The Portuguese women’s soccer team faces rivals in the European play-off for the 2023 World Cup this Friday, and in the first round they can face Austria, Belgium, Scotland, Wales and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The next rival of the ‘quinas’, in the scheduled race between Australia and New Zealand (from July 20 to August 20), will be known in an unconditional draw, scheduled at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, at 1:00 p.m.: 30 local time (12:30 in Lisbon).
Portugal will know the rival in the first round, on October 6, and also which team he will be able to face on Monday the 11th, if he qualifies, in a list that also includes Switzerland, Iceland and the Republic of Ireland, who enter directly into this stage. The location of the game is also drawn.
Francisco Neto’s team qualified for the play-off by finishing second in Group H, with 22 points, against 27 of Germany, which qualified for the final.
In the accounts of the second classified (results with first, third, fourth and fifth), Portugal —discounting the two results with Bulgaria (sixth classified)— added 16 points, with 18-9 in goals, and was only the seventh best, being that only the top three went straight to the second round.
Of the three winners of the second round, the first two —sum of the points in the group stage (with first, third, fourth and fifth) and in the second round— move on to the final and the third for an Intercontinental play-off.
In this playoff, which will take place in New Zealand (from February 17 to 23, 2023) and which will seal the last three positions, there are already Chinese Taipei, Thailand, Cameroon, Senegal, Papua New Guinea, Haiti, Panama, Chile and Paraguay . The UEFA representative is missing.
For the final phase, 27 of the 32 teams are defined, nine representing Europe, namely Sweden, Spain, England, Denmark, Norway, Germany, France, Holland and Italy.
The other formations already qualified are the hosts Australia and New Zealand, as well as China, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and Vietnam (Asia), Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia (Africa), Canada, Costa Rica, Jamaica and the United States. (CONCACAF) and Argentina, Brazil and Colombia (South America).
Source: Observadora
