The preliminary round of the European qualifying for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup consisted of the 16 lowest-ranked teams among the 46 entrants.
Each group was played in a single round-robin format, where one of the teams was pre-selected as hosts, between 6 and 11 April 2017.
[2] The draw for the preliminary round was held on 19 January 2017, 13:30 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland.
First, the four teams pre-selected as hosts were drawn from their designated pot and allocated to their respective group as per their seeding positions.
As a result, two matches played by each second-placed team count for the purposes of determining the ranking.