UEFA Women's Euro 2021

England was the only country to submit a bid before the deadline.[8]

•  England

England were confirmed as hosts at the UEFA Executive Committee meeting in Dublin, Republic of Ireland on 3 December 2018.[9][6][5]

A total of 48 UEFA nations entered the competition (including Cyprus which entered for the first time at senior women's level, and Kosovo which entered their first Women's Euro), and with the hosts England qualifying automatically, the other 47 teams will compete in the qualifying competition to determine the remaining 15 spots in the final tournament.[10] Different from previous qualifying competitions, the preliminary round has been abolished and all entrants start from the qualifying group stage. The qualifying competition consists of two rounds:[11]

• Qualifying group stage: The 47 teams are drawn into nine groups: two groups of six teams and seven groups of five teams. Each group is played in home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners and the three best runners-up (not counting results against the sixth-placed team) qualify directly for the final tournament, while the remaining six runners-up advance to the play-offs.
• Play-offs: The six teams are drawn into three ties to play home-and-away two-legged matches to determine the last three qualified teams.

The draw for the qualifying group stage was held on 21 February 2019 in Nyon. The qualifying group stage will take place from August 2019 to September 2020, while the play-offs will take place in October 2020.[11][5]

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance	FIFA ranking at start of event
England	Hosts	3 December 2018	9th	2017	Runners-up (1984, 2009)

The following stadiums will host matches in the tournament:[13][14]

• Old Trafford, Manchester – opening match only
• Bramall Lane, Sheffield
• Brentford Community Stadium, London
• Falmer Stadium, Brighton and Hove
• Leigh Sports Village, Leigh
• Manchester City Academy Stadium, Manchester
• New York Stadium, Rotherham
• Stadium MK, Milton Keynes
• St Mary's Stadium, Southampton
• Wembley Stadium, London – final only

Meadow Lane in Nottingham and London Road in Peterborough were initially included on the list of stadiums when the Football Association submitted the bid to host the tournament. These were changed with the City Ground in Nottingham and St Mary's in Southampton due to UEFA requirements.[15][16] The City Ground was replaced by Leigh Sports Village when the final list of venues was confirmed in August 2019.[13] On 23 February 2020, Old Trafford in Manchester was confirmed as the venue of the opening match featuring England.[17]

London		Manchester
Wembley Stadium (Wembley)	Brentford Community Stadium (Brentford)	Old Trafford	Manchester City Academy Stadium
Capacity: 90,000	Capacity: 17,250	Capacity: 74,879	Capacity: 7,000
Leigh	London Manchester Sheffield Rotherham Southampton Leigh Milton Keynes Brighton and Hove
Leigh Sports Village
Capacity: 12,000
Sheffield
Bramall Lane
Capacity: 32,702
Rotherham	Milton Keynes	Southampton	Brighton and Hove
New York Stadium	Stadium MK	St Mary's Stadium	Falmer Stadium
Capacity: 12,021	Capacity: 30,500	Capacity: 32,505	Capacity: 30,750

Each national team have to submit a squad of 23 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers. If a player is injured or ill severely enough to prevent her participation in the tournament before her team's first match, she can be replaced by another player.[11]

The provisional match schedule was confirmed by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Nyon, Switzerland on 4 December 2019.[18]

The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals.

Tiebreakers

In the group stage, teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Articles 18.01 and 18.02):[11]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
5. Goal difference in all group matches;
6. Goals scored in all group matches;
7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams have the same number of points, and they met in the last round of the group and are tied after applying all criteria above (not used if more than two teams have the same number of points, or if their rankings are not relevant for qualification for the next stage);
8. Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
9. UEFA coefficient ranking for the final draw.

All times are local, BST (UTC+1).[19]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Knockout stage
2	A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	A4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on 6 July 2022. Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Host.

6 July 2022 (2022-07-06)

England	v	A2

Old Trafford, Manchester

July 2022 (2022-07)

A3	v	A4

St Mary's Stadium, Southampton

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July 2022 (2022-07)

England	v	A3

Brighton Community Stadium, Brighton and Hove

July 2022 (2022-07)

A2	v	A4

St Mary's Stadium, Southampton

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July 2022 (2022-07)

A4	v	England

St Mary's Stadium, Southampton

July 2022 (2022-07)

A2	v	A3

Brighton Community Stadium, Brighton and Hove

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.[11]

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• UEFA Women's Euro 2005

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