League A of the Women's European Qualifiers will determine four of the European teams to qualify for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup final tournament in Brazil and twelve of the teams to advance to the play-off phase.
Format The sixteen highest-ranked teams in the 2025 UEFA Women's Nations League overall phase ranking were drawn into four groups of four teams each. Each group will be contested in a league format where each team plays each other team at home and away.
Group winners will qualify directly for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup, and all other teams will advance to the play-off phase. In addition, all fourth-place teams will be relegated to League B for the following 2027 UEFA Women's Nations League.
Schedule The match schedule will be as follows:
Matchday Date Matchday 1 3 March 2026 Matchday 2 7 March 2026 Matchday 3 14 April 2026 Matchday 4 18 April 2026 Matchday 5 5 June 2026 Matchday 6 9 June 2026
Seeding Teams were allocated to League A according to the 2025 Women's Nations League overall phase rankings and were seeded into four pots of four teams. The draw for the league phase took place on 4 November 2025 at 13:00 CET.
+ Pot 1 Team 1 2 3 4+ Pot 2 Team 5 6 7 8+ Pot 3 Team 9 10 11 12+ Pot 4 Team 13 14 15 16
Groups The fixture list was confirmed by UEFA following the draw. Times are CET/CEST, as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Group A1
Group A2
Group A3
Group A4
Overall standings
Goalscorers
Notes
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