The 2022 Men's World Cup will start in November this year, and in half a year, the 2023 Women's World Cup will also open. At present, the Women's World Cup qualifiers have not yet been halfway through, only 10 seats have been determined, the Chinese women's football team leads the Asian region, while the Spanish women's football team, the Swedish women's football team, the French women's football team locked the seats in advance, and there are 8 places in the European region.
Recently, the Women's World Preliminary Tournament in Europe has been in full swing. After the 1-1 draw with the Irish women's football team, the Swedish women's football team led 11 points in advance to lock the first place in the group two rounds, straight to the World Cup; the Spanish women's football team defeated the Scottish women's football team 2-0, leading 8 points to lock the first place in the group two rounds in advance, straight to the World Cup; the French women's football team won 1-0 against the Slovenian women's football team, leading 8 points in advance to lock the first place in the group two rounds, straight to the World Cup.
At present, only the Spanish women's football team, the Swedish women's football team, and the French women's football team have locked the World Cup seat in advance, and the next World Preliminary Tournament matchday will start in September this year, and the Italian women's football team, the England women's football team, the Serbian women's football team and other teams are leading their respective group standings, and the World Cup is just around the corner.
The 2023 Women's World Cup will be expanded to the top 32 for the first time, Europe will be divided into 11 regular places, the World Preliminary Round has a total of 9 groups, 6 groups are composed of 6 teams, 3 groups are composed of 5 teams, each group of the first place directly won the 2023 Women's World Cup main event seat, 9 groups of the second team to participate in the play-offs.
At the beginning of February this year, the women's Asian Cup final round ended, China, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam ranked in the top five, straight to the 2023 World Cup finals, plus Australia and New Zealand two host teams, the current Women's World Cup Round of 32 to determine 10 seats.
Of the above 10 teams, only the Vietnam women's football team and the Philippine women's football team qualified for the World Cup finals for the first time, and the two Southeast Asian teams benefited from the Expansion of the World Cup. Next, the Chinese Taipei women's football team and the Thai women's football team will participate in the intercontinental play-offs, and up to 8 teams in the Asian region can participate in the Women's World Cup.
The best result of the Chinese women's football team participating in the World Cup was in 1999, when the final lost to the host United States women's football team, ranking second. Since then 4 World Cups, the Chinese women's football team has not won the top 4 consecutively, the 2019 World Cup stopped in the round of 16, and now Shui Qingxia leads the team, plus Wang Shuang, Zhang Linyan, Shen Mengyu, Tang Jiali, Xiao Yuyi and other players, next year's Women's World Cup can be expected.