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2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
Coupe du Monde Féminine de la FIFA – France 2019
Tournament details
Host countryFrance
Dates7 June – 7 July
Teams24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)9 (in 9 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played17
Goals scored50 (2.94 per match)
Attendance314,695 (18,511 per match)
Top scorer(s)United States Alex Morgan (5 goals)
← 2015
2023 →
All statistics correct as of 13 June 2019.

The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup is the eighth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship contested by the women's national teams of the member associations of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) between 7 June and 7 July 2019.[1] In March 2015, France won the right to host the event;[2] the first time the country is hosting the tournament, and the third time by a European nation. Matches are being played in nine cities across France. The United States enters the competition as defending champions. It is also the first Women's World Cup to use the video assistant referee (VAR) system.

Host selection

On 6 March 2014, FIFA announced that bidding had begun for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Member associations interested in hosting the tournament had to submit a declaration of interest by 15 April 2014, and provide the complete set of bidding documents by 31 October 2014.[3] As a principle, FIFA preferred the 2019 Women's World Cup and the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to be hosted by the same member association, but reserved the right to award the hosting of the events separately.

Initially, five countries indicated interest in hosting the events: England, France, Korea Republic, New Zealand and South Africa. However, the number of bidding nations was narrowed down to two in October 2014, when the French Football Federation and Korea Football Association submitted their official bid documents to FIFA.[2] Both The Football Association and New Zealand Football registered expressions of interest by the April 2014 deadline,[4][5] but in June 2014 it was announced that each would no longer proceed.[6][7] The South African Football Association registered an expression of interest by the April 2014 deadline;[8] however, it later decided to withdraw prior to the final October deadline.[9] Both Japan Football Association and the Swedish Football Association had also expressed interest in bidding for the 2019 tournament, however Japan chose to focus on the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Summer Olympics,[10] whilst Sweden decided to focus on European U-17 competitions instead.[11][12]

The following countries made official bids for hosting the tournament by submitting their documents by 31 October 2014:[13][14]

On 19 March 2015, France officially won the bid to host the Women's World Cup and the U-20 Women's World Cup. The decision came after a vote by the FIFA Executive Committee.[17] Upon the selection, France became the fourth country to host both men's and women's World Cup, having hosted the men's twice in 1938 and 1998.

Qualification

Main article: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

The slot allocation was approved by the FIFA Council on 13–14 October 2016.[18] The slots for each confederation are unchanged from those of the previous tournament except the slot for the hosts has been moved from CONCACAF (Canada) to UEFA (France).[19]

  • AFC (Asia): 5 slots
  • CAF (Africa): 3 slots
  • CONCACAF (North America, Central America and the Caribbean): 3 slots
  • CONMEBOL (South America): 2 slots
  • OFC (Oceania): 1 slot
  • UEFA (Europe): 8 slots
  • Host Nation: 1 slot
  • CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off: 1 slot

Qualifying matches started on 3 April 2017, and ended on 1 December 2018.

Qualified teams

A total of 24 teams qualified for the final tournament.[20] Each team's FIFA Rankings in March 2019 are shown in parenthesis.[21]

Chile, Jamaica, Scotland, and South Africa made their Women's World Cup debuts, while Italy took part in the event for the first time since 1999 and Argentina took part for the first time since 2007. Brazil, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, and the United States qualified for their eighth World Cup, continuing their streak of qualifying for every World Cup held so far.

Venues

Twelve cities were candidates.[22] The final 9 stadiums were chosen on 14 June 2017; Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes, Stade Marcel-Picot in Nancy, and Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps in Auxerre were cut.[23]

The semi-finals and final will be played at Parc Olympique Lyonnais in the Lyon suburb of Décines, with 58,000 capacity, while the opening match was played at Parc des Princes in Paris.[24]

Décines-Charpieu Paris Nice Montpellier
Parc Olympique Lyonnais
(Stade de Lyon) 		Parc des Princes Allianz Riviera
(Stade de Nice) 		Stade de la Mosson
Capacity: 59,186 Capacity: 48,583 Capacity: 35,624 Capacity: 32,900
Rennes
Roazhon Park
Capacity: 29,164
Le Havre Valenciennes Reims Grenoble
Stade Océane Stade du Hainaut Stade Auguste-Delaune Stade des Alpes
Capacity: 25,178 Capacity: 25,172 Capacity: 21,127 Capacity: 20,068

Officiating

On 3 December 2018, FIFA announced the list of 27 referees and 48 assistant referees for the tournament.[25][26][27]

On 4 June 2019, FIFA announced that Canadian referee Carol Anne Chenard and Chinese assistant referee Yongmei Cui had pulled out for "health reasons."[28]

Video assistant referees

On 15 March 2019, the FIFA Council approved the use of the video assistant referee (VAR) system for the first time in a FIFA Women's World Cup tournament. The technology was previously deployed at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[29] The fifteen VAR officials were announced by FIFA on 2 May 2019.[30][31]

Draw

The draw for the final tournament was held on 8 December 2018, 18:00 CET (UTC+1), at the La Seine Musicale on the island of Île Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt.[32] The 24 teams were drawn into six groups of four teams.[33]

The 24 teams were allocated to four pots based on the FIFA Women's World Rankings released on 7 December 2018, with hosts France automatically placed in Pot 1 and position A1 in the draw.[34] Teams from Pot 1 were drawn first and assigned to Position 1. This was followed by Pot 2, Pot 3, and finally Pot 4, with each of these teams also drawn to one of the positions 2–4 within their group. No group could contain more than one team from each confederation apart from UEFA, which have nine teams, where three groups had to contain two UEFA teams.[35][36]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

 France (3) (hosts)
 United States (1)
 Germany (2)
 England (4)
 Canada (5)
 Australia (6)

 Netherlands (7)
 Japan (8)
 Sweden (9)
 Brazil (10)
 Spain (12)
 Norway (13)

 South Korea (14)
 China (15)
 Italy (16)
 New Zealand (19)
 Scotland (20)
 Thailand (29)

 Argentina (36)
 Chile (38)
 Nigeria (39)
 Cameroon (46)
 South Africa (48)
 Jamaica (53)

Squads

Main article: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup squads

Each team has to provide to FIFA a preliminary squad of between 23 and 50 players by 26 April 2019, which shall not be published. From the preliminary squad, each team has to name a final squad of 23 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers) by 24 May 2019. Players in the final squad can be replaced by a player from the preliminary squad due to serious injury or illness up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team's first match.[37]

Group stage

The match schedule for the tournament was released on 8 February 2018.[38] Following the final draw, seven group stage kick-off times were adjusted by FIFA.[39]

The top two teams of each group and the four best third-placed teams advance to the round of 16.[37]

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).[39]

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows:[37]

  1. Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, none for a defeat);
  2. Goal difference in all group matches;
  3. Number of goals scored in all group matches;
  4. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
  5. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
  6. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
  7. Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
    • Yellow card: −1 points;
    • Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
    • Direct red card: −4 points;
    • Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
  8. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Main article: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Group A
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  France (H) 3 3 0 0 7 1 +6 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  Norway 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3 6
3  Nigeria 3 1 0 2 2 4 −2 3
4  South Korea 3 0 0 3 1 8 −7 0
Source: FIFA
(H) Hosts




Group B

Main article: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Group B
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Germany 3 3 0 0 6 0 +6 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  Spain 3 1 1 1 3 2 +1 4
3  China 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 4
4  South Africa 3 0 0 3 1 8 −7 0
Source: FIFA




Group C

Main article: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Group C
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Italy 3 2 0 1 7 2 +5 6 Advance to knockout stage
2  Australia 3 2 0 1 8 5 +3 6
3  Brazil 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3 6
4  Jamaica 3 0 0 3 1 12 −11 0
Source: FIFA




Group D

Main article: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Group D
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  England 3 3 0 0 5 1 +4 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  Japan 3 1 1 1 2 3 −1 4
3  Argentina 3 0 2 1 3 4 −1 2
4  Scotland 3 0 1 2 5 7 −2 1
Source: FIFA




Group E

Main article: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Group E
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Netherlands 3 3 0 0 6 2 +4 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  Canada 3 2 0 1 4 2 +2 6
3  Cameroon 3 1 0 2 3 5 −2 3
4  New Zealand 3 0 0 3 1 5 −4 0
Source: FIFA




Group F

Main article: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Group F
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  United States 3 3 0 0 18 0 +18 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  Sweden 3 2 0 1 7 3 +4 6
3  Chile 3 1 0 2 2 5 −3 3
4  Thailand 3 0 0 3 1 20 −19 0
Source: FIFA




Ranking of third-placed teams

The four best third-placed teams from the six groups advance to the knockout stage along with the six group winners and six runners-up.

Pos Grp Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 C  Brazil 3 2 0 1 6 3 +3 6 Advance to knockout stage
2 B  China 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 4
3 E  Cameroon 3 1 0 2 3 5 −2 3
4 A  Nigeria 3 1 0 2 2 4 −2 3
5 F  Chile 3 1 0 2 2 5 −3 3
6 D  Argentina 3 0 2 1 3 4 −1 2
Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Fair play points; 5) Drawing of lots.

Knockout stage

Main article: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of 90 minutes of normal playing time, extra time will be played (two periods of 15 minutes each), where each team is allowed to make a fourth substitution. If still tied after extra time, the match will be decided by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winner.[37]


Bracket

Round of 16


Quarter-finals


Semi-finals


Third place play-off

Final

The scheduling of the final was criticized by many followers of the women's game, as the finals of two men's continental championships—the Copa América in Rio de Janeiro and CONCACAF Gold Cup in Chicago—will be held on the same date.[40]


Statistics

Further information: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup statistics

Goalscorers

There have been 50 goals scored in 17 matches, for an average of 2.94 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Discipline

A player is automatically suspended for the next match for the following offences:[37]

  • Receiving a red card (red card suspensions may be extended for serious offences)
  • Receiving two yellow cards in two matches; yellow cards expire after the completion of the quarter-finals (yellow card suspensions are not carried forward to any other future international matches)

The following suspensions are being served during the tournament:

Player Offence(s) Suspension(s)
Netherlands Anouk Dekker Red card in qualifying vs Switzerland (13 November 2018) Group E vs New Zealand (matchday 1; 11 June)
South Africa Nothando Vilakazi Yellow card Yellow-red card in Group B vs Spain (matchday 1; 8 June) Group B vs China PR (matchday 2; 13 June)
Brazil Formiga Yellow card in Group C vs Jamaica (matchday 1; 9 June)
Yellow card in Group C vs Australia (matchday 2; 13 June) 		Group C vs Italy (matchday 3; 18 June)

Branding

The emblem and slogan were launched on 19 September 2017 at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris.[41] The emblem mimics the shape of the World Cup trophy and features a stylised football surrounded by eight decorative shards of light, symbolising the eighth edition of the Women’s World Cup. It alludes to several French cultural icons:

The official slogan is "Dare to Shine", which translates to French as "Le moment de briller".[24]

Ticketing

FIFA and the local organising committee sold tickets for the Women's World Cup beginning with a pre-sale of individual tickets in December 2018, single-city ticket packages in late 2018, and single-ticket sales for the general public beginning on 7 March 2019.[42] The online platform, hosted by AP2S, permitted fans to print their tickets beginning on 20 May 2019, which included seating assignments that had separated ticketholders who had purchased their tickets as a group or family. FIFA responded to online complaints by referring to a warning in the online system that had reminded purchasers that its tickets would not be guaranteed in the same areas, inciting further outrage, but allowed families with underage children to have adjacent seating.[43][44][45]

Mascot

The official mascot, "ettie", was unveiled on 12 May 2018 at the TF1 Group headquarters, and was broadcast on LCI. She made her first public appearance in Paris in front of the iconic Eiffel Tower. FIFA describe her as "a young chicken with a passion for life and football" and state that "she comes from a long line of feathered mascots, and is the daughter of Footix, the Official Mascot of the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France".[46]

Broadcasting rights

Main article: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup broadcasting rights

Qualified teams for Summer Olympics

The World Cup will be used by UEFA to qualify three teams for the 2020 Summer Olympic women's football tournament in Japan.[47] If teams in contention for the Olympic spots are eliminated in the same round, ties are not broken by their overall tournament record, and play-offs or a mini-tournament to decide the spots will be held if necessary in early 2020.

For the first time, as per the agreement between the four British football associations (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales), Great Britain will attempt to qualify for the Olympics through England's performance in the World Cup (a procedure already successfully employed by Team GB in field hockey and rugby sevens). Scotland also qualified for the World Cup but, under the agreement whereby the highest ranked home nation is nominated to compete for the purposes of Olympic qualification, their performance will not be taken into account. In effect, therefore, eight European teams will be competing for three qualification places.[35][48]

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in Summer Olympics1
TBD
TBD
TBD
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

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