2019 FIFA Women's World Cup

2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
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The **2019 FIFA Women's World Cup** will be the 15th edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup (formerly the Women's World Championship), the quadrennial international women's association football championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) between 7 June and 7 July 2019. In March 2015, England won the right to host the event, thus making the second nation to host the tournament twice, it will be the third time the tournament will be hosted in Europe. Matches will take place in nine stadia over seven cities across England. England also enter the tournament a two-time defending champions. It is also the first Women's World Cup to use the video assistant referee (VAR) system.

England defeated The Netherlands 2–0 in the final to secure the third consecutive title and sixth overall.

## 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 must submit a declaration of interest by 15 April 2014, and provide the complete set of bidding documents by 31 October 2014. The FIFA Executive Committee will select the hosts in 2015. In principle, FIFA prefer the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to be hosted by the same member association, but if circumstances require, FIFA reserves the right to award the hosting of the events separately. England won the bid on 19 March 2015.

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

* England
* France
* South Korea

## Qualification

### **Qualified teams**

* China (15)
* Japan (7)
* South Korea (14)
* Thailand (28)

CAF (3 teams)* Cameroon (49)
* Nigeria (38)
* South Africa1 (50)

* Jamaica1 (64)
* United States (2)

CONMEBOL (3 teams)* Argentina (37)
* Brazil (8)
* Chile1 (39)

OFC (1 team)* New Zealand (20)

* France (4)
* Germany (3)
* Italy (17)
* Netherlands (10)
* Norway (13)
* Scotland1 (19)
* Spain (12)
* Sweden (9)

1 Indicates team is making its FIFA Women's World Cup debut

## Group Stage

### **Group A**

*Main article: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Group A*

England  v  South Korea

Norway  v  Nigeria

Nigeria  v  South Korea

England  v  Norway

Nigeria  v  England

South Korea  v  Norway

### **Group B**

Germany  v  China PR

Spain  v  South Africa

Germany  v  Spain

South Africa  v  China PR

South Africa  v  Germany

China PR  v  Spain

### **Group C**

Australia  v  Italy

Brazil  v  Jamaica

Australia  v  Brazil

Jamaica  v  Italy

Jamaica  v  Australia

Italy  v  Brazil

### **Group D**

France  v  Scotland

Argentina  v  Japan

Japan  v  Scotland

France  v  Argentina

Japan  v  France

Scotland  v  Argentina

### **Group E**

Canada  v  Cameroon

New Zealand  v  Netherlands

Netherlands  v  Cameroon

Canada  v  New Zealand

Netherlands  v  Canada

Cameroon  v  New Zealand

### **Group F**

Chile  v  Sweden

United States  v  Thailand

Sweden  v  Thailand

United States  v  Chile

Sweden  v  United States

Thailand  v  Chile

## Knockout Stages

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

### **Round of 16**

Germany  v  Chile

Norway  v  Australia

France  v  Cameroon

England  v  Brazil

Spain  v  United States

Sweden  v  Canada

Italy  v  China PR

Netherlands  v  Japan

### **Quarter-finals**

Norway  v  France

England  v  United States

Italy  v  Netherlands

Germany  v  Sweden

### **Semi-finals**

France  v  England

Netherlands  v  Sweden