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Tournament details | |
Host country | France |
Dates | 7 June – 7 July |
Teams | 24 (from 6 confederations) |
Venue(s) | 9 (in 9 host cities) |
Final positions | |
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Runners-up | ![]() |
Third place | ![]() |
Fourth place | ![]() |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 52 |
Goals scored | 146 (2.81 per match) |
Attendance | 1,131,312 (21,756 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() ![]() ![]() (6 goals each) |
Best player(s) | ![]() |
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The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup was the eighth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international Women's football championship contested by 24 women's national teams representing member associations of FIFA. It took place between 7 June and 7 July 2019, with 52 matches staged in nine cities in France,[1] which was awarded the right to host the event in March 2015, the first time the country hosted the tournament. The tournament was the first Women's World Cup to use the video assistant referee (VAR) system. This was the second and last edition with 24 teams before expanding to 32 teams for the 2023 tournament in Australia and New Zealand.
The United States entered the competition as defending champions after winning the 2015 edition in Canada and successfully defended their title with a 2–0 victory over the Netherlands in the final. In doing so, they secured their record fourth title and became the second nation, after Germany, to have successfully retained the title. Unlike Germany, however, this victory held a distinction as the United States won both 2015 and 2019 tournaments under one manager, Jill Ellis. It was the first time in 81 years since Vittorio Pozzo did so for the Italian men's team at the 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cups.
The matches were broadcast globally and attracted a combined audience of 1.12 billion people.
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.[2] 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: France, England, South Korea, New Zealand and South Africa. Both England and New Zealand registered expressions of interest by the April 2014 deadline,[3][4] but in June 2014 it was announced that each would no longer proceed.[5][6] South Africa registered an expression of interest by the April 2014 deadline;[7] but later decided to withdraw prior to the final October deadline.[8] Both Japan and Sweden had also expressed interest in bidding for the 2019 tournament, but Japan chose to focus on the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Summer Olympics,[9] whilst Sweden decided to focus on European U-17 competitions instead.[10][11] France and South Korea made official bids for hosting the tournament by submitting their documents by 31 October 2014.[12][13]
On 19 March 2015, France officially won the bid to host the Women's World Cup and the U-20 Women's World Cup.[14] The decision came after a vote by the FIFA Executive Committee.[15] Upon the selection, France became the third European nation to host the Women's World Cup (following Sweden and Germany), and the fourth country to host both the men's and women's World Cup, having hosted the men's tournament in 1938 and 1998. By the time France hosted the women's World Cup, the country had also earlier hosted the UEFA Euro 2016, which served as a precursor for France's preparation to host this competition.
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Qualification
The slot allocation was approved by the FIFA Council on 13–14 October 2016.[16] 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).[17]
- 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.[18] Each team's FIFA Rankings in March 2019 are shown in parentheses.[19]
- AFC (5)
Australia (6)
China (16)
Japan (7)
South Korea (14)
Thailand (34)
- CAF (3)
Cameroon (46)
Nigeria (38)
South Africa (49)
- CONCACAF (3)
Canada (5)
Jamaica (53)
United States (1)
Chile, Jamaica, Scotland and South Africa made their Women's World Cup debuts,[20] 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.[21] The final nine 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.[22]
The semi-finals and final were played at Parc Olympique Lyonnais in the Lyon suburb of Décines-Charpieu, with 58,000 capacity, while the opening match was played at Parc des Princes in Paris.[23] The 2019 tournament is the first under the 24-team format to be played without double-header fixtures.[24]
Lyon (Décines-Charpieu) |
Paris | Nice | Rennes |
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Parc Olympique Lyonnais (Stade de Lyon) |
Parc des Princes | Allianz Riviera (Stade de Nice) |
Roazhon Park |
Capacity: 57,900[25] | Capacity: 45,600[26] | Capacity: 35,100[27] | Capacity: 28,600[28] |
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Le Havre |
Location of the host cities of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. | ||
Stade Océane | |||
Capacity: 24,000[29] | |||
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Valenciennes | Reims | Montpellier | Grenoble |
Stade du Hainaut | Stade Auguste-Delaune | Stade de la Mosson | Stade des Alpes |
Capacity: 22,600[30] | Capacity: 20,500[31] | Capacity: 19,300[32] | Capacity: 18,000[33] |
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Match officials
On 3 December 2018, FIFA announced the list of 27 referees and 48 assistant referees for the tournament.[34][35][36] On 4 June 2019, FIFA announced that Canadian referee Carol Anne Chenard and Chinese assistant referee Cui Yongmei had pulled out for "health reasons."[37]
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.[38] The fifteen male VAR officials were announced by FIFA on 2 May 2019.[39][40]
French referee Stéphanie Frappart was in charge for the final between the United States and the Netherlands.[41]