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Football tournament FIFA Women's World Cup final The 2023 final was played at Stadium Australia in Sydney, Australia. Organising body FIFA Founded 1991 ; 34 years ago (1991) Region International Current champions Spain (1st title) Most successful team(s) United States (4 titles) The FIFA Women's World Cup is the international association football championship for women's national teams who ...
See here for a list of players who have appeared in four or more FIFA Women's World Cups. Most championships 2: 32 players. See here for a list of FIFA Women's World Cup winning players. Most medals 5: Kristine Lilly ( United States, 1991–2007), Christie Rampone ( United States, 1999–2015). Most appearances in All-Star Team 2: 10 players. [a]
As of 2017, the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final was the most watched soccer match in American history with nearly 23 million viewers, [27] more than the 2015 NBA Finals and Stanley Cup. [28] It was also the most watched Spanish-language broadcast in tournament history. [ 27 ]
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
The inaugural FIFA Women's World Cup tournament was held in November 1991 [1] after the experimental FIFA Women's Invitation Tournament in 1988 inspired in three classic Women's competitions in the 70's and 80's: FIEFF Women's World Cup organized by FIEFF the 1st World Women's Football Governing Body and the invitational tournaments such as ...
Lineups in the first women's World Cup final. For the first World Cup Women's Championship, the United States qualified as the North and Central America Qualifications.At a tournament in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, they met in the first round Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, and Martinique (who, as a non-FIFA member, could not qualify for the World Cup).
The first goal in World Cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of France. Four days later, the first World Cup hat-trick was achieved by Bert Patenaude of the U.S. in the Americans' 3–0 win against Paraguay. In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4–2 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people in Montevideo to become the first nation to win a ...
Champion Winning coach Winning captain Top scorer(s) 1996: Atlanta United States: Tony DiCicco: Carla Overbeck: Ann Kristin Aarønes (4) Linda Medalen (4) Pretinha (4) 2000: Sydney Norway: Per-Mathias Høgmo: Gøril Kringen: Sun Wen (4) 2004: Athens United States: April Heinrichs: Julie Foudy: Cristiane (5) Birgit Prinz (5) 2008: Beijing United ...