Today, the women's national team of Ukraine will host Spain in the selection of the 2023 World Cup

26.10.2021 11:00

Photo by Volodymyr Rasner

On duty The rival of Natalia Zinchenko's wards in the selection of the 2023 World Cup will be the national team Spain is the 10th team in the FIFA rankings.

The match of the group tournament of the European qualification of the women's World Cup Ukraine - Spain will take place today, October 26, in Kovalivka at the Kolos Stadium (starting at 17.00).

The national team of Ukraine entered the fight as the last of the teams in its group, so the coaching staff had the opportunity to get additional information about rivals. Five days ago, the blue-yellow plan worked - at the same stadium, our girls defeated the Faroe Islands (4:0). By the way, that day, October 21, Spain held a sparring match with Morocco - 3: 0. By the way, the Spaniards have won their last 13 matches with a total score of 70: 0. 

"Our rivals are the favorites of the match - noted on the eve of the head coach of the women's national team of Ukraine Natalia Zinchenko. "We have to be realistic: Spain is a top team, and even matches with it are a very valuable experience that will definitely come in handy in the near future."

It should be added that today's confrontation between the national teams of Ukraine and Spain will be the third in the history of these teams. Twice the teams met at the qualification stage of the World Cup. In 1997, our players celebrated the victory - 2: 1 thanks to a double by Natalia Zinchenko, and within a year the victory with a similar score provided accurate shots by Svetlana Frishko and Lyudmila Pekur. 

The squad of the national women's team of Ukraine

Goalkeepers: Iryna Sanina (Kolos Kovalivka), Daryna Bondarchuk, Alla Gerasymchuk (both Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv).

Defenders: Lyubov Shmatko, Anna Petryk, Olga Basanska, Daria Apanashchenko (all - Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv), Kateryna Korsun, Natia Pantsulaya, Iryna Podolska (all - Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv), Daria Kravets (Fiorentina », Italy).

Midfielders: Nadiya Havanska, Yulia Shevchuk, Olga Boychenko (all - Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv), Yana Kalinina, Veronika Andrukhiv, Yana Malakhova (all - Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv), Tamila Khimich (Split, Croatia), Khrystyna Pereviznyk (Ladomir Volodymyr-Volynskyi).

Forwards: Nadiya Kunina (Linkoping, Sweden), Olga Ovdiychuk (Zhytlobud-1 Kharkiv), Roksolana Kravchuk (Zhytlobud-2 Kharkiv), Nicole Kozlova (Virginia Tech, USA). 

Calendar of 2023 World Cup qualifiers in Group B.

16.09.2021/0/10 Faroe Islands - Spain - XNUMX:XNUMX

17.09.2021/0/2 Hungary - Scotland - XNUMX: XNUMX

21.09.2021/7/1 Scotland - Faroe Islands - XNUMX: XNUMX

21.09.2021/0/7 Hungary - Spain - XNUMX: XNUMX

21.10.2021. Ukraine - Faroe Islands - 4: 0

22.10.2021/2/1 Scotland - Hungary - XNUMX: XNUMX

Standings

26.10.2021. Ukraine - Spain

26.10.2021/XNUMX/XNUMX Faroe Islands - Hungary

25.11.2021/XNUMX/XNUMX Spain - Faroe Islands

26.11.2021/XNUMX/XNUMX Scotland - Ukraine

30.11.2021/XNUMX/XNUMX Hungary - Ukraine

30.11.2021/XNUMX/XNUMX Spain - Scotland

08.04.2022. Ukraine - Scotland

08.04.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX Hungary - Faroe Islands

12.04.2022. Ukraine - Hungary

12.04.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX Scotland - Spain

02.09.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX Faroe Islands - Ukraine

02.09.2022 Spain - Hungary

06.09.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX Spain - Ukraine

06.09.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX Faroe Islands - Scotland

Playoffs: October 3-11, 2022.

Intercontinental playoffs: November 7-15, 2022, February 13-25, 2023, and April 3-11, 2023.

Final tournament (Australia, New Zealand): July 10 - August 20, 2023.

Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament. European area

Group Round

Europe has 2023 direct tickets to the 11 World Cup, another team will take part in the intercontinental playoffs. 

The 51 national teams will play in a two-round tournament with home and away matches in nine groups: three groups of five teams (A-C) and six groups of six teams (D-I). The matches of this stage will take place in the period from September 2021 to September 2022.

Group A: Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Slovakia, Georgia.

Group B: Spain, Scotland, Ukraine, Hungary, Faroe Islands.

Group C: The Netherlands, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Belarus, Cyprus.

Group D: England, Austria, Northern Ireland, Northern Macedonia, Latvia, Luxembourg.

Group E: Denmark, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Azerbaijan, Malta, Montenegro.

Group F: Norway, Belgium, Poland, Albania, Kosovo, Armenia.

Group G: Italy, Switzerland, Romania, Croatia, Moldova, Lithuania.

Group H: Germany, Portugal, Serbia, Israel, Turkey, Bulgaria.

Group I: France, Wales, Slovenia, Greece, Kazakhstan, Estonia.

Nine group winners will go directly to the 2023 World Cup. The second teams of the groups will continue to fight in the next stage.

Playoffs

The nine teams that take second place in the groups will advance to the playoffs, which will consist of two stages.

The top three among the second teams will have the opportunity to play directly in the second stage of the playoffs. The remaining six participants will compete for three passes in single-match confrontations in the first stage. The three winners of the first round and the three teams that advanced directly to the second stage will determine the three winners of the UEFA playoffs in one-match duels.

The two winners of the second-ranked UEFA playoffs (criteria applied to the results of the group stage plus the playoffs of the second round) will receive two automatic places at the 2023 World Cup, while the third winner will continue his journey in the intercontinental playoffs.