Read the Women's World Cup in one article: the United States rushes to 3 consecutive championships and sonorous roses go out for the eighth time
At 15 o'clock on July 20, Beijing time, the 2023 Women's World Cup will officially begin. Fans may know a little less about the Women's World Cup than the Men's World Cup, which we'll cover next.
Women's World Cup history
The Women's World Cup was created in 1991 and held every four years, and this year is the ninth edition. The first two editions had only 12 teams, expanded to 16 teams in 1999 and 24 in 2015, and this year marks the first Women's World Cup with 32 teams.
Historically, the U.S. women's soccer team has won four championships, the most won teams, and has completed two consecutive championships, and will hit an unprecedented third consecutive championship this year.
Germany is second with 2 titles, while Norway and Japan are 1 each. Japan won the 2011 Women's Cup and is the only Asian team to win the men's and women's World Cup to date.
This year's grouping and qualification rules
In this year's World Cup, 32 teams are divided into 8 groups of 4 teams, the top two in the group qualify, advance to the round of 16, and the third and fourth places are directly eliminated.
The specific grouping is as follows:
Group A: New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Switzerland
Group B: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Nigeria
Group C: Costa Rica, Japan, Spain, Zambia
Group D: China, Denmark, England, Haiti
Group E: Netherlands, Portugal, United States, Viet Nam
Group F: Brazil, France, Jamaica, Panama
Group G: Argentina, Italy, South Africa, Sweden
Group H: Colombia, Germany, Republic of Korea, Morocco
Historical achievements of Chinese women's football
This is the eighth time that the Chinese women's football team has participated in the World Cup, including missing the final in 2011, the previous best result was runner-up in 1999, losing to the United States on penalties in the final, and the last edition was the round of 16.
The specific achievements are as follows:
1991: Quarterfinals
1995: Fourth
1999: Runner-up
2003: Quarterfinals
2007: Quarterfinals
2015: Quarterfinals
2019: Round of 16
The situation of the Chinese women's football team
The Chinese women's football team is in the same group as England, Denmark and Haiti. England, winner of last year's European Championship and the fourth strongest team in the world, basically locked in a place to qualify.
The Sonorous Rose's group stage opener against Denmark will be a direct match for second place in the group, which is very important. And in the second game against Haiti, there is absolutely no room for mistakes, and strive to score 3 points. In short, if we want to qualify, the difficulty is still not small.
China Women's Football Schedule
22 July at 20:00: VS Denmark
July 28, 19:00: VS Haiti
1 August, 19:00: VS England
If they advance to Group D, the opponent in the 1/8 final will be second in Group B; If they advance to Group D, the 1/8 final opponent is the first in Group B.
Latest world rankings
1. United States, 2. Germany, 3. Sweden, 4. England, 5. France, 6. Spain, 7. Canada, 8. Brazil, 9. Netherlands, 10. Australia
11. Japan, 12. Norway, 13. Denmark, 14. China, 15. Iceland, 16. Italy, 17. South Korea, 18. Austria, 19. Belgium, 20. Switzerland