The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup will be the eighth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA between 7 June and 7 July 2019. In March 2015, France won the right to host the event; the first time the country will host the tournament, and the third time Europe will. Matches are planned for nine cities across France. The current format of the tournament is 24 competing teams, including the host nation. The defending champions are the United States. Chile will make their first appearance at a FIFA Women's World Cup.
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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. 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.
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. Both The Football Association and New Zealand Football registered expressions of interest by the April 2014 deadline, but in June 2014 it was announced that each would no longer proceed. The South African Football Association registered an expression of interest by the April 2014 deadline, however later decided to withdraw prior to the final October deadline. 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, whilst Sweden decided to focus on European U-17 competitions instead.
The following countries made official bids for hosting the tournament by submitting their documents by 31 October 2014:
- France
- South Korea
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.
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Qualification
The slot allocation was approved by the FIFA Council on 13-14 October 2016. 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).
- AFC (Asia): 5 slots
- CAF (Africa): 3 slots
- CONCACAF (North, Central America and 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 in April 2017, and are expected to take place until December 2018.
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
Venues
Twelve cities were candidates. 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.
Three of the stadiums were used at the UEFA Euro 2016: Parc Olympique in Lyon, Parc des Princes in Paris and Allianz Riviera in Nice. Another stadium was used at both the 1998 FIFA World Cup and 2007 Rugby World Cup: Stade de la Mosson in Montpellier. The other stadiums seat under 30,000 spectators.
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 will be played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
Draw
The draw for the final tournament will be held on 8 December 2018 at the La Seine Musicale on the island of Île Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt.
Group stage
The match schedule for the tournament was released on 8 February 2018.
All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
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.
In the next stage the four third-placed teams will be matched with the winners of groups A, B, C, and D according to the tournament regulations.
Knockout stage
Bracket
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Branding
The emblem and slogan was launched on 19 September 2017 at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris. The emblem is a form of the FIFA Women's World Cup trophy with the colors of the Flag of France, The stripes of past and present fashion of marine french sailors and the ball of light with eight shards and with the symbol of Fleur-de-lis. The slogan is "Dare to Shine" (French Translated: Le moment de briller).
Mascot
The official mascot named "Ettie" was unveiled on 12 May 2018 at the TF1 Group headquarters, and was broadcast on LCI, she then made her first public appearance in Paris at the front of the iconic Eiffel Tower. She is a Gallus gallus domesticus with a passion for life and football. She comes from a long line of feathered mascots, and is the daughter of Footix, the Official Mascot of the 1998 FIFA World Cup France.
Broadcasting rights
- Canada - CTV, TSN, RDS
- United States - Fox, Telemundo
- France - TF1 Group.
- United Kingdom - BBC
Qualified teams for Summer Olympics
The tournament is expected to be used by UEFA to qualify three teams for the 2020 Summer Olympic women's football tournament in Japan.
References
External links
- Official website
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