The 2022 European Women's Football Championship (officially UEFA Women's Euro 2021 ) will be the 13th edition of the European continental competition in women's football . It will take place in England for the second time since 2005 . The tournament was originally supposed to be played in summer 2021. On December 3, 2018 This was decided by the UEFA Executive Committee in Swiss Nyon . On April 23, 2020, UEFA postponed the final tournament to the period from July 6 to 31, 2022.
The provisional timetable for UEFA Women's EURO 2021 published by UEFA included the following dates:
qualification
Draw: February 21, 2019 in Nyon
Game dates: originally planned: August 26–3. September 2019, September 30th – 8th October 2019, 4-12 November 2019, 2.-11. March 2020, 6-14 April 2020, 1-9 June 2020, 14-22 September 2020. The games scheduled for April and June but not held are to be rescheduled for the international game dates from September 16 to 22, October 21 to 27, November 26 and 27 and December 1, 2020.
Play-off
Draw: September 25, 2020 in Nyon (no new date known yet)
Play-offs: postponed to April 2021
Finals
Draw: End of 2020 in England (no new date known yet)
Final tournament: new date = 6th to 31st July 2022 in England
On March 17, 2020, UEFA postponed the men's European championship planned for June / July 2020 by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and also stipulated that the women's European championship, which should take place at that time, would be postponed to a later date and the qualifying matches for the European Women's Championship scheduled for April 2020 have also been postponed.
On August 20, 2019, the FA announced the final list of the nine venues for the European Championship. The City Ground in Nottingham has been replaced by the Leigh Sports Village in Leigh because the City Ground is to be renovated and will not be usable at the time. The stadium in Leigh is home to the Manchester United women's team and the venue for the 2021 Rugby League World Cup .
On February 23, 2020 it was announced that the opening game with hosts England would be played at Old Trafford in Manchester . This means that the tournament would take place in a total of ten stadiums. The English women will also compete in the group stage in Brighton and Hove and Southampton. The final at Wembley Stadium is scheduled for August 1, 2021. The two best in each group advance to the quarter-finals. This will be held from July 21st to 24th in Brighton and Hove, Brentford, Leigh and Rotherham. The first semi-final is scheduled to take place in Sheffield on July 27th. The next day, Milton Keynes will host the second semifinals.
A total of 47 teams are divided into nine groups. That was the result of the draw on February 21, 2019 in Nyon, Switzerland. The qualifying games were played from August 29, 2019 and, according to the original plan, should be completed by September 22, 2020. The group winners and the three best runners-up qualify directly for the final tournament. The six other runners-up play the three other participants in the play-offs . England are set as hosts and complete the field of 16 teams for the finals.
The draw for the preliminary round groups is scheduled for November 6, 2020 in England. The 16 teams will be drawn into four groups. England are ranked first as hosts in Group A. Only the first and second in each group reach the final round. The opening game is scheduled to take place on July 7, 2017 at Old Trafford in Manchester, the final is scheduled for August 1, 2021 at London's Wembley Stadium.