2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group 4

UEFA Group 4 of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification competition consisted of five teams: Sweden, Denmark, Ukraine, Hungary, and Croatia. The composition of the seven groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 25 April 2017,[1][2] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.[3]

The group was played in home-and-away round-robin format between 15 September 2017 and 4 September 2018. The group winners qualified for the final tournament, while the runners-up advanced to the play-offs if they were one of the four best runners-up among all seven groups (not counting results against the fifth-placed team).[4]

Standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Sweden 8 7 0 1 22 2 +20 21 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup 3–0[a] 3–0 5–0 4–0
2  Denmark 8 5 1 2 22 8 +14 16 Play-offs 0–1 1–0 5–1 1–1
3  Ukraine 8 4 1 3 9 10 −1 13 1–0 1–5 2–0 1–1
4  Hungary 8 1 1 6 8 26 −18 4 1–4 1–6 0–1 2–2
5  Croatia 8 0 3 5 5 20 −15 3 0–2 0–4 0–3 1–3
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. ^ The Sweden v Denmark match was scheduled for 20 October 2017, but was cancelled because of a disagreement between the Danish team and their federation.[5] On 16 November it was announced that the result was awarded 3–0 to Sweden.[6]

Matches

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

Ukraine 1–1 Croatia
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Attendance: 1,342
Referee: Florence Guillemin (France)

Hungary 1–6 Denmark
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Attendance: 300
Referee: Ewa Augustyn (Poland)
Croatia 0–2 Sweden
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Attendance: 452
Referee: Eleni Lampadariou (Greece)

Hungary 2–2 Croatia
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Attendance: 250
Referee: Shona Shukrula (Netherlands)
Sweden 3–0
Awarded[note 2]
 Denmark
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Croatia 0–4 Denmark
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Attendance: 400
Referee: Lorraine Clark Scotland
Sweden 5–0 Hungary
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Attendance: 5,563

Hungary 0–1 Ukraine
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Attendance: 500
Referee: Paula Brady (Ireland)

Croatia 0–3 Ukraine
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Attendance: 500
Referee: Marte Sørø (Norway)
Hungary 1–4 Sweden
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Attendance: 872
Referee: Viola Raudziņa (Latvia)

Croatia 1–3 Hungary
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Attendance: 500
Referee: Cheryl Foster (Wales)
Denmark 1–0 Ukraine
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Attendance: 5,471
Referee: Jana Adámková (Czech Republic)

Sweden 4–0 Croatia
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Attendance: 8,092
Referee: Marta Frias Acedo (Spain)
Ukraine 1–5 Denmark
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Attendance: 1,800

Denmark 5–1 Hungary
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Attendance: 7,028
Referee: Rebecca Welch (England)
Ukraine 1–0 Sweden
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Attendance: 1,257
Referee: Petra Pavlíková (Slovakia)

Sweden 3–0 Ukraine
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Attendance: 6,171
Denmark 1–1 Croatia
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Attendance: 7,045
Referee: Volha Tsiareshka (Belarus)

Denmark 0–1 Sweden
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Ukraine 2–0 Hungary
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Attendance: 6,400
Referee: Graziella Pirriatore (Italy)

Goalscorers

There were 63 goals scored in 19 matches, for an average of 3.32 goals per match.

Only matches effectively played (excludes awarded results).

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Notes

  1. ^ CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 26 March and 28 October 2017 and between 25 March and 27 October 2018, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.
  2. ^ The Sweden v Denmark match was scheduled for 20 October 2017, 18:15 local time, at Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg, but was cancelled by Denmark because of a pay dispute between the Danish team and their federation.[7][8] UEFA opened disciplinary proceedings against Denmark for refusal to play[9] and, on 16 November, it was announced that UEFA awarded the match to Sweden by a score of 3–0, and fined Denmark €20,000.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ "Women's World Cup qualifying group stage draw". UEFA.com. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Women's World Cup qualifying group stage draw". UEFA.com. 25 April 2017.
  3. ^ "UEFA Women's National Team Coefficient Ranking for FIFA Women's World Cup qualifying" (PDF). UEFA.
  4. ^ "Regulations of the UEFA European Qualifying Competition for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup" (pdf). UEFA.com.
  5. ^ "Spillernes afbud fører til aflysning af VM-kvalkamp". dbu.dk. 20 October 2017.
  6. ^ "UEFA-beslut i Danmarksfrågan". svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). Swedish Football Association. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Spillernes afbud fører til aflysning af VM-kvalkamp". dbu.dk. 20 October 2017. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  8. ^ "Denmark cancels World Cup qualifier against Sweden". Associated Press. USA Today. 18 October 2017.
  9. ^ "Disciplinary updates". UEFA.com. 24 October 2017.
  10. ^ "UEFA-beslut i Danmarksfrågan". svenskfotboll.se (in Swedish). Swedish Football Association. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
  11. ^ "UEFA Disciplinary updates". UEFA.com. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.