Four teams – Albania, Faroe Islands, Malta and Montenegro – qualified from UEFA’s preliminary mini-tournaments, held in Lithuania and Malta between 4 and 9 April 2013. This quartet joined the 38 remaining European entrants in the 16 April draw for the group stage of the qualifying competition, with matches to be played between 21 September 2013 and 17 September 2014. The decisive play-off fixtures, which will determine the continent’s eight Canada 2015 participants, will take place between 25 October and 27 November 2014.