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The United States is one of five countries including Germany, Japan, Norway, and Spain to win a FIFA Women's World Cup. (The United States won in China in 1991, in the United States in 1999, in Canada in 2015, and in France in 2019). The United States was also the only team that played the maximum number of matches possible in every tournament ...
FIFA Women's World Cup qualification is the process a national women's association football team goes through to qualify for the FIFA Women's World Cup.. Qualifying tournaments are held within the six FIFA continental zones (Africa, Asia, North and Central America and Caribbean, South America, Oceania, Europe), and are organized by their respective confederations.
The 1999 World Cup final, in which the United States defeated China, set a world attendance record for a women's soccer event of 90,185 in a sellout at the Rose Bowl in Southern California (until it was broken on March 30, 2022, with 91,553 people at the Camp Nou in Barcelona, Spain in the second-leg of a UEFA Women's Champions League match). [106]
Biggest defeat. United States 0–1 Japan. (Faro, Portugal; March 5, 2012) The 2012 United States women's national soccer team season was dominated by the 2012 Women's Olympic Football Tournament. The start of the year saw the team compete in the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament and then in July they participated in the main event itself.
Of the 47 AFC member associations, a total of 31 AFC member national teams entered the qualifying stage. The format is as follows: [3] First round: The five highest-ranked teams in the FIFA Women's World Rankings as of 9 December 2022, which were North Korea, Japan, Australia, China PR and South Korea, received byes to the second round.
Kristine Lilly is the all-time highest internationally capped player in soccer with 354 appearances from 1987 to 2010. The United States women's national soccer team (USWNT) represents the United States in international women's soccer. The team is fielded by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF), the governing body of soccer in the United ...
Of the 47 national federations in the AFC, 31 entered teams into the competition. First round – The top five teams based on the FIFA Women's World Rankings of 9 December 2022 – North Korea, Japan, Australia, China, and South Korea – were given byes to the second round. The remaining 26 teams were drawn into seven groups with the winners ...
Qualifying stage: The 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification competition was held between 17 and 29 September and between 18 and 24 October 2021. Teams competed for qualification for the final tournament, where they were joined by final tournament hosts India and the top three teams of the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup , Japan , Australia , and ...