The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification UEFA play-offs were a series of two-legged ties determining qualification for the

2011 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the even ...

. They involved the eight group winners from the first stage of European qualification.

Format

The play-offs consisted of two sections. The first section was the direct qualification to the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup finals. The eight group winners were paired for four two-legged ties – the winner of each tie qualified for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany. The second section was the repechage qualification to the UEFA-CONCACAF play-off. The four losers from the direct qualifiers were paired for two two-legged ties, with the two winners playing off over two legs for the right to play against the third-placed CONCACAF nation for a place in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Qualification and seeding

The eight UEFA qualification group winners qualified for the play-offs. The play-off draw seeding according to results in this qualifying competition and those for UEFA Women's EURO 2009.

Direct qualification

The four winners qualified for the

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Matches

France won 3–2 on aggregate and qualified for the

. Italy advanced to the repechage qualification. ---- England won 5–2 on aggregate and qualified for the

. Switzerland advanced to the repechage qualification. ---- Norway won 3–0 on aggregate and qualified for the

. Ukraine advanced to the repechage qualification. ---- Sweden won 4–3 on aggregate and qualified for the

. Denmark advanced to the repechage qualification.

Repechage qualification

The four losing teams from the qualification play-offs played-off for the right to play against the third-placed CONCACAF nation for a place in the World Cup finals. The first round of repechage ties was played on 2 and 6 October and the second round on 23 and 27 October.

Knock-out map

Repechage I

Switzerland won 3–1 on aggregate and advanced to the second round of repechage qualification. ---- Italy won 3–0 on aggregate and advanced to the second round of repechage qualification.

Repechage II

Italy won 5–2 on aggregate and advanced to the UEFA-CONCACAF play-off.

References

External links

Regulations of the European Qualifying Competition for the 6th FIFA Women's World Cup

UEFA Women's coefficient ranking – play-off matches for the FIFA WWC
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