In 1988, Guangzhou hosted an international women's football tournament. This tournament was actually a trial version of the Women's World Cup, which was held by the then FIFA president Avilange and several national football associations such as the Chinese Football Association. The success of this event also made Avillange determined to officially host the Women's World Cup.
On November 16, 1991, the first Women's Football World Cup was officially opened at Guangzhou Tianhe Stadium. FIFA President Avillange and Ball King Pele attended the opening ceremony.
A total of 12 teams participated in the inaugural Women's World Cup, including Denmark, Norway, the United States, Sweden, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Nigeria and China TB in addition to the host Team China. The 12 teams are divided into three groups of four teams each. The competition was held in Guangzhou, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and Foshan. The Chinese team, along with Denmark, Norway and New Zealand, is group A.
After the grand and wonderful opening ceremony, the opening match between the Chinese women's football team and the Norwegian women's football team, in order to see the women's football girls, Tianhe Stadium poured in more than 60,000 spectators.
In the cheers of the home audience, the girls of the Chinese women's football team set off wave after wave of attacks. In the 22nd minute of the first half, Wu Weiying, the only female international in the six internationals of Xingning County, issued a free kick on the right side of the penalty area, and Ma Li, No. 3 in the middle of the road, jumped high, the header rushed to the top, and the ball bounced in front of the goal and flew into the net, giving China a 1-0 lead to end the first half. Marley scored the first goal in women's World Cup history.
Just after the start of the second half, the Chinese team crossed from the left side, the Norwegian team failed to lift the ball far away from the defensive header, the Chinese team reorganized the attack outside the penalty area and pushed it straight into the box, and the No. 10 Liu Ailing unloaded the ball to face the attacking goalkeeper with a calm poke to send the ball into the gate, 2-0.
In the 50th minute, Liu Ailing ran forward with the ball after taking the ball in midfield, suddenly changed direction to the right before taking it to the penalty area, dodged the defender's shovel and directly shot with her right foot, and the ball hit the bottom edge of the crossbar and bounced into the goal, 3-0. It's a wonderful world wave.
In the 75th minute, No. 11 Sun Qingmei burst into the penalty area from the right side, clipped the defender's defense and shot into the far corner to break the goal, and the Chinese team defeated Norway 4-0 to win the opening red.
On November 19, the Chinese women's football team sat at the Guangdong Provincial People's Stadium, that is, the East Competition Stadium, to face the second opponent in the group stage, Denmark. In the 22nd minute of the first half, the Danish team threw the sideline ball into the penalty area, the Chinese defender's header failed to go far, and the Danish team Koldin scored with his right foot in the penalty area, and the Chinese team fell behind 0-1.
In the 37th minute, The No. 9 youngster Sun Wen, on the left side of the front, took the ball with his back to turn around, facing the Danish defender's front and back bags, a foot hanging shot to send the ball into the opponent's goal, the score became 1-1.
In the 55th minute, the Danish team picked out the penalty area, the Chinese team Zhou Yang made a mistake to miss the ball, the Danish player laughed and accepted the gift, and easily pushed the goal in front of the goal, and the Danish team exceeded the score again.
In the 76th minute, the Chinese team made a steal in front of the field, no. 15 Wei Haiying took the ball on the right side of the road and burst into the penalty area, continuously shook and then shot with his right foot to break the goal, the Chinese team fell behind twice and equalized twice, and shook hands with the Danish team 2-2 to make peace.
On November 21, chinese women's football girls came to Foshan New Square Stadium to face the last opponent in the group stage, New Zealand. In the cheers of nearly 15,000 spectators, Liu Ailing scored twice, Zhou Yang and Wu Weiying scored one goal each, and the Chinese team won 4-1 against New Zealand. In this game, Liu Ailing took advantage of a corner kick opportunity to directly break the goal, which was wonderful.
After three games in the group stage, the Chinese women's team has a record of two wins and one draw, the first qualified in the group, and Norway and Denmark ranked second and third respectively, and also advanced to the quarterfinals together.
In Group B, the United States and Sweden joined forces to qualify. Group C was teamed by Germany, Italy and China's TB team.
In the quarter-finals, China met Sweden, the second place team in Group B, at the Tianhe Stadium. Just three minutes into the opening, Sweden were awarded a free kick near the bottom line on the left side of the pitch. Sweden hoisted the ball into the penalty area, zhou yang in the middle failed to top the ball, and Pia Sandhagy, who was lurking behind her, broke the goal with a hammer, and the Chinese team fell behind 0-1.
Years later, the Pia Sandhaji served as an assistant coach of the Chinese women's soccer team, and later as the head coach of the U.S. women's soccer team, and led the team to win the women's soccer championship at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Behind, the Chinese women's football team attacked with all its might, but it never broke through the gate of the Swedish team, and finally lost the game 0-1, stopping the quarterfinals.
In the other three quarter-finals, Germany eliminated Denmark 2-1 in extra time, the United States defeated China's TB team 7-0, and Norway beat Italy 3-2 in extra time.
In the semi-finals, Norway eliminated Sweden 4-1 and the United States beat Germany 5-2.
The final was played at The Tianhe Stadium in Guangzhou, where the United States won the inaugural Women's World Cup with a 2-1 victory over Norway with two goals from Ackles. Ackles also won the Golden Boot with 10 goals, and U.S. Team Karin Jennings won best player. The Chinese women's football team eventually ranked fifth.
Attached is the list of personnel who participated in the first World Cup of the Chinese women's football team in 1991:
Team leader: Yang Xiuwu
Deputy team leader: Rong Zhixing, Han Chongde
Head Coach: Shang Ruihua
Coaches: Lin Xinjiang, Li Bi
Team members: Zhong Honglian, Chen Xia, Ma Li, Li Xiufu, Zhou Yang, Shui Qingxia, Wu Weiying, Zhou Hua, Sun Wen, Liu Ailing, Sun Qingmei, Wen Lirong, Niu Lijie, Zhang Yan, Wei Haiying, Zhang Honghong, Zhu Tao, Li Sa