2027 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification – UEFA play-offs

Two rounds of home-and-away knockout matches will be held during the international windows in October 2026 and November–December 2026.^[2]

• Round 1: Thirty-two teams will advance from the league phase and be drawn into two paths to compete 7–13 October 2026.
  • Path 1: The runners-up and third-place teams from League A will be drawn against the group winners and two best-ranked runners-up from League C. The League A teams will be seeded and host the second legs of their respective ties.
  • Path 2: The fourth-place teams from League A and the group winners from League B will be drawn against the runners-up and third-place teams from League B. The fourth-place League A teams and League B group winners will be seeded and host the second legs of their respective ties.
• Round 2: Sixteen teams will advance from Round 1. The winners from Path 1 will be drawn against the winners from Path 2 to compete 26 November – 5 December 2026. The Path 1 winners will be seeded and host the second legs of their respective ties. The winners will be sorted based on their overall league ranking, with the top seven winners qualifying for the Women's World Cup, and the lowest-ranked winner advancing to the inter-confederation play-offs.

The team scoring the most goals after two matches will win the tie. If the scores are even after normal time in the second leg, two 15-minute extra time periods will be played. If the scores are still even after extra time, the tie will be decided by kicks from the penalty spot (Regulations Article 28).^[2]

The following teams qualified for the play-offs. They are ordered according to their overall league ranking:

The draws for rounds 1 and 2 are scheduled to take place 18 June 2026 at 12:00 CET in Nyon, Switzerland.^[3][1]

In round 1, the unseeded teams for both path 1 and path 2 will be drawn first and named as the home team for the first tie. The seeded teams will then be drawn and placed as the away team in that tie. The draw will continue until all sixteen ties have been drawn and completed. The process will be repeated for round 2.

For political reasons, Kosovo and Serbia, as well as Belarus and Ukraine, can not be drawn in the same group.^[4]

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