UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying play-offs

The play-offs of the UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying competition involved the two runners-up with the worst records among all eight groups in the qualifying group stage: Portugal and Romania. The draw for the play-offs (to decide the order of legs) was held on 23 September 2016.^[1]

UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying play-offs

Event	UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying
Portugal Romania 1 1
on aggregate Portugal won on away goals
First leg
Portugal Romania 0 0
Date	21 October 2016
Venue	Estádio do Restelo, Lisbon
Referee	Katalin Kulcsár (Hungary)
Second leg
Romania Portugal 1 1
after extra time
Date	25 October 2016
Venue	Stadionul Dr. Constantin Rădulescu, Cluj-Napoca
Referee	Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)

UEFA Women's Euro 2017 qualifying play-offs

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The play-offs were played in home-and-away two-legged format. The play-off winner qualified for the final tournament.^[2]

Ranking of second-placed teams

Despite the fact that every groups had 5 teams, in order to determine the six best second-placed teams from the qualifying group stage which qualified directly for the final tournament and the two remaining second-placed teams which advanced to the play-offs, the results against the fifth-placed team were not included. As a result, six matches played by each second-placed team were counted for the purposes of determining the ranking.^[3]

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	1	Scotland	6	5	0	1	16	6	+10	15	Final tournament
2	4	Denmark	6	4	1	1	13	1	+12	13
3	6	Italy	6	4	0	2	13	7	+6	12
4	7	Belgium	6	3	2	1	16	5	+11	11
5	8	Austria	6	3	2	1	13	4	+9	11
6	5	Russia	6	3	1	2	12	9	+3	10
7	3	Romania	6	3	1	2	11	8	+3	10	Play-offs
8	2	Portugal	6	2	1	3	6	10	−4	7

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) away goals scored; 5) disciplinary points; 6) coefficient.

Overview

All times are CEST (UTC+2).

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Portugal	(a) 1–1	Romania	0–0	1–1 (a.e.t.)

Portugal qualified for the final tournament.

First leg

21 October 2016 (2016-10-21)

19:45

Portugal	0–0	Romania
	Report

Estádio do Restelo, Lisbon

Attendance: 3,415

Referee: Katalin Kulcsár (Hungary)

Portugal

Romania

GK 12 Patrícia Morais RB 5 Matilde Fidalgo CB 4 Sílvia Rebelo CB 15 Carole Costa LB 9 Ana Borges DM 14 Dolores Silva CM 19 Amanda DaCosta  67' CM 20 Suzane Pires AM 18 Carolina Mendes CF 10 Ana Leite  84' CF 7 Cláudia Neto (c) Substitutions: MF 13 Fátima Pinto  67' FW 16 Diana Silva  84' Manager: Francisco Neto

GK 1 Andreea Părăluță RB 2 Andreea Corduneanu  45' CB 3 Lidia Havriștiuc CB 6 Maria Ficzay LB 15 Olivia Oprea  73' CM 4 Ioana Bortan CM 8 Ștefania Vătafu  80' RW 7 Raluca Sârghe  56' LW 10 Andreea Voicu CF 14 Alexandra Lunca  66' CF 11 Florentina Spânu (c) Substitutions: FW 18 Mihaela Ciolacu  56' FW 9 Laura Rus  66' MF 5 Adina Giurgiu  73' Manager: Mirel Albon

Assistant referees: Judit Kulcsár (Hungary) Brigitta Makkosne Petz (Hungary) Fourth official: Gyöngyi Gaál (Hungary)

Second leg

25 October 2016 (2016-10-25)

17:00

Romania	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Portugal
Rus 111'	Report	Norton 105+1'

Stadionul Dr. Constantin Rădulescu, Cluj-Napoca

Attendance: 7,110

Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)

Romania

Portugal

GK 1 Andreea Părăluță RB 15 Olivia Oprea CB 3 Lidia Havriștiuc  43' CB 6 Maria Ficzay LB 11 Florentina Spânu (c) CM 8 Ștefania Vătafu CM 4 Ioana Bortan  108' AM 10 Andreea Voicu RF 5 Adina Giurgiu  85' CF 18 Mihaela Ciolacu  70' LF 14 Alexandra Lunca  75' Substitutions: MF 17 Mara Bâtea  70'  110' FW 9 Laura Rus  85' MF 7 Raluca Sârghe  110' Manager: Mirel Albon

GK 12 Patrícia Morais RB 5 Matilde Fidalgo CB 4 Sílvia Rebelo  74' CB 15 Carole Costa LB 9 Ana Borges DM 14 Dolores Silva CM 20 Suzane Pires CM 19 Amanda DaCosta  46' AM 18 Carolina Mendes  63' CF 10 Ana Leite  78' CF 7 Cláudia Neto (c)  108' Substitutions: MF 13 Fátima Pinto  46' FW 16 Diana Silva  120'  63' FW 8 Andreia Norton  78' Manager: Francisco Neto

Assistant referees: Natalia Rachynska (Ukraine) Maryna Striletska (Ukraine) Fourth official: Stéphanie Frappart (France)