AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND TO HOST 2023 WOMEN’S FOOTBALL WC

AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND TO HOST 2023 WOMEN’S FOOTBALL WC

 

Australia and New Zealand will co-host the women’s football World Cup in 2023

The 2023 tournament will be the first time a World Cup for men or women will be shared across two countries from different FIFA confederations

FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 is scheduled to be the 9th edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup

 

Nine countries indicated interest in hosting the events: Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Japan, South Korea (with interest in a joint bid with North Korea), New Zealand and South Africa

On 25 June 2020, Australia and New Zealand officially won the bid to host the Women's World Cup

Winning bid earning 22 votes, while Colombia earned 13. Neither country had previously hosted a senior FIFA tournament

Tournament will be held in Australia and New Zealand, during a reserved period in the FIFA Women's International Match Calendar between 10 July and 20 August 2023

On 31 July 2019, the FIFA Council unanimously decided to expand the tournament to 32 teams, featuring eight groups of four

First Women's World Cup to be hosted in multiple countries, and only the second World Cup tournament to do so, following the 2002 FIFA World Cup

First FIFA Women's World Cup held in the southern hemisphere, the first senior FIFA tournament to be held in Oceania

 

First FIFA tournament to be hosted across multiple confederations (with Australia in the AFC and New Zealand in the OFC)

Australia is the second association from the AFC to host the Women's World Cup, after China in both 1991 and 2007

United States are the defending champions

Australia and New Zealand automatically qualified for the tournament as co-hosts.