WU-17: Ukraine's girls' national team will face rivals in the first round of Euro 31 on May 2023

23.05.2022 17:02

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On May 31 in Nyon, Switzerland, during the draw for the first round of the Euro-2022/2023 qualifiers, the girls' national team of Ukraine WU-17 will learn the names of its rivals.

The draw ceremony, which starts at 11.00 a.m. Kyiv time on Tuesday, will determine the lineups of both leagues and the hosts of this year's mini-tournaments. About this the BSWW official website, .

League A will feature 28 teams (including seven that have moved from League B following the second round of the 2021/2022 season, which ended this spring). They will be divided into seven groups. Teams of one group will play in one arena in the format of mini-tournaments. The fourth-place teams will continue the season in the second round of League B.

The seeding of participants before the second round will depend on which places in their teams the teams will take in the first round. Estonia will also take part in the competition, despite a direct ticket to the finals, which belongs to it as the host.

League B teams (including teams that left League A in the second round of the 2021/2022 season) will compete for League A division in six groups. Group winners and runners-up with the best result against the teams that finished first and third in their groups will advance to the top division.

The order of the draw

In the first round, 48 participants, including the Estonian national team, which will automatically reach the final stage, are divided into League A (28 teams) and League B (20 teams) according to the rankings of the second round in the 2021/2022 season. In League A, the teams will be divided into seven quartets, in League B - into two quartets and four trios.

All teams in their leagues were divided into four baskets (in League A - seven teams in each, in League B - six teams in baskets 1 and 2, eight - in basket 3). In each group of League A there will be one representative of each basket, and in League B each group will contain one team from the first and second basket, two teams from the third basket will go to groups B1 and B2, another - to each of the other groups .

According to previously decided decisions of the UEFA Executive Committee and the UEFA Emergency Situations Working Group, the national teams of Armenia and Azerbaijan will not be able to get into one group.

After the draw, the hosts of the mini-tournaments will be determined. The matches will take place from August 1 to November 20, 2022.

It will be recalled that due to full-scale aggression by Russia and the martial law in Ukraine, our team could not perform in the second round selection of Euro-2022 and formally took last, fourth place in the group, but the UEFA Executive Committee due to Russia's disqualification decided to leave the girls' national team of Ukraine in the elite. Thus, she got into the basket 3 of League A.

First round draw: leagues and baskets

League A

Pot 1: Spain, the Netherlands, Germany (champion), France, Denmark, Finland, Norway.

Pot 2: Serbia, Iceland, Austria, England, Greece, Portugal, Hungary.

Pot 3: Sweden, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Ireland, Czech Republic, Ukraine.

Pot 4: Switzerland *, Scotland *, Turkey *, Belgium *, Estonia (host of the final part) *, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

* - transferred from League B.

League B

Pot 1: Slovakia *, Kosovo *, Croatia *, Romania *, Montenegro *, Belarus *.

Pot 2: Israel, Bulgaria, Latvia, Albania, Lithuania, Luxembourg.

Pot 3: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Faroe Islands, Northern Macedonia, Wales.

* - flew out of League A.