Anna Koivunen played in Finland’s second leg of their World Cup play-off against Serbia, where they won 3-1, after the Finns won the first leg by the same score. They will now progress to one of the play-off finals, where they will face Italy.
Ellie Mason played in both play-off games for Northern Ireland against Portugal. Sadly, Northern Ireland's dreams of qualifying for their first World Cup were brought to a halt after losing both games by a 7-1 aggregate.
Mary McAteer was an unused substitute for Wales’ play-off games against Albania as they won 1-0 away, before winning 3-0 at Parc y Scarlets in Llanelli. They will now play Norway in the next round.
Sophie Whitehouse was also an unused substitute for the Republic of Ireland’s two play-off games against Kazakhstan. Ireland strolled into the next round with a 12-0 aggregate win and will now play Poland to qualify for the World Cup.
Both Emily van Egmond and Leah Davidson went away with Australia to play friendlies against Germany in Germany, and then Haiti in France. Van Egmond played for 64 minutes of the 4-2 loss to Germany, whilst Davidson was an unused substitute in both games.
Keira Flannery made her debut for the England U23s, playing the full 90 in their 2-0 friendly loss to Norway.
