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The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international soccer championship contested by the women's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Canada for the first time and by a North American country for the third time.
June 8, 2015 3–1 World Cup: 564 Sweden: June 12, 2015 0–0 World Cup: 565 Nigeria: June 16, 2015 1–0 World Cup: 566 Colombia: June 22, 2015 2–0 World Cup R16: 567 China: June 26, 2015 1–0 World Cup QF: 568 Germany: June 30, 2015 2–0 World Cup SF: 569 Japan: July 5, 2015 5–2 World Cup F: 570 Costa Rica: August 16, 2015 8–0 ...
The successive rounds are the round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final. There is also a match to decide third and fourth place. For each game in the knockout stage, any draw at 90 minutes is followed by 30 minutes of extra time; if scores are still level, there is a penalty shootout to determine who progresses to the next round. [1]
The defending champions opened their campaign with a 3-0 victory against Vietnam but were held to a 1-1 draw by the Netherlands, in what was a rematch of their 2019 World Cup final.
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 ]
The 5–2 scoreline set a record for the highest number of goals scored in a Women's World Cup final, and equaled the score of a match played between the United States and Japan at the 1988 FIFA Women's Invitation Tournament. [38] On U.S. television, the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup shattered viewing records for soccer – played by men or women.
In a milestone media moment for women’s sports, Fox Sports is about to deliver the most expansive coverage of a FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament in history – an investment driven by the ...
The Philippines, with one homegrown player and 18 from the U.S., beat New Zealand at the Women's World Cup on Tuesday. This is their remarkable story.