I have abit of an explanation:

The voters knew that whoever had the least votes after R1 would be knocked put out-so they knew Switzerland had enough support to make it to Round 2 (which they did by a country mile) but they saw France as a threat so they voted for Poland in R1 in the hope of elimininating France (which they succeeded in doing) and then went back to Switzerland (their preffered candidate in R2) in the hope of getting them elected (if they'd have got 1 more in R2 vote R3 wouldn't have been necessary). They knew that the Polish supporters 2nd choice would be Switzerland so they wanted to make sure that it was Nordics v Switzerland in R3 and not Poland v Switzerland as they thought that the Nordics would back Poland maybe?

Tl;dr - tactical voting

[amenina]

@amenina

What happens with play-offs if Switzerland finished in the play-off places? I.E. Whi replaces them?

PS: Might be helpful to add Switzerland to the opening title, I'm annoying I know

Regulations

https://documents.uefa.com/r/Regulation ... -25-Online

27.07

The play-off paths are adjusted as necessary to take into account the performance of the team of the host association, which is guaranteed a slot in the final tournament. If there are multiple hosts, this guarantee is extended to a maximum of two slots. Confirmation of the play-off path is communicated immediately following the conclusion of the league stage of the European Qualifiers phase.

[Jackson Harrison]

@amenina

What happens with play-offs if Switzerland finished in the play-off places? I.E. Whi replaces them?

PS: Might be helpful to add Switzerland to the opening title, I'm annoying I know

Regulations

https://documents.uefa.com/r/Regulation ... -25-Online

27.07

The play-off paths are adjusted as necessary to take into account the performance of the team of the host association, which is guaranteed a slot in the final tournament. If there are multiple hosts, this guarantee is extended to a maximum of two slots. Confirmation of the play-off path is communicated immediately following the conclusion of the league stage of the European Qualifiers phase.

So in other words the best 3rd in League A gets a bye to Round 2.

[amenina]

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/02 ... itzerland/

Venues
Women’s EURO 2025 will be staged across eight existing stadiums, with a combined capacity of more than 175,000 seats.

St. Jakob-Park (Basel)
Stadion Wankdorf (Bern)
Stade de Genève (Geneva)
Stadion Letzigrund (Zurich)
Stadion St Gallen (St Gallen)
Luzern Arena (Lucerne)
Stockhorn Arena (Thun)
Stade de Tourbillon (Sion)

For the group stages, venues will be split into four pairs of clusters to limit travel for teams, and fans. Travel time between these pairs will range from 30 minutes to two hours by road or rail.

Clusters: Basel and Lucerne, Zurich and St Gallen, Bern and Thun, Geneva and Sion.

The SFA will aim to sell all of the 700,000+ tickets available for the tournament's 31 matches.

[Jackson Harrison]

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/02 ... itzerland/

Venues
Women’s EURO 2025 will be staged across eight existing stadiums, with a combined capacity of more than 175,000 seats.

St. Jakob-Park (Basel)
Stadion Wankdorf (Bern)
Stade de Genève (Geneva)
Stadion Letzigrund (Zurich)
Stadion St Gallen (St Gallen)
Luzern Arena (Lucerne)
Stockhorn Arena (Thun)
Stade de Tourbillon (Sion)

For the group stages, venues will be split into four pairs of clusters to limit travel for teams, and fans. Travel time between these pairs will range from 30 minutes to two hours by road or rail.

Clusters: Basel and Lucerne, Zurich and St Gallen, Bern and Thun, Geneva and Sion.

The SFA will aim to sell all of the 700,000+ tickets available for the tournament's 31 matches.

This is a major downgrade to England! Like idea of getting public transport with ticket so I'll be able to get between venues for England games and then, if we make it, QF, SF and Final in Basel (presumably)

[amenina]

UEFA now have three different sections for their Women's senior matches.

UEFA Women's Euro: https://www.uefa.com/womenseuro/

Women's European Qualifiers: https://www.uefa.com/womenseuropeanqualifiers/

UEFA Women's Nations League: https://www.uefa.com/womensnationsleague/

[amenina]

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/02 ... itzerland/

Venues
Women’s EURO 2025 will be staged across eight existing stadiums, with a combined capacity of more than 175,000 seats.

St. Jakob-Park (Basel)
Stadion Wankdorf (Bern)
Stade de Genève (Geneva)
Stadion Letzigrund (Zurich)
Stadion St Gallen (St Gallen)
Luzern Arena (Lucerne)
Stockhorn Arena (Thun)
Stade de Tourbillon (Sion)

For the group stages, venues will be split into four pairs of clusters to limit travel for teams, and fans. Travel time between these pairs will range from 30 minutes to two hours by road or rail.

Clusters: Basel and Lucerne, Zurich and St Gallen, Bern and Thun, Geneva and Sion.

The SFA will aim to sell all of the 700,000+ tickets available for the tournament's 31 matches.

Women's EURO 2025 host cities: Venue guide

https://www.uefa.com/womenseuro/news/02 ... nue-guide/

[amenina]

Amazon becomes UEFA Women’s Football partner

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/02 ... l-partner/

UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 will mark the first time Amazon sponsors a major international sports tournament.

[amenina]

UEFA now have three different sections for their Women's senior matches.

UEFA Women's Euro: https://www.uefa.com/womenseuro/

Women's European Qualifiers: https://www.uefa.com/womenseuropeanqualifiers/

UEFA Women's Nations League: https://www.uefa.com/womensnationsleague/

There are now three different threads for the three stages:

UEFA Womens Nations League 23/24: viewtopic.php?t=5968

UEFA Women’s EURO 2025, Switzerland - qualifiers: viewtopic.php?t=5954 (this thread)

UEFA Women's Euro Switzerland 2025 (final tournament): viewtopic.php?t=6001

[amenina]

https://www.uefa.com/womenseuropeanqual ... ue-so-far/

Women's European Qualifiers for EURO 2025: Who is in what league?
Monday, December 11, 2023

See how the leagues are shaping up for the Women's European Qualifiers.

The new-look Women's European Qualifiers will run from April to December 2024 and decide the 15 teams joining hosts Switzerland at UEFA Women's EURO 2025.

The European Qualifiers league stage is played in the same format as the UEFA Women's Nations League, with teams split into three leagues: League A with 16 teams, League B with 16 teams and League C with 19 teams.

How the leagues are formed
Each team's starting league position is determined based on the results of the 2023/24 UEFA Women's Nations League. While 12 teams in League A, nine in League B and 16 in League C are known following the conclusion of the league stage, play-offs in late February will determine the remaining slots, with four ties determining potential further promotion and relegation between Leagues A and B, and three for movement between Leagues B and C.

Women's EURO qualifying
League phase

In qualifying, as per the Nations League league stage, teams compete in groups of four or three teams (League C) and over six matchdays between April and July, with each team playing one home match and one away match against all the other teams in their group.

For qualifying itself, the top two teams in each League A group will gain places in the July 2025 finals alongside hosts Switzerland. The remaining seven spots will be decided by two rounds of play-offs in October and November/December.

Play-offs

The first round of the play-offs is in two paths. In one path, the teams finishing third and fourth in League A will play the five group winners and three best-ranked runners-up in League C. The eight winners progress to the second round.

In the other first-round path, the four group winners and two best-ranked runners-up in League B will be drawn into six ties against the remaining two runners-up and four third-placed teams in League B. The six winners progress to the second round.

In the second round, the teams from both paths come together and will be drawn into seven ties, with seeding for the seven highest-ranked teams according to the European Qualifiers overall league rankings. The seven winners progress to the final tournament.

The play-off paths will be adjusted as necessary to take into account the performance of Women's EURO hosts Switzerland, who will compete in League B but are guaranteed a slot in the final tournament.

Promotion and relegation

Promotion and relegation will also be at stake ahead of the 2025/26 UEFA Women's Nations League:

• The winners, runners-up and third-placed teams of League A stay in League A;

• The runners-up and three best-ranked third-placed teams in League B stay in League B;

• The runners-up, third-placed and fourth-placed teams in League C stay in League C;

• The winners of Leagues B and C will be promoted to the next league;

• All fourth-placed teams in Leagues A and B, as well as the lowest-ranked third-placed team of League B, will be relegated to the next league.

Confirmed in League A
League A group winners: France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain

League A runners-up: Austria, Denmark, England, Italy

Promoted from League B (group winners): Czechia, Finland, Poland, Republic of Ireland

League A/B play-offs (four ties)
Serbia vs Iceland
Hungary vs Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Sweden
Croatia vs Norway

Home teams in first legs were League B runners-up, away teams in first legs were third in League A groups.

Confirmed in League B
Relegated from League A (fourth place): Portugal, Scotland, Switzerland, Wales

Promoted from League C (group winners): Azerbaijan, Israel, Kosovo, Malta, Türkiye

League B/C play-offs (three ties)
Latvia vs Slovakia
Montenegro vs Northern Ireland
Bulgaria vs Ukraine

Home teams in first legs were the best three League C runners-up, away teams in first legs were the best three third-placed finishers in League B.

Confirmed in League C
Relegated from League B (fourth place and fourth-best third-placed): Albania, Belarus, Greece, Romania, Slovenia*

*Fourth-best third-placed team

League C fourth and fifth best runners-up: Estonia, Lithuania

League C third and fourth place: Andorra, Armenia, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Moldova, North Macedonia

Women's EURO 2025 calendar

Qualifying draw: 5 March 2024
Qualifying matchdays 1 & 2: 3–9 April 2024
Qualifying matchdays 3 & 4: 29 May–4 June 2024
Qualifying matchdays 5 & 6: 10–16 July 2024
Play-off draw: 19 July 2024
Play-off round 1 (2 legs): 23–29 October 2024
Play-off round 2 (2 legs): 27 November–3 December 2024
Finals draw: 16 December 2024
Finals: 2–27 July 2025 (Switzerland)

Dates subject to confirmation

[TommyChat]

In the second round, the teams from both paths come together and will be drawn into seven ties, with seeding for the seven highest-ranked teams according to the European Qualifiers overall league rankings. The seven winners progress to the final tournament.

This is what I meant when I said in another topic that relegation from League A to League B will be bad for their chances to make the Euro even if it would be highly unlikely for them to finish in top two.

[Lorric]

Sarina Wiegman contract extension to 2027:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67991907

Pleased with that!

[amenina]

Pia Sundhage (former head coach of Sweden, USA, Brazil) has been appointed the new head coach of Switzerland.

Her contract will see her in charge of @nati_sfv_asf until the end of 2025.

[Witkop1983]

So many teams in playoffs. I really don't see why 3rd placed from leauge B or 2nd placed from league C should be in playoffs though.
How i would do it?

If Switzerland is 1st:
A3 and B1: bye to round 2 (7 teams), best A4 or B2 also bye to round 2:
round 1: 6 matchups:
A4-C1 (3x)
B2-C1 (2x)
A4/B2 (depending on who you give the bye) - B2

If Switzerland is 2nd:

A3 and B1: bye to round 2
round 1: 6 matchups:
A4-C1 (4x)
B2-C1 (1x)
B2-B2 (1x)

If Switzerland isn't in top 2: worst C1 is not in playoffs
A3 and B1 bye to round 2
A4 - C1 (4x)
B2 - B2 (2x)

2nd round:

pot 1: all A3 teams
pot 2: remaining A4 and B1 teams
pot 3: remaining other teams

first pot 1 is drawn against pot 3
then pot 1 or 3 (whichever has more teams) against pot 2
then pot 2 against pot 2

[amenina]

Women's European Qualifiers for EURO 2025: Who is in what league?

https://www.uefa.com/womenseuropeanqual ... ch-league/

The new-look Women's European Qualifiers will run from April to December 2024 and decide the 15 teams joining hosts Switzerland at UEFA Women's EURO 2025.

The European Qualifiers league stage is played in the same format as the UEFA Women's Nations League, with teams split into three leagues: League A with 16 teams, League B with 16 teams and League C with 19 teams. The draw is at 13:00 CET on Tuesday 5 March.

Women's European Qualifiers league stage draw

https://www.uefa.com/womenseuropeanqual ... w-tuesday/

Who is in which league?

League A
1 Spain
2 France
3 Germany
4 Netherlands
5 England
6 Denmark
7 Italy
8 Austria
9 Iceland
10 Belgium
11 Sweden
12 Norway
13 Republic of Ireland
14 Finland
15 Poland
16 Czechia

League B
17 Portugal
18 Switzerland
19 Scotland
20 Wales
21 Bosnia and Herzegovina
22 Serbia
23 Croatia
24 Hungary
25 Slovakia
26 Northern Ireland
27 Ukraine
28 Türkiye
29 Malta
30 Israel
31 Kosovo
32 Azerbaijan

League C
33 Slovenia
34 Greece
35 Belarus
36 Romania
37 Albania
38 Latvia
39 Montenegro
40 Bulgaria
41 Estonia
42 Lithuania
43 Luxembourg
44 Kazakhstan
45 North Macedonia
46 Cyprus
47 Andorra
48 Georgia
49 Moldova
50 Faroe Islands
51 Armenia

How qualifying works

League phase

In qualifying, as per the league stage of the Nations League, teams compete in groups of four or three teams (League C) and over six matchdays between April and July, with each team playing one home match and one away match against all the other teams in their group.

For qualifying itself, the top two teams in each League A group will gain places in the July 2025 finals alongside hosts Switzerland (who will compete in League B although their automatic qualification is assured). The remaining seven spots will be decided by two rounds of play-offs in October and November/December.

Play-offs

The first round of the play-offs is split into two paths. In one path, the teams finishing third and fourth in League A will play the five group winners and three best-ranked runners-up in League C. The eight winners progress to the second round.

In the other first round path, the four group winners and two best-ranked runners-up in League B will be drawn into six ties against the remaining two runners-up and four third-placed teams in League B. The six winners progress to the second round.

In the second round, the teams from both paths come together and will be drawn into seven ties, with seeding for the seven highest-ranked teams based on the European Qualifiers overall league rankings. The seven winners progress to the final tournament.

The play-off paths will be adjusted as necessary to take into account the performance of Women's EURO hosts Switzerland, who will compete in League B but are guaranteed a slot in the final tournament.

Promotion and relegation

Promotion and relegation will also be at stake ahead of the next UEFA Women's Nations League, beginning the 2025–27 competition cycle:

• The winners, runners-up and third-placed teams of League A stay in League A;

• The runners-up and three best-ranked third-placed teams in League B stay in League B;

• The runners-up, third-placed and fourth-placed teams in League C stay in League C;

• The winners of Leagues B and C will be promoted to the next league;

• All fourth-placed teams in Leagues A and B, as well as the lowest-ranked third-placed team of League B, will be relegated to the next league.

Women's EURO 2025 calendar

Qualifying draw: 5 March 2024
Qualifying matchdays 1 & 2: 3–9 April 2024
Qualifying matchdays 3 & 4: 29 May–4 June 2024
Qualifying matchdays 5 & 6: 10–16 July 2024
Play-off draw: 19 July 2024
Play-off round 1 (2 legs): 23–29 October 2024
Play-off round 2 (2 legs): 27 November–3 December 2024
Finals draw: 16 December 2024
Finals: 2–27 July 2025 (Switzerland)