Women's Euro 2025 qualifiers

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Women's European Qualifiers play-off draw | Women's European Qualifiers 2025 | UEFA.com

 

Predictions?

 

Portugal, Scotland, Belgium, Republic of Ireland, Austria, Norway, Sweden

 

And except for Scotland, they should all be rather easy.
But Scotland-Finland will be tight and history has taught me to never discount Finns in tight situations, and since the last match should be in Finland in early December I think Finland have the best chance (51% chance or so).

 

Can anyone advise me what stadium/location the Croatia v NI qualifier on 23 October will be staged in, or when or where it will become known? (I appreciate it's far in advance, but I tried consulting the Croatia FA website and it's hopelessly out-of-date)

 

Thank you for that. I don't expect the venue to be announced too far in advance either. I'm asking because I hope to be able to attend, but there aren't too many flight options from the UK to some of the possible locations and the later you book, the more expensive airfares become.

Ironically for Nations League Mens games, UEFA requires the home Association to select the venue 120 days in advance. In part this must be to facilitate travelling fans from the visiting team.

Whereas with this Womens' game being a Play-Off, the match date is only 96 days after the draw and besides, I doubt the travelling fanbase will make double figures!

Oh well.

 

Thank you for that.

Agree Osijek looks good, but being where it is, it's not easy to get to from abroad - the local airport is small and doesn't have frequent connections. I'm hoping that the game will be in Zagreb, or in some of the venues near by in the region, with the venue announced reasonably soon

 

Play-offs Round 1 this week

First legs: Friday 25 October CET times

Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Serbia (14:00)
Azerbaijan vs Portugal (14:00)
Albania vs Norway (16:00)
Montenegro vs Finland (16:30)
Türkiye vs Ukraine (17:00)
Slovakia vs Wales (17:30)
Romania vs Poland (18:00)
Greece vs Belgium (18:00)
Georgia vs Republic of Ireland (18:00)
Slovenia vs Austria (18:00)
Hungary vs Scotland (18:15)
Croatia vs Northern Ireland (19:00)
Luxembourg vs Sweden (19:30)
Belarus vs Czechia (20:30)

Second legs: Tuesday 29 October

Czechia vs Belarus (15:00)
Ukraine vs Türkiye (17:00)
Finland vs Montenegro (17:30)
Poland vs Romania (18:00)
Austria vs Slovenia (18:00)
Sweden vs Luxembourg (19:00)
Norway vs Albania (19:00)
Serbia vs Bosnia and Herzegovina (19:00)
Northern Ireland vs Croatia (20:00)
Belgium vs Greece (20:15)
Wales vs Slovakia (20:15)
Republic of Ireland vs Georgia (20:30)
Scotland vs Hungary (20:35)
Portugal vs Azerbaijan (20:45)

 

Albania vs Norway

 

Azerbaijan vs Portugal


Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Serbia

 

Georgia vs Republic of Ireland


Greece vs Belgium

 

Games between League A and C

Slovenia 0-3 Austria
Greece 0-0 Belgium
Belarus 1-8 Czechia
Montenegro 0-1 Finland
Albania 0-5 Norway
Romania 1-2 Poland
Georgia 0-6 Republic of Ireland
Luxembourg 0-4 Sweden

Finland and Poland only winning by a single goal surprising me and Belgium unable to beat Greece is an upset.

Games between League B teams

Azerbaijan 1-4 Portugal
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-2 Serbia
Croatia 1-1 Northern Ireland
Hungary 0-1 Scotland
Slovakia 2-1 Wales
Türkiye 1-1 Ukraine


All the British teams struggling while the local press was hyping them up...

 

Romania 1 - 2 Poland
Balecanu 18' --- Padilla-Bidas 72', Pajor 89'(p.)
RC: Ficzay 88' (ROU)
(att: 3 076)

Polish defenders gifted first goal to the hosts which in turn forced them to play against bunker defense and counter for the remainder on the match. Outside of the goal Romania created barely one good chance throught the game... which end up in PK saved by Kinga Szemik. Poland had couple of half-chances but the finish simply wasn't there... still in later parts of the game Romanians couldn't keep up with the tempo and conceded 2 goals.

 

How has Milena Kokosz performed for Poland? She was Åsane's first ever national team player when she was selected for Poland earlier this year. She has had a strong season in Toppserien playing for a poor team. I saw Kokosz was brought straight into the Polish starting XI after her first call-up.

 

Considering she has barely 2 caps in NT she had a very decent game. Coach Patalon is certainly impressed with her performance in Norway, enough to give her starting XI and 60mins in an important play-off match. In think Kokosz will be good alternate/rotation to Frankfurt's Tania Pawollek who yesterday had her first minutes on the pitch since she torn ACL in January.

 

Northern Ireland not happy with the training pitches in Croatia.

Not gonna lie, when France used to play the Istria Cup there, some of the pitches were poor.