Women’s Portugal meet in the European “play-off” of the Observer World Cup
The Portuguese team knows this Friday from football qualification in the European play-off of 2023, and in the first round they can face Austria, Belgium, Scotland, Wales and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The next opponent of the “quinas” team, in the race scheduled for Australia and New Zealand (20 July to 20 August), will be known in an unconditional draw, scheduled for UEFA’s headquarters in Nyon, by the 1:30 pm local time (12:30 pm in Lisbon).
Portugal will know who is first in the round, on October 6, and also which team will be able to face in the second qualify, on the 11th, in a list that also includes Switzerland, Iceland and the Republic of Ireland, which enter directly in this phase. The location of the game is also drawn.
Francisco Neto’s team qualified for the play-off against the runner-up in Group H, with 22 points, against 27 for Germany, which qualified for the finals.
In the accounts of the seconds, the best points go in results (being results with only first the seventh), Portugal that only the first three went directly to the second round.
Of the three defeated in the second round of the second round, the two best sum the points in the group stage (with first third, fourth and fifth) go on to the finals and the third for an Intercontinental play-off.
In this play-off, which will take place in New Zealand (17 to 23 February 2023) and will seal as the last three spots, China Taipei, Thailand, Cameroon, Senegal, Papua New Guinea, Haiti, Panama, Chile and Paraguay are now available. , missing a UEFA representative.
For the finals, Germany27 of the 32 teams are included, with nine representing Europe, namely Sweden, England, Denmark and Italy.
Like other already recognized formations), Canada, Australia and New Zealand, plus China, Japan, South Philippines and Vietnam, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia (Africa, Costa Rica, Jamaica and the United States (CONCACAF) and Argentina, Brazil and Colombia (South America).