2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA Group A

UEFA Group A of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification competition consists of five teams: Sweden, Finland, Republic of Ireland, Slovakia, and Georgia. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 30 April 2021,^[1] with the teams seeded according to their coefficient ranking.^[2]

The group is played in home-and-away round-robin format between 17 September 2021 and 6 September 2022, with a pause for the Women's Euro 2022 in July. The group winners qualify for the final tournament, while the runners-up advance to the play-offs second round if they are one of the three best runners-up among all nine groups (counting results against the fifth-placed team).^[3]

Standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sweden	8	7	1	0	32	2	+30	22	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup	—	1–1	2–1	3–0	4–0
2	Republic of Ireland	8	5	2	1	26	4	+22	17	Play-offs	0–1	—	1–0	1–1	11–0
3	Finland	8	3	1	4	14	12	+2	10		0–5	1–2	—	2–1	6–0
4	Slovakia	8	2	2	4	9	9	0	8		0–1	0–1	1–1	—	2–0
5	Georgia	8	0	0	8	0	54	−54	0		0–15	0–9	0–3	0–4	—

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Matches

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

17 September 2021

17:30

Slovakia	0–1	Sweden
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Rolfö 10'

NTC Senec, Senec

Referee: Shona Shukrula (Netherlands)

21 September 2021

17:15 (18:15 EEST)

Finland	2–1	Slovakia
Engman 37' Öling 68'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Mikolajová 63'

Veritas Stadion, Turku

Referee: Marta Frias Acedo (Spain)

21 September 2021

18:30

Sweden	4–0	Georgia
Angeldal 40' Eriksson 45+4' Seger 84' (pen.), 90+3'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg

Referee: Lucie Šulcová (Czech Republic)

21 October 2021

17:00 (20:00 GET)

Georgia	0–3	Finland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Sällström 17' Franssi 68' Alanen 71' (pen.)

Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi

Referee: Liudmyla Telbukh (Ukraine)

21 October 2021

20:00 (19:00 IST)

Republic of Ireland	0–1	Sweden
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Lo. Quinn 39' (o.g.)

Tallaght Stadium, Dublin

Attendance: 4,017

Referee: Deborah Anex (Switzerland)

26 October 2021

16:30

Slovakia	2–0	Georgia
Mikolajová 38' Šurnovská 40'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

NTC Poprad, Poprad

Referee: Lizzy Van Der Helm (Netherlands)

26 October 2021

17:15 (18:15 EEST)

Finland	1–2	Republic of Ireland
Engman 52'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Connolly 10' D. O'Sullivan 56'

Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki

Referee: Alexandra Collin (France)

25 November 2021

18:30

Sweden	2–1	Finland
Rolfö 11' Hurtig 80'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Sällström 29'

Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg

Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)

25 November 2021

20:00 (19:00 GMT)

Republic of Ireland	1–1	Slovakia
McCabe 65'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Šurnovská 47'

Tallaght Stadium, Dublin

Referee: Jelena Cvetković (Serbia)

30 November 2021

19:00

Sweden	3–0	Slovakia
Hurtig 19' Rolfö 59' Ilestedt 69'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Eleda Stadion, Malmö

Referee: Angelika Söder (Germany)

30 November 2021

20:00 (19:00 GMT)

Republic of Ireland	11–0	Georgia
Bebia 4' (o.g.) Carusa 21' Lu. Quinn 37' O'Sullivan 45+4', 58', 62' McCabe 70' (pen.), 73' Noonan 82' Barrett 89' Caldwell 90+2'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Tallaght Stadium, Dublin

Referee: Jurgita Mačikunytė (Lithuania)

7 April 2022

18:00 (20:00 GET)

Georgia	0–15	Sweden
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Rolfö 3' Angeldal 8', 32', 39' Blackstenius 15', 21' Sembrant 18' Ilestedt 27' J. Andersson 29' Hurtig 35', 42' Blomqvist 67' Asllani 76', 81' (pen.) Schough 90+4'

Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium, Gori

Referee: Hristiyana Guteva (Bulgaria)

8 April 2022

20:30

Slovakia	1–1	Finland
Šurnovská 16'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Hyyrynen 6'

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava

Referee: Monika Mularczyk (Poland)

12 April 2022

17:15 (18:15 EEST)

Finland	6–0	Georgia
Alanen 24' Summanen 35' (pen.), 65' Engman 39' Kalandadze 55' (o.g.) Danielsson 73'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Bolt Arena, Helsinki

Referee: Reelika Turi (Estonia)

12 April 2022

18:30

Sweden	1–1	Republic of Ireland
Asllani 79'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	McCabe 44'

Gamla Ullevi, Gothenburg

Attendance: 12,123

Referee: Iuliana Demetrescu (Romania)

27 June 2022^{[note 2]}

18:00 (20:00 GET)

Georgia	0–9	Republic of Ireland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	McCabe 6', 45+2', 75' Fahey 13' Connolly 19' Lo. Quinn 49', 73' Larkin 82' D. O'Sullivan 90+3'

Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium, Gori

Referee: Melis Özçiğdem (Turkey)

1 September 2022

18:00 (20:00 GET)

Georgia	0–4	Slovakia
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Hmírová 1' Fischerová 17' Šurnovská 63' Vojteková 79'

Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium, Gori

Referee: Viki De Cremer (Belgium)

1 September 2022

20:00 (19:00 IST)

Republic of Ireland	1–0	Finland
Agg 54'	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)

Tallaght Stadium, Dublin

Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)

6 September 2022

18:00 (19:00 EEST)

Finland	0–5	Sweden
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	Blackstenius 17' Hurtig 29' Sembrant 63' Blomqvist 68' Rolfö 90+2'

Tampere Stadium, Tampere

Referee: Ivana Martinčić (Croatia)

6 September 2022

18:00

Slovakia	0–1	Republic of Ireland
	Report (FIFA) Report (UEFA)	O'Sullivan 37'

NTC Senec, Senec

Referee: María Martínez (Spain)

Goalscorers

There were 81 goals scored in 20 matches, for an average of 4.05 goals per match.

7 goals

Katie McCabe

6 goals

Denise O'Sullivan

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Maiko Bebia (against Republic of Ireland)
Mariam Kalandadze (against Finland)
Louise Quinn (against Sweden)

Notes

^ CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 28 March and 31 October 2021 and between 27 March and 30 October 2022, and CET (UTC+1) for all other dates.
^ Following a request from the FAI, the game was rescheduled from 17 September 2021.^[4]