2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

Tournament details
Dates	16 September 2021 – 23 February 2023
Teams	172 (from 6 confederations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	505
Goals scored	2,143 (4.24 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Tessa Wullaert (17 goals)
← 2019 2027 →

The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification process determined 30 of the 32 teams which will play in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the co-hosts Australia and New Zealand qualifying automatically. ^[1] It is the ninth FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football world championship tournament. The tournament is the first Women's World Cup to be hosted in multiple countries, the third by an AFC member association after the 1991 and 2007 Women's World Cups in China, the first to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, the first senior FIFA tournament in Oceania, and also the first FIFA tournament to be hosted across multiple confederations (with Australia in the AFC and New Zealand in the OFC).

The field was expanded from 24 teams in the 2019 edition to 32 in the 2023 edition. ^[2]

Qualified teams

Status of countries with respect to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup:

  Team qualified

  Team failed to qualify

  Team withdrew or suspended

  Did not enter or not FIFA member

Of the total 32 slots (29 direct and 3 playoffs), the following teams qualified directly to fill the 29 direct slots. The remaining 3 playoff slots were determined by the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs) held in February 2023 in New Zealand.

Team	Qualified as	Qualification date	Appearance in finals	Last appearance	Consecutive streak	Previous best performance
Australia	Co-hosts	25 June 2020	8th	2019	8	Quarter-finals (2007, 2011, 2015)
New Zealand			6th	2019	5	Group stage (1991, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)
Japan	2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup QF winners	30 January 2022	9th	2019	9	Champions (2011)
South Korea	2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup QF winners	30 January 2022	4th	2019	3	Round of 16 (2015)
China	2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup QF winners	30 January 2022	8th	2019	3	Runners-up (1999)
Philippines	2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup QF winners	30 January 2022	1st	—	1	Debut
Vietnam	2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup play-offs winners	6 February 2022	1st	—	1	Debut
Sweden	UEFA qualification Group A winners	12 April 2022	9th	2019	9	Runners-up (2003)
Spain	UEFA qualification Group B winners	12 April 2022	3rd	2019	3	Round of 16 (2019)
France	UEFA qualification Group I winners	12 April 2022	5th	2019	4	4th place (2011)
Denmark	UEFA qualification Group E winners	2 May 2022 [lower-alpha 1]	5th	2007	1	Quarter-finals (1991, 1995)
United States	2022 CONCACAF W Championship Group A winners	7 July 2022	9th	2019	9	Champions (1991, 1999, 2015, 2019)
Canada	2022 CONCACAF W Championship Group B winners	8 July 2022	8th	2019	8	4th place (2003)
Costa Rica	2022 CONCACAF W Championship Group B runners-up	8 July 2022	2nd	2015	1	Group stage (2015)
Jamaica	2022 CONCACAF W Championship Group A runners-up	11 July 2022	2nd	2019	2	Group stage (2019)
Zambia	2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations QF winners	13 July 2022	1st	—	1	Debut
Morocco	2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations QF winners	13 July 2022	1st	—	1	Debut
Nigeria	2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations QF winners	14 July 2022	9th	2019	9	Quarter-finals (1999)
South Africa	2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations QF winners	14 July 2022	2nd	2019	2	Group stage (2019)
Colombia	2022 Copa América Femenina SF winners	25 July 2022	3rd	2015	1	Round of 16 (2015)
Brazil	2022 Copa América Femenina SF winners	26 July 2022	9th	2019	9	Runners-up (2007)
Argentina	2022 Copa América Femenina third-place winners	29 July 2022	4th	2019	2	Group stage (2003, 2007, 2019)
Norway	UEFA qualification Group F winners	2 September 2022	9th	2019	9	Champions (1995)
Germany	UEFA qualification Group H winners	3 September 2022	9th	2019	9	Champions (2003, 2007)
England	UEFA qualification Group D winners	3 September 2022	6th	2019	5	Third place (2015)
Italy	UEFA qualification Group G winners	6 September 2022	4th	2019	2	Quarter-finals (1991, 2019)
Netherlands	UEFA qualification Group C winners	6 September 2022	3rd	2019	3	Runners-up (2019)
Switzerland	UEFA play-offs 1st ranking	11 October 2022	2nd	2015	1	Round of 16 (2015)
Republic of Ireland	UEFA play-offs 2nd ranking	11 October 2022	1st	—	1	Debut
Haiti	Inter-confederation play-offs Group B winners	22 February 2023	1st	—	1	Debut
Portugal	Inter-confederation play-offs Group A winners	22 February 2023	1st	—	1	Debut
Panama	Inter-confederation play-offs Group C winners	23 February 2023	1st	—	1	Debut

1. On 2 May 2022, UEFA announced that Russia was removed from Women's World Cup qualification due to their country's invasion of Ukraine, with all their earlier results considered null and void. ^[3] Denmark, therefore, qualified for the Women's World Cup, as no other teams could surpass them. ^[4]

Qualification process

After the number of teams qualifying for the Women's World Cup was increased, a new slot allocation was approved by the Bureau of the FIFA Council on 24 December 2020. The slots for the host nations, Australia and New Zealand, were taken directly from the quotas allocated to their confederations, the AFC and OFC respectively. ^[5]

Summary of qualification

Qualifying matches started in September 2021 and ended in February 2023. Matches have been played on dates within the FIFA International Match Calendar. ^[6]

Apart from the hosts Australia and New Zealand, 207 of 209 remaining FIFA member associations could qualify through their own confederation's qualifying process if they choose to enter. The exceptions were Chad and Pakistan, whose football associations were suspended by FIFA. ^[7] A third exception might have been Russia after initially receiving a four-year ban from all major sporting events by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on 9 December 2019, after Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) was found non-compliant for handing over manipulated laboratory data to investigators. ^[8] However, the Russian women's team could still enter qualification. The decision was appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), ^[9] which ruled in WADA's favour but reduced the ban to two years. ^[10] The CAS ruling also allowed the name "Russia" to be displayed on uniforms if the words "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team" have equal prominence. ^[11] Had Russia qualified for the tournament, its female players would have been able to use their country's name, flag or anthem at the Women's World Cup, unlike their male counterparts, as the ban scheduled to expire on 16 December 2022. ^{[11] [12]} But earlier on 28 February, FIFA and UEFA announced Russia's suspension from all competitions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ^{[13] [14]} On 2 May, UEFA announced that Russia was no longer to continue participating in qualification, that their prior results were nullified, and that Group E continued with five teams. ^[15]

Confederation	Tournament	Direct slots	Play-off slots	Teams started	Teams eliminated	Teams qualified	Qualifying start date	Qualifying end date
AFC	2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup	5+1	2	27  [lower-alpha 1]	20	5+1	17 September 2021	6 February 2022
CAF	2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations	4	2	43	37	4	18 October 2021	23 July 2022
CONCACAF	2022 CONCACAF W Championship	4	2	32	26	4	16 February 2022	18 July 2022
CONMEBOL	2022 Copa América Femenina	3	2	10	5	3	8 July 2022	30 July 2022
OFC	2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup	0+1	1	9	8	0+1	13 July 2022	30 July 2022
UEFA	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)	11	1	51	39	11	16 September 2021	11 October 2022
Play-offs	Inter-confederation play-offs	3	—	(10)	7	3	18 February 2023	23 February 2023
Total	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification	30+2	10	172	142	30+2	16 September 2021	23 February 2023

1. Australia took part in the Women's Asian Cup but already qualified for the Women's World Cup as co-hosts.

Confederation qualification

AFC

Main article: 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup

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:

• Qualifying stage: The 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification competition was held between 17 and 29 September and between 18 and 24 October 2021. Teams competed for qualification for the final tournament, where they were joined by final tournament hosts India and the top three teams of the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup, Japan, Australia, and China, who qualified automatically.
• Final tournament: Twelve teams played in the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup, ^[16] which was held from 20 January to 6 February 2022. ^[17] They were drawn into three groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group, along with the two-best third-placed teams, advanced to the knockout stage. The four semi-finalists qualified for the World Cup. The losers of the quarter-finals (except Australia, who qualified automatically for the World Cup as hosts) advanced to the play-offs. ^[18]

North Korea withdrew on 29 July 2021 from the Women's Asian Cup qualifiers due to COVID-19 pandemic-related safety concerns, ^[19] followed by Turkmenistan on 6 August because of pandemic-related travel restrictions. ^[20] In a letter to the AFC published on 8 September, Iraq decided not to take part. ^[21] Afghanistan also withdrew from qualification later in September as the women's team's participation was uncertain due to the Taliban takeover of the country. ^{[22] [23]}

During the Women's Asian Cup, host team India was unable to play their second group stage match against Chinese Taipei due to having fewer than 13 players available, with the remaining team members testing positive for COVID-19. They were considered to have withdrawn from the competition, and all previous matches played by them were considered "null and void" and were not considered in determining the final group rankings. ^[24]

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	30 January – Navi Mumbai
	China	3
					3 February – Pune
	Vietnam	1
					China (p)	2 (4)
	30 January – Navi Mumbai
					Japan	2 (3)
	Japan	7
									6 February – Navi Mumbai
	Thailand	0
									China	3
	30 January – Pune
									South Korea	2
	Australia	0
					3 February – Pune
	South Korea	1
					South Korea	2
	30 January – Pune
					Philippines	0
	Chinese Taipei	1 (3)
	Philippines (p)	1 (4)

Play-offs

The format of the play-off round depended on the performance of Australia, who qualified automatically for the World Cup as hosts. ^[25] Since Australia was eliminated in the quarter-finals, the play-offs format was for the remaining three quarter-final losers to play a single round-robin play-off. The best team after three matches advanced to the World Cup, and the remaining two teams entered the inter-confederation play-offs.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	Pts
1	Vietnam	2	6
2	Chinese Taipei	2	3
3	Thailand	2	0

Source: AFC

CAF

Main article: 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations

As in the previous World Cup cycle, the Women's Africa Cup of Nations served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for CAF members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:

• Qualifying stage: 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification competition was held between 18 and 26 October 2021 and between 14 and 23 February 2022. Teams competed for qualification for the final tournament, where they were joined by final tournament hosts Morocco.
• Final tournament: Twelve teams played in the 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations which was held from 2–23 July 2022. They were drawn into three groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group, along with the two-best third-placed teams, advanced to the knockout stage. The four semi-finalists qualified for the World Cup. The losers of the quarter-finals played a one-match repechage, with the winners advancing to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Knockout stage

	Quarter finals				Semi finals				Final
	13 July – Rabat (Prince Moulay Abdellah)
	Morocco	2
					18 July – Rabat (Prince Moulay Abdellah)
	Botswana	1
					Morocco (p)	1 (5)
	14 July – Casablanca
					Nigeria	1 (4)
	Cameroon	0
									23 July – Rabat (Prince Moulay Abdellah)
	Nigeria	1
									Morocco	1
	13 July – Casablanca
									South Africa	2
	Zambia (p)	1 (4)
					18 July – Casablanca
	Senegal	1 (2)
					Zambia	0
	14 July – Rabat (Moulay Hassan)
					South Africa	1			Third place
	South Africa	1
									22 July – Casablanca
	Tunisia	0
									Nigeria	0
									Zambia	1

					Repechage
					17 July – Rabat (Moulay Hassan)
					Botswana	0
					Cameroon	1
					17 July – Casablanca
					Senegal (p)	0 (4)
					Tunisia	0 (2)

CONCACAF

Main article: 2022 CONCACAF W Championship

As in the previous World Cup cycle, the CONCACAF W Championship served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for CONCACAF members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows: ^[26]

• Qualifying stage: The 2022 CONCACAF W Championship qualification competition was held in February 2022. Teams were drawn into six groups of five, and played single round-robin matches (two home and two away). The six group winners advanced to the final tournament to join the two highest-ranked CONCACAF teams, Canada and the United States, who qualified automatically.
• Final tournament: Eight teams played in the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship. They were drawn into two groups of four teams and played single round-robin matches. The top two teams of each group advanced to the knockout stage and qualified for the World Cup. The third-placed team in each group advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Group stage

Group A	Group B
Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1   United States 3 9 2   Jamaica 3 6 3   Haiti 3 3 4   Mexico (H) 3 0 Source: CONCACAF (H) Hosts	Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1   Canada 3 9 2   Costa Rica 3 6 3   Panama 3 3 4   Trinidad and Tobago 3 0 Source: CONCACAF

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	14 July – San Nicolás de los Garza
	United States	3
					18 July – Guadalupe
	Costa Rica	0
					United States	1
	14 July – San Nicolás de los Garza
					Canada	0
	Canada	3
	Jamaica	0
					Third place match
					18 July – Guadalupe
					Costa Rica	0
					Jamaica (a.e.t.)	1

CONMEBOL

Main article: 2022 Copa América Femenina

The Copa América Femenina was held from 8–30 July 2022, ^[27] providing three direct qualifying places and two play-off places for the Women's World Cup. ^[5] The top two teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage, from which the winners of the semi-final and third place matches qualified for the World Cup. The loser of the third place match advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs . The third-placed teams from each group played a fifth place play-off, the winner of which also advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	25 July – Bucaramanga
	Colombia	1
					30 July – Bucaramanga
	Argentina	0
					Colombia	0
	26 July – Bucaramanga
					Brazil	1
	Brazil	2
	Paraguay	0

Fifth place match         24 July – Armenia       Chile (p) 1 (4)       Venezuela 1 (2)

Third place match         29 July – Armenia       Argentina 3       Paraguay 1

OFC

Main article: 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup

The OFC Women's Nations Cup was held from 13 to 30 July, with Fiji hosting the tournament. ^[28] It was originally scheduled for July and August 2022, but was shifted to January and February 2022 to accommodate changes to the FIFA Women's International Match Calendar. ^[29] It was subsequently pushed back to July due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Zealand did not take part as they had already qualified for the World Cup as co-hosts, and American Samoa opted not to participate due to continuing difficulties related to the pandemic. The remaining nine teams were ranked according to the 25 March world rankings and drawn into three groups on 10 May, from which the top two teams in each group and the top two third place teams advanced to the knockout stage. ^[30] Papua New Guinea advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs as tournament winners.

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	23 July 2022 – Suva
	Samoa	4
					27 July 2022 – Suva
	New Caledonia	2
					Samoa	0
	23 July 2022 – Suva
					Papua New Guinea	3
	Papua New Guinea (p)	3 (3)
									30 July 2022 – Suva
	Tonga	3 (2)
									Papua New Guinea	2
	24 July 2022 – Suva
									Fiji	1
	Fiji	2
					27 July 2022 – Suva
	Cook Islands	0
					Fiji	3
	24 July 2022 – Suva
					Solomon Islands	1			Third place
	Tahiti	0
									30 July 2022 – Suva
	Solomon Islands	1
									Samoa	1 (5)
									Solomon Islands (p)	1 (6)

UEFA

Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)

The World Cup qualifying process is as follows: ^[31]

• Group stage: 51 teams were drawn into nine groups of five or six teams, where each group is played in a home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners qualify directly for the World Cup, while the nine runners-up advance to the play-offs.
• Play-offs: The nine teams played two knockout rounds of single-leg matches, with the best three runners-up entering in the second round. Among the three second round play-off winners, the two teams with the best combined records in the group stage (8 matches, excluding the ones against sixth-placed teams for those from groups with six teams) and second round play-offs (1 match) qualified for the World Cup, while the team with the lowest combined record (group stage plus second play-off round) entered the inter-confederation play-offs.

Group stage

Group A	Group B	Group C
Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1   Sweden 8 22 2   Republic of Ireland 8 17 3   Finland 8 10 4   Slovakia 8 8 5   Georgia 8 0 Source: UEFA	Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1   Spain 8 24 2   Scotland 8 16 3   Ukraine 8 10 4   Hungary 8 9 5   Faroe Islands 8 0 Source: UEFA	Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1   Netherlands 8 20 2   Iceland 8 18 3   Czech Republic 8 11 4   Belarus 8 7 5   Cyprus 8 1 Source: UEFA
Group D	Group E	Group F
Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1   England 10 30 2   Austria 10 22 3   Northern Ireland 10 19 4   Luxembourg 10 9 5   North Macedonia 10 6 6   Latvia 10 3 Source: UEFA	Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1   Denmark 8 24 2   Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 11 3   Montenegro 8 9 4   Azerbaijan 8 7 5   Malta 8 7 6   Russia 0 0 Source: UEFA	Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1   Norway 10 28 2   Belgium 10 22 3   Poland 10 20 4   Albania 10 10 5   Kosovo 10 7 6   Armenia 10 0 Source: UEFA
Group G	Group H	Group I
Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1   Italy 10 27 2    Switzerland 10 25 3   Romania 10 19 4   Croatia 10 10 5   Lithuania 10 5 6   Moldova 10 1 Source: UEFA	Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1   Germany 10 27 2   Portugal 10 22 3   Serbia 10 21 4   Turkey 10 10 5   Israel 10 9 6   Bulgaria 10 0 Source: UEFA	Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1   France 10 30 2   Wales 10 20 3   Slovenia 10 18 4   Greece 10 13 5   Estonia 10 6 6   Kazakhstan 10 0 Source: UEFA

Play-offs

Round 1

Round 2

6 October 2022 – Vizela

Portugal

2

11 October 2022 – Paços de Ferreira

Belgium

1

Portugal (a.e.t.)

4

Iceland

1

6 October 2022 – Glasgow

Scotland (a.e.t.)

1

11 October 2022 – Glasgow

Austria

0

Scotland

0

Republic of Ireland

1

6 October 2022 – Cardiff

Wales (a.e.t.)

1

11 October 2022 – Zürich

Bosnia and Herzegovina

0

Switzerland (a.e.t.)

2

Wales

1

Ranking of play-off winners To rank the three play-off winners, their results in their respective groups and round 2 of the play-offs were combined. As some groups had five teams and others had six, any group matches against teams who finished sixth in their groups were discounted; also, as not all teams played in both play-off rounds, results in round 1 of play-offs were not counted either. As a result, nine matches played by each team (eight in the group stage and one in round 2 of the play-offs) were counted for the purposes of determining the ranking. The two higher-placed winners qualified for the Women's World Cup and the lowest-placed winner advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs. ^{[32] [33]}

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Switzerland	9	7	1	1	25	5	+20	22	2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
2	Republic of Ireland	9	6	2	1	27	4	+23	20
3	Portugal	9	6	1	2	22	10	+12	19	Inter-confederation play-offs

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Counting only matches against teams ranked first to fifth in the group and in play-offs round 2, 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Wins; 6) Away wins; 7) Lower disciplinary points total; 8) UEFA national team coefficient ranking.

Inter-confederation play-offs

Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs)

The final three spots at the FIFA Women's World Cup were decided through a ten-team play-off tournament. The tournament was used as a test event for New Zealand to host prior to the Women's World Cup.

In the play-off draw, four teams were seeded into groups based on the FIFA Women's World Rankings, with a maximum of one seeded team per confederation. Teams from the same confederation were not drawn into the same group. The winner of each group qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup. ^[5]

Group A

	Semi-final				Final
					22 February 2023 – Hamilton
					Portugal	2
	18 February 2023 – Hamilton
					Cameroon	1
	Cameroon	2
	Thailand	0

Group B

	Semi-final				Final
					22 February 2023 – Auckland
					Chile	1
	18 February 2023 – Auckland
					Haiti	2
	Senegal	0
	Haiti	4

Group C

	Semi-finals				Final
	19 February 2023 – Hamilton
	Chinese Taipei	2 (2)
					23 February 2023 – Hamilton
	Paraguay (p)	2 (4)
					Paraguay	0
	19 February 2023 – Auckland
					Panama	1
	Papua New Guinea	0
	Panama	2

Top goalscorers

There were 2143 goals scored in 505 matches, for an average of 4.24 goals per match.

17 goals

• Tessa Wullaert

15 goals

• Lea Schüller

14 goals

• Roselord Borgella

13 goals

• Nicole Billa
• Signe Bruun
• Beth Mead

12 goals

• Khadija Shaw

11 goals

• Yessenia Flores
• Amaiur Sarriegi

10 goals

• Tine De Caigny
• Ella Toone
• Ellen White
• Marie-Antoinette Katoto

9 goals

• Fanni Vágó
• Esther González
• Coumba Sow

8 goals

• Bethany England
• Georgia Stanway
• Batcheba Louis
• Cristiana Girelli
• Vivianne Miedema
• Jovana Damnjanović
• Lara Prašnikar
• Mariona Caldentey
• Ana-Maria Crnogorčević
• Phạm Hải Yến

7 goals

• Sam Kerr
• Lai Li-chin
• Raquel Rodríguez
• Yeranis Lee
• Stine Larsen
• Lauren Hemp
• Arianna Caruso
• Valentina Giacinti
• Jill Roord
• Rachel Furness
• Nikola Karczewska
• Katie McCabe
• Linda Motlhalo
• Mariem Houij

6 goals

• Yamila Rodríguez
• Janice Cayman
• Aniella Uwimana
• Melchie Dumornay
• Trudi Carter
• Neddy Atieno
• Katty Martínez
• Lisa-Marie Karlseng Utland
• Ewa Pajor
• Denise O'Sullivan
• Nguenar Ndiaye
• Hildah Magaia
• Ji So-yun
• Ramona Bachmann
• Kanyanat Chetthabutr

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