Qualified teams
| Team | Qualified as | Qualification date | Appearance in finals | Last appearance | Consecutive streak | Previous best performance |
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 Brazil | Hosts | 17 May 2024 | 10th | 2023 | 10 | Runners-up (2007) |
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| Dates | 2025 – 2027 |
| Teams | TBC (from 6 confederations) |
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The 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification process will determine the 31 teams joining hosts Brazil in the 2027 Women's World Cup. It is the tenth 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 by a CONMEBOL member association and the second to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, after the previous edition in 2023.
| Team | Qualified as | Qualification date | Appearance in finals | Last appearance | Consecutive streak | Previous best performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | Hosts | 17 May 2024 | 10th | 2023 | 10 | Runners-up (2007) |
FIFA's confederations organise their qualifications either through continental championships or separate qualifying competitions. Hosts Brazil qualified automatically for the tournament, and all eligible remaining FIFA member associations could enter qualification if they chose to do so.
The allocation of slots below was approved by the FIFA Council on 10 December 2024. [1] The slot for the host nation will be taken directly from the quotas allocated to their confederation.
A ten-team play-off tournament will decide the final three spots at the Women's World Cup. The play-off slot allocation is as follows:
Qualifying matches are scheduled to start in February 2025 and end in February 2027.
| Confederation | Tournament | Available slots | Available play-off slots | Nations started | Nations eliminated | Nations qualified | Qualification start | Qualification end |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AFC | 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup | 6 | 2 | [ to be determined ] | 0 | 0 | June 2025 | March 2026 |
| CAF | 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations | 4 | 2 | 39 | 0 | 0 | February 2025 | 2026 |
| CONCACAF | 2026 CONCACAF W Championship | 4 | 2 | [ to be determined ] | 0 | 0 | October 2025 | November 2026 |
| CONMEBOL | 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) | 2+H | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0+H | 2025 | 2026 |
| OFC | 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (OFC) | 1 | 1 | [ to be determined ] | 0 | 0 | 2025 | 2026 |
| UEFA | 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA) | 11 | 1 | 53 | 0 | 0 | February 2026 | November 2026 |
| Play-offs | Inter-confederation play-offs | 3 | — | (10) | 0 | 0 | November 2026 | February 2027 |
| Total | 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification | 31+H | 10 | [ to be determined ] | 0 | 0+H | 2025 | February 2027 |
Russia were suspended indefinitely on 28 February 2022 from participating in UEFA and FIFA competitions due to their country's invasion of Ukraine. [2] [3] The suspension was still in effect when UEFA finalized their qualifying process, thus they were excluded from European qualification. [4]
FIFA retained the slot allocation from the previous edition. Brazil automatically qualified as hosts, and they took one of the slots allocated to CONMEBOL.
As in 2023, the AFC Women's Asian Cup serves as the qualifying competition to determine the Asian representatives at the Women's World Cup. The qualifying process is:
As in 2023, the Women's Africa Cup of Nations serves as the qualifying competition to determine the African representatives at the Women's World Cup. The qualifying process is:
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Angola  |  Zimbabwe | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Malawi  |  Congo | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Botswana  |  DR Congo | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Tanzania  |  Equatorial Guinea | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Uganda  |  Ethiopia | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Eswatini  |  Namibia | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Burundi  |  Burkina Faso | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Djibouti  |  Togo | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
South Sudan  |  Algeria | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Rwanda  |  Egypt | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Kenya  |  Tunisia | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Niger  |  Gambia | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Benin  |  Sierra Leone | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Guinea  |  Cape Verde | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Gabon  |  Mali | Feb '25 | Feb '25 | |
Chad  |  Senegal | Feb '25 | Feb '25 |
As in 2023, the CONCACAF W Championship serves as the qualifying competition to determine the North American, Central American, and Caribbean representatives at the Women's World Cup. The qualifying process is: [5]
As in 2023, UEFA held a stand-alone qualification tournament to determine the European representatives at the Women's World Cup. The qualifying process is:
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