Group A of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup was one of eight groups that formed the opening round of the tournament with the matches played from 20 to 30 July 2023. [1] The group consisted of hosts New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines and Switzerland. The top two teams, Switzerland and Norway, advanced to the round of 16. [2]
New Zealand became the first FIFA Women's World Cup host country to be eliminated in the group stage; it was also the sixth consecutive exit in which New Zealand had failed to advance past the first round. While this was the fifth time Norway finished second in a Women's World Cup group, this was Switzerland's first experience of topping a group in the tournament's history.
Draw position | Team | Pot | Confederation | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Finals appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance | FIFA Rankings | |
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A1 | New Zealand | 1 | OFC | Hosts | 25 June 2020 | 6th | 2019 | Group stage (1991, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019) | 22 | 26 |
A2 | Norway | 2 | UEFA | UEFA Group F winners | 2 September 2022 | 9th | 2019 | Winners (1995) | 12 | 12 |
A3 | Philippines | 4 | AFC | 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup semi-finalists | 30 January 2022 | 1st | — | Debut | 53 | 46 |
A4 | Switzerland | 3 | UEFA | UEFA play-off best ranked winners | 11 October 2022 | 2nd | 2015 | Round of 16 (2015) | 21 | 20 |
Notes
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Switzerland | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | 5 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | Norway | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 4 | |
3 | New Zealand (H) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
4 | Philippines | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | −7 | 3 |
In the round of 16:
All times listed are local, NZST (UTC+12).
New Zealand | 1–0 | Norway |
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Wilkinson 48' | Report |
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Philippines | Switzerland |
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This was only the second ever win for a Southeast Asian country (excluding Australia which geographically is not in Southeast Asia) at a senior World Cup (male or female) and the first since Thailand beat Ivory Coast in the 2015 Women's World Cup.
New Zealand | 0–1 | Philippines |
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Report | Bolden 24' |
New Zealand | Philippines |
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Switzerland | 0–0 | Norway |
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Switzerland | Norway |
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Switzerland | New Zealand |
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Norway | 6–0 | Philippines |
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Norway | Philippines |
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Fair play points would have been used as tiebreakers in the group had the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows: [2]
Only one of the above deductions was applied to a player in a single match.
Team | Match 1 | Match 2 | Match 3 | Points | |||||||||
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New Zealand | 1 | –1 | |||||||||||
Norway | 1 | 1 | –2 | ||||||||||
Switzerland | 2 | –2 | |||||||||||
Philippines | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | –7 |
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