Tournament details | |
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Dates | 3 April 2017 – 1 December 2018 |
Teams | 144 (from 6 confederations) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 392 |
Goals scored | 1,562 (3.98 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Khadija Shaw (19 goals) |
The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification process decided all 24 teams which played in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the hosts France qualifying automatically. [1] It is the eighth FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football world championship tournament. The tournament is the third to be hosted in Europe, after the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sweden and the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany.
Team | Qualified as | Qualification date | Appearance in finals | Last appearance | Consecutive streak | Previous best performance |
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France | Hosts | 19 March 2015 | 4th | 2015 | 3 | Fourth place (2011) |
China | 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup 3rd place | 9 April 2018 | 7th | 2015 | 2 | Runners-up (1999) |
Thailand | 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup 4th place | 12 April 2018 | 2nd | 2015 | 2 | Group stage (2015) |
Australia | 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup runners-up | 13 April 2018 | 7th | 2015 | 7 | Quarter-finals (2007, 2011, 2015) |
Japan | 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup champions | 13 April 2018 | 8th | 2015 | 8 | Champions (2011) |
South Korea | 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup 5th place | 16 April 2018 | 3rd | 2015 | 2 | Round of 16 (2015) |
Brazil | 2018 Copa América Femenina champions | 19 April 2018 | 8th | 2015 | 8 | Runners-up (2007) |
Chile | 2018 Copa América Femenina runners-up | 22 April 2018 | 1st | – | 1 | Debut |
Spain | UEFA qualification Group 7 winners | 8 June 2018 | 2nd | 2015 | 2 | Group stage (2015) |
Italy | UEFA qualification Group 6 winners | 8 June 2018 | 3rd | 1999 | 1 | Quarter-finals (1991) |
England | UEFA qualification Group 1 winners | 31 August 2018 | 5th | 2015 | 4 | Third place (2015) |
Scotland | UEFA qualification Group 2 winners | 4 September 2018 | 1st | – | 1 | Debut |
Norway | UEFA qualification Group 3 winners | 4 September 2018 | 8th | 2015 | 8 | Champions (1995) |
Sweden | UEFA qualification Group 4 winners | 4 September 2018 | 8th | 2015 | 8 | Runners-up (2003) |
Germany | UEFA qualification Group 5 winners | 4 September 2018 | 8th | 2015 | 8 | Champions (2003, 2007) |
Canada | 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship runners-up | 14 October 2018 | 7th | 2015 | 7 | Fourth place (2003) |
United States | 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship champions | 14 October 2018 | 8th | 2015 | 8 | Champions (1991, 1999, 2015) |
Jamaica | 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship 3rd place | 17 October 2018 | 1st | – | 1 | Debut |
Netherlands | UEFA qualification play-off winners | 13 November 2018 | 2nd | 2015 | 2 | Round of 16 (2015) |
Argentina | CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off winners | 13 November 2018 | 3rd | 2007 | 1 | Group stage (2003, 2007) |
Nigeria | 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations champions | 27 November 2018 | 8th | 2015 | 8 | Quarter-finals (1999) |
South Africa | 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations runners-up | 27 November 2018 | 1st | – | 1 | Debut |
Cameroon | 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations 3rd place | 30 November 2018 | 2nd | 2015 | 2 | Round of 16 (2015) |
New Zealand | 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup champions | 1 December 2018 | 5th | 2015 | 4 | Group stage (1991, 2007, 2011, 2015) |
The slot allocation was approved by the FIFA Council on 13–14 October 2016. [2] The slots for each confederation are unchanged from that of the previous tournament except the slot for the hosts is moved from CONCACAF (Canada) to UEFA (France). [3]
Qualifying matches started on 3 April 2017, and ended on 1 December 2018.
Apart from the host France, 207 of the 210 remaining FIFA member associations could qualify through their own confederation's qualifying process if they choose to enter. The exceptions were Guatemala [4] and Kuwait, [5] whose football associations were suspended by FIFA, and Equatorial Guinea, which were banned from the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. [6] Guam, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, and Turks and Caicos Islands were initially drawn into qualifying stages but they withdrew from their qualifying tournaments.
More than 30 countries, mostly in Asia and Africa, did not enter qualification, including Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Egypt, which qualified teams for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. [7]
Confederation | Tournament | Available slots | Nations started | Nations eliminated | Nations qualified | Qualification start | Qualification end |
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AFC | 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup | 5 | 24 | 19 | 5 | 3 April 2017 | 20 April 2018 |
CAF | 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations | 3 | 24 [1] | 21 | 3 | 4 April 2018 | 1 December 2018 |
CONCACAF | 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship | 3.5 | 28 [2] | 25 | 3 | 5 May 2018 | 17 October 2018 [3] |
CONMEBOL | 2018 Copa América Femenina | 2.5 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 4 April 2018 | 22 April 2018 [3] |
OFC | 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup | 1 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 24 August 2018 | 1 December 2018 |
UEFA | 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA) | 8+H | 46+H | 38 | 8+H | 6 April 2017 | 13 November 2018 |
Total | 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification | 23+H | 143+H | 120 | 23+H | 3 April 2017 | 1 December 2018 |
As in the previous World Cup cycle, the AFC Women's Asian Cup served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for AFC members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows: [8]
Group A | Group B | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: AFC |
Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
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Philippines | 0–5 | South Korea |
As in the previous World Cup cycle, the Africa Women Cup of Nations served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for CAF members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:
FIFA banned Equatorial Guinea from qualifying for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, meaning they could not qualify for the World Cup regardless of their performance in the Africa Women Cup of Nations. [6]
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
27 November – Accra | ||||||
Cameroon | 0 (2) | |||||
1 December – Accra | ||||||
Nigeria (p) | 0 (4) | |||||
Nigeria (p) | 0 (4) | |||||
27 November – Cape Coast | ||||||
South Africa | 0 (3) | |||||
South Africa | 2 | |||||
Mali | 0 | |||||
Third place match | ||||||
30 November – Cape Coast | ||||||
Cameroon | 4 | |||||
Mali | 2 |
As in the previous World Cup cycle, the CONCACAF Women's Championship served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for CONCACAF members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:
Guadeloupe and Martinique entered Caribbean qualifying for the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship. However, as they are not FIFA members, they were ineligible to qualify for the World Cup.
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
14 October – Frisco | ||||||
Panama | 0 | |||||
17 October – Frisco | ||||||
Canada | 7 | |||||
Canada | 0 | |||||
14 October – Frisco | ||||||
United States | 2 | |||||
United States | 6 | |||||
Jamaica | 0 | |||||
Third place play-off | ||||||
17 October – Frisco | ||||||
Panama | 2 (2) | |||||
Jamaica (p) | 2 (4) |
As in the previous World Cup cycle, the Copa América Femenina served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for CONMEBOL members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:
Pos | Team | Pld | Pts |
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1 | Brazil | 3 | 9 |
2 | Chile | 3 | 4 |
3 | Argentina | 3 | 3 |
4 | Colombia | 3 | 1 |
As in the previous World Cup cycle, the OFC Women's Nations Cup served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for OFC members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
28 November – Maré | ||||||
Papua New Guinea | 1 | |||||
1 December – Nouméa | ||||||
Fiji | 5 | |||||
Fiji | 0 | |||||
28 November – Lifou | ||||||
New Zealand | 8 | |||||
New Zealand | 8 | |||||
New Caledonia | 0 | |||||
Third place match | ||||||
1 December – Nouméa | ||||||
Papua New Guinea | 7 | |||||
New Caledonia | 1 |
As in the previous World Cup cycle, UEFA organised a tournament for its members designed only for World Cup qualifying. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows: [20]
Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: UEFA |
Source: UEFA |
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Group 4 | Group 5 | Group 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: UEFA |
Source: UEFA |
Source: UEFA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Group 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: UEFA |
Ranking of second-placed teams (only results against first, third and fourth-placed teams taken into account)
Pos | Grp | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | 3 | Netherlands | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 2 | +14 | 13 | Play-offs |
2 | 2 | Switzerland | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 5 | +8 | 13 | |
3 | 6 | Belgium | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 13 | |
4 | 4 | Denmark | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 7 | +10 | 12 | |
5 | 5 | Iceland | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | 11 | |
6 | 1 | Wales | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 11 | |
7 | 7 | Austria | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 10 |
The play-off final winner qualifies for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Play-off semi-finals | Play-off final | ||||||||||
Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||||||||
Denmark | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Netherlands | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
Switzerland | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Belgium | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
Switzerland (a) | 2 | 1 | 3 |
The inter-confederation play-off was contested between CONCACAF's fourth-placed team Panama and CONMEBOL's third-placed team Argentina. The winners qualified for the World Cup. The draw for the order of legs was held on 9 June 2018 in Zürich during a meeting between the secretary generals of CONCACAF and CONMEBOL. Argentina were drawn to host the first leg, while Panama (the identity of the team from CONCACAF was not known at time of draw) were drawn to host the second leg. [22]
The matches took place on 8 and 13 November 2018, [23] [24] [25] during the women's international match calendar period.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Argentina | 5–1 | Panama | 4–0 | 1–1 |
There were 1562 goals scored in 392 matches, for an average of 3.98 goals per match.
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