2019 FIFA Women's World Cup

2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
Coupe du Monde Féminine de la FIFA 2019
(French)
Tournament details
Host country France
Dates 8 June - 7 July
Teams 24 (expected) (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s) 12 (in 12 host cities)
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The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup will be the eighth FIFA Women's World Cup, an international women's football world championship tournament scheduled to take place in 2019. In March 2015, France won the right to host the event, the first time the country would host the tournament and the third time in Europe. Matches are planned for eleven cities across France. The current format of the tournament is to be among 24 national teams, including that of the host nation. The defending champions are the United States.

Contents  [hide]
1 Host selection
2 Qualification
2.1 Qualified teams
3 Venues
4 References
5 External links
Host selection[edit]
On 6 March 2014, FIFA announced that bidding had begun for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Member associations interested in hosting the tournament had to submit a declaration of interest by 15 April 2014, and provide the complete set of bidding documents by 31 October 2014.[1] In principle, FIFA prefer the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to be hosted by the same member association, but if circumstances require, FIFA reserves the right to award the hosting of the events separately.

Initially, five countries indicated interest in hosting the events: England, France, Korea Republic, New Zealand and South Africa. However, the number of bidding nations was narrowed down to two in October 2014, when the French Football Federation and Korea Football Association submitted their official bid documents to FIFA.[2] Both The Football Association and New Zealand Football registered expressions of interest by the April 2014 deadline,[3][4] but in June 2014 it was announced that each would no longer proceed.[5][6] The South African Football Association registered an expression of interest by the April 2014 deadline,[7] however later decided to withdraw prior to the final October deadline.[8] Both Japan Football Association and the Swedish Football Association had also expressed interest in bidding for the 2019 tournament, however Japan chose to focus on the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Summer Olympics,[9] whilst Sweden decided to focus on European U-17 competitions instead.[10][11]

The following countries made official bids for hosting the tournament by submitting their documents by 31 October 2014:[12][13]

 France[14]
 Korea Republic[15]
On 19 March 2015, France officially won the bid to host the Women's World Cup and the U-20 Women's World Cup. The decision came after a vote by the FIFA Executive Committee.[16]

Qualification[edit]
Main article: 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
Qualified teams[edit]
Team Qualified as Qualification date Appearance
in final Consecutive
streak Previous best performance FIFA
Ranking
 France Hosts 19 March 2015 4th 3 Fourth place (2011) 3
Venues[edit]
The opening match and final will be played in Stade des Lumières, Lyon, with 58,000 capacity. Ten other cities are candidates (one of them will not be considered):[17]

Lyon Auxerre Grenoble Le Havre
Stade des Lumières Stade de l'Abbé-Deschamps Stade des Alpes Stade Océane
Capacity: 58,000 Capacity: 21,379 Capacity: 20,068 Capacity: 25,178

Montpellier
 Lyon Auxerre Grenoble Le Havre Montpellier Nancy Nice Paris Reims Rennes Valenciennes Nantes
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup (France)
Nancy
Stade de la Mosson Stade Marcel-Picot

Capacity: 32,950 Capacity: 20,087
Nice Paris
Allianz Riviera Stade Jean-Bouin
Capacity: 35,624 Capacity: 20,000

Reims Rennes Valenciennes Nantes
Stade Auguste-Delaune Stade de la Route de Lorient Stade du Hainaut Stade de la Beaujoire
Capacity: 21,628 Capacity: 29,778 Capacity: 25,172 Capacity: 38,285