Group E 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 22 July to 1 August 2023. [1] The group consisted of defending world champions the United States, Vietnam, the Netherlands and Portugal. The top two teams, the Netherlands and the United States (both finalists in 2019), advanced to the round of 16. [2]
The United States finished as group runners-up for only the second time in the tournament's history, and the first since 2011, the most recent Women's World Cup without the Netherlands participating. The five points they earned was their lowest ever in a Women's World Cup group stage. Debutants Vietnam were eliminated without scoring a single goal, finishing bottom of the group with zero points and twelve goals conceded.
Draw position | Team | Pot | Confederation | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Finals appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance | FIFA Rankings | |
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E1 | United States | 1 | CONCACAF | 2022 CONCACAF W Championship champions | 7 July 2022 | 9th | 2019 | Winners (1991, 1999, 2015, 2019) | 1 | 1 |
E2 | Vietnam | 3 | AFC | 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup play-off winners | 6 February 2022 | 1st | — | Debut | 34 | 32 |
E3 | Netherlands | 2 | UEFA | UEFA Group C winners | 6 September 2022 | 3rd | 2019 | Runners-up (2019) | 8 | 9 |
E4 | Portugal | 4 [nb 2] | UEFA | Inter-confederation play-off Group A winners | 22 February 2023 | 1st | — | Debut | 23 [nb 2] | 21 |
Notes
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Netherlands | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 7 | Advance to knockout stage |
2 | United States | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 5 | |
3 | Portugal | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 4 | |
4 | Vietnam | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | −12 | 0 |
In the round of 16:
All times listed are local, NZST (UTC+12).
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Netherlands | 1–0 | Portugal |
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Van der Gragt 13' | Report |
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The two teams met at the 2019 final, in which the United States won 2–0.
United States | 1–1 | Netherlands |
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Horan 62' | Report | Roord 17' |
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Portugal | Vietnam |
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Vietnam | 0–7 | Netherlands |
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Fair play points would have been used as tiebreakers in the group should 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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Netherlands | 1 | –1 | |||||||||||
Vietnam | 1 | 1 | –2 | ||||||||||
United States | 1 | 1 | 3 | –5 | |||||||||
Portugal | 2 | 1 | 3 | –6 |
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