Women's World Cup

The holding of the first tournament was the idea of ​​FIFA President Joao Havelange . The first championship was held in China in 1991 and received participants from 12 countries. In 1995, 12 teams also took part in the World Championships in Sweden. In 1999, the tournament was held in the United States, 66,000 spectators visited the stands of the stadiums. The USA is the champion four times, the national team of Germany twice became the world champion, also the teams from Japan and Norway won the tournament.

The World Cup 1999 ended with one of the most famous moments in the history of women's football. US defender Brandi Chastain , having implemented a decisive penalty in the post-match final series against the Chinese team and celebrating the victory, tore off his T-shirt, as men usually do ^{[1] [2] [3]} . The 1999 final was held at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California, and gathered a record audience of 90,185 people for women's sports.

In 1999 and 2003, championships were held in the United States. The 2003 tournament was supposed to be held in China, but the organizers decided to postpone the SARS epidemic in Asia. As compensation, the Chinese team participated in the tournament without a qualifying stage, and the holding of the championship in 2007 was automatically transferred to the Chinese side. In October 2007, the right to host the 2011 championship was Germany, and in March 2011, Canada became the host country of the 2015 tournament. It was also decided that in 2015, not 16 but 24 teams would take part in the final stage of the championship.

In 2007, US captain Christine Lilly took part in her fifth world championship, becoming the third player in the history of men's and women's football to achieve the same indicator.

Qualification

Participants qualify for the respective regional FIFA federations: Asian ( AFC ), African ( CAF ), European ( UEFA ), North American ( CONCACAF ), South American ( CONMEBOL ) and Oceania ( OFC ). The qualifying tournament begins three years before the championship and is held for two years. The formula for conducting is different in different confederations. Usually one or two tickets are also played in intercontinental play-offs.

From the very beginning of the tournament, the host country automatically gets a place in the final.

Below are data on places allocated to the continents. + X means additional space for the organizers (host) of the championship. Place in the intercontinental butt match is considered as 0.5. The bold mark highlighted the winners of the play-offs.

• ¹ In 2003, the championship was planned to be held in China , but due to the atypical pneumonia epidemic, it was transferred to the USA on May 3, 2003 by a decision of FIFA. The Chinese team in compensation, as well as the US team, got into the final part without passing through the qualifying tournament.

Final Tournament

The last final tournament was attended by 24 teams. Two rounds were held this month: group and playoffs . In the group round, teams were divided into 6 groups of 4 teams each. After Germany defeated Argentina with a score of 11-0 in the opening match of the tournament in 2007, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said that the matches with the overwhelming advantage of one of the teams "negatively affect the development of football", and FIFA should seriously consider expanding the number of participants of the final tournament up to 24 teams. On December 3, 2009, FIFA decided that 24 teams would participate in the final tournament of 2015. In each group the tournament is played in one round, each team meets with each only once. Matches of the third, last round begin at the same time. The two best teams in the group and 4 best teams, among those who took 3rd place in the groups, go to the playoffs. Since 1994, three points have been awarded for a victory, one point for a draw, and zero for a defeat (previously, two points were awarded for a victory). Places in the group are distributed according to the following principle:

• The most points
• With equality - the best difference between goals scored and goals conceded.
• With equal points and goal difference - by the number of goals scored.

In the event that the two teams have all three indicators equal:

• The most points in matches between each other;
• In case of equality, the best difference between the goals scored and the goals conceded in the matches between them;
• In case of equality of points and goal difference - by the number of goals scored in the matches between them.

If all criteria are equal, the best team is determined by drawing lots. In the playoffs, teams play one-round matches in which the loser drops out of the competition. If it is not possible to identify the winner in the main time, additional time is assigned, and if the winner was not identified either - a penalty shootout. 4 group winners will meet with teams that have taken third places in their groups, two other group winners will meet with teams that take second places in their groups. The winners go to the quarter-finals, the semi-finals and the finals.

• The greatest number of championship titles : 4
  •   United States (1991, 1999, 2015, 2019)
• The greatest number of participation in the championship : 8
  •   Brazil (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)
      Germany (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)
      Japan (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)
      Nigeria (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)
      Norway (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)
      Sweden (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)
      United States (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)
• The highest number of matches played team : 50
  •   USA
• The greatest number of matches in the championship played by the player : 30
  • Christine lilly   US team
• Maximum number of goals scored in the match : 13
  •   United States 13: 0   Thailand

Statistics taken from the source

• Women's World Cup on the FIFA website