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2019 FIFA Women's World Cup

Coupe du Monde Féminine de la FIFA – France 2019
Tournament details
Host country	France
Dates	7 June – 7 July
Teams	24 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	9 (in 9 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	United States (4th title)
Runners-up	Netherlands
Third place	Sweden
Fourth place	England
Tournament statistics
Matches played	52
Goals scored	146 (2.81 per match)
Attendance	57,900 (1,113 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ellen White Alex Morgan Megan Rapinoe (6 goals each)
Best player	Megan Rapinoe
Best young player	Giulia Gwinn
Best goalkeeper	Sari van Veenendaal
Fair play award	France
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The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup was the eighth FIFA Women's World Cup. It was hosted by France and ran from 7 June to 7 July 2019. France won the right to host the event in March 2015; the first time the country hosted the tournament, and the third time in Europe. Matches are planned for nine cities across France. The format of the tournament is 24 competing teams, including the host nation. The defending champions are the United States. Chile made its first appearance at this FIFA Women's World Cup edition, and Italy took part in the event for the first time since 1999.

Teams

Team	Qualified as	Qualification date	Appearance in the finals	Consecutive streak	Previous best performance	FIFA Ranking
France	0 Hosts	19 March 2015	4th	3	04 Fourth place (2011)	5
China	2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup semi-finalist	9 April 2018	7th	2	02 Runners-up (1999)	17
Thailand	2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup semi-finalist	12 April 2018	2nd	2	20 Group stage (2015)	30
Australia	2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup semi-finalist	13 April 2018	7th	7	08 Quarter-finals (2007, 2011, 2015)	6
Japan	2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup semi-finalist	13 April 2018	8th	8	01 Champions (2011)	11
South Korea	2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup fifth place	16 April 2018	3rd	2	16 Round of 16 (2015)	16
Brazil	2018 Copa América Femenina champions	19 April 2018	8th	8	02 Runners-up (2007)	8
Chile	2018 Copa América Femenina runners-up	22 April 2018	1st	1	30 Debut	40
Spain	UEFA qualification group 7 winners	8 June 2018	2nd	2	20 Group stage (2015)	12
Italy	UEFA qualification group 6 winners	8 June 2018	3rd	1	20 Quarter-finals (1991)	15

Venues

Lyon	Paris	Nice	Montpellier
Parc Olympique Lyonnais	Parc des Princes	Allianz Riviera	Stade de la Mosson
Capacity: 59,186	Capacity: 48,583	Capacity: 35,624	Capacity: 32,900
Rennes
Roazhon Park
Capacity: 29,164
Le Havre	Valenciennes	Reims	Grenoble
Stade Océane	Stade du Hainaut	Stade Auguste-Delaune	Stade des Alpes
Capacity: 25,178	Capacity: 25,172	Capacity: 21,127	Capacity: 20,068

Group stage

The match schedule for the tournament was released on 8 February 2018.

All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	France (H)	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Norway	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
3	Nigeria	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
4	South Korea	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

7 June 2019 (2019-06-07) 21:00	France	4–0	South Korea	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 45,261 Referee: Claudia Umpiérrez (Uruguay)
	Le Sommer  9' Renard  35', 45+2' Henry  85'	Report

8 June 2019 (2019-06-08) 21:00	Norway	3–0	Nigeria	Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims Attendance: 11,058 Referee: Kate Jacewicz (Australia)
	Reiten  17' Utland  34' Ohale  37' (o.g.)	Report

12 June 2019 (2019-06-12) 15:00	Nigeria	2–0	South Korea	Stade des Alpes, Grenoble Attendance: 11,252 Referee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia)
	Kim Do-yeon  29' (o.g.) Oshoala  75'	Report

12 June 2019 (2019-06-12) 21:00	France	2–1	Norway	Allianz Riviera, Nice Attendance: 34,872 Referee: Bibiana Steinhaus (Germany)
	Gauvin  46' Le Sommer  72' (pen.)	Report	Renard  54' (o.g.)

17 June 2019 (2019-06-17) 21:00	Nigeria	0–1	France	Roazhon Park, Rennes Attendance: 28,267 Referee: Melissa Borjas (Honduras)
		Report	Renard  79' (pen.)

17 June 2019 (2019-06-17) 21:00	South Korea	1–2	Norway	Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims Attendance: 13,034 Referee: Marie-Soleil Beaudoin (Canada)
	Yeo Min-ji  78'	Report	C. Hansen  4' (pen.) Herlovsen  50' (pen.)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Germany	3	3	0	0	6	0	+6	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Spain	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
3	China	3	1	1	1	1	1	0	4
4	South Africa	3	0	0	3	1	8	−7	0

8 June 2019 (2019-06-08) 15:00	Germany	1–0	China	Roazhon Park, Rennes Attendance: 15,283 Referee: Marie-Soleil Beaudoin (Canada)
	Gwinn  66'	Report

8 June 2019 (2019-06-08) 18:00	Spain	3–1	South Africa	Stade Océane, Le Havre Attendance: 12,044 Referee: María Carvajal (Chile)
	Hermoso  69' (pen.), 82' (pen.) L. García  89'	Report	Kgatlana  25'

12 June 2019 (2019-06-12) 18:00	Germany	1–0	Spain	Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes Attendance: 20,761 Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)
	Däbritz  42'	Report

13 June 2019 (2019-06-13) 21:00	South Africa	0–1	China	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 20,011 Referee: Katalin Kulcsár (Hungary)
		Report	Li Ying  40'

17 June 2019 (2019-06-17) 18:00	South Africa	0–4	Germany	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 15,502 Referee: Sandra Braz (Portugal)
		Report	Leupolz  14' Däbritz  29' Popp  40' Magull  58'

17 June 2019 (2019-06-17) 18:00	China	0–0	Spain	Stade Océane, Le Havre Attendance: 11,814 Referee: Edina Alves Batista (Brazil)
		Report

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Italy	3	2	0	1	7	2	+5	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Australia	3	2	0	1	8	5	+3	6
3	Brazil	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
4	Jamaica	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0

9 June 2019 (2019-06-09) 13:00	Australia	1–2	Italy	Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes Attendance: 15,380 Referee: Melissa Borjas (Honduras)
	Kerr  22'	Report	Bonansea  56', 90+5'

9 June 2019 (2019-06-09) 15:30	Brazil	3–0	Jamaica	Stade des Alpes, Grenoble Attendance: 17,668 Referee: Riem Hussein (Germany)
	Cristiane  15', 50', 64'	Report

13 June 2019 (2019-06-13) 18:00	Australia	3–2	Brazil	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 17,032 Referee: Esther Staubli (Switzerland)
	Foord  45+1' Logarzo  58' Mônica  66' (o.g.)	Report	Marta  27' (pen.) Cristiane  38'

14 June 2019 (2019-06-14) 18:00	Jamaica	0–5	Italy	Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims Attendance: 12,016 Referee: Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)
		Report	Girelli  12' (pen.), 25', 46' Galli  71', 81'

18 June 2019 (2019-06-18) 21:00	Jamaica	1–4	Australia	Stade des Alpes, Grenoble Attendance: 17,402 Referee: Katalin Kulcsár (Hungary)
	Solaun  49'	Report	Kerr  11', 42', 69', 83'

18 June 2019 (2019-06-18) 21:00	Italy	0–1	Brazil	Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes Attendance: 21,669 Referee: Lucila Venegas (Mexico)
		Report	Marta  74' (pen.)

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	England	3	3	0	0	5	1	+4	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Japan	3	1	1	1	2	3	−1	4
3	Argentina	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2
4	Scotland	3	0	1	2	5	7	−2	1

9 June 2019 (2019-06-09) 18:00	England	2–1	Scotland	Allianz Riviera, Nice Attendance: 13,188 Referee: Jana Adámková (Czech Republic)
	Parris  14' (pen.) White  40'	Report	Emslie  79'

10 June 2019 (2019-06-10) 18:00	Argentina	0–0	Japan	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 25,055 Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)
		Report

14 June 2019 (2019-06-14) 15:00	Japan	2–1	Scotland	Roazhon Park, Rennes Attendance: 13,201 Referee: Lidya Tafesse Abebe (Ethiopia)
	Iwabuchi  23' Sugasawa  37' (pen.)	Report	Clelland  88'

14 June 2019 (2019-06-14) 21:00	England	1–0	Argentina	Stade Océane, Le Havre Attendance: 20,294 Referee: Qin Liang (China PR)
	Taylor  62'	Report

19 June 2019 (2019-06-19) 21:00	Japan	0–2	England	Allianz Riviera, Nice Attendance: 14,319 Referee: Claudia Umpiérrez (Uruguay)
		Report	White  14', 84'

19 June 2019 (2019-06-19) 21:00	Scotland	3–3	Argentina	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 28,205 Referee: Ri Hyang-ok (North Korea)
	Little  19' Beattie  49' Cuthbert  69'	Report	Menéndez  74' Alexander  79' (o.g.) Bonsegundo  90+4' (pen.)

Group E

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	6	2	+4	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Canada	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	6
3	Cameroon	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3
4	New Zealand	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

10 June 2019 (2019-06-10) 21:00	Canada	1–0	Cameroon	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 10,710 Referee: Ri Hyang-ok (North Korea)
	Buchanan  45'	Report

11 June 2019 (2019-06-11) 15:00	New Zealand	0–1	Netherlands	Stade Océane, Le Havre Attendance: 10,654 Referee: Edina Alves Batista (Brazil)
		Report	Roord  90+2'

15 June 2019 (2019-06-15) 15:00	Netherlands	3–1	Cameroon	Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes Attendance: 22,423 Referee: Casey Reibelt (Australia)
	Miedema  41', 85' Bloodworth  48'	Report	Onguéné  43'

15 June 2019 (2019-06-15) 21:00	Canada	2–0	New Zealand	Stade des Alpes, Grenoble Attendance: 14,856 Referee: Yoshimi Yamashita (Japan)
	Fleming  48' Prince  79'	Report

20 June 2019 (2019-06-20) 18:00	Netherlands	2–1	Canada	Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims Attendance: 19,277 Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)
	Dekker  54' Beerensteyn  75'	Report	Sinclair  60'

20 June 2019 (2019-06-20) 18:00	Cameroon	2–1	New Zealand	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 8,009 Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)
	Nchout  57', 90+5'	Report	Awona  80' (o.g.)

Group F

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	0	18	0	+18	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Sweden	3	2	0	1	7	3	+4	6
3	Chile	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3
4	Thailand	3	0	0	3	1	20	−19	0

11 June 2019 (2019-06-11) 18:00	Chile	0–2	Sweden	Roazhon Park, Rennes Attendance: 15,875 Referee: Lucila Venegas (Mexico)
		Report	Asllani  83' Janogy  90+4'

11 June 2019 (2019-06-11) 21:00	United States	13–0	Thailand	Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims Attendance: 18,591 Referee: Laura Fortunato (Argentina)
	Morgan  12', 53', 74', 81', 87' Lavelle  20', 56' Horan  32' Mewis  50', 54' Rapinoe  79' Pugh  85' Lloyd  90+2'	Report

16 June 2019 (2019-06-16) 15:00	Sweden	5–1	Thailand	Allianz Riviera, Nice Attendance: 9,354 Referee: Salima Mukansanga (Rwanda)
	Sembrant  6' Asllani  19' Rolfö  42' Hurtig  81' Rubensson  90+6' (pen.)	Report	Kanjana  90+1'

16 June 2019 (2019-06-16) 18:00	United States	3–0	Chile	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 45,594 Referee: Riem Hussein (Germany)
	Lloyd  11', 35' Ertz  26'	Report

20 June 2019 (2019-06-20) 21:00	Sweden	0–2	United States	Stade Océane, Le Havre Attendance: 22,418 Referee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia)
		Report	Horan  3' Andersson  50' (o.g.)

20 June 2019 (2019-06-20) 21:00	Thailand	0–2	Chile	Roazhon Park, Rennes Attendance: 13,567 Referee: Anna-Marie Keighley (New Zealand)
		Report	Waraporn  48' (o.g.) Urrutia  80'

Ranking of third-placed teams

The four best third-placed teams from the six groups go to the knockout stage along with the six group winners and six runners-up.

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	C	Brazil	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	B	China	3	1	1	1	1	1	0	4
3	E	Cameroon	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3
4	A	Nigeria	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
5	F	Chile	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3
6	D	Argentina	3	0	2	1	3	4	−1	2

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is level at the end of 90 minutes of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each), where each team is allowed to make a fourth substitution. If the score is still level after extra time, the winners are determined by a penalty shoot-out.

Bracket

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

22 June – Nice

Norway (p)

1 (4)

27 June – Le Havre

Australia

1 (1)

Norway

0

23 June – Valenciennes

England

3

England

3

2 July – Décines-Charpieu

Cameroon

0

England

1

23 June – Le Havre

United States

2

France (aet)

2

28 June – Paris

Brazil

1

France

1

24 June – Reims

United States

2

Spain

1

7 July – Décines-Charpieu

United States

2

United States

2

25 June – Montpellier

Netherlands

0

Italy

2

29 June – Valenciennes

China

0

Italy

0

25 June – Rennes

Netherlands

2

Netherlands

2

3 July – Décines-Charpieu

Japan

1

Netherlands (aet)

1

22 June – Grenoble

Sweden

0

Third place play-off

Germany

3

29 June – Rennes

6 July – Nice

Nigeria

0

Germany

1

England

1

24 June – Paris

Sweden

2

Sweden

2

Sweden

1

Canada

0

Round of 16

22 June 2019 (2019-06-22) 17:30	Germany	3–0	Nigeria	Stade des Alpes, Grenoble Attendance: 17,988 Referee: Yoshimi Yamashita (Japan)
	Popp  20' Däbritz  27' (pen.) Schüller  82'	Report

22 June 2019 (2019-06-22) 21:00	Norway	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Australia	Allianz Riviera, Nice Attendance: 12,229 Referee: Riem Hussein (Germany)
	Herlovsen  31'	Report	Kellond-Knight  83'
		Penalties
	*C. Hansen Reiten Mjelde Engen	4–1	* Kerr Gielnik Catley

23 June 2019 (2019-06-23) 17:30	England	3–0	Cameroon	Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes Attendance: 20,148 Referee: Qin Liang (China PR)
	Houghton  14' White  45+4' Greenwood  58'	Report

23 June 2019 (2019-06-23) 21:00	France	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Brazil	Stade Océane, Le Havre Attendance: 23,965 Referee: Marie-Soleil Beaudoin (Canada)
	Gauvin  52' Henry  107'	Report	Thaisa  63'

24 June 2019 (2019-06-24) 18:00	Spain	1–2	United States	Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims Attendance: 19,633 Referee: Katalin Kulcsár (Hungary)
	Hermoso  9'	Report	Rapinoe  7' (pen.), 75' (pen.)

24 June 2019 (2019-06-24) 21:00	Sweden	1–0	Canada	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 38,078 Referee: Kate Jacewicz (Australia)
	Blackstenius  55'	Report

25 June 2019 (2019-06-25) 18:00	Italy	2–0	China	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier Attendance: 17,492 Referee: Edina Alves Batista (Brazil)
	Giacinti  15' Galli  49'	Report

25 June 2019 (2019-06-25) 21:00	Netherlands	2–1	Japan	Roazhon Park, Rennes Attendance: 21,076 Referee: Melissa Borjas (Honduras)
	Martens  17', 90' (pen.)	Report	Hasegawa  43'

Quarter-finals

27 June 2019 (2019-06-27) 21:00	Norway	0–3	England	Stade Océane, Le Havre Attendance: 21,111 Referee: Lucila Venegas (Mexico)
		Report	Scott  3' White  40' Bronze  57'

28 June 2019 (2019-06-28) 21:00	France	1–2	United States	Parc des Princes, Paris Attendance: 45,595 Referee: Kateryna Monzul (Ukraine)
	Renard  81'	Report	Rapinoe  5', 65'

29 June 2019 (2019-06-29) 15:00	Italy	0–2	Netherlands	Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes Attendance: 22,600 Referee: Claudia Umpiérrez (Uruguay)
		Report	Miedema  70' Van der Gragt  80'

29 June 2019 (2019-06-29) 18:30	Germany	1–2	Sweden	Roazhon Park, Rennes Attendance: 25,301 Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)
	Magull  16'	Report	Jakobsson  22' Blackstenius  48'

Semi-finals

2 July 2019 (2019-07-02) 21:00	England	1–2	United States	Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Décines-Charpieu Attendance: 53,512 Referee: Edina Alves Batista (Brazil)
	White  19'	https://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/matches/match/300438256/	Press  10' Morgan  31'

3 July 2019 (2019-07-03) 21:00	Netherlands	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Sweden	Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Décines-Charpieu Attendance: 48,452 Referee: Marie-Soleil Beaudoin (Canada)
	Groenen  99'	https://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/matches/match/300438248/

Third place play-off

6 July 2019 (2019-07-06) 17:00	England	1–2	Sweden	Allianz Riviera, Nice Attendance: 20,316 Referee: Anastasia Pustovoitova (Russia)
	Kirby  31'	Report	Asllani  11' Jakobsson  22'

Final

7 July 2019 (2019-07-07) 17:00	United States	2–0	Netherlands	Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Décines-Charpieu Attendance: 57,900 Referee: Stéphanie Frappart (France)
	Rapinoe  61' (pen.) Lavelle  69'	Report

Images for kids

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  Australia vs Italy in Valenciennes

See also

In Spanish: Copa Mundial Femenina de Fútbol de 2019 para niños