Volodymyr Pyatenko: "Ukrainian women have ambitious plans - to win a ticket to the Euros"
The 2025 Women's European Championship qualification draw was held. National team of Ukraine will act in group B4, where her opponents will be players from Wales, Croatia and Kosovo.
The head coach of the women's national team of Ukraine, Volodymyr Pyatenko, in a comment to the official website of the UAF, shared his impressions of the results of the draw:
— Ukrainian women were included in a group of roughly equal participants. Therefore, it is difficult to call someone a favorite. The same Croats claimed entry to League A, but lost twice to the Norwegians. Soccer players from Kosovo have moved up in the class from League C, ahead of the Bulgarians, but it was this national team that my wards confidently beat twice recently. As for the Welsh women's footballers, they were relegated from the A League, but a whole group of players are involved in the prestigious English championship...
And although a detailed study of the strengths and weaknesses of the female competitors is yet to come, I can already say that the Ukrainian women will be determined to win the right to perform in the final part of the Euro.
Since the first two rounds will take place already at the beginning of April, we plan to gather for preparation at the end of March. Exactly where will depend on the calendar.
The results of the Women's Euro 2025 qualifying draw
League A
Group A1: Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Finland.
Group A2: Spain, Denmark, Belgium, Czechia.
Group A3: France, England, Sweden, Ireland.
Group A4: Germany, Austria, Iceland, Poland.
League B.
Group B1: Switzerland, Hungary, Turkey, Azerbaijan.
Group B2: Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Israel.
Group B3: Portugal, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Northern Ireland, Malta.
Group B4: Wales, Croatia, Ukraine, Kosovo.
League C.
Group C1: Belarus, Lithuania, Cyprus, Georgia.
Group C2: Slovenia, Latvia, North Macedonia, Moldova.
Group C3: Greece, Montenegro, Andorra, Faroe Islands.
Group C4: Romania, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Armenia.
Group C5: Albania, Estonia, Luxembourg.
The distribution of tickets for Euro-2025 takes place based on the results of the next league cycle. The teams compete in groups of four or three teams (League C). The eight best teams in League A (first and second places) immediately go to the final tournament. There they join the host country, Switzerland.
The remaining seven passes are to played in two rounds of playoffs. In the one-way first round, the third- and fourth-placed teams in League A play the group winners and the top three second-placed teams in League C. The eight winners advance to the second round.
Elsewhere, the four group winners and the top two runners-up in League B play the remaining two runners-up and the four third-placed teams in League B. The six winners advance to the second round.
In the second round of the playoffs, 14 national teams directly play for seven tickets to the final tournament of Euro-2025, where a total of 16 participants play.
The paths of the teams in the play-off matches are to be adjusted, if necessary, taking into account the performances of Switzerland, which plays in League B, but will be represented at the Euro as the host country.
If Switzerland finishes first, second or third in their B League group, the fourth best team from that division will enter the playoffs.
Promotion and relegation
In parallel, teams will also compete for positions in the next Nations League, which begins the 2025-2027 cycle:
— winners, holders of second and third places in League A groups will remain in League A;
— the second-place winners and the three best third-place winners in League B groups will remain in League B;
— the winners of the second, third and fourth places in the groups of League C will remain in League C;
— the winners of the groups in the B and C leagues will move to the higher division;
— the fourth-place finishers in League A and B groups, as well as the worst third-place finisher in League B, will be relegated.
Euro-2025 among women's teams. Calendar
Matches 1—2 rounds: April 3-9, 2024.
Matches 3—4 rounds: May 29 - June 4, 2024.
Matches 5—6 rounds: July 10-16, 2024.
Playoff draw: July 19, 2024
1st round of playoffs (2 matches): October 23-29, 2024.
2st round of playoffs (2 matches): November 27 - December 3, 2024.
Final tournament draw: December 16, 2024.
Final tournament: July 2-27, 2025 (Switzerland).
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