REVIEW : 2019 WOMEN'S WORLD CUP - JAY'S MEMO

2019 FIFA Women's World Cup

The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup will be the eighth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup (formerly the Women's World Championship), the competition is held every four years ,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, France won the right to host the event; the first time the country will host the tournament, and the third time a European nation will. Matches are planned for nine cities across France. The United States enters the competition as defending champions.

Coupe du Monde Féminine de la FIFA - France 2019

2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Tournament details

Host country France

 Dates 7 June – 7 July

Teams 24 (from 6 confederations)

Venue(s) 9 (in 9 host cities)

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 on 3 April 2017, and ended on 1 December 2018.

Qualified teamsA total of 24 teams qualified for the final tournament.Each team's FIFA Rankings in December 2018 are shown in parenthesis.

AFC (5 teams)                                       

 Australia (6)

 China PR (15)

 Japan (8)

 South Korea (14)

 Thailand (29).

CAF (3 teams)

 Cameroon (46)

 Nigeria (39)

 South Africa (48)

CONCACAF (3 teams)

 Canada (5)

 Jamaica (53)

 United States (1)

UEFA (9 teams)
 England (4)
 France (hosts) (3)
 Germany (2)
 Italy (16)
 Netherlands (7)
 Norway (13)
 Scotland (20)
 Spain (12)
 Sweden (9)

CONMEBOL (3 teams)

 Argentina (36)

 Brazil (10)

 Chile (38)

OFC (1 team)

 New Zealand (19)

Chile, Jamaica, Scotland, and South Africa will make their Women's World Cup debuts, while Italy will take part in the event for the first time since 1999 and Argentina will take part in the event 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.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, Allianz Riviera in Nice, and Parc des Princes in Paris. The last of these hosted matches in the 1998 men's World Cup, and stands on the former site of a stadium that hosted matches in the 1938 men's World Cup. Another stadium that was used in 1998 is 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 was held on 8 December 2018, 18:00 CET at the La Seine Musicale on the island of Île Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt. The 24 teams were drawn into six groups of four teams.

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. No group can contain more than one team from each confederation apart from UEFA, which have nine teams, where each group must contain either one or two UEFA teams.

Pot 1

 France (3) (hosts)

 United States (1)

 Germany (2)

 England (4)

 Canada (5)

 Australia (6)

 Pot 2

Netherlands (7)

 Japan (8)

 Sweden (9)

 Brazil (10)

 Spain (12)

 Norway (13)

Pot 3

 South Korea (14)

 China PR (15)

 Italy (16)

 New Zealand (19)

 Scotland (20)

 Thailand (29)

Pot 4

 Argentina (36)

 Chile (38)

 Nigeria (39)

 Cameroon (46)

 South Africa (48)

 Jamaica (53)

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