FIFA Women’s World Cup
FIFA Women’s World Cup is an international event contested by the Federation international football association. In this event, women’s national teams take part and are members of the federation international football association.
This competition has been held after every four years since 1991. The first event was played in China in 1991. After that, the event was based on the qualifying phase, which was played over three years, 31 teams had to qualify, and the 32nd team was the host’s team.
After every four years, 32 teams take on each other for finals, and the final match is also played by hosts who host the event for more than one month.
So eight FIFA World Cup for Women’s tournaments have been played and won by 4 national teams. The USA has won it 4 times, including the current title, which was played in 2019 in France. Germany has won this title 2 times while Japan and Norway with one title each.
So far, six nations have hosted FIFA WWC. China and USA hosted it twice. Sweden, Canada, France, and Germany have hosted it once. The first FIFA WWC, hosted by two countries, Australia and New Zealand, is currently playing. Yes, I am talking about FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023
Playing conditions
FIFA Women’s World Cup is played in two phases first phase, also called as qualifying phase, is held in 6 continental zones named AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC, and UEFA.
And the other phase is the group stage, in which teams are divided into groups. Each group has four sections, and in this group, each team has to play 3 matches against each other.
It is also called a final tournament, and in this stage, there will be a knockout system. In a knockout tournament, in case of equal scores, the game is decided by extra time or penalty shootouts.
Records and statistics
If we see the results and records, you will find interesting figures. As we all know that most titles have been won by the United States of America, who grabbed it four times, but if we look at the top players of the women’s World Cup, then there are many names like Marta, Christiane, Sisi, Katia, Abby Wambach, Michelle, Carli, Alex Morgan, Morgan, critical Lilly, Mia Hamm, Christine Sinclair, Alexandra Popp, Sam Kerr, Eugenie le Sommer and Hinata Miyazawa are very famous and superstar players.
Marta is the top goal scorer in FIFA Women World Cup history, who passed the ball into the Net 17 times, while Birgit Prinz and Abby Wambach scored 14 times each.
Rankings of FIFA Women’s Teams
Here are the current orders of FIFA Women’s teams
- United States of America
- Germany
- Sweden
- England
- France
- Spain
- Canada
- Brazil
- Netherlands
- Australia
- Japan
- Norway
- Denmark
- China
- Iceland
- Italy
- Korea
- Austria
- Belgium
- Switzerland
- Portugal
- Ireland
- Scotland
- Russia
- Colombia
- New Zealand
- Czechia
- Argentina
- Finland
- Poland
Conclusion
The competition of the FIFA Women World Cup is more likable as compared to the FIFA World Cup tournament of men because of its charm and beauty. It’s a great event to watch throughout the Globe. The FIFA WWC, which is being played in the new nations of Australia and New Zealand, is at its best so far.